About to hit Move on this account. If you aren't carried with me automatically (should be!), I'll be at @mdekstrand.
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Michael Ekstrand
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Assoc. Prof CS at Boise State U, PIReT, LensKit. RecSys, HCI, making algorithms good for people.
Slinging baseless allegations around isn't going to help solve the murders in any way whatsoever. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/idaho-professor-sues-tiktoker-allegations-killing-4-university-student-rcna63149
Katherine Alejandra CrossIt appears, at least in my little archipelago of Mastodons, that there's a Great Quote-Tweet debate happening.
One person I respect asked pointedly to see data that proved QTs were abusive. Since I've been researching affordances of social media platforms I pulled some bits and bobs out of my hideous pile of papers and thought I'd share some insights with y'all about this question.
Cards on the table: I think QTs are a net negative. But nothing's ever simple.
Just a heads-up, I will be moving this account over break. Still finalizing destination, probably either ACM or HCI instance. Mastodon should move your follows automatically, but there might be a bit of disruption during the transfer.
scholar.social has been great, really appreciate the work the admins are putting into the community, but with more experience I've learned my needs for my professional presence are different. Yay federation!
Tenured offer at a legit university after more than a decade of field research experience is relatively plausible as movie/TV academic job acquisition goes.
What is the most accurate depiction of academic hiring in cinema, and why is it the opening of Mean Girls?
Not a fixed effect, or a random effect, but a secret third thing.
Kashmir HillThis is absolutely insane. A mom was prevented from taking her daughter to a Christmas show at Radio City Music Hall because she works for a law firm litigating against the venue's parent company. They spotted her with facial recognition technology according to this report: https://www.nbcnewyork.com/investigations/face-recognition-tech-gets-girl-scout-mom-booted-from-rockettes-show-due-to-her-employer/4004677/
Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉#RecommendedReading:
Fairness in Information Access Systems by Michael @mdekstrand Ekstrand, Anubrata Das, Robin Burke, and @fernando Diaz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.05779
Fairness in Information Access Systems by Michael @mdekstrand Ekstrand, Anubrata Das, Robin Burke, and @fernando Diaz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.05779
Fairness in Information Access Systems
Recommendation, information retrieval, and other information access systems pose unique challenges for investigating and applying the fairness and non-discrimination concepts that have been developed for studying other machine learning systems. While fair information access shares many commonalities with fair classification, the multistakeholder nature of information access applications, the rank-based problem setting, the centrality of personalization in many cases, and the role of user response complicate the problem of identifying precisely what types and operationalizations of fairness may be relevant, let alone measuring or promoting them. In this monograph, we present a taxonomy of the various dimensions of fair information access and survey the literature to date on this new and rapidly-growing topic. We preface this with brief introductions to information access and algorithmic fairness, to facilitate use of this work by scholars with experience in one (or neither) of these fields who wish to learn about their intersection. We conclude with several open problems in fair information access, along with some suggestions for how to approach research in this space.
This by @charliejane is about fiction but also seems applicable to research writing. https://buttondown.email/charliejane/archive/what-the-original-star-wars-teaches-us-about/
