David Karger

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Professor at MIT CSAIL/EECS, interested in building systems that help people manage their information the way they want. And dancing.
HCI colleagues:
Next semester I teach intro HCI/web design for sophomores. Because it's good practice and because it's robust to student use of LLMs, I want to increase the part of the grade earned via in-class/studio participation. But this can be stressful if "participation" is assessed with vaguely defined, potentially subjective criteria. So I'm looking for good rubrics that I can use to give the students a more concrete sense of what is expected of them. Please share what you have!

Maybe we should stop calling them *Notifications* and instead refer to *Interruptions*.

"Working on some stuff so I've turned off interruptions for a while."

"Right on."

It's going to be ironic if forcing Google to divest Chrome ends up killing firefox. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/11/let-google-keep-chrome/680747/?
The Case Against Spinning Off Chrome

There are better ways to address Google’s dominance.

The Atlantic

"To all my writer friends that use MS Word - Microsoft has turned their Al bits and bots on to automatically go through anything done via Word. Here's how to turn it off. File > Options > Trust Center > Trust Center Settings > Privacy Options > Privacy Settings > Connected Experiences"

On the Mac I found it under Word/Excel/Etc > Preferences > Privacy, and near the bottom was the checkbox for "Turn on optional connected experiences" which of course was on by default.

#office365 #AI #microsoft

For those who've thought about it more, what exactly would the government's proposed antitrust remedy of Google "selling chrome" mean? Given the existence of the chromium open source version, Google could place chromium on android phones, chromebooks, etc. What exactly would change?
@astro_jcm I'm currently in a one woman war with my university because I asked for my ñ to be display on my surname on their Web and they had the balls to tell me it was not "technically possible". I've never written such an outraged email faster in my life.

"Keir #Starmer’s Labour government unveils plans for a “rooftop revolution” today that will see millions more homes fitted with #solar panels in order to bring down domestic energy bills and tackle the climate crisis.

The energy secretary, Ed Miliband, also took the hugely controversial decision this weekend to approve three massive solar farms in the east of England that had been blocked by Tory ministers."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/13/labours-rooftop-revolution-to-deliver-solar-power-to-millions-of-uk-homes

Labour’s ‘rooftop revolution’ to deliver solar power to millions of UK homes

Ed Miliband sets new rules on solar panels and approves three giant solar farms as Labour seeks to end years of Tory inaction

The Guardian

Reporters are ignoring the story of the century, the greatest horserace in American history!

Decision 2024!

Has American had enough of democracy? Should we return to slavery? Should we burn Jews, immigrants and intellectuals in the ovens?

Let's have a good debate about this!

The MIT intro Python class redesigned their website: https://hz.mit.edu/6101/
6.101 Spring 1999

🚨 Paper alert! 🚨
We show how enabling users to moderate misinformation can be deployed everywhere on the web, in a platform-agnostic manner and without support from the social platforms or individual web sites.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.11485.pdf
#CHI24
with @karger

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