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Dr. Jochen L. Leidner @leidner.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Any plain or dotted 250+-page A5 or B5 hardcover notebook will do, but for pens: Pilot V-Ball V5 0.5 black - cheap if you buy 50 a time.

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Dr. Jochen L. Leidner @leidner.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

We are presenting at the *Digital Day Berlin* today (1400-1500) on disinformation and how to use AI to fight it - with BiasScanner (biasscanner.org). eveeno.com/digitaltag-w... #disinformation #BiasScanner #Berlin #DigitalTagBerlin #democracy

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Bias Scanner Project

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Dr. Jochen L. Leidner @leidner.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I had read about her after visiting the Kennedy Space Center in 2009, but only found this photo browsing Wikipedia today. Girls, this lady put Commander Neil Armstrong's foot on the moon! Who's going to write the code for Mars?

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Dr. Jochen L. Leidner @leidner.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Her program reported (error) "1202", which nearly let to the abortion of the landing sub-mission until she heard people worry and commented "You can ignore that error, it just means the event priority queue overflowed".

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Dr. Jochen L. Leidner @leidner.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Over 400 000 people contributed to the Apollo mission. But nobody would have landed without the programmer Margaret Hamilton (MIT), shown next to her code printout.

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Dr. Jochen L. Leidner @leidner.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Latest epigenetics research for dads-to-be

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Dr. Jochen L. Leidner @leidner.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

You gotta love these kids' wisdom. (All true, "mas o minos" as the Spanish say...)

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Dr. Jochen L. Leidner @leidner.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Obama-Obama and Clinton-Lewinsky: two internship stories, but boy the ending could not be more different...

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Dr. Jochen L. Leidner @leidner.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Do me a favour: if you get rich, don't fly around in small planes - it will kill you www.reuters.com/world/ubisof... (Also don't build your own plane from a DIY store kit - it didn't go well for John Denver.)

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Ubisoft's co-founder Claude Guillemot dies in plane crash

Guillemot, 69, died in a plane crash in La Baule on France's Atlantic coast that was scheduled to host an air show this weekend.

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Dr. Jochen L. Leidner @leidner.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Everyone who brings books to people is my brother

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Dr. Jochen L. Leidner @leidner.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

German rapper DorFuchs "raps mathematics" - here's his song about the Sterling formula that approximates n!: youtube.com/watch?v=laJJ... (hat tip to Christian Eckert) #mathematics #music

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Stirling-Formel (Mathe-Song)

YouTube video by DorFuchs

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Dr. Jochen L. Leidner @leidner.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Check your news with BiasScanner! Check out biasscanner.org. Now available: Firefox and Chrom plug-ins from the respective plug-in marketplaces. #news #propaganda #newsbias #media

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Bias Scanner Project

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Dr. Jochen L. Leidner @leidner.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Germany's decline of school kid performance in #mathematics and #reading 2012-2022. #education #Germany

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Dr. Jochen L. Leidner @leidner.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

#AI models are not transparent. That's a first in #technology #history, says the Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei.

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Dr. Jochen L. Leidner @leidner.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

We don't know enough about the #brain and #consciousness, yet the medical system has been indoctrinated to treat some patients as "vegetables". In cases where we don't know conservative reasoning might the way to go. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/m...

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Vegetative Patients May Be More Aware Than We Knew

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Dr. Jochen L. Leidner @leidner.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Christ has risen. Happy Easter, all.

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Dr. Jochen L. Leidner @leidner.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Chat GPT, asked about what the Bible says about protecting children and those that cause harm. (if you want to read the cut off part in your language: biblehub.com/matthew/18-6...) #censorship #children

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Dr. Jochen L. Leidner @leidner.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

[Public competitor ARD formulated things better: www.tagesschau.de/ausland/euro... And therefore, there were of course many previous female heads of the Anglican church, notably the late Queen Elizabeth II.

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Dr. Jochen L. Leidner @leidner.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

The newly appointed Archbishop of Canterbury certainly has a leadership function, but the official _head_ of the Anglican church - since Henry VIII. created the religion by splitting off from Catholicism - is the monarch, i.e. currently King Charles III.

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Dr. Jochen L. Leidner @leidner.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

R.I.P. Professor emeritus Jürgen Habermas (1929-2026), one of Germany's philosophers, who called out, inter alia, "eine unsäglich merkelfromme Medienlandschaft" and "Merkels clever-böses Spiel der Dethematisierung" (2013).

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Dr. Jochen L. Leidner @leidner.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Did you know... ...that from next Monday, you can read EACL'26 abstracts & plan your conference attenance! ...EACL Rabat was co-organized smoothly and peacefully across dozens of national, religious and linguistic groups! #peace (1 of 2) #EACL2026 @eaclmeeting.bsky.social

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About Rabat

Official website for the 2026 Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics

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Dr. Jochen L. Leidner @leidner.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

The 2025 Bloomberg/BCS Karen Spärck Jones Award will be presented in three weeks at EACL 2026 in Rabat, Morocco. (The award alternates between EACL and ECIR.) #awards #NLP #IR #research @nlproc @eaclmeeting.bsky.social

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Dr. Jochen L. Leidner @leidner.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

The list of 1501 audience-voted songs: www.swr.de/swr1/bw/down... Needless to say, Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven ranked #1. (2 of 2) #music

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Dr. Jochen L. Leidner @leidner.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Remember August 1989? That's when the German radio station SDR3 ("Radio for the Wild South") ran the Top-1000X (music chart world record); the last bits: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dvut... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx1c... www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9Z0... (1 of 2) #music

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Top 1000X - Teil 1

YouTube video by uhini

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Dr. Jochen L. Leidner @leidner.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

2. It was published in a journal controlled by Kronecker, who hated infinity, so the proof was "hidden" in a paper ostensibly about something else (!).

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Dr. Jochen L. Leidner @leidner.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Two findings from the history of mathematics: .1. Cantor published a seminal proof on the exisance of three kinds of infinity that was actually by Dedekind, and got famous for it (he did not credit Dedekind).

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Dr. Jochen L. Leidner @leidner.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

“Every branch of science needs a hero,” Ferreirós said. “Chemistry has Lavoisier, mechanics has Newton, relativity has Einstein. There’s always this one, only one. But that’s always a lie.” www.quantamagazine.org/the-man-who-...

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The Man Who Stole Infinity | Quanta Magazine

In an 1874 paper, Georg Cantor proved that there are different sizes of infinity and changed math forever. A trove of newly unearthed letters shows that it was also an act of plagiarism.

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Dr. Jochen L. Leidner @leidner.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Sadly Anthropic -- whose past USP included their safety focus -- has now officially abandoned that good path in order to continue to receive U.S. military funding.

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Dr. Jochen L. Leidner @leidner.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Writers and their day jobs lithub.com/the-work-beh... #literature #writing

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Dr. Jochen L. Leidner @leidner.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

About three weeks to the first #EACL in Africa, things seem to go smoothly... @eaclmeeting.bsky.social - 1161 registrations to date for Rabat. Will you be you coming? #conferences #CL #NLP #NLProc #AI

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Dr. Jochen L. Leidner @leidner.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Timo Boll – Abschied einer Tischtennis-Legende [Timo Boll – Good-Bye of a Table-Tennis Legend, a documentary in German] www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDpQ... #tabletennis

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Dr. Jochen L. Leidner @leidner.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

read more at Quanta mag - go.bsky.app/redirect?u=h...

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Dr. Jochen L. Leidner @leidner.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Erlangen's Emmy Noether: connecting #mathematics and #physics via Lie groups (1918)

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