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"I'm working with students and postdocs from all over the world. I never had that kind of opportunity in the US before.”

Meet Andrew - an US researcher who moved to Prague, supported by the Horizon Europe #Widening programme.

#ChooseEurope

ICE agents never show ID, badges, mention their names, or show their faces. Literally anyone can claim to be ICE, and no one would stop them.

They have provided terrorists with the perfect cover.

I've posted my seminar on 'The role of the university is to resist AI', which takes as its text Ivan Illich's 'Tools for Conviviality'. danmcquillan.org/cpct_seminar.

History keeps repeating, dictators keep pulling each-other's strings.

"In interviews for a book about his Middle East peace efforts, Trump, according to its author, used an expletive to describe the embattled prime minister — “Fuck him,” he reportedly said — and accused Netanyahu of disloyalty."

timesofisrael.com/trump-posts-

@jmcclure this generalisation was not mine, sorry if I gave you any reasons to think so

@jmcclure which of the three characteristics do you think a neurodivergent individual would not exhibit? If anything, their character would be more extraordinary. In contrast, LLMs are overly ordinary.

If anyone risks having such a trait, I suspect it could be psychopaths, but that's much more an extremely superficial speculation rather than a meaningful hypothesis.

"He has identified three levels of human signals that we’ve lost in adopting AI into our communication. The first level is that of basic humanity signals, cues that speak to our authenticity as a human being like moments of vulnerability or personal rituals, which say to others, “This is me, I’m human.” The second level consists of attention and effort signals that prove “I cared enough to write this myself.” And the third level is ability signals which show our sense of humor, our competence, and our real selves to others. It’s the difference between texting someone, “I’m sorry you’re upset” versus “Hey sorry I freaked at dinner, I probably shouldn’t have skipped therapy this week.” One sounds flat; the other sounds human."
theverge.com/openai/686748/cha

Reading the language of today's reports of a hospital bombed, remembering the language of previous reports of previous hospitals bombed, thinking of this cartoon by Tom Gauld.

A good explanation why people report different experiences with LLMs. The bottom line is nothing new at all: _verify_the_results_, instead of simply trusting them because you don't know.
shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/06/why-d

On July 1st, I'll be presenting our work on the BogoSlov project (4euplus.eu/4EU-1150.html) at the conference "Transfer of Ideas in European Intellectual History: From Medieval Manuscripts to Interactive Online Content" held at the Institute of Slavistics of the University of Innsbruck @uniinnsbruck .

I will be presenting the four distinct approaches we take to attempt to identify in texts. The four approaches range from established formal algorithms like regular expressions, longest common subsequence, pass through conventional computational linguistics with lemma n-grams and conclude with an approach based on sentence transformers. I will be talking of the huge list of challenges the field is facing, including the need to support standards like TEI and take full advantage of recent versions of Unicode , even though sometimes with it ambiguities remain.

Looking forward to seeing many old and new friends there!

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