That stage of Django development where you realize that generic views are the true source of your frustration and anger.
Ian Soboroff
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I work on information retrieval evaluation, measuring the effectiveness is search. TREC.
Doughnuts are a traditional Chanukah food, but no one apparently told the people who work at the kosher Krispy Kreme. Oops.
I want to browse the local feed on various instances to find people to follow. What’s the best client for that?
Michael EkstrandMore good news of the day! Our paper “Much Ado About Gender: Current Practices and Future Recommendations for Appropriate Gender-Aware Information Access”, led by undergrad Christine Pinney with myself, Ph.D candidate Amifa Raj, and @alex, has been accepted as a full paper to #CHIIR2023. Preprint coming (maybe after the winter break), abstract is here: https://md.ekstrandom.net/pubs/chiir-gender
Much Ado About Gender: Current Practices and Future Recommendations for Appropriate Gender-Aware Information Access
CHIIR 2023 paper about how gender is and should be used in information retrieval research and practice, with an eye towards promoting inclusiveness and gender equity.
Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)With #Galactica and #ChatGPT I'm seeing people again getting excited about the prospect of using language models to "access knowledge" (i.e. instead of search engines). They are not fit for that purpose --- both because they are designed to just make shit up and because they don't support information literacy. Chirag Shah and I lay this out in detail in our CHIIR 2022 paper:
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3498366.3505816
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The only real question about the World Cup is if we will have photos of Jaap Kamps in his orange suit.
Giving a keynote later this afternoon at the #IBIS2022 workshop. Slides, bibliography, and info on temporary free access to the official version of our monograph are here: https://md.ekstrandom.net/talks/2022/ibis
Steve BellovinSad news from UNC Chapel Hill Computer Science — Fred P. Brooks, the founder and long-time chair of the department (and a major influence on my professional outlook) passed away a few hours ago.
Apparently this was a joke from the BSD tunefs manpage originally.
I distinctly remember that the tune2fs(8) manpage used to say, in the BUGS section, “You can tune a file system but you can’t tune a fish.” But apparently grownups have been through it. Does anyone else remember this?
Ok maybe other people don’t have favorite manpages.