Matthew L. Jones
@nescioquid.bsky.social
“How Data Happened” with Chris Wiggins available now! Historian of science, AI/ML, computing, sigint, and technology, Princeton, CIFAR fellow, SocietalAI
So, folks, over/under on LLM export controls of US and PRC becoming a new variant of the eternally recurring crypto wars, as both counties strive to limit cyber defense and reverse engineering? Asking for an unpatched smart TV.
“Given enuf tokens, all bugs are shallow.” Discuss, citations to Kelty 2008 get extra gold stars.
Yes! Come for the machine learning and attention economy and get Mahalanobis, DuBois, NSA Bayesianism, and NIST OCR showdowns along the way. Did I mention Goldwater making common cause with the left about privacy?
Sebastian Gießmann@sebgiessmann.bsky.social · 4d agoMy favorite read for an #AI history that is not quite a history of AI only, but one of statistics and data. Highly accessible and off the beaten track at the same time!
My favorite read for an #AI history that is not quite a history of AI only, but one of statistics and data. Highly accessible and off the beaten track at the same time!
Matthew L. Jones@nescioquid.bsky.social · 5d agoWanna understand what made gen AI possible—from the lack of privacy and regulation to the attention economy to the march of computational statistics from the enlightenment to the present? Have I got the read for you. Mercifully Elon and Sam light, as an added bonus. wwnorton.com/books/how-da...
뜬금없게도(?) 인용 포스팅의 이 책은 번역되어 있습니다, '데이터의 역사'라는 제목으로. 저자들의 강의를 바탕으로 씌여진 책이라 설명도 친절합니다. 여기저기서 떠드는 데이터의 역사에 관심 있으시다면 이 책이 좋은 입문서가 될 듯 합니다.... www.aladin.co.kr/shop/wproduc...
데이터의 역사 | 크리스 위긴스.매튜 L. 존스
인류 역사 속에서 어떻게 데이터가 창조되고 활용되었는지와 더불어 그런 데이터를 활용해 더 효과적인 사회경제적 시스템을 운영하기 위해 어떻게 새로운 수학 및 계산 기법들이 경쟁적으로 개발되었는지 그 과정을...
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Matthew L. Jones@nescioquid.bsky.social · 5d agoWanna understand what made gen AI possible—from the lack of privacy and regulation to the attention economy to the march of computational statistics from the enlightenment to the present? Have I got the read for you. Mercifully Elon and Sam light, as an added bonus. wwnorton.com/books/how-da...
Wanna understand what made gen AI possible—from the lack of privacy and regulation to the attention economy to the march of computational statistics from the enlightenment to the present? Have I got the read for you. Mercifully Elon and Sam light, as an added bonus. wwnorton.com/books/how-da...
How Data Happened
“Fascinating.” —Jill Lepore, The New YorkerA sweeping history of data and its technical, political, and ethical impact on our world., How Data Happened, A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of ...
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David M. Perry@lollardfish.bsky.social · 5d agoYou should welcome all the new people to Bluesky by TELLING US ALL ABOUT YOUR BOOK AND DONT FORGET A LINK SO WE CAN BUY IT. Bluesky, the app for books.
No one paid me to disagree with Jonathan Haidt. It was teenagers who taught me that he was wrong. But apparently, thanks to yet another f*cked up thing that Meta has done, any academic who critiques him is presumed to be a corporate shill. WTAF is going on?
No one paid me to disagree with Jonathan Haidt. It was teenagers who taught me that he was wrong.
According to recently released discovery materials, Meta directly targeted Jonathan Haidt by trying to stir up academics to oppose him. The odd thing is that many of us scholars who disagree with him ...
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ngl very happy to have this citation Chander and Sunder, “The Romance of the Public Domain,” 1337.
The Columbia Core would like a word....
Anna Kornbluh@annakornbluh.bsky.social · 2w ago“At Harvard, students are clamoring for a class that assigns a hefty book a week, requires regular essays, bans digital devices. Humanities 10 drew 180 applicants for just 90 spots this fall. Students expressed urge to be forced to think for themselves in the age of AI." www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ha...
Model distillation = seizing the means of generation?
As one does, doing a bit of the history of distillation of models, and the metaphors just keep coming. Insects:
Happy Global Encryption Day to those who celebrate. This year's events are brought to you by the number 4 and its friends 56, 66, 115, 155, 156, 230, and 237. I'm glad we got everything patched yesterday and can sit back and relax today.
Hume on model distillation? Asking for a friend. “Every improvement, which we have since made, has arisen from our imitation of foreigners; and we ought so far to esteem it happy, that they had previously made advances in arts and ingenuity. " “Of the Jealousy of Trade”
LLMs crushed earlier attempts to mechanize skill precisely because they weren’t narrowly trained like prior machine learning. Might be worth updating some priors on the value of an expansive education based on the ample data at hand.
A Verye Short Introduction to Oxford Handbookes to Cambridge Companions to Routledge Guides
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M.J. Crockett@mjcrockett.bsky.social · 3w agoI'm hiring a postdoc to start in summer/fall 2027! My lab uses computational social & cognitive science methods to explore how tech shapes knowledge & power: www.crockettlab.org You can submit an application here: apply.interfolio.com/195297. Review of apps starts Nov 20. Please share!
In the midst of the burning radioactive rubble, a turning point is found.....
You know that innocuous clause in the privacy agreement about what may obtain should you favorite service go into financial difficulities….
Tech Policy Press@techpolicypress.bsky.social · 4w agoDefunct Spirit Airlines is trying to sell decades of employee records to Google for AI training. EPIC counsels Abigail Kunkler and Mayu Tobin-Miyaji explain why “the law has not stepped up to protect worker privacy” and what regulators, unions and Congress can do.
Unclear whether to be sanguine or melancholic about this observation
Ryan North@ryannorth.ca · 4w agowhy are there several emoji for blood (🩸🅰️🆎🅱️🅾️) yet no emoji accounting for excesses of the other three humors? for phlegm, nothing. for yellow bile, nada. and for black bile, zippo. an astonishing oversight
“Perhaps the most relevant issue is that by releasing this trove of material in this manner, the companies are in the process of destroying the ecosystem that made it possible for this work” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/s...
‘Breathtaking,’ ‘Devastating’: Mathematics Reels After New OpenAI Release
Hundreds of new A.I.-generated findings moved the frontiers of higher math in a single day — dispelling any doubt that the field is forever changed.
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Everybody, everybody, we're stoked to announce Princeton SocietalAI, focused on the empirical study of genAI on the ground in science, education and beyond and on producing superior forms. Come see @alondra.bsky.social, Brian Merchant, Audrey Watters Nov. 2 at our launch event.
From the paper: "There is very little research on the role of class in career outcomes like hiring, pay, or promotion"
Amazing postdoc opportunity in history of modern mathematics at IAS surrounded by excellent mathematicians, historians of science, and STS scholars. www.math.ias.edu/~akshay/hist...
Postdoctoral Scholar, History of Modern Mathematics | Institute for Advanced Study
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