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jbigham

@jbigham@hci.social

Professor of HCII and LTI at CMU SCS. Manage human-centered ML at . #hci, #a11y, #dialog, #nlp. AI/ML. #yinzfluencer of 4 kids. aspire to exceed my attention-seeking pattern regurgitating machine colleagues.

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I'm kind of disappointed that the NCAA back pay settlement for D1 athletes only goes back to 2016 -- was my back of the pack performance in D1 track and cc in 2003 worth NOTHING??

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5510354/2024/05/23/house-v-ncaa-settlement-votes/

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i had almost entirely forgotten about bluesky, until they emailed me today --

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i talked to a friend who was like, "i have a chip startup", and since it's pittsburgh i had to confirm whether silicon or potato. but, it was silicon. and, i was like, you can just like do that? i'm very software silo'd.

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all the papers are now available, open access (free download) --
https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3613904

imma read so fast and so much that the digital library thinks i'm a bot! (which really isn't that much, it's detection for this has really low precision)

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apparently some people in my hometown on facebook are mad about the school having received two electric school buses for free. this is why i'm not on facebook anymore.

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I’m mostly convinced that LLMs raise the floor, but do they raise the ceiling? I don’t think I’ve seen anything compelling suggesting they do

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the main intellectual value i add to design is that i'm a pessimist who is so pessimistic that i'm even pessimistic about my own pessimism

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interesting human problem in the San Francisco $1.7million toilet -- crushed by a thousand policies, each individually may even be (or at least sound) reasonable, but collectively result in huge expense and delays -- and no constituency wants to give up their piece of the convoluted pie

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/28/opinion/san-francisco-public-toilet.html

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coauthored 3 papers, reflective of the wonderful diversity of topics I get to work on --

  1. explored how local entrepreneurs might engage with generative AI via a series of workshops:
    https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jbigham/pubs/pdfs/2024/deconstructing-genai.pdf

  2. built and studied a tool called COMPA that uses speech recognition and LLMs to help AAC users not be left behind in conversations
    https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jbigham/pubs/pdfs/2024/compa.pdf

  3. built a tool to help ML engineers optimize ML models, widely used at Apple
    https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jbigham/pubs/pdfs/2024/talaria.pdf

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i've reached that point in my career where i'm purposefully scheduling 15 minute meetings.

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do you ever think about how most of k-12 schooling is training on test?

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non-professors might ask, why do professors meticulously put all of their stuff on the websites? is it just for promotion (and bragging?)

yes, but also, i consult my own website like a million times a week because people keep asking me for stuff that is reported there, links and papers and bios and all that stuff.

so, when you make yourself, make it useful to you!

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jbigham/

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i don't care what version your llama is, i want to know how many megahertz it runs at

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lol, this hour on my calendar…

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uhh… ok, but… you might need to wait a bit longer than usual to receive my taxes?

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always amazed how many completely free (and completely empty 😂) electric car chargers there are around the Pittsburgh ‘burbs

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short form video killed the text social media star

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my toots are 100% generated by my personal language model, influenced by both context and my own shortcomings.

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let thou who has not decided that getting permission would be too slow so we should just run speech recognition on everybody's videos and not tell them… throw the first stone

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wow… $100,000/year college is right around the corner. CMU isn't quite there, and lots of students don't pay the full price… but $86k?

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/05/your-money/paying-for-college/100k-college-cost-vanderbilt.html

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look what came in the mail??

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these days Google Scholar usually knows about my publications having been made publicly available before I do, and so I just update the list of publications on my web page based on it.

I think back in the day, I would post papers on my web page because it would take too long for them to appear on the official sites, and they'd be paywalled and hard to access there.

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I saw zero April Fools jokes yesterday. one more disappointment from the Internet.

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in the future, the School of Education will be a middling department within the School of Prompt Engineering.

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imagine if nextdoor is next to go on the fediverse

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