Chris Martens
@chrisamaphone.bsky.social
mostly not here, but there: https://hci.social/@chrisamaphone
i wrote a blog post: "generative AI use in academic research neither compulsory nor unobjectionable" chrisistyping.bearblog.dev/ai-opinions/
Generative AI use in academic research neither compulsory nor unobjectionable
[The usual shorthand caveat, stated mostly for purposes of making sense in future eras: in this post I use "generative AI" to mean the large-language-model-b...
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This is a lovely PuzzleScript puzzle
Key Lime Slime by Late Nine
Play in your browser
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yeah, some combination of suspecting and knowing about this is a big reason i mostly use mastodon now web.archive.org/web/20260515...
The Feed Is Fake
What if every viral song, movie, meme, influencer, and celebrity drama in recent memory was the result of a stealth marketing campaign?
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perhaps i should share things here in addition to mastodon? here's my first blog post in awhile, an attempt to explain how to extract an abstract machine from a moded logic program: chrisistyping.bearblog.dev/abstract-mac...
*bewilderedly* Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone? *with growing ire* It has to be made, like bread?? *shaking with indignation* Remade all the time??? Made new?!
I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
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Wittgenstein. Absolutely incomprehensible as a poster (laudatory). Becomes a meme to quote-post him with “That‘s a terrifying answer, have a nice day” or possibly “Sir, these are fifth grade students.”
hi! 😃 i couldn't help but notice that scrolling is sapping your will to live! may i offer u a video essay in these trying times? youtu.be/Bdj14_jdumI
be your own algorithm
YouTube video by pagemelt
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you should be able to share your digital location with friends the same way you share your physical location
just so i'm not talking behind @chaudhuri.info's back, i'll crosspost this from mastodon to where he can see it :) hci.social/@chrisamapho...
chris martens (@chrisamaphone@hci.social)
i really enjoy the wordcraft of this line from the abstract of kaustuv chaudhuri's 2008 paper "focusing strategies in the sequent calculus of synthetic connectives": "focusing striates a sequent deri...
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incredible work lots of people saying, "wow CS needs to learn what it's doing." Folks. It knows.
Dr Abeba Birhane@abeba.blacksky.app · last yr.New paper hot off the press www.nature.com/articles/s41... We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance 1/
Bore me not with your designs for a rooftop garden; I desire a rooftop forest. I want to feel secure between vast roots. I am a burrow-dweller, I yearn for the artificial understory, I must fall asleep to fungus-song
photos from the Minnowbrook Logic Programming Seminar
Who the FUCK wants videos to autoplay?? WHO?? Tell me who they ARE!! Tell me where they LIVE!! I just want to TALK!!
If you are considering applying for a PhD this Fall, please get in touch. I’m looking for students who are interested in PL, SE, and/or HCI — and ideally all three! You can find more information about me and my work on my website: harrisongoldste.in
Harrison Goldstein
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It truly seems like any country could be the world leader in ed&tech for the second half of the century for a pittance in government budget terms, and I don’t know if that’s not happening because I’m wrong or because leaders are short sighted idiots terrified of their xenophobic constituents
lets one outsmart processes h o l e acronymy.net/define/loophole —submitted by septie
Don't bring *anything* to a gun fight. Why are you going to a gun fight?
A tracker of canceled NSF grants, crowdsourced by @scott-delaney.bsky.social and @noamross.net, is up to 134 grants worth $86.3M.
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do you ever feel like we're in a moment where people who are actually doing something meaningful with their life across a huge amount of sectors are being crushed and disappeared and people who are wasting it making the world a worse place are actively being lionized? or is it just me
This international student is incredibly brave for going on the record about his visa suddenly being revoked, including how he has one semester left and his mom has terminal cancer: www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/n...
Carnegie Mellon student with one semester left learns his visa was revoked with no explanation
Local universities and colleges across the country continue to report international student visas being revoked.
cbsnews.com
And the person nominally in charge of it apparently hasn't ever heard the term "AI" spoken out loud in conversation, while mandating its use to destroy education.
Seems cool in general, and particularly pertinent given what may happen to the cost of, well, everything. #pittsburgh
WESA@wesa.fm · 2y agoAbout 25 repairs and a dozen people stopped in over the course of the inaugural Repair Cafe Pittsburgh event. Subsequent events are planned at Construction Junction in Point Breeze the first Saturday of each month.
is there some term for the opposite of a cult of personality where people define their politics/social alignment by ridiculing specific people. whatever this is it feels terrible to witness. the worst of us on full display
sometimes i think i’m only “interdisciplinary” because none of the disciplines are doing it right
