FerreiraCEM

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Associate professor of data in society. Card-carrying nerd.
Can anyone recommend a #naturallanguageprocessing course for social scientists? I’m looking for something at Masters level, hopefully online. #NLP
2023 is the year I start reading Lois McMaster Bujold. I’ve got The Curse of Chalion cued up on my e-reader, it’s time.

"The idea that complex social problems are amenable to cheap technical solutions is the siren song of the software salesman"

Re the Online Safety Bill/regulatory proposals invoking harm to the vulnerable as a problem mass surveillance could solve.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64584001

Signal would 'walk' from UK if Online Safety Bill undermined encryption

Bosses of the messaging app fear the Online Safety Bill could force it to weaken its users' security.

Reddit: "My friend is in university and taking a history class. The professor is using ChatGPT to write essays on the history topics and the students need to mark up its essays and point out where ChatGPT is wrong and correct it."

https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/117gtom/my_friend_is_in_university_and_taking_a_history/

Honestly, this is great! The students learn to check sources, discover that ChatGPT is unreliable, *and* can't use it to generate essay question answers for them, all at the same time!

My friend is in university and taking a history class. The professor is using ChatGPT to write essays on the history topics and the students need to mark up its essays and point out where ChatGPT is wrong and correct it.

My friend is in university and taking a history class. The professor is using ChatGPT to write essays on the history topics and as the...

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Finished revisions to a paper. Small victories.
Every now and then some poor lost soul tries to connect with me on LinkedIn. And that is when I remember I have a LinkedIn account.
And thus commences the time of year when we all come together in harmony to google “French hen”, “turtle dove” and “partridge”.
Finished Terry Pratchett’s Men at Arms. Really please I decided to read it again. It’s an almost perfect book.

I joined this site a fortnight ago today.

I did not have a clue how it worked, or about its lore and culture.

Now, it seems intuitive - though not because I am adept but because networks and protocols are familiar and practical things.

We use them all the time: www, mobiles, emails, etc.

And this place is structured to encourage calm civility.

It was Twitter which was strange and, in many ways, inhumane - rewarding clicks and rage and vileness.

We just got used to it.

And now we are out.

Hoot! Toot! Did you think you didn't need to see a basket of baby owls (Owlets) today!? I was the same, how wrong I was.❤️😊 #HootToot #Toot #boost #OwlsofMastodon! Pic credit: Ekaterina Gakman.