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It may seem that LLM or anything “AI” in general will make studying (or learning at schools) easier for students, but harder for institutions bc they have to come up with exams to exclude effects of using those tools and trying to control what’s happening

The effect on the long run will be very different, though: it will get much harder for students as the use of AI is assumed and *expected*. So students are demanded to do much more than that and explicitly show creativity, innovation, etc.

JOB ALERT

We are hiring! Assistant Professorship with Tenure Track in *Computational Social Science with a Focus on Communication*.

Join us at U of Zurich. Great opportunities, details below.

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@communicationscholars #commodon @ICA_CAT @PolComm @computationalsocialscience

UZH: Assistant Professorship with Tenure Track in Computational Social Science with a Focus on Communication

The University of Zurich invites applications for an assistant professorship with tenure track in computational social science with a focus on communication. The position should be filled by 1 August 2024. After two employment periods of three years each, promotion to a permanent professorship will take place in the event of a positive evaluation within a tenure procedure. Candidates should demonstrate outstanding, internationally visible research in the field of computational social science. The focus is on developing and applying methods for analyzing communication processes in the context of digital and social media. The position is based in the Department of Communication and Media Research (IKMZ) and is intended to investigate communication processes from an interdisciplinary social science perspective. Possible methodological approaches include agent-based or other computer-based modeling, simulations, network analysis, machine learning, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, analysis of large audio and/or video datasets, gathering and analysis of digital trace data, and the use of lab or field experiments. In teaching, the candidate should enable students to use innovative computer-based methods independently and in a research-oriented manner. Initially, the professorship will teach one to two courses per semester, mainly in communication science programs. Later, the teaching opportunities will expand. Candidates must hold a PhD degree in communication science (or related subjects such as computer science, statistics, political science or sociology) by the time of application and have excellent relevant publications. While courses may be taught in English, the administrative language of the University of Zurich is still German. Therefore, non-German speaking candidates are expected to acquire a working knowledge of German within the first years of their appointment. The Department of Communication and Media Research and the University of Zurich offer a stimulating research and teaching environment with a wide range of opportunities for professional exchange and cooperation. The University of Zurich is an equal opportunities employer and in particular strives to increase the gender diversity in leading positions. Therefore, qualified female researchers are encouraged to apply. Please submit an academic CV, including research plan for the next three years (two to three), publications, teaching experience, copies of academic transcripts, and contact details of two references. The closing date for applications is 1 March 2023. Details on the application procedure are available on the website of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.

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Tomorrow is #BringYourAtariToWorkDay, a holiday started by @benjedwards and @Recta_Pete!

What kind of Atari are you going to bring to work tomorrow? #RetroComputing #RetroGaming

I was asking symbiotic.fyi/ about the main contributions of our recently submitted #JCDL paper. It worked surprisingly well.
Try it out yourself. You can upload a paper, get a summary and ask questions about the content.

via @bryanhpchiang@twitter.com
#gpt #llm #ai #nlp

Going through my reading list, I rediscovered this interesting interview with Marisa Parham lareviewofbooks.org/article/di:

[…] if I am answering honestly, I do think I am working in the digital humanities. It is so fascinating to me, because I do a lot of very technical things, like programming and coding, and there are people in DH who say “well that's not digital humanities, that's just programming.” And then I do things that are more theoretical and critical, and that isn't considered digital humanities either. This gets to the definitional question of what are we talking about when we use the term “digital humanities.” Is it about method, or about the object of inquiry, or about a tool?

BREAKING: Getty Images just filed a copyright and trademark infringement lawsuit against Stability AI in Delaware District Court. Getty alleges that Stability copied more than 12 million Getty photos to train Stable Diffusion. Full complaint here: copyrightlately.com/pdfviewer/

It’s always fun to translate French formal closings:

French: En vous remerciant de bien vouloir considérer la présente avec bienveillance, je vous prie de croire, Monsieur le Doyen, à l’assurance de ma considération très distinguée.

English: Thank you for your kind consideration of this letter.

I guess “of this letter” already makes this excessively verbose ;-)

Interesting new research on the of researchers:

Riccardo Fini, Julien Jourdan, Markus Perkmann, and Laura Toschi: “A New Take on the Categorical Imperative: Gatekeeping, Boundary Maintenance, and Evaluation Penalties in Science” doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2022.1610

#Pandoc 3 introduced #Markdown support for #wikilinks:

[[pandoc|https:/‌/github.com]]

There is no consensus across tools whether the link title should come before or after the pipe character, so pandoc supports both. Choose by enabling either of the new extensions
+wikilinks_title_after_pipe
or
+wikilinks_title_before_pipe

Works with #CommonMark, too: for GitHub wiki input, use gfm+wikilinks_title_after_pipe

Twitter killt die freie API und damit viele spannende Projekte.

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