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doing things with data. Disclaimer: posts reflect my personal opinions. RT does not imply endorsement. some older, longer posts on doingthingswithdata.wordpress.com 🌉 bridged from ⁂ wien.rocks/@AxelPolleres, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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AxelPolleres (Q54860587) @axelpolleres.wien.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026
Als #KI-Forscher werde ich manchmal (in letzter Zeit öfter) gefragt, was ich davon halte, dass viele der Erfinder wegweisender Technologien hinter den letzten Entwicklungen inzwischen vor den Gefahren durch KI warnen (z.B. Joshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton). Here's my 2 cents: Was eine Gesellschaft […]
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Tyrone Slothrop @slothrop.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026
Wenn deine Tante stirbt, und dir 100.000€ vererbt, zahlst du 16.000€ Erbschaftsteuer. (20% für alles über dem Freibetrag von 20.000€) Wenn Milliardär Klaus-Michael Kühne stirbt, und ein Vermögen von ca. 42,5 MILLIARDEN Euro hinterlässt, zahlen seine Erben darauf etwa 0€ Steuern, dank einer […]
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AxelPolleres (Q54860587) @axelpolleres.wien.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026
des Sonntags wundere ich mich oft, wie "Bad Religion" schon 1990 so ein Prophetisches Werk schaffen konnten, ganz ohne KI und social media ;-) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21st_Century_…
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21st Century (Digital Boy) - Wikipedia
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AxelPolleres (Q54860587) @axelpolleres.wien.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026
spotted at #praterstern
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AxelPolleres (Q54860587) @axelpolleres.wien.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026
guten morgen! youtu.be/0-17S-YkH-4?is=nl5yuuRmKHK…
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AxelPolleres (Q54860587) @axelpolleres.wien.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 30/05/2026
@derStandard online Titelseite... 4 x Werbung (ein Game, eine Espresso-Maschine, ein Handventilator, und StarLink) ... die Kommerzialisierung der Nachrichten schön illustriert... Wäre ja cool wenn es noch eine echte Tageszeitung in #AT gäbe. #medien
newspaper title page, almost exclusively dominated by "articles" that actually promote products.
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AxelPolleres (Q54860587) @axelpolleres.wien.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 27/05/2026
#unisretten
holding up a poster saying "TRANSPARENT EINGESPART..."
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AxelPolleres (Q54860587) @axelpolleres.wien.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 20/05/2026
There is a veritable threat of unprecedented cuts in #Austria's science and education budget. The UNIKO (Austrian universities' council) just held a press conference about this matter: www.youtube.com/live/_nitF6sldX8 ... If the cut go through as currently rumored, it would be not only a […]
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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/04/2026
"On the acceptance of GenAI" smallsheds.garden/blog/2026/on-the-…
By using GenAI:
I accept the models were trained on stolen data.
I accept that the data was labeled by exploited workers.
I accept the environmental costs of the data centers running these models.
I accept that I am outsourcing some of my skills to a company.
I accept these companies don’t have a viable business model.
I accept that I am granting more power to big tech and their vision for the world.
I accept that I am granting more power to the United States.
I accept that all this effort could have been spent elsewhere.

If any of these facts are new to you, you haven’t been doing your due diligence.
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AxelPolleres (Q54860587) @axelpolleres.wien.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 08/03/2026
im übrigen wohl immer noch "immer noch notwendig"... youtu.be/44Gi_Y1AcmI Danke, Johanna Dohnal!
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AxelPolleres (Q54860587) @axelpolleres.wien.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 22/02/2026
#station #art #wienliebe
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AxelPolleres (Q54860587) @axelpolleres.wien.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 22/02/2026
Finally, the US Marines tasked to export the fantastic American healthcare system worldwide.... www.derstandard.at/story/3000000309…
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"Es ist auf dem Weg!!!": Trump schickt US-Lazarettschiff nach Grönland
Damit solle bei der Versorgung von Kranken geholfen werden, die keine Hilfe bekommen würden. Nur: Zuletzt gab es keine Berichte über medizinischen Bedarf
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Daniel Hernández @daniel.mstdn.degu.cl.ap.brid.gy · 11/02/2026
@AxelPolleres Indeed, even grammar checkers can be a problem. I use grammar checkers, but I prefer not letting them fix my words with a click. Instead, I fix the text manually to learn the typos and grammar mistakes. I think we need to slow down when fixing grammar issues and research why […]
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AxelPolleres (Q54860587) @axelpolleres.wien.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 10/02/2026
Dear students, and we're all students since we should constantly learn (it's what keeps us active, responsible, ... humans in a way) read this, think twice: arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872 ... "LLM users also struggled to accurately quote their own work." ... applies not only to your essays […]
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Natascha Strobl @nataschastrobl.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Wer sein Kind nicht gegen Masern impft sollte Besuch vom Jugendamt bekommen. Wie kommen die armen Kinder dazu so zu leiden und wie kommen anderen dazu gefährdet zu werden?
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AxelPolleres (Q54860587) @axelpolleres.wien.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 25/01/2026
the divided states - finally fully turned from a res *publica* to a res dictata 😞
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AxelPolleres (Q54860587) @axelpolleres.wien.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 20/01/2026
Nachdem ich öfters gefragt werde was Künstliche Intelligenz ist, kann, und wie sie eigentlich funktioniert und wo die Risiken und Herausforderungen liegen.... hier der Versuch einer allgemein verständlichen Erklärung […]
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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 11/01/2026
The first two versions of Google's #AlphaFold software (to predict protein folding) were #OpenSource, including the one that earned its developers the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. There were no restrictions on commercial use. But the third and most recent version blocks free commercial use […]
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AxelPolleres (Q54860587) @axelpolleres.wien.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 11/01/2026
#icenotsafe (nationally and internationally...) www.derstandard.at/story/3000000303…
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Vater und Sohn bei Überquerungsversuch der Neuen Donau in Wien eingebrochen
Der Mann und sein elfjähriger Sohn konnten unterkühlt gerettet werden. Die Stadt Wien warnt vehement vor dem Betreten von Natureisflächen
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AxelPolleres (Q54860587) @axelpolleres.wien.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 09/01/2026
Als nächstes darf ich das Erdäpfelgulasch nimmer Erdäpfelgulasch nennen? Ich bin wirklich ein starker Befürworter und Unterstützer der europäischen Idee, der EU und europäischer Werte, aber das (neben den offensichtlichen Nationalismen) sind genau die Art von Diskussionen, die Europa schwächen […]
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Florian 'floe' Echtler @floe.butterbrot.org · 15/12/2025
Undated find from my random picture folder, enjoy 😁 (might have been at University of Regensburg a bunch of years ago?)
A graffiti in a bathroom:

THINGS I HATE:
I. LISTS
II. VANDALISM
III. IRONY
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AxelPolleres (Q54860587) @axelpolleres.wien.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 15/12/2025
#kontoimsoll has a new (minimalistic) #website kontoimsoll.net ... 🤘 🎸
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Konto im Soll - Alternative Indie Rock aus Wien
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AxelPolleres (Q54860587) @axelpolleres.wien.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 12/12/2025
Sorry, aber: wenn die "clicks" unserer kids ein wirtschaftlicher faktor sind, dann läuft etwas sehr, sehr falsch im "wirtschaftssektor" content creator ... (...und ja, das auf social media zu posten ist hochgradig paradox) […]
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AxelPolleres (Q54860587) @axelpolleres.wien.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2025
Elch #emil abgeschoben... ooe.orf.at/stories/3322679 ... zu nahe an der Autobahn spazieren gehen? da kennen die oberösterreichischen Behörden kein Pardon!
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Emil betäubt und im Böhmerwald ausgesetzt
Montagfrüh war es so weit: Elch Emil musste betäubt werden, weil er bei Sattledt (Bezirk Wels-Land) im Begriff war, über den Zaun Richtung Westautobahn (A1) zu springen. Knapp bevor der Frühverkehr beim Voralpenkreuz einsetzte, war Emil nur noch 200 Meter vor der A1 entfernt. Später wurde er nahe der Grenze zu Tschechien ausgesetzt.
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AxelPolleres (Q54860587) @axelpolleres.wien.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2025
#freespeech ... whatever that is/was.... ah, there's a Wikipedia page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_sp…
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AxelPolleres (Q54860587) @axelpolleres.wien.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2025
oe1.orf.at/programm/20250917/807361… "Mehr Logik für die KI" Thanks a lot to M. Unterluggauer for this nice episode of #Oe1 #ö1 #Dimensionen on the recent "hybrid" developments of #ArtificialIntelligence, which was recorded in interviews at #SEMANTiCS2025 ... I […]
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Johannes Ernst @j12t.j12t.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2025
So "Vibe Code Cleanup Specialist" is now a job title? Not sure I should be excited or horrified. And the potential employers are ... the equivalent of software development superfund sites?
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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2025
Exposure to "AI Assistance" lowers doctors' ability to diagnose cancer just after a few weeks. "AI"s main effect on people is skill decay. www.thelancet.com/journals/langas/a…
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AxelPolleres (Q54860587) @axelpolleres.wien.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2025
Feeling a bit #nanobanana today: "Make Moazart look like worrying about climate change" ... from this original: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wolfga…
#mozart worrying about climate change
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Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
The only thing ChatGPT ever does.
Andrew Kadel @DrewKadel@social.coop

My daughter, who's had a degree in computer science for 25 years, posted this about ChatGPT on Facebook. It's the best description I've seen.

Something that seems fundamental to me about ChatGPT, which gets lost over and over again:

When you enter text into it, you're asking "What would a response to this sound like?"

If you put in a scientific question, and it comes back with a response citing a non-existent paper with a plausible title, using a real journal name and an author name who's written things related to your question, it's not being tricky or telling lies or doing anything at all surprising! This is what a response to that question would sound like! It did the thing!

But people keep wanting the "say something that sounds like an answer" machine to be doing something else, and believing it *is* doing something else.

It's good at generating things that sound like responses to being told it was wrong, so people think that it's engaging in introspection or looking up more information or something, but it's not, it's only, ever, saying something that sounds like the next bit of the conversation.
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AxelPolleres (Q54860587) @axelpolleres.wien.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2025
#ISWC2025 paper accepted :) very happy... looking forward to Japan.
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AxelPolleres (Q54860587) @axelpolleres.wien.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2025
#oebb app feature request/bug report: when my mobile device breaks down there is no way to recover my bought ticket(s) on another device or as PDF... seriously?!? not ideal.
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AxelPolleres (Q54860587) @axelpolleres.wien.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2025
The original name for such facilities was cc, not aa, if i remember correctly from history lessons.
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AxelPolleres (Q54860587) @axelpolleres.wien.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2025
If you're in #vienna with kids this Friday: Checkout the "okidoki-kinderfreunde" stage at #donauinselfest: 16:30 #youngrepublic :) youngrepublic.at (i know one of the band members very well :))
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AxelPolleres (Q54860587) @axelpolleres.wien.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 14/06/2025
#FWIW youtu.be/cD0Rf-N_FVE in too many ways, for instance US "politics": opposition politicians being detained or even shot is #fascism
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AxelPolleres (Q54860587) @axelpolleres.wien.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 07/06/2025
Bin im Garten...
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AxelPolleres (Q54860587) @axelpolleres.wien.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 24/04/2025
Happy to share another exciting #postdoctoral #academic #job #opportunity in #Vienna at WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business) within the Bilateral AI #ClusterOfExcellence in #Vienna […] [Original post on wien.rocks]
Picture of Austria's map highlighting partner locations and universities in the #BilateralAI #ClusterOfExcellence, see also https://www.bilateral-ai.net/
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AxelPolleres (Q54860587) @axelpolleres.wien.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 03/06/2025
If you're at #ESWC2025 be sure to join tomorrow's Session 8 (16:00) with Robert David's talk on our joint work with Shqiponja Ahmetaj and Albin Ahmeti from Graphwise... Spoiler/crossing fingers: *nominated* as Best In-Use paper! 🤞🤞🤞 […] [Original post on wien.rocks]
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AxelPolleres (Q54860587) @axelpolleres.wien.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2025
Who's going be at #ESWC conference next week in #Portoroz? If you are interested to talk about #Postdoctoral opportunities in our institute at WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business) come talk to me! We have several #openings!!! cc/ Bilateral AI […]
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AxelPolleres (Q54860587) @axelpolleres.wien.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 21/05/2025
Join us at the #Wikidata workshop at #ISWC2025, wikidataworkshop.github.io/2025 Deadline: still a while until ... (02 August 2025), but never to early to start thinking about your submissions :-)
Tōdai-ji Temple in Nara, Japan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C5%8Ddai-ji
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AxelPolleres (Q54860587) @axelpolleres.wien.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 18/05/2025
youtu.be/XGhnE53PVzk #sunday #timeforvinyl #timelessmusic #joanbaez
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AxelPolleres (Q54860587) @axelpolleres.wien.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 14/05/2025
Computer Science Conference Deadline = "crowdsourced" DDoS attack by OpenAI on overleaf.com ?
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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 10/05/2025
I think about this comic at least once a week
- I want things to be different 
- *smashes everything*
- oh no
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postmarketOS (old account) @handle.invalid · 30/04/2025
@osuosl has been around for 22 years. They kindly host our gitlab for 6 months now, and provide important services for more than 150 other free and open source software communities such as @alpinelinux, @chimera , @debian, @fdroidorg, @gentoo, @gnome, @LineageOS, #ReplicantOS, @torproject. Now […]
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AxelPolleres (Q54860587) @axelpolleres.wien.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 28/04/2025
#ES universities not really reachable... wow. #blackout
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AxelPolleres (Q54860587) @axelpolleres.wien.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 24/04/2025
Happy to share another exciting #postdoctoral #academic #job #opportunity in #Vienna at WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business) within the Bilateral AI #ClusterOfExcellence in #Vienna […] [Original post on wien.rocks]
Picture of Austria's map highlighting partner locations and universities in the #BilateralAI #ClusterOfExcellence, see also https://www.bilateral-ai.net/
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
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Armin Wolf @arminwolf.at · 10/04/2025
Es war klar, das das nach Trumps Ankündigung, die meisten Zölle wieder auszusetzen, passieren würde. Wer von der Ankündigung vorab wusste, hätte ein Vermögen verdienen können. Aber das wäre Insider-Trading und ist natürlich undenkbar.
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AxelPolleres (Q54860587) @axelpolleres.wien.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 09/04/2025
#IchForscheGernInWien #TopForschungWien #Wien Last week we launched a campaign to highlight research in Vienna by telling our own "research stories", which I gladly would like to highlight again - this time in English 🙂: As professor of Data and Knowledge […] [Original post on wien.rocks]
Hiking close to Vienna in Winter - This picture was taken on a summit just an hour's drive from Vienna
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