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Jan Kraemer @camelusminimus.bsky.social · 08/02/2024

If you used chatGPT at some point and want to be a kind soul, a (bachelor) student looks into issues of trust, experience and aspects of individual perception and could use your help: Could you fill out this short (6-7 min) questionaire? (german or english) umfrage.hu-berlin.de/17701?src=1DSM

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Jan Kraemer @camelusminimus.bsky.social · 08/02/2024

Just to preface my next post, no I did not (just) remember this account to post an advertisement for a questionaire to help a student under my supervision with his thesis... ...but I must admit it was a factor...sorry in advance?

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Jan Kraemer @camelusminimus.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

I loved this interview with Cat Bohannon on the Daily Show. She is such a powerfull science communicator. I did buy the book. Out of interest - not for the other subtle hint... www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eAa...

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Jan Kraemer @camelusminimus.bsky.social · 03/11/2023

I wonder why I never found (or remembered?) this great (and old) definition of AI: "AI is the study of how to make computers do things at which, at the moment, people are better." Rich, Elaine: Artificial Intelligence. New York, NY USA: McGraw-Hill. (1983)

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Jan Kraemer @camelusminimus.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

I'm hyped to be listening to @emilymbender.bsky.social talking about "Meaning making with artificial interlocutors and risks of language technology" online at www.hitz.eus/webinar_izen... The talk is brought to us by HiTZ and features a bonus Cat!

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

I like this recent comment from gwern on the Gelman blog: "For reproducibility, it really needs to be reproducible and checkable by a stranger with little time or energy to spare, because even the author will soon enough be that stranger." statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2023/10/29/s...

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

So because I was reminded - the definitive answer to "Is a hot dog a sandwich?" is "by what taxonomy?" Categories matter, after all. Taxonomies exist for a reason. If you're not clear on defining your categories, then your mixed berry salad will consist of:

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Jan Kraemer @camelusminimus.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

Habe grade eine Benachrichtigung über eine MeetUp Gruppe in Berlin erhalten, der ich gar garantiert nicht beitreten werde: "Pro Kapitalisten & konsequente Liberale" ...wobei mich eine anthropologische Studie über die Teilnehmer sehr interessieren würde...

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ændra. @aendra.com · 30/10/2023

This by @jemima.bsky.social is quite good. I know a lot of Gen-Z folks and I can absolutely get their reticence to invest all their time, energy and mental health into a 9-5 corporate job; the people angered by that are really saying the quiet part out loud about what we should expect from work.

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In defence of the Gen Z challenge to the ‘work ethic’

[FREE TO READ] Contempt for younger workers protesting at the daily grind masks the fact that so few are happy with it

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Jan Kraemer @camelusminimus.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

I am always so amazed to learn/realize how many words of yiddish origin are in the german language. And then I get sad, thinking about the horrors (us) german people inflicted on others. (Others as in non-germans, as well as othered germans, jewish people bein highly targeted in both groups) 1/

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 25/10/2023

Just remembered that this great post by Richard Morey exists: Why you shouldn’t say “this study is underpowered” towardsdatascience.com/why-you-shou...

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Why you shouldn’t say “this study is underpowered”

Ensuring our critiques of power are relevant, clear, and based on good statistics

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Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · 26/10/2023

Also, the psychological burden of carrying those attacks is very real, especially as new graduate. It pushes people out of the field. In case this helps anyone, as a peer reviewer, I take this approach: 🧵

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Jan Kraemer @camelusminimus.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

I wonder how long it will take my surroundings to get used to me saying "There is light on the end of the frog"... ...thanks go to @tkingfisher.bsky.social for making my language weirder and congratulations follow swiftly for her Hugo 🎉

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Jean-François Bonnefon @jfbonnefon.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

I am finding joy in using generative AI to finally give fictional characters the win they have been desperately seeking

Ahab giving the thumbs up in front of a beached Moby Dick

Sisyphus radiating joy in front of the rock he managed to push all the way up the mountain

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Jan Kraemer @camelusminimus.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

If anyone does any work on Folk Theories of Machine Learning, please say Hi and lets maybe chat? (This topic rather central to my current area of interest right now.) 🧪

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Brigitte Nerlich @bnerlich.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

A somewhat niche blog post on FrontierAI sparked by a comment by Jack Stilgoe blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingscienc... #AcademicSky

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Alex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️ @spahn711.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

Full sequence of the annular solar eclipse at Shiprock, New Mexico. This was a dream composition of mine. So much time, energy, and money went into making it happen. I'm forever grateful to the Navajo for letting me shoot it from sacred ground. An experience I'll never forget.

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Jan Kraemer @camelusminimus.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

*sigh* I am so amazed how weird the apparent standard for publications in the ML/"Deep Learning" field is. I accept that starting from scratch for each paper would be rather tedious (to read and write), but having to parse a stack of 15 arxiv papers just to collect the underlying assumptions?

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 17/10/2023

I just thought “this sounds like the type of thing I’d make up for a blog post” and lo and behold www.the100.ci/2023/06/13/d...

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Jan Kraemer @camelusminimus.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

Screams to high heaven: please never use healthcare as an area where we could benefit from less regulation wrt. the EU AI act.....misdiagnosis is a problem, but unregulated ai will surely not help. (I had a few too many machine learning in health papers to review to be able to believe that....

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Jan Kraemer @camelusminimus.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

Trying to send out the #Philosophy bat-signal... I hope that means Zach is writing ,,AI: Abridged Beyond the Point of usefulness" 🧪 #CogSci

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Jan Kraemer @camelusminimus.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

Would have liked to hear rather more from Pegah Maham in the current panel...

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Jan Kraemer @camelusminimus.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

Cheers loudly (at least in my head) after @lsmueller.bsky.social calls for an end to calling everything "The AI", instead using more descriptive and concrete labels.

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Jan Kraemer @camelusminimus.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

I am currently at Forum "Trustworthy AI" at Tagesspiegel, listening to a panel on the AI ecosystem, next up: @lsmueller.bsky.social

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Jan Kraemer @camelusminimus.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

I will be going to the "Trustworthy AI Forum - Shaping the Future of AI" hosted the Berlin Newspaper "Tagesspiegel" tomorrow ... I am very interested to see how the topic will be framed along the "current harms" to "future human extinction" spectrum. There is a "fireside chat" with Yoshua Bengio...

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Jan Kraemer @camelusminimus.bsky.social · 09/10/2023

On my way to my next conference. "Learning, Knowledge, Data, Analysis" in Marburg. Anyone else there and wants to meet? 🧪 www.uni-marburg.de/de/fb02/prof...

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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 05/10/2023

For anyone who's worked on corpus building and wished there were some way to get a data dump from Worldcat, the shadow library world has now gone and done it.

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1.3B Worldcat scrape & data science mini-competition

Anna’s Archive scraped all of Worldcat to make a TODO list of books that need to be preserved, and is hosting a data science mini-competition.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

I started with the question: "Why are barns painted red?" and now I'm down three different rabbit holes of historical paint #chemistry. 1. Linseed oil is the most used historical sealant in Europe. It's pressed from the seed of flax plants, used for linen production (hence "LINseed").

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Jan Kraemer @camelusminimus.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

Teaching students that the problem they think they asked the machine learning algorithm to solve is not necessarily the same that it did solve, is my goal for the next few years while I am involved in higher education.

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Jan Kraemer @camelusminimus.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

Is there a conscious change currently going on under these blue skies to more often quote post? If so, I feel better tool support wrt following a discussion forward through time is needed. (Or I am just missing awareness of important functionality?)

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Jan Kraemer @camelusminimus.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

Introduce yourself with three books you love: "Small Gods" - Terry Pratchett "Snow Crash" - Neal Stephenson "The Difference" - Scott Page

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Jan Kraemer @camelusminimus.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

Triggered by liking the Tintin version of this meme, while knowing of the use of historical racist stereotypes by Hergé in his work: Is there a "Critical Guide to Your Childhood Entertainment" that helps you realize and confront these while also explaining the context in which they were created?

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Jan Kraemer @camelusminimus.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

But a honest question if anyone ever reads this who knows about these things: Can there be a point where changes in language and current interpretation of words mean that a insult of an abelist origin has lost all specificity and so only carries diffuse badness to be hurled at the inteded target?

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Jan Kraemer @camelusminimus.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

I would be very interested in an analysis of "political content" on bluesky before, and after the end of the late-night-writer-strike-break. I just was presented with an enormous amount of "Ex-Speaker" content today, and was wondering if that was a one-off or a sign of things to come?

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Jan Kraemer @camelusminimus.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

@did:plc:ftnzzw4cnon2pzpw7i5m2xu7 Just a question regarding the AI and HCI Feed you created: Is it purely content-oriented (keyword/tag based), or is it community oriented (some kind of whitelist)?

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 30/09/2023

6th-grade student asks “what color are oxygen atoms?” “This question has no correct answer, but it can open many avenues for scientific discussion and an opportunity to learn.” 🧪 #edusky #chemsky

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 29/09/2023

Excited to share this short & sweet article I wrote with @samhforbes.bsky.social! Teaching coding inclusively: if this, then what? doi.org/10.31235/osf... The title perhaps says it all; we show through arguments and examples what women experience in programming class and what to do to remedy it.

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Jan Kraemer @camelusminimus.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

Computer Vision and contrastive learning to estimate quality and size of...potatoes... I love hearing about use cases I really have not thought about yet... (Andreas Schliebitz from Osnabrück) #GI #InformatikFestival 🧪

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Jan Kraemer @camelusminimus.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

Bin auf dem Weg zum "Informatik Festival" der GI. Wer tummelt sich die nächsten Tage da noch so rum? 🧪 informatik2023.gi.de/index.html

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Jan Kraemer @camelusminimus.bsky.social · 14/09/2023

Having been pointed to a talk by Dr. Gebru on the utopian/eugenic side of the belief system of some influencial figures in AGI (www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7XT...), I came to wonder about the role of the movie Idiocracy (www.imdb.com/title/tt0387...) as a symptom or a gateway drug wrt dysgenic thought?

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Idiocracy (2006) ⭐ 6.5 | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi

1h 24m | R

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Jan Kraemer @camelusminimus.bsky.social · 14/09/2023

Had an interesting discussion about the ability of "AIs" to reason, that turned into a discussion on goals of AI (as field) and the concept of embodiment, but then got rather (interestingly sidetracked) when discussing if a "real AI" would need to be able to experience hangryness...

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Kelly Turnbull @coelasquid.bsky.social · 11/09/2023

I love Whiskey Jacks because they’re like “what if we took a crow, but made it look like a cute little plush animal and gave it 1000x the drive to commit crimes

Whiskey Jack looking like an adorable little pokemon creature

Whiskey Jack stealing bacon out of a pan

Whiskey Jack trying to steal a pork chop while the owner is in the process of eating it

Whiskey Jack stealing food out of a man’s hand while he stands in front of a sign reading “BEWARE OF WHISKEY JACK” featuring an illustration of a whiskey jack staring at a hamburger

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 10/09/2023

New blog post, trying to get beyond a debate that has so far treated students mostly as consumers of AI. In the twenty-first century, critical thinking will require understanding how models work.

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Liberally-educated students need to be more than consumers of AI

If I'm buying a thinking process, I really need to understand what I see when I look under the hood.

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