Mastodawn

Alexander Weber Jan 26

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/text-is-king

Is reading dying? Some interesting thoughts in here

Text is king

read on, queen

Experimental History

Alexander Weber Jan 22

" a submission tsunami fueled by generative AI, paper mills, and publication pressure has strained these conferences' review pipelines to the breaking point"

https://gptzero.me/news/neurips/

GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers

GPTZero's analysis 4841 papers accepted by NeurIPS 2025 show there are at least 100 with confirmed hallucinations

AI Detection Resources | GPTZero

Alexander Weber Jan 6

From: @parismarx
https://mastodon.online/@parismarx/115844471717172683

Paris Marx (@[email protected])

For decades, Canadians eagerly rushed onto US tech platforms and services. But now the drawbacks of that dependence are on full display. For the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, I explain the economic and political consequences of a US-dominated internet — and why digital sovereignty is imperative. https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/every-data-centre-is-a-u-s-military-base/ #tech #canada #cdnpoli #cdntech #digitalsovereignty #politics

Mastodon

Alexander Weber Jan 6

Paris Marx Jan 5

For decades, Canadians eagerly rushed onto US tech platforms and services. But now the drawbacks of that dependence are on full display.

For the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, I explain the economic and political consequences of a US-dominated internet — and why digital sovereignty is imperative.

https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/every-data-centre-is-a-u-s-military-base/

#tech #canada #cdnpoli #cdntech #digitalsovereignty #politics

Every data centre is a U.S. military base - CCPA

Understanding how the United States uses its tech companies to serve empire

CCPA -

Alexander Weber Jan 6

As AI systems advance, they will
challenge our fundamental assumptions about research quality, scholarly communication, and the nature of intellectual labor.

https://gwern.net/doc/science/2025-kusumegi.pdf

#science #academia #publishing #llm

Alexander Weber Dec 19

Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4irghgzlsjk6ugrekoqyl7km/post/3m7zkketqaq2k

Alexander Weber Dec 17

Blood flow ≠ oxygen consumption

https://www.tum.de/en/news-and-events/all-news/press-releases/details/40-percent-of-mri-signals-do-not-correspond-to-actual-brain-activity

40 percent of MRI signals misinterpreted

Interpretation of numerous MRI data may be incorrect: blood flow is not a reliable indicator of brain activity.

Alexander Weber Nov 25

Does anyone know how to access the #Altmetric API now? They require an API key, which, when i applied for one they denies me. Very annoying, as I had a python script that pulled the Altmetric data and autopopulated my CV. Now I have to do this manually

Alexander Weber Sep 23

Very cool explanation of Markov Chains and how LLMs are just fancier versions of an old idea
https://elijahpotter.dev/articles/markov_chains_are_the_original_language_models