Michael Piotrowski @true_mxp@qoto.org
Associate professor of digital humanities, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Professeur associé en humanités numériques, Université de Lausanne, Suisse
Joined Nov 2022
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Just found out that my book can be pre-ordered! Release date is October 3, 2023. Text has been finalized, cover is still being designed.
PUP: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691224138/modeling-social-behavior
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0691224145?tag=it_books_com-20
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Flo mir 4 more good tips 👑 #3königstag #lifecoach #mentelhealth #dreikönigstag #drükönigstag
The latest article on #RECEPTIOgate in the NZZ is now much more critical than the first one; the incoherencies are clearly too important to overlook.
@taoish @Marphurius The takeaway for me is that also as a novelist, CR has a penchant for using alternate identities to write both glowing reviews of her own books and to attack (and block) critics on social media.
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And here it is. Germany to deliver Marder and a Patriot battery and more Gepards to Ukraine.
Le monde académique suisse inquiet de son éviction d'un forum européen.
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An English version of the blog post presenting Peer Community In and @PeerCommunityJournal. To be shared without moderation 😀 https://theconversation.com/could-peer-community-in-be-the-revolution-in-scientific-publishing-weve-all-been-waiting-for-195682
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PyTorch machine learning Python package compromised in supply chain attack
A nightly build version of a machine-learning framework dependency has been compromised. The package ran malicious code on affected systems and stole data from unsuspecting users.
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/pytorch-ml-compromised/
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Meanwhile, in the "What could possibly go wrong?" department: Despite warnings and risks, Microsoft said to be integrating ChatGPT with Bing Search to challenge Google. // https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/4/23538552/microsoft-bing-chatgpt-search-google-competition
@Marphurius È proprio stupefacente.
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Just when time seemed to have come for poised and serious analyses of #ReceptioGate, its deeper causes and wider implications, a tabloid from Lugano opens up a new front which adds more strange twists to the story (best followed on Twitter, perhaps):
https://www.tio.ch/ticino/attualita/1634529/social-pseudonimi-lugano-facebook-signora
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Fully funded PhD opportunity in #linguistics at the University of Basel (Switzerland) -- relevant topics #EnglishLinguistics, #FrenchLinguistics, #GeneralLinguistics, #GermanLinguistics, #RomanceLinguistics, #ItalianLinguistics. and similar. #PhDjobs #PhDOpportunity
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Wer sich für die #Geschichte von #Mailboxen und dem frühen Internet interessiert, dem sei das Buch "The Modem World" von Kevin Driscoll empfohlen. Hier meine Rezension: https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-115768
@tschfflr Yes, that would be an alternative: you accept a max # of reviews per some period. Both would help you to avoid overload. However, you’d still have to make sure you’ve actually got the time.
There's this rule of thumb for time mgmt: you should only commit up to 60% of your time, the rest is a buffer for unexpected tasks. Iff you’re following this strictly, this is where (a limited number of) reviews could fit in. But I’m bad at this, so slots may work better for me.
@tschfflr I agree. The point about turnaround time for reviews got me thinking… Ideally, it should be as short as possible. However, we can’t just drop everything to review a paper when it comes in—so most of us tend to postpone it until the deadline. I wonder whether one could allocate “review slots” at the beginning of the year: when you get a request, you would definitely know whether you can agree to it. This wouldn’t be ASAP, but with a guaranteed response time.
M‘enfin, variatio delectat? Aristote… le Stagirite… Francis Bacon de Verulam… Lord Bacon… Bacon… Chancelier de Verulam – sur juste deux pages!
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Le soir du 31 décembre, le ciel était rose à #lausanne
Nous sommes le 3 janvier, et il fait gris mais souhaitons que cette nouvelle année soit bonne. J’avoue que j’ai des doutes compte tenu de l’état de ce monde mais bon… Bonne année !
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The Grand Hotel Thunerhof was built between 1873 and 1875 to the plans by Paul Adolphe Tièche. The neo-Renaissance hotel building is 60 meters long, 30 meters wide and has a height of 20 meters. It features a spectacular staircase and atrium. The Grand Hotel Thunderhof closed in 1934 and since 1942 the building is used by city administration and the Kunstmuseum Thun. #architecture #atrium #switzerland
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Academics trying to get back to work today, after a "restful" Winter break.
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Claude Shannon was a rare individual. He never won a Nobel Prize, and was not a well-known scholar like Albert Einstein or Richard Feynman, but with a single groundbreaking paper, he laid the foundation for the entire communication infrastructure underlying the modern information age, making central contributions to math, science & engineering. This paper was written more than 70 years ago.
Who was Claude Shannon? How did he make the impact to the future of our time?
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-claude-shannons-information-theory-invented-the-future-20201222/
Associate professor of digital humanities, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Professeur associé en humanités numériques, Université de Lausanne, Suisse
Joined Nov 2022
