Dr. Jochen L. Leidner

Dr. Jochen L. Leidner

@leidner.bsky.social

Computer scientist & computational linguist, working as a professor of artificial intelligence & as a director of my own consultancy, KnowledgeSpaces. Past lives include SAP, startup co-founder, Edinburgh PhD/PostDoc, Director of Research (Reuters London).

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Dr. Jochen L. Leidner
@leidner.bsky.social

Her program reported (error) "1202", which nearly let to the abortion of the landing sub-mission until she heard people worry and commented "You can ignore that error, it just means the event priority queue overflowed".

Dr. Jochen L. Leidner
@leidner.bsky.social

I had read about her after visiting the Kennedy Space Center in 2009, but only found this photo browsing Wikipedia today. Girls, this lady put Commander Neil Armstrong's foot on the moon! Who's going to write the code for Mars?

Dr. Jochen L. Leidner
@leidner.bsky.social

Latest epigenetics research for dads-to-be

Quanta Magazine@quantamagazine.org

What a father eats, drinks, inhales, is stressed by or otherwise experiences in the weeks and months before he conceives a child might be encoded in molecules, packaged into his sperm cells and transmitted to his future kid.

quantamagazine.orgHow Dad’s Fitness May Be Packaged and Passed Down in Sperm RNA | Quanta MagazineResearch into how a father’s choices — such as diet, exercise, stress, nicotine use — may transfer traits to his children has become impossible to ignore.
Dr. Jochen L. Leidner
@leidner.bsky.social

R.I.P. Chuck Norris AKA "Walker" www.instagram.com/p/DWG8c5BAKP...

instagram.comChuck Norris on Instagram: "It is with heavy hearts that our family shares the sudden passing of our beloved Chuck Norris yesterday morning. While we would like to keep the circumstances private, plea...2M likes, 99K comments - chucknorris on March 20, 2026: "It is with heavy hearts that our family shares the sudden passing of our beloved Chuck Norris yesterday morning. While we would like to keep th...
Dr. Jochen L. Leidner
@leidner.bsky.social

R.I.P. Professor emeritus Jürgen Habermas (1929-2026), one of Germany's philosophers, who called out, inter alia, "eine unsäglich merkelfromme Medienlandschaft" and "Merkels clever-böses Spiel der Dethematisierung" (2013).

Dr. Jochen L. Leidner
@leidner.bsky.social

Our article: Leidner, J.L. & T. Menzner (2026) "Media Manipulation, Bias & #Propaganda: An Experience Report on Research-Teaching Integration" has been accepted by the journal _Datenbankspektrum_ for its forthcoming Special Issue on Trends in Narrative Analysis, Fake News, Misinform. & #Bias.

Dr. Jochen L. Leidner
@leidner.bsky.social

Two findings from the history of mathematics: .1. Cantor published a seminal proof on the exisance of three kinds of infinity that was actually by Dedekind, and got famous for it (he did not credit Dedekind).

Dr. Jochen L. Leidner
@leidner.bsky.social

In the eternal fight between good against evil, evil will outperform good often in the short run. Truly being good means to accept those recurrent defeats and not succumb to evil (as exemplified by the Book of Job).

edition.cnn.comAnthropic ditches its core safety promise in the middle of an AI red line fight with the Pentagon | CNN BusinessAnthropic, a company founded by OpenAI exiles worried about the dangers of AI, is loosening its core safety principle in response to competition.
Dr. Jochen L. Leidner
@leidner.bsky.social

Are you now part of AI training, too? "Google has just changed Gmail after twenty years. In among countless AI upgrades — including 'personalized AI' that gives Gemini access to all your data in Gmail, Photos and more, comes a surprising decision." [Source: Forbes www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof... ]

forbes.comGoogle’s Gmail Decision—Why You Need A New Email Address NowGoogle's decision surprised hundreds of millions of Gmail users — do this now.