Martin Ruskov @mapto@social.cleverlibre.org
- Research
- https://www.zotero.org/mapto
- Games
- https://mapto.itch.io
- Account in Bulgarian
- https://masto.bg/@mapto
Studying how people interact, in the past (#CulturalAnalytics) and today (#EdTech #Crowdsourcing). Researcher at @IslabUnimi, University of Milan. Bulgarian activist for legal reform with @pravosadiezv. I use dedicated accounts for different languages.
My profile is searchable with https://www.tootfinder.ch/ #fedi22
Joined Nov 2022
@FractalEcho this works, thanks
@FractalEcho congrats and thank you for a great effort. I'm sorry to say the link doesn't open for me
@franconi @aaronhertzmann @vardi about 20 years ago, in my German-language lecture the prof was explaining AI saying that in English "intelligence" is a very broad term including even agencies like CIA. So, his argument went, don't get messed up with linking it to human intelligence. Then, he was teaching control theory within a mechanical engineering curriculum, and I was a maths student having his class as an elective. We couldn't care less about computer scientists and neuroscientist. Now, from the perspective of a researcher in both technology-enhanced learning and digital humanities, I still feel the same.
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I am "If Neural Networks are AI, then so is Logistic Regression"
@karinlag it certainly has a name, but at this point I can't think of it. Just wanted to point out that it's also a somewhat reasonable bias, because clarity of communication hopefully makes it easier to spot flaws. Then there's always the possibility for well planned manipulation in the message
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✨ jobs ✨ - we are looking to hire for five new roles in our department - please help us share with those who might be interested! 💌
Lecturer in Digital Media and Culture Education
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/073449-lecturer-in-digital-media-and-culture-education-aep
Lecturer in Social and Cultural AI
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/073450-lecturer-in-social-and-cultural-ai-aep
Lecturer in Lecturer in Digital Media
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/073465-lecturer-in-lecturer-in-digital-media-education-and-research
Lecturer in Cultural Computation Education
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/073467-lecturer-in-cultural-computation-education-aep
Lecturer in Digital Economy and Innovation Education
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/073468-lecturer-in-digital-economy-and-innovation-education-aep
#digitalmedia #digitalculture #digitalhumanities #ai #softwarestudies #culturalstudies #algorithmstudies #newmedia #platformstudies #internetstudies #commodon #sts #mediastudies #jobs
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Armed with traffic cones, protesters are immobilizing driverless cars
I love this.
https://www.npr.org/2023/08/26/1195695051/driverless-cars-san-francisco-waymo-cruise
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The headline is misleading. Trees fix carbon, but the industry devoted to it has not delivered what it promised. Most of the tree-planting businesses are no better than carbon neutral and several are actually harming the environment.
https://www.salon.com/2023/08/24/why-planting-trees-to-offset-carbon-emissions-doesnt-really-work-according-to-experts/
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How to tell if AI is conscious
Some comments about the recent interesting paper on assessing AI systems using major scientific theories of consciousness
https://selfawarepatterns.com/2023/08/26/how-to-tell-if-ai-is-conscious/
#consciousness #philosophy #PhilosophyOfMind #AI #ArtificialIntelligence
@interfluidity I've been using them for a while. Other than users that complain that they can't connect (they probably can't connect to anything that's different from what they've been connecting to for 5 years), I've never had issues
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I’ve just started to use #jitsi in place of #zoom. They are taking some heat for requiring third-party authentication (google, facebook, or github, hopefully others soon) to create new conferences on their free https://meet.jit.si/ site.
I never considered using their site. I am fleeing the architecture of centralized platforms, not particular “bad” firms.
#jitsi continues to support #selfhosting (and there authentication—or not—however you like). So I remain quite delighted with them. 1/
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And their Mars mission cost $74 million bucks. Not a typo!
And look at the scientists in their mission control room. Just look at it!
We can have space without space billionaires.
Putting all our eggs in the Elon basket is a choice, and not a good one.
Do I understand correctly that Bluesky is not FOSS? If so, what would be its advantages over alternatives? In what way is it decentralised? Sorry for asking you, but these are questions that have been bugging me for a while and I'd appreciate an informed opinion.
@tokyo_0 @OutOnTheMoors @pee @renchap so are we are talking about this issue?
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/1533
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4Humanities.org’s “The Humanities Matter!” infographic has been updated! https://4humanities.org/2023/08/updated-the-humanities-matter-infographic-is-out/ When the original appeared in 2014, people hung copies outside offices & at events. Humanists need a flag! (Thanks to Madeleine Sorapure for making the v. 2 update with new stats & sources.)
@pee @OutOnTheMoors @renchap how about "as long as your instance administrator is in charge of this"?
@OutOnTheMoors @pee @renchap is this not a straightforward consequence of posts being public? If not, please explain why/how?
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Full-text search allows you to search for words in the content of statuses (if your instance has ElasticSearch configured), compared to the current version which only allows searching for hashtags.
In addition, you get a whole lot of search modifiers for advanced search (no UI for those yet):
has:image / has:video / has:audio / has:media
has:poll / has:link / has:embed
is:sensitive / is:reply
language:en
from:account
before:2023-08-08
after:2023-08-08
during:2023-08-08
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Full text search has been merged in #Mastodon `main` branch, and will be in the next (and final?) 4.2.0 beta 🎉
It is opt-in, so it will take some time to be filled with people content as they enable their profile to be indexed, but this was one of the most wanted Mastodon features for some time.
We plan to deploy it to mastodon.social and mastodon.online in the coming days to have a bit more feedback on it and see how it behaves in the wild.
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Great write up from
@willknight in
@WIRED about Sarah Myers West, @Mer__edith and my new piece:
➡️ The rhetoric of "open" AI is misleading. Why? In short, because AI is controlled by Big Tech.
- Research
- https://www.zotero.org/mapto
- Games
- https://mapto.itch.io
- Account in Bulgarian
- https://masto.bg/@mapto
Studying how people interact, in the past (#CulturalAnalytics) and today (#EdTech #Crowdsourcing). Researcher at @IslabUnimi, University of Milan. Bulgarian activist for legal reform with @pravosadiezv. I use dedicated accounts for different languages.
My profile is searchable with https://www.tootfinder.ch/ #fedi22
Joined Nov 2022
