Martin Ruskov @mapto@qoto.org
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Studying how people interact, in the past (#CulturalAnalytics) and today (#EdTech #Crowdsourcing). Researcher at @IslabUnimi, University of Milan. Bulgarian activist for legal reform with @pravosadiezv. I use dedicated accounts for different languages.
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Joined Nov 2022
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So @potus is now active, and due to federation is available here too. Unless your instance admins decided to defederate Threads. Because of reasons.
@katrintheresa paywalled content
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My entry was a data journalism project that took 7 months across 2023 to complete. My story revealed that the Ethiopian government was engaged in a Facebook campaign to mislead, misinform and lure 500,000 poor women into enrolling for domestic work employment in Saudi Arabia, as a scheme to rake in foreign currency. The women face horrendous abuses in Saudi Arabia, and the campaign facilitates human trafficking. The investigation exposed the complicity of Meta itself.
@tillshadeisgone an example from !@blackfedi @histodons might want to consider in the context of the annoying spam waves
@bojacobs brace for a bumpy economy https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/when-will-the-genai-bubble-burst
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#Turkish #local #elections:
Opposition stuns Erdogan with historic victory
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E se vi potesse interessare la storia locale di una parte del mondo, a cui togliete il diritto di avere una voce per avanzare le vostre narrative globali, ecco un racconto da uno storico di provenienza tatarstana che riesca a spiegare la storia russa in un modo adeguato per occidentali: threadreaderapp.com/…/1557045088097796096.html
Ecco di più dallo stesso autore: threadreaderapp.com/…/1492518149161472001.html
@tdietterich I am looking forward to hear someone respond positively to your call, because I'm overly sceptical about the reliability of such assessments made by language models.
Of course it depends on what kind of "matches" you're after. For example at this stage, I tend to think different approaches are necessary for explicit vs implicit references. For the former it appears that LLMs are less appropriate than smaller bespoke models, for the latter it seems that across the board LLMs are ineffective - the level of sophistication of the related thought and language is way beyond what GenAI can do.
The starting point of these ideas comes from a couple of works (mine and of others) an early version of which were presented at this venue: https://aclanthology.org/volumes/2023.nlp4dh-1/ . Extended versions are due to appear here: https://jdmdh.episciences.org/volume/view/id/593 It's all work in progress though.
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@thatfatguy_bg "The real issue with a lot of small, foundational OSS libraries is just that there isn’t enough to do. They were written decades ago by a single person — and beyond bugfixes, they are not really supposed to change much. You don’t do major facelifts of zlib or giflib every year; even if you wave some cash around, it’s hard to build a sustainable community around watching paint dry. After a while, the maintainer just isn’t all that into it anymore..."
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The #Taliban announces it will start #stoning #women to #death in #public
The Taliban has already carried out 417 #public #floggings and #executions in the past year alone, with 57 #women among the #victims.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Afghanistan #Religion #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Misogyny #Transphobia #EmptyThePews
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@WorkingFamilies yet then come the choices that are no longer banal:
1. Feed them with what? https://www.wfpusa.org/articles/a-food-basket-that-fights-global-hunger/
2. House them where? https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/02/06/1077791467/tiny-homes-big-dreams-how-some-activists-are-reimagining-shelter-for-the-homeles
3. How to care for their health? https://thearc.org/blog/the-affordable-care-act-whats-at-risk/
These articles are positive stories (call them marketing if you will), but each of them sheds some light on some difficult choices that need to be made in each individual case. For each positive story, there's also a negative one somewhere to be told. Our contemporary society aims to empower people to make their own choices, but here we're talking about people who can't (or in some cases are unwilling to responsibly) take these choices themselves.
@WorkingFamilies yet then come the choices that are no longer banal:
1. Feed them with what? https://www.wfpusa.org/articles/a-food-basket-that-fights-global-hunger/
2. House them where? https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/02/06/1077791467/tiny-homes-big-dreams-how-some-activists-are-reimagining-shelter-for-the-homeles
3. How to care for their health? https://thearc.org/blog/the-affordable-care-act-whats-at-risk/
These articles are positive stories (call them marketing if you will), but each of them sheds some light on some difficult choices that need to be made in each individual case. For each positive story, there's also a negative one somewhere to be told. Our contemporary society aims to empower people to make their own choices, but here we're talking about people who can't (or in some cases are unwilling to responsibly) take these choices themselves.
@tdietterich yes, LLMs certainly help in citing references that have nothing to do with the topic of the paper... if these references exist at all.
Or did you mean that the most recent cause of the problem could be part of its solution?
@molleindustria "When you're young, you look at television and think, There's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. That's a far more depressing thought. Conspiracy is optimistic! You can shoot the bastards! We can have a revolution! But the networks are really in business to give people what they want."
It's a business (paywalled actually), not a charity. I don't like NYT, so I prefer reading the Guardian. They get both business and integrity better anyway. Sadly, there's too many NYTs and too few the Guardians in this world.
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NEW: Facebook snooped on Snapchat users' encrypted network traffic to study how they behaved, unsealed court documents reveal.
This was part of a secret program called "Project Ghostbusters," and even inside the company, it was very controversial.
“I can’t think of a good argument for why this is okay. No security person is ever comfortable with this, no matter what consent we get from the general public. The general public just doesn’t know how this stuff works,” Pedro Canahuati, Facebook's then-head of security engineering, wrote in an email.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/facebook-secret-project-snooped-snapchat-user-traffic/
@freemo no need to waste time rushing it, no worries
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Glad and honored to discover that I am in this list reported few days ago by @LaRepubblica_it
about "500 Italians that count in Artificial Intelligence"
#artificialintelligence #AI #unisa #generativeAI #ciitlabunisa
@UniSalerno
@freemo trying to understand better:
Is accessible via my other instances (both vanilla mastodon):
https://masto.bg/@kamilkazani@feedsin.space
https://fediscience.org/@kamilkazani@feedsin.space
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@mapto This is the first im hearing about it. WE have no blocked it ourselves.
You say you used to use it and now you cant? Do you know when exactly it stopped being usable for QOTO for you?
- Games
- https://mapto.itch.io
- Others (+fedi)
- https://linktr.ee/mapto
Studying how people interact, in the past (#CulturalAnalytics) and today (#EdTech #Crowdsourcing). Researcher at @IslabUnimi, University of Milan. Bulgarian activist for legal reform with @pravosadiezv. I use dedicated accounts for different languages.
My profile is searchable with https://www.tootfinder.ch/
Joined Nov 2022
