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It is a pity that we can't follow the HRDAG - Human Rights Data Analysis Group from Mastodon.

#HRDAG

Space science might help us learn to use our materials more efficiently on Earth, and that will come *long* before anyone makes rendezvous with a $14 quadrillion platinum asteroid.

There *are* beneficial uses for #LLMs. When #HRDAG uses an LLM to help the Innocence Project New Orleans extract and categorize officer information from wrongful conviction records, they are doing something valuable and important:

https://hrdag.org/tech-notes/large-language-models-IPNO.html

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Take #HRDAG's work on #TruthAndReconciliation in #Colombia. The #HumanRightsDataAnalysisGroup is a tiny nonprofit that makes an outsized contribution to #HumanRights, by using statistical methods to reveal the full scope of the human rights crimes that take place in the shadows, from #EastTimor to #Serbia, #SouthAfrica to the USA:

https://hrdag.org/

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I did not know of the fantastic work of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Ball and the https://hrdag.org . This should have a place somewhere in the curriculum of every statistician or data scientist. We can do so much more! #hrdag @pball
Patrick Ball - Wikipedia