Zachary Levonian

@zwlevonian@hci.social
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Data Science + ML Engineering. HCI PhD @ GroupLens, University of Minnesota. Applied NLP for understanding online social support. Tacoma, WA.
websitehttps://levon003.github.io/
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My team got a nice write-up in a blog post from The Learning Agency. I can't complain about effusive comments from my boss!
https://the-learning-agency.com/the-cutting-ed/article/tackling-the-ai-talent-shortage-how-a-collaborative-model-is-bridging-the-gap/
Tackling the AI Talent Shortage: How A Collaborative Model is Bridging the Gap - The Learning Agency

Ed tech developers are struggling to find quality help amid an AI talent shortage.

The Learning Agency
Violent, dark, and dirty: What Americans think about the Middle Ages | YouGov

Americans have favorable views of chivalry and castles, but not the Crusades or the Inquisition

CSCW 2025 will be in Bergen, Norway!
What Beats Rock Game

Play Rock Paper Scissors but it... keeps going?

What qualities does useful feedback have? Nice taxonomy from Chengyuan Liu et al. at EDM 2024.
https://educationaldatamining.org/edm2024/proceedings/2024.EDM-short-papers.39/2024.EDM-short-papers.39.pdf
VTuber-style VSCode logo from Aikoyori (CC BY-NC-SA)
https://github.com/Aikoyori/ProgrammingVTuberLogos
GitHub - Aikoyori/ProgrammingVTuberLogos: High-quality PNGs for logos I made for fun

High-quality PNGs for logos I made for fun . Contribute to Aikoyori/ProgrammingVTuberLogos development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub
Finally a compelling use case for large language models https://linkedtarot.com
LinkedIn Tarot

Enter your profile and find out which tarot archetype matches your professional identity.

Kate Wagner's piece on F1 Racing really is delightful, especially for people with no knowledge of racing culture.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240301170542/https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/a46975496/behind-f1-velvet-curtain/

Behind F1's Velvet Curtain

If you wanted to turn someone into a socialist you could do it in about an hour by taking them for a spin around the paddock of a Formula 1 race. The kind of money I saw will haunt me forever.

Road & Track
Most US religious "nones" say there is something spiritual beyond the natural world. https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2024/01/24/how-do-nones-view-science/
7. How do ‘nones’ view science?

Compared with U.S. adults who identify with a religion, “nones” have a more positive view of science. At the same time, most “nones” say that there are

Pew Research Center's Religion & Public Life Project
How do you find the positive integer solutions to \frac{x}{y+z}+ \frac{y}{z+x}+\frac{z}{x+y} = 4?

Answer by ‎Alon Amit (אלון עמית)‎, PhD in Mathematics; Mathcircler.

Quora