Matthias Melcher

@x28de
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Defining trust?

Trust of students in AI: trust of students in their institution and trust of the institution in their students, trust in the reliability of the tool or in the capability of an assistant.

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What's My JND?

Find your Just Noticeable Difference in colour perception. How small a colour difference can you actually see?

RE: https://mastodon.social/@oldaily/116143749572591519

"one of the world's most user-hostile pieces of software"
That's why I summarized my minimal use https://x28newblog.wordpress.com/2022/08/26/minimal-github-for-reassurance/

Just deleted my chatgpt account.
"AI outperforms humans in establishing interpersonal closeness in emotionally engaging interactions, but only when labelled as human _ Communications Psychology" https://www.nature.com/articles/s44271-025-00391-7
AI outperforms humans in establishing interpersonal closeness in emotionally engaging interactions, but only when labelled as human - Communications Psychology

Across two studies, people felt closer to AI than to humans after emotional chat interactions, but only if the AI was labelled as human. Labelling the partner as AI reduced, but did not prevent, relationship-building.

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Salience and associations

Second reply to a comment.

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Consciously

Are we ‘conscious of ‘ the end-points of a similarity connection?

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Recently blogged: https://x28newblog.wordpress.com/2025/11/18/partial-patterns/ -- and responded to a thought-provoking comment.
Partial Patterns

A visualization of pattern recognition, with similar and distinct partial patterns.

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Working with Claude

What should we delegate to Claude, and what not?

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@jarango/115539471322365059

Here is how I read his book https://x28hd.de/demo/?duly.xml -- with very similar visual tools.