Sireesh Gururaja

I need a media studies essay on the Cities By Diana aesthetic

There are two academic disciplines, computer science and sociology. Biology? Computer science. Physics? Computer science. Economics? Computer science. Computer Science? Actually, Sociology.

hindley milner tripe system

Back to school. ❤️

If you want people to engage with a technology you care about, you have to find ways to frame it around providing them with some agency. You also have to be ready for people to just say "fuck you, no" and be OK with that. You have to learn to center people and not the technology itself.

My impression is that AI coding is on a "pick two of three" triangle: scope, ship speed, and correctness. Small tools are (speed + correctness) fast prototypes are (speed + scope) and big projects are (scope + correctness). Every project that tries to be all three degrades to "fast prototype."

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

@atls.city !set US-PA-Pittsburgh

It's finally out! At a time when basic research funding through the NSF and NIH in the US is under threat, it's important to understand what "basic" means in the context of more available DoD funding. For a lot of academics, the DoD's "basic" might not be be as basic as you think!

40 minute headways in Pittsburgh are fine, apparently?

Remember, both the Iliad and the Odyssey were originally audiobooks.

Great thread from a book that has lived rent-free in my head since it argued that computers are inherently and fundamentally conservative. I didn't even know it was out of print!!

Extremely hype to read this 👀

The implicit compositionality born of English's status as a bastard language is a gift that calls for audacity, chutzpah, moxie, panache, etc

I am beginning new research, and would like recommendations on your favorite writing on the "strange bedfellows" phenomenon. Unlikely coalitions fighting for a common goal, and the ethical quandaries therein.

‘dialectics’ is grad school for ‘there’s two of them’

> looking at tech sector layoffs > ask the hr manager if the layoffs are from ai or from the end of zirp > she doesn't understand > pull out illustrated diagram explaining what is ai replacement and what is zirp > she laughs and says "they’re good layoffs sir” > check the data > its zirp

A short reflection on "interdisciplinary" in AI, from Lucy Suchman, @siree.sh, and myself: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

As someone that came of age in a time where the linux distros I used had easy access to a *huge* variety of loyal clients (xmpp, so many web things), this paper and its framing are a lovely way to describe the thing I'd love for computing to return to ❤️

It's me! I am both this type of guy and, regrettably, this guy

at this point anyone who sees any actual value in these tools has to be rooting for the bubble to pop so the moneyed freaks propping it up move on to quantum computing already

Great quote from a great article, and it drives me *nuts* how big the gap is between the real affordances of AI, which can be fun and adaptive and agency affirming the political project it is inextricable from, software-brained imperialism :/

Me agreeing to a new project knowing full well it’s gonna add stress 🇲🇽

My hot take is that the median social system breaks under too much optimization pressure, and we should stop trying to optimize things

They need to make it so you can mass add starter packs to a list / feed if you don't want them to fill up your main feed

friendly reminder to run docker system prune if you haven't recently

Really excited about this work w/ my long-time collaborators at Boulder! We address limitations in existing morphosyntactic annotation systems for digitally under-resourced languages and show how *jointly* predicting morphological segmentation helps with glossing performance

if you invented public libraries today, every opinion page in the country would be arguing for means tested subsidized Amazon Prime memberships

It's time to seize the means of prediction

I should not learn the lesson that if I wait long enough, someone else will do it. however.

You have a moral imperative to refuse to work with these people or develop models for these purposes.

*CL folks, a recent history question: was the move to OpenReview as the review platform for *CL conferences related to the move to ARR? Or did they just happen simultaneously? Asking for a discussion with @shaily99.bsky.social

I'm really not a fan of the way some journals in the physical sciences state results upfront, and bury methods much later in the paper, or even in supplementary materials. Maybe it's my ML bias, but I don't trust that your methods are prima facie reasonable!! Show me what you did before the results!

Appointment reading

I think my AI beliefs are quickly becoming ‘this has enormous positive potential if implemented responsibly. it will not be implemented responsibly and like maybe five companies are even trying.’

This is a great thread, and makes me think about how the affordances of LLMs (largely text-only chat) preclude the kind of epistemic vigilance we were able to develop around tech like search. I think we can build LLM-based tech that's good here, but chat ain't it

Rename LASSO and Ridge to kiki and bouba