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DrVeronikaCH

@DrVeronikaCH@dair-community.social

Associate prof in computer science at ITU Copenhagen 🇳🇱 in 🇩🇰

Accidental academic, failed and got lucky a lot, see https://www.veronikach.com

I did AI before it was cool and often share things about its adverse effects. I have two cats, Pixel and Dot, and post cat pictures often.

Profile photo: black and white photograph of me holding Dot. Banner: a drawing of me, my cats and some other things I like, like pubquizzes and open science

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stux, to random Dutch
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Regelmatig hoor ik van mensen dat ze graag "dialect" willen behouden en dan vooral bij de jeugd

Ik ben het hier erg tegen en met een goede reden

Tijdens mijn jeugd ben ik opgegroeid met een Drents dialect en dat brengt behoorlijk wat grammaticale fouten met zich mee

Bijvoorbeeld, in Drenthe zeggen ze dat ze "iets nodig zijn" en niet iets nodig "hebben"

Op school is dit gewoon fout. Vaak omdat je niet beter weet en de mensen om je heen ook niet

DrVeronikaCH,
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@stux in mijn studietijd vond ik het heel verwarrend (niet specifiek over Drenthe), opeens waren er in Nederland geboren mensen die het "fout" deden ten opzichte van wat ik als immigrant geleerd heb dat "goed" Nederlands was

timnitGebru, to random
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Instead of universities serving as an alternative, or a check to the power held by these companies, it seems they're joining? What exactly is this alliance and what type of "information" will they be sharing? I'm confused.

https://ai.meta.com/blog/ai-alliance/

DrVeronikaCH,
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@timnitGebru interesting how they put "benchmarking" and "trust" in the same sentences

deevybee, to random
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Further evidence that the pressure in MDPI for fast turnaround is compromising article quality: https://pubpeer.com/publications/411821120F65A4609F4665C967E782#2

DrVeronikaCH,
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@deevybee we submitted to a special issue where we knew the guest editor. We retracted the submission after rapidly receiving three reviews, all with 2-3 sentences which were just a summary and general statements like "well written"

DrVeronikaCH, to random
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  1. Last full lecture for the semester today. I like teaching but even after years, it takes a lot of energy

  2. My team who understand that I'm out of energy and take over things 🥰

  3. Leftovers from Szechuan take away place

Am I doing this right?

DrVeronikaCH, to animals
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What are your favorite hashtags on here? I like - does not need to be related to this, but just specific ones with good content

KissAnne, to music
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Jolene by Dolly Parton ja Måneskin 😍
https://youtu.be/F_YHEr-o6uU?si=4HYjJjKM0p24yP45

DrVeronikaCH,
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@KissAnne 😍

DrVeronikaCH,
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@KissAnne I'm not much of a singer, but Jolene is such a powerful song for me. I made my own version with lyrics about academia https://veronikach.com/uncategorized/a-song-about-academic-rejection/

rolfazwaan, to Podcast Dutch

Een vraag die veel mensen bezighoudt, is wat je nu kunt doen om mensen kritisch(er) na te laten denken over complottheorieën. De organisatie School of Thought heeft hiervoor een gratis online spel ontwikkeld. Wij stapten (nou ja, stapten) aan boord van het ruimteschip van Captain Zardulu om dit spel te spelen. In deze aflevering hoor je over onze ervaringen en de wetenschap achter de opzet van dit spel.

https://shows.acast.com/drangnaarsamenhang/episodes/93-een-spel-tegen-complotdenken

@dutchacademics @dutchscicomm

DrVeronikaCH,
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@rolfazwaan Rolf, zou je wellicht een alt text kunnen toevoegen? Dan bereikt dit idee meer mensen 😊

DrVeronikaCH,
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@rolfazwaan wat voor app gebruik jij? Ik heb Tusky, dan click je op het plaatje en heb je als optie om een beschrijving in te voeren

DrVeronikaCH,
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@rolfazwaan zoals ik het begrijp is Mastodon meer zoals email, jouw adres en software die je gebruikt (Outlook, Thunderbird etc) zijn niet aan elkaar verbonden. Dus er zijn meerdere apps die je kunt gebruiken, Tusky is een goede voor Android

DrVeronikaCH,
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@rolfazwaan aanrader om @stux te volgen die er meer verstand van heeft en ook hele leuke kattenfotos 😊

DrVeronikaCH,
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@rolfazwaan @stux fair maar ik denk dat je @stux feed wel kan waarderen 😊

Gargron, to random
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I've switched from Chrome to Firefox about a decade ago. It's just as fast and intuitive, and container tabs are a game changer. It always catches me off guard when I see its market share is so low.

DrVeronikaCH,
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@Gargron do you have thoughts, advice about Brave?

axbom, to random
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Excellent keynote by @abebab at today here in Sweden. Looking at the chat, many of Sweden's tech geeks are surprised by the messages she is conveying.

Truly appreciate she was provided this space and made time to participate.

I recommend reading this profile of her in Wired:

https://www.wired.com/story/abeba-birhane-ai-datasets/

DrVeronikaCH,
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@axbom @abebab ooh I wish I had known about this! Would love to see @abebab speak again

DrVeronikaCH, to LEGO
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Awesome surprise for today, they were giving out free in the Copenhagen metro today and this is what I got

DrVeronikaCH, to random
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Do I know anybody in Vienna? I'll be there at the end of the month for a conference, and would be up for coffee, chat, and so on.

vicgrinberg, to random
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Any insider tips for Málaga in January?

I'm looking for stuff like restaurants or eateries you loved, especially good walking tours, hikes in the area, must do day trips, non-obvious museums or places to visit, ceramics or general local craft, cooking classes, etc.

(This is about personal recommendations - I can google very well but I also do love random tips. Found the most amazing restaurant in Cagliari that way and the best day trip from Barcelona... )

DrVeronikaCH,
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@vicgrinberg tagging @amelia who might know something

DrVeronikaCH, to random
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For my birthday my husband framed our PhD diplomas (we've talked about this before but never did it, so it's a nice surprise 🥰

axbom, to random
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Gotta consider how you may be training AI tools for your job just by performing your everyday work.

That is: Your employer forces you to use AI tools. Said AI tools are simultaneously trained on your work as you are using them. At some point the tool simply replaces you.

"Enter corporate spyware, invasive monitoring apps that allow bosses to keep close tabs on everything their employees are doing—collecting reams of data that could come into play here in interesting ways. Corporations, which are monitoring their employees on a large scale, are now having workers utilize AI tools more frequently, and many questions remain regarding how the many AI tools that are currently being developed are being trained.

Put all of this together and there’s the potential that companies could use data they’ve harvested from workers—by monitoring them and having them interact with AI that can learn from them—to develop new AI programs that could actually replace them. If your boss can figure out exactly how you do your job, and an AI program is learning from the data you’re producing, then eventually your boss might be able to just have the program do the job instead."

https://www.wired.com/story/corporate-surveillance-train-ai/

DrVeronikaCH,
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@axbom yet still nobody has figured out how to automate reimbursement forms and such 😅

DrVeronikaCH, to animals
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The cats have discovered the gift that is floor heating

dymaxion, to random

It's really annoying for my lifestyle that no one makes a good, durable desk-mounted clamp designed to hold a champagne flute.

DrVeronikaCH,
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@mattblaze @dymaxion I've seen these once but imho should be a thing at any event where you are supposed to eat standing up

design_law, to writing
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Friends, help me out with some wordsmithing?

I want to describe a situation where one side in a fight is put at an extreme disadvantage before the fight even begins.

How would you describe the act of putting one side at a severe disadvantage? The state of the disadvantaged party thereafter?

I don't want to use "handicap" or "handicapped." What are some good alternatives?

DrVeronikaCH,
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@design_law not the same but "three legged race" came to mind

garius, to Cats
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DID YOU KNOW:

Tuxedo kitties are the most oppressed of all kitties, constantly and unfairly denied dinner at a perfectly reasonable time for it. Kept in an unnecessary state of woe.

That's what Napoleon keeps telling me anyway.

DrVeronikaCH,
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@garius Pixel concurs

DrVeronikaCH, to animals
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New couch has been approved by the masters

bkeegan, to TwitterMigration
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I am excited to share the preliminary results of survey research with @cfiesler, @MattNicholson, and @blakeley exploring the factors driving the since November 2022. (1/N)

https://medium.com/cuinfoscience/an-exploration-of-the-twitter-to-mastodon-migration-21c15c4336f2

DrVeronikaCH,
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@bkeegan @cfiesler @MattNicholson @blakeley this is fascinating, thank you! Just a note, it looks odd that 70.0% and 40.0% of responders out of 1343 said a thing (not whole numbers)?

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