(over)thinking about speech and language and most things in life @ University of Edinburgh. inadequate servant of cats, shameless bibliophile.https://bsky.app/profile/oliliu.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/oliliu.bsky.social/post/3mcvccawprc24The countless diversions are over and the preprint is out! Experimental neuroscience has identified neural dynamics that may facilitate speech processing in humans. We use computational modeling to ask *how* (learning mechanism) and *why* (domain specificity) some of these properties arise. [contains quote post or other embedded content]20 Jan 2026 23:21 +0000at://did:plc:6bdqcb744eutdxbmuprogdga/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcvccawprc24https://bsky.app/profile/oliliu.bsky.social/post/3ma72zg7mec22LLMs learn to use language from text. Children acquire language through speech. Although we don’t quite have models that learn to use language from speech alone, there’s still a lot to learn from looking at what the existing models are and are not doing. [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Dec 2025 16:22 +0000at://did:plc:6bdqcb744eutdxbmuprogdga/app.bsky.feed.post/3ma72zg7mec22https://bsky.app/profile/oliliu.bsky.social/post/3lyixo5ga7k2mVery excited for my first encounter with Eileen Chang in English! Also my first nyrb classics. The typesetting is very classy.10 Sep 2025 19:27 +0000at://did:plc:6bdqcb744eutdxbmuprogdga/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyixo5ga7k2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/oliliu.bsky.social/post/3lxad2xkujc2cthe feeling when I keep coming up with ideas of additional experiments when trying to write up a paper25 Aug 2025 15:32 +0000at://did:plc:6bdqcb744eutdxbmuprogdga/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxad2xkujc2chttps://bsky.app/profile/oliliu.bsky.social/post/3lvw3ra3nks23“Life is like the bible, translated from Hebrew to Greek, from Greek to Latin, from Latin to English, from English to Mandarin. When Cuiyuan read it, it’s translated into Shanghainese in her mind. Some things do not come through.”08 Aug 2025 20:29 +0000at://did:plc:6bdqcb744eutdxbmuprogdga/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvw3ra3nks23https://bsky.app/profile/oliliu.bsky.social/post/3lvqjx4erwk2wI get the feeling that my cat is as concerned as my supervisors about how things are going [contains quote post or other embedded content]06 Aug 2025 15:27 +0000at://did:plc:6bdqcb744eutdxbmuprogdga/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvqjx4erwk2whttps://bsky.app/profile/oliliu.bsky.social/post/3lvqji5oq722wOh what would I do without my cat? Who’s gonna keep on eye on my draft even after I’ve gone to bed?06 Aug 2025 15:19 +0000at://did:plc:6bdqcb744eutdxbmuprogdga/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvqji5oq722w