"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
El Pais is doing an amazing work in showing how citation metrics is a call for abuse (gaming to be more precise).
https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2024-12-05/dozens-of-the-worlds-most-cited-scientists-stop-falsely-claiming-to-work-in-saudi-arabia.html
Is GenAI a magical, miraculous substance that "democratises creativity"? Or is it just graceless slop? Developing Critical AI Literacy means interrogating the design of AI systems. #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEducation #AIEdu #AIInEd #AIInEdu
https://leonfurze.com/2025/06/27/digital-plastic-miraculous-substance-or-graceless-slop/
Quick, kill Clippy before it multiplies! Ah, too late...
Batteries are so cheap now, solar power doesn’t sleep https://electrek.co/2025/06/20/batteries-are-so-cheap-now-solar-power-doesnt-sleep-ember/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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'. https://danmcquillan.org/cpct_seminar.html
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."
https://www.timesofisrael.com/trump-posts-clip-of-prof-calling-netanyahu-obsessive-about-getting-us-to-fight-iran/
#Trump #Netanyahu #JeffreySachs #Iran #Israel #Palestine #Lebanon #Syria #Iraq
@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.
Bernie Sanders:
"In the first round of strikes Israel assassinated the man overseeing Iran's nuclear negotiation team"
https://www.aljazeera.com/#flips-6374623035112
"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."
https://www.theverge.com/openai/686748/chatgpt-linguistic-impact-common-word-usage
A May 13 warning from U.S. President Donald Trump to Iran came as the president already knew an Israeli attack on the nation could be imminent — and that there might be little he could do to stop it. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/06/20/world/politics/trump-iran-behind-scenes/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #us #donaldtrump #iran #israel #middleeast
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.
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/06/why-do-people-have-such-dramatically-different-experiences-using-ai/
Which part of this does not exactly hold for Katz and his involvement in bombing hospitals in Gaza?
Certainly that in the civilised world due process is part of life.
On July 1st, I'll be presenting our work on the BogoSlov project (https://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 #BiblicalQuotations in #OldChurchSlavonic 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!
The lone wolf extremist narrative is wrong and deviating. Extremism grows in networks
https://theconversation.com/violent-extremists-like-the-minnesota-shooter-are-not-lone-wolves-259225
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/