Andrew Hundt

@ahundt
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I like 🤖🧗‍♂️📖😷! Equitable #AI & #Robotics. #CIFellow at Carnegie Mellon, #DEI advocate, prev Postdoc Georgia Tech, PhD from #JHU, #CMU NREC. like/share≠end, my opinions mine. he/him
Websitehttp://ahundt.github.io/
Robot Stereotypes Paperhttps://sites.google.com/view/robots-enact-stereotypes/home
Washington Post Articlehttps://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/07/16/racist-robots-ai/
Wiredhttps://www.wired.com/story/how-to-stop-robots-becoming-racist/
@emilymbender another good one about why ai is not a scientific proxy for humans is https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3613904.3642703
The trumpdown has begun.
Opinion | I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.

A professor of Holocaust and genocide studies comes to a painful conclusion about Israel’s actions in Gaza.

The New York Times

Apparently there's a bill that'd allow companies & retailers to issue & use their own crypto.

Let's avoid going back to the bad old days of company scrip where your company salary only works at company store, they trap you, & devalue wages... but on a computer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rzFyBdKLvU

Un-American and yet, totally American | Company Towns

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I'm tired of manual python repos setup 😩...

I made pyuvstarter, a small command-line app to set up local Python repos, find python imports, install the packages, then config uv .venv & vscode for you.

It saves me a bunch of steps on projects, try it!
#python #uv #vscode
https://github.com/ahundt/pyuvstarter

GitHub - ahundt/pyuvstarter: pyuvstarter cuts the uv setup fluff: it sets up local python repos, finds your py imports, installs the packages, then sets up uv .venv & vscode for you.

pyuvstarter cuts the uv setup fluff: it sets up local python repos, finds your py imports, installs the packages, then sets up uv .venv & vscode for you. - ahundt/pyuvstarter

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Faculty: can we get some more pens

Universities: we will create a task force with an associate dean acting ex officio to determine best practices re: pen acquisition and distribution and report our findings when classes resume this Fall

Government: abandon your students and principles

Universities: finished it before you were even done asking

@davidgura Musk is awful, but who’s gonna buy the car?

Will it be someone you want to do business with? 🤷‍♂️

Once you already have a Tesla things get tricky.

The Turkish Baykar drone company is reportedly fueling the civil war in Sudan. The CEO has a US PhD in robotics from Georgia Tech if I recall correctly.

This is also the same company whose Bayraktar TB2 drones became famous for their use by Ukraine at the start of Russia’s invasion.
https://wapo.st/3QN0bhY

A Turkish arms firm helped fuel Sudan’s brutal civil war, records show

A trove of documents and communications provided to The Post reveals how a Turkish company covertly funneled weapons to the Sudanese army.

The Washington Post

This sewage dumping scandal in the UK is wild, and people are getting really sick.

I anticipate an increase in the frequency of issues like that will be coming up in the USA over the next several years relative to 2024 levels.

https://youtu.be/IvqnKyKI6Aw

Sewage scandal: The dirty secret polluting England and Wales • FRANCE 24 English

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