Alexander Wuttke

@alex_wuttke@sciences.social
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Digitalization & Pol Behavior @LMU_Muenchen | Democracy and Populist Attitudes | Open Science | 🚵‍♂️
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At SICSS Munich, today I gave a presentation on

Open Science in
Computational Social Science.

Here are the slides
https://osf.io/e62sf

OSF

So if GPT-3 can have a license that says you can't train competing LLMs with it, can people add a license to their own content that says no LLMs can be trained with it? And will OpenAI then respect that license?

Or let's tweak the license: only open source LLMs may be trained with this content, if they retain the same licensing clause. Hey, LLM copyleft! if enough people use that license that might give copyleft LLMs an advantage!

#llm

Are the any recent articles on how Machine learning is impacting weather forecasting?
Pre-registration, reproducible code, and other transparent research practices have become widely accepted norms.
Do you want to step up your game and keep pace with recent developments? This structured online course might be the right place for you
https://ecpr.eu/Events/Event/PanelDetails/12594
Transparent and reproducible research

Datafest is coming to Munich.
A fun hackathon for BA and MA students in Munich.
Thanks to the organizers of this fabulous event.
https://sites.google.com/view/datafest-2023/home
DataFest 🇩🇪 2023

🎉 Join us for 48 hours of data hacking 🎉

Nature, like many journals, has historically emphasized producing exciting, innovative outcomes as the basis for publication. Incentivizing researchers for rewards based on outcomes is a key contributor to many of the dysfunctional practices that the reform movement aims to address. Nature's adoption of Registered Reports is a powerful signal for the real opportunity to change the reward system. Culture change is a grind, but it is grinding on.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00506-2.

Nature welcomes Registered Reports

From this week, Nature will be publishing an additional type of research paper — designed to encourage rigour and replication.

This research suggests that scholars mights spread belief in conspiracy beliefs by frequently exposing survey respondents to conspirational statements
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Brian-Sullivan-26/publication/367378053_Do_Survey_Questions_Spread_Conspiracy_Beliefs/links/63d00467d7e5841e0bf221ca/Do-Survey-Questions-Spread-Conspiracy-Beliefs.pdf
We have published a preliminary schedule for the Munich Summer Institute in Computational Social Science (SICSS) which we will continuously update
https://sicss.io/2023/munich/schedule
Schedule

Excited to introduce the #Rstats package rang (developed by @chainsawriot and me). The pkg helps to reconstruct historical R environments to make old code run again (ie make it reproducible!). So far, it supports all code back to R 2.1.0 (2005!)
https://github.com/chainsawriot/rang


The package is an Rchaeological tool to ensure reproducibility retrospectively. You can also use rang to make your current projects future proof, but pkgs like renv or groundhog are better suited for this task.
GitHub - chainsawriot/rang: (Re)constructing R computational environments

(Re)constructing R computational environments. Contribute to chainsawriot/rang development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub
Die horrenden Mieten und der Mangel an Studi-Wohnheimen sind leider ein beträchtlicher Wettbewerbsnachteil für den hervorragenden Wissenschaftsstandort München.
https://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/muenchen-studentenstadt-markus-blume-christian-bernreiter-kommentar-1.5749941
Marode Gebäude in der Studentenstadt: Note 5 für Blume und Bernreiter

Die Münchner Studentenstadt ist marode, mehrere Häuser werden lange leer stehen. Das wäre zu vermeiden gewesen. Ein Kommentar

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