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Xindi (Cindy) Hu, ScD @who-lab.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

…speaker Rosalind Picard from MIT. Her comments discriminated against Chinese members of the academic community by their country of origin. This behavior is indefensible and must stop immediately. 2/2

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Xindi (Cindy) Hu, ScD @who-lab.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

DEI is not just talk the talk, one needs to walk the talk too. As educators, we must realize the impact of our words on others. I am not at NeurIPS this year, so all I know about this incident so far has been all secondary information. Based on what I know, I am deeply disappointed by the keynote1/2

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Xindi (Cindy) Hu, ScD @who-lab.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

As you know, naming things is one of the hardest problems in computer science, so here is a little helpful tip for how to name files. Everyone should learn this, even if you don’t code now, but your collaborators and your future AI assistants will thank you.

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Xindi (Cindy) Hu, ScD @who-lab.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Ah this experience is so annoying. But I hope COP was fruitful. Thank you for sharing it though. The world needs more kindness and respect.

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Marie Follayttar @mariefollayttar.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

“No nation today knows how much water it has or what’s in it, and we don’t have good models for adjusting to new climate realities. The hotter it gets, the more water plants and crops consume.” As @sonaar.bsky.social write, “we must count every drop” of water.

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Esteban J. Quiñones, Ph.D. @estebanjq.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

The Coming Storm: Protecting Public Servants and Their Essential Expertise by Paul T. Shattuck @mathematicanow.bsky.social “When expertise becomes targeted as part of an authoritarian agenda, we need more than standard career resources.” www.linkedin.com/pulse/coming...

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The Coming Storm: Protecting Public Servants and Their Essential Expertise

What happens when democracy's defenders - career civil servants, public health scientists, professors, community program leaders - become targets? And how do we preserve their essential expertise and ...

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Anka Reuel ➡️ NeurIPS @ankareuel.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

🚨 NeurIPS 2024 Spotlight Did you know we lack standards for AI benchmarks, despite their role in tracking progress, comparing models, and shaping policy? 🤯 Enter BetterBench–our framework with 46 criteria to assess benchmark quality: betterbench.stanford.edu 1/x

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Xindi (Cindy) Hu, ScD @who-lab.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I would believe it if I still live on the west coast. But now I am in DC, I dunno, these east coast cities are live and popping. Not very quantitative or data-based assertion, I know.

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rOpenSci @handle.invalid · 04/11/2024

📦 [A package a day - data access 43] Today's data access package is rfema Allows users to access The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) publicly available data through the open FEMA API 🙏 Maintained by Dylan Turner 📝 docs.ropensci.org/rfema Check out this article […]

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