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12.03.2025 22:21
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I saw this and got immeasurably sad that it wasn't real!
Old typewritten card that says, "A computer can never be held accountable therefore a computer must never make a management decision."
(From a YouTube comment)
"A COMPUTER CANNOT BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE..."
COMPANIES: "Yes! Isn't that great?"
If you do not need to mainline US politics for your job, I strongly recommend not cooking your brain in live news updates unless you enjoy the feeling of professional energy vampiricism, anxiety and constant rage-baiting. And charge your phone away from your bedroom.
New piece out!
We explain why Fully Autonomous Agents Should Not be Developed, breaking “AI Agent” down into its components & examining through ethical values.
With @evijit.io, @giadapistilli.com and @sashamtl.bsky.social
huggingface.co/papers/2502....
I drew his attention to the fact that he would be welcome in a hundred academic centers abroad and asked him whether he had not thought of taking residence outside this country. His answer, given to me with tears in his eyes: ‘Damn it, I happen to love this country.’
I have been thinking often of this anecdote about J. Robert Oppenheimer during the height of McCarthyism.
Depressed about fascism coming to America? This one pot cassoulet will make you feel like you’re living in Vichy France.
blog.stephaniestimac.com/posts/2025/1...
This is a critically important distinction. There are degrees of "open".
Don't get locked out of your own data in future! Use open, standardised formats – like the Open Document Format used in LibreOffice. Learn more on Document Freedom Day, March 26: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/01...
In 2020, I wrote a twitter thread titled "Wrong Things That I Learned As An Undergraduate In Computer Science".
My goal was to comment on how CS education shapes and reinforces a prevailing world view of many--perhaps most--CS majors.
Today feels like a day to revisit it (and repost here).
Why "predictive AI" is inherently conservative and even reactionary.
My initial thought upon reading this: "What could possibly have necessitated this clarification?"
My thought after reading what it's quote-posting:
Coders have such weird ideas about how to party: The 'Obfuscated C Code' Competition Returns
Thank you for this fantastic quote for my intro programming courses.
"How many times did the little tyke eat, how long did they sleep, and perhaps most critically, how many times did they poop. The pediatrician will expect you to know these things, so you better start keeping notes": Logging Baby’s Day In Linux
The biology side of the work is under the mentorship of Dr. Judith Humphries at Lawrence!
Two women, one Korean and one Indian, standing in front of a scientific poster in a conference hall. The poster's title is "Biomphalaria glabrata shows differential CNS transcriptomics in parasite-susceptible vs. -resistant strains."
Very, very proud of my undergraduate student Aparna Gajulapalli for her poster at #SICB2025. She presented her joint senior thesis in biology and computer science!
It was a trip to be on the PI side of the poster session!
New study finds that frequent use of AI tools encourages offloading cognitive tasks and reduces critical thinking. Higher AI usage correlated with lower critical thinking skills, especially in younger users.
www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/15...
From my colleagues Kyle Harper and David Wolpert at the Santa Fe Institute:
Position for two-year postdoc with background in computer science interested in working with social scientists/historians to study social evolution through computational lens. Details here: santafe.edu/about/jobs/p...
In my typical late adopter fashion I have made the jump over to academic bluesky. Looking out for all things #ALife and CS education!