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Jack Bandy

@jackbandy.com
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* Computer Science faculty @ University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) * ethics, media, HCI, data science, algorithm auditing, etc. * PhD in Computer Science & Communication Studies * 📕 ALGORITHMIC MEDIA book! bookshop.org/a/122922/9783032194374

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Jack Bandy @jackbandy.com · 01/10/2026
Makes me think of this example! "What steps could a process follow to identify the main character in a novel?" From inferentialthinking.com/chapters/01/...
Cumulative Number of Times Each Name Appears in the book Little Women. Jo's name appears more than any other name at all points of the book. Before chapter 10, each of the other sisters' names appear - Amy, Beth, Meg, Laurie - without a clear leader outside of Jo.
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Jack Bandy @jackbandy.com · 07/09/2026
Last chance y'all
An email from Ultimate Guitar offering the "last chance" for a sale price, with seven of the same "last chance" emails from 9/4/26, 8/31/26, 8/26/26, 8/6/26, 8/3/26, 7/31/26, and 7/27/26
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Jack Bandy @jackbandy.com · 24/08/2026
FDOC breakfast: Mexican scrambler @ Brothers Restaurant
Three warm tortillas, beans, rice, and an egg scramble with onions, peppers, and tomatoes
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Jack Bandy @jackbandy.com · 11/08/2026
The best source I could find
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Jack Bandy @jackbandy.com · 11/08/2026
Idk who wants a slide that looks like one Steve Banner presents in Spiderman Brand New Day but here is one.
Presentation slide titled "Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD)" showing a white wireframe cube divided into a 3×3×3 grid on a green gradient background. The vertical axis is labeled TIME and the horizontal axis SPACE. Purple spheres on the grid's intersection points are labeled QUARK, and orange arrows along the grid lines are labeled GLUON. A recreation of a lecture slide behind Bruce Banner in *Spider-Man: Brand New Day*.
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Jack Bandy @jackbandy.com · 24/07/2026
I have been working toward this for so long
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Jack Bandy @jackbandy.com · 16/05/2026
Excited about this one too
An index entry for a book; under the entry for letter B, it says "Bean. See Cloud Gate"
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Jack Bandy @jackbandy.com · 16/05/2026
This'll show 'em
A portion of a book index; under the index section for the letter X, there is one entry that says "X. See Twitter"
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Jack Bandy @jackbandy.com · 14/04/2026
It's sooooo fun checking this box 29 times per day
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Jack Bandy @jackbandy.com · 18/03/2026
Who's tuned in to the future of Chicago stormwater management
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Jack Bandy @jackbandy.com · 26/02/2026
Logged into ShatGPT for the first time in a while and it literally gave me this survey AFTER A SINGLE PROMPT
A survey that says "Do you like this personality?" with a thumbs up or thumbs down as options.
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Jack Bandy @jackbandy.com · 19/02/2026
“You’ve run out of free articles”
Obi Wan Kenobi saying “oh I don’t think so”
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Jack Bandy @jackbandy.com · 10/02/2026
It’s difficult to describe how much delight I get from opening this tin and finding actual butter cookies
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Jack Bandy @jackbandy.com · 12/12/2025
This theory grows stronger each and every semester
Hand-drawn clouds own a blue sky, with plants on the ground. Overlayed text says "you can detect ai easily if you have love in your heart." The dot on each "i" is a heart, except in "ai," where the dot is a broken heart. Image via sweetfellasofficial on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/DPjcBpLAj74/
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Jack Bandy @jackbandy.com · 18/11/2025
Happy piping plover day to all who celebrate!
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Jack Bandy @jackbandy.com · 07/11/2025
Bugs Bunny speaking a clear and dramatic "no"
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Jack Bandy @jackbandy.com · 27/10/2025
Looking forward to today's class
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Jack Bandy @jackbandy.com · 23/09/2025
Pickin fonts on a Tuesday
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Jack Bandy @jackbandy.com · 05/08/2025
The model card has three sentences about training data, so no "major shift" there.
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Jack Bandy @jackbandy.com · 01/08/2025
The post itself is comical but I do give Zuckerberg credit for throwing this html directly onto meta dot com
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Jack Bandy @jackbandy.com · 01/08/2025
"At each step, people have used our newfound productivity to achieve more than was previously possible, pushing the frontiers of science and health, as well as spending more time on creativity, culture, relationships, and enjoying life."
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Jack Bandy @jackbandy.com · 25/06/2025
It’s been a lovely few days in Copenhagen with @icwsm.bsky.social - my first #ICWSM in-person!
Buildings in Copenhagen, reflecting over calm water at sunset
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Jack Bandy @jackbandy.com · 05/06/2025
Big day today, finishing a 24hr audiobook
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Jack Bandy @jackbandy.com · 17/04/2025
🧑🏻‍🍳🥣
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Jack Bandy @jackbandy.com · 11/03/2025
The four moods according to Instagram:
A screenshot from the Instagram music selector. Under the title “moods” is a menu with four options: bright, dreamy, groovy, and sentimental
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Jack Bandy @jackbandy.com · 21/02/2025
Oh heck yeah
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Jack Bandy @jackbandy.com · 07/02/2025
Looks like Instagram is already trying these AI characters again
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Jack Bandy @jackbandy.com · 03/02/2025
Achieved one of my first big goals of 2025: contributing to the Macrodata Refinement program for Lumon Industries. Praise Kier!
A GitHub screenshot showing a pull request by user jackbandy was merged into the Macrodata-Refinement repository, owned by Lumon Industries
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Jack Bandy @jackbandy.com · 03/02/2025
Not really, no
An email beginning "Dear J. Bandy, Hope everything is all right."
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Jack Bandy @jackbandy.com · 31/01/2025
New Lumen software screenshots!! Seems mysterious and important…
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Jack Bandy @jackbandy.com · 30/01/2025
Noooooooooooo
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Jack Bandy @jackbandy.com · 30/01/2025
Nooooooooooooo
A google doc that says "Let's talk about the future" with the autocomplete suggesting "future of work"
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Jack Bandy @jackbandy.com · 23/01/2025
Outlook is such a life-saver!!
A Drafts menu from Microsoft outlook, showing that a draft has been saved with no recipient, no subject, and no message.
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Jack Bandy @jackbandy.com · 22/01/2025
Hear me out: a database and a search algorithm.
A flowchart showing ten repeated queries to a large language model asking if a research paper exists. After the first query, another query is repeated three times asking who wrote the paper. The figure is based on the research paper, "Do Language Models Know When They’re Hallucinating References?" https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2305.18248
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Jack Bandy @jackbandy.com · 26/12/2024
Do we know what’s happening here?
Top read article on English Wikipedia: AnthropologyWikipedia widget on iPhone home page, showing the “Anthropology” article skyrocketing in page views
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Jack Bandy @jackbandy.com · 05/12/2024
Having a great day with my fellow humans
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Jack Bandy @jackbandy.com · 30/11/2024
Working on a new website! Coming soon...
A network of six connected nodes, including Teaching, Research, Writing, About, and More, all connected to a central "JB" node.
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Jack Bandy @jackbandy.com · 27/11/2024
Star Wars screenshot from episode II: “There’s no war here, unless you brought it with you.” The word “war” has been replaced with “discourse.”
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Jack Bandy @jackbandy.com · 25/11/2024
Might write a paper some day about templates in academic paper titles. I'll call it "A tale of long tails" or something like that. If you wanna collab let me know.
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Jack Bandy @jackbandy.com · 14/11/2024
“Hey, thanks for using the bridge we built. By the way, does it seem sturdy or nah?”
An email from Kentucky American Water that says, “is your service line made of lead?”
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Jack Bandy @jackbandy.com · 11/11/2024
I was able to answer my own question thanks to a nifty tool from @jaz.bsky.social. Looks like BlueSky is passing ~600k unique daily "poster" accounts on a regular basis, and ~1M unique daily "liker" accounts. Here's the tool: bsky.jazco.dev/stats
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Jack Bandy @jackbandy.com · 11/11/2024
#BlueSky
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Jack Bandy @jackbandy.com · 28/09/2024
Although "elections" is one of the categories of unsafe content. I have lots of questions. (source: www.llama.com/docs/model-c...)
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Jack Bandy @jackbandy.com · 21/09/2024
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Jack Bandy @jackbandy.com · 18/09/2024
Do we know much about the users in terms of activity levels? How many are posting? 10 million seems like significant growth
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Jack Bandy @jackbandy.com · 01/08/2024
Anyone into this?
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