Cerstin Mahlow @CerstinMahlow@social.cleverlibre.org

#whataweekhuh

I’ve noticed that my expectations as a professor are sometimes quite different from those of my postdocs. This is not about research experience, etc., and not about culture, but rather basic work matters; things that go for me without saying. At first, I thought it was just me, but apparently colleagues have encountered similar issues as well.

Therefore I’m starting to wonder whether this is perhaps due to generational differences between #GenX (professors) and #Millenials (postdocs).

So, question for other #GenX professors: Do you have similar experiences? And if yes, any good approaches for dealing with it? #university #research

Im neuen SAGW-Newsletter gelesen: «Universität Zürich schafft unbefristete Stellen im Mittelbau», sog. Lecturer-Positionen in Lehre und Forschung. Die Stellen sind für Postdocs vorgesehen, Verbesserungen gibt es aber auch für Doktorierende und Assistierende. Bleibt nur die Frage der Finanzierung:
https://www.sagw.ch/sagw/aktuell/news/details/news/next-generation-uzh

How hand waving LLMs have been elevated to being „The AI“ by the media is astonishing.

Just because of a being very fluent with perfect syntax. Humans are too easily blinded by people that have high speaking skills.

Ich brauche mal #fedimagic Bitte boosten wegen Reichweite. Ich suche #TechnikerInnen oder #AugenoptikerInnen, die sich mit Weco-CNC-Automaten auskennen. Unser ehrwürdiger Formtracer 2D tastet gemäß Kalibrierscheibe für Vollrand 2 Zehntel zu lang (x-Achse) ab. Im Handbuch steht dazu: Service kontaktieren. Den gibt’s bei dem Gerät aber nicht mehr. Briot macht da auch nur dicke Backen. Weiß hier irgendjemand, an welchem Schräubchen ich da drehen muss?

at this phase of life when I hear things that challenge the very premises I stand upon, I have come to enjoy the free-fall.

https://whatashrinkthinks.substack.com/p/those-that-hear?sd=pf

I wrote a longer-form piece on post.news about the concept of operationalization in AI and the way it disenfranchises communities from making decisions that the systems that govern their lives.

If you want to read it there: https://post.news/article/2LR4k0jt685pzd6uiGeHJlnBwo2

I'll also serialize it, below.

Super excited for an AI arms race where Google and Microsoft compete for market share by rushing to roll out barely functional AI chatbots that spew misinformation.

Bet I'm not the first person this week to speculate about Bard in education - but I did write this a while back when Google first talked of LaMDA for learning, and I imagine it won't be long now until it plugs Bard into Workspace and Classroom, and then all across third party edtech products via APIs https://www.fastcompany.com/90641049/google-education-classroom-ai

Hey, remember the first #enshittification of #Google, when every single Google app got #GPlus awkwardly crammed into it because individual googlers’ bonuses were calculated based on how and whether they got people to use G+?

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/06/google-ceo-tells-employees-it-needs-all-hands-on-deck-to-test-bard.html

It looks to me like the Bing implementation is the same pattern that a bunch of other people are trying at the moment: you run a traditional search, then dump the search result summaries into a prompt and get the language model to generate text using those summaries

I tried something similar against my blog a few weeks ago! https://simonwillison.net/2023/Jan/13/semantic-search-answers/

My book about keyboards, Shift Happens, is now on Kickstarter!

There is all sorts of new information about it, and a video, and what I think are very cool tiers and rewards on top of a very cool book.

Please back and spread the word!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mwichary/shift-happens?ref=cr61wq

There was a #LoveData23 planning meeting today in the library, so I wore my library data dress: both digital and analog. #LoveDataStanford #DHsewing #sewing #textiles

Shift Happens: A book about keyboards
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mwichary/shift-happens

Going through my reading list, I found a nice one that @bwyble had posted to Twitter in 2018…

You can walk into any room and scream. "THIS WHOLE THING IS A FARCE!", and it's entirely appropriate every time.

It‘s both interesting and useful that #OpenAI and now #Google are basically turning they‘re #AI product development into a (partly) public exercise. Bonus for them: more testing and feedback. Bonus for us: Public scrutiny is possible. #Bard #ChatGPT https://blog.google/technology/ai/bard-google-ai-search-updates/

JOB ALERT

We are hiring! Assistant Professorship with Tenure Track in *Computational Social Science with a Focus on Communication*.

Join us at U of Zurich. Great opportunities, details below.

https://jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stellen/assistant-professorship-with-tenure-track-in-computational-social-science-with-a-focus-on-communication/99520e04-afd8-444d-91ea-33ca08ba8ea3

PLEASE TOOT AROUND

@communicationscholars #commodon @ICA_CAT @PolComm @computationalsocialscience

was ich an den unterschiedlichen ki modellen mag: sie entzaubern jegliche kulturproduktion als ansammlung verschränkter nachahmungsgesten.

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