Margaret O’Mara, a historian at the University of Washington:
“[T]he digital economy is, at the end of the day, human — made up of code and machinery designed, directed, and occasionally drastically disrupted by human decisions and imperfections.”
Michael Colaresi
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Computational social scientist by way of political science and international relations studying political violence, human rights, secrecy and democracy, as well as disinformation; using and teaching 🐍, text {as,with} data, Bayesian computation, and responsible data science
PyMC developers🚀 Introducing "@as_model" in PyMC-Experimental API!
🔥 Key Features:
- Simplifies PyMC modeling
- Better code structure
🔗 Details: GitHub PR #268 https://github.com/pymc-devs/pymc-experimental/pull/268
🙌 Thanks to Theo Rashid, @ricardoV94, Rob Zinkov, @twiecki and Maxim Kochurov !
What reality does quantum theory describe? QBism has a radical answer - Big Think
I really enjoyed this read… https://apple.news/A9x2iTYJbSFOvu7n30zjGUw
I really enjoyed this read… https://apple.news/A9x2iTYJbSFOvu7n30zjGUw
What reality does quantum theory describe? QBism has a radical answer — Big Think
Explore how QBism reframes science by placing the observer at the heart of quantum reality. Key Takeaways • QBism, or Quantum Bayesianism, offers a radical interpretation of quantum mechanics, emphasizing the role of the observer and measurements, contrary to classical physics' objective worldview. • It posits that quantum mechanics is not about an external world devoid of human interaction, but rather about agents (observers) and their actions in making measurements and predictions. • Shifting
Laurence DierickxThe Information Disorder Level (IDL) Index: An experiment to assess machine-generated content’s factuality - A tool to promote critical thinking towards generative AI developed at the University of Bergen/NORDIS https://edmo.eu/2024/01/23/the-information-disorder-level-idl-index-an-experiment-to-assess-machine-generated-contents-factuality/
The Information Disorder Level (IDL) Index: An experiment to assess machine-generated content's factuality
Generative AI systems, such as ChatGPT, raise concerns about generating biased and misleading content that often deviates from real-world input. The Information Disorder Level (IDL), originally created to measure artificial hallucinations, is a valuable media literacy tool that promotes critical thi
Peter KahlertRepost / Deadline Extension February 02, 2024!
We are hosting a panel in the #STSGraz24 conference's #OpenScience Track: "Hack the Hackathon: Challenges of Inclusion, Participation, and Fairness.
The conference is taking place May 6 - 8 2024 and, of course, in Graz, Austria.
You can find our call for abstracts (and others) here: https://stsconf.tugraz.at/calls/sessions-in-open-science/
Or download it directly as pdf here: https://mycloud.europa-uni.de/s/Mg8qmGrEGAJwAqM
You are invited to submit your research and share it with your colleagues. Looking forward to your contributions. See you at the venue! ;)
Nicole RustDone writing the book.
(Deep inhale).
~90K words. A few years of work. A transformative journey that did not end at all as I thought when I started. I'm grateful to have done it - what a privilege. A much bigger conceptual project than anything I've done up to this point.
I got to think intensely for a better part of a few years (in parallel to running a lab and teaching as a professor). Somehow there was not time for that before. I'm not exactly sure where I found it; I just did.
There will be many revisions going forward. And it won't hit the shelves anytime soon. But I'm going to pause and celebrate this moment, where every one of the bits are finally in place. I learned so much along the way. Even today, on the last day, I was fascinated, and I'm grateful. (That said, I'm also a bit tired).
What's the book about? A slice of the spirit behind it is captured here: https://www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neuroscience/is-the-brain-uncontrollable-like-the-weather/
Ben WaberNext was an excellent talk by @cfiesler on ethics and education for data science at the Vermont Complex Systems Center. Fiesler brilliantly lays out the case for why ethics has always been a part of computer science, how ethics should be integrated into training, and more. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nevMXFkTQvY (5/10) #ethics #AIEthics #DataScience
Talkboctopus Seminar Series - Season 1 Episode 4 - Casey Fiesler
Ulrike HahnWe have a new pape on polarisation with an #ABM of naïve Bayesian agents. It ends a decade of thinking about #testimony from a #Bayesian perspective, so I thought I’d summarise that decade in a thread.
The Issue: Much of what we believe to ‘know’ we know through the testimony of others. Intuitively, how much I adjust my beliefs in response to you saying “it is snowing” should depend on how reliable/accurate you are (ie the likelihoods associated with your report) 1/9
Tiago PeixotoWe're hiring! Tenure-track Assistant Professor at DNDS, CEU, in Vienna, Austria.
The focus is on social data science, social network science, or quantitative social science — broadly interpreted.
Deadline: February 20, 2024
For questions, get in touch!
