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
@richard oh, I have a whole “wasted youth” routine to fall back on. But I am genuinely surprised today isn’t like the 5th of March or something.
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.
@rachelcoldicutt true. I’m Portuguese-British, living in the UK; today I am getting it from both sides. 🙄
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.