JMMaok

JMMaok, 2 days ago

@inquiline @bennett

Was it this hat? https://shop.travisscott.com/products/journey-hat because that seems even more on the nose.

JMMaok, 10 days ago

@DrTCombs

Have heard absolutely nothing good about any of them. Lots of ethnically biased false positives.

JMMaok, 10 days ago

@DrTCombs

One option might be a regular Turnitin check for passages that appear elsewhere but aren’t correctly cited. The AI got its text from somewhere.

Also, consider whether you suspect clear violation of a clearly stated policy. Anything fuzzier than that, probably let it go. But if it is clear and egregious, a conversation with the student (with a witness) can be enlightening.

Sorry you’re having to deal with this.

JMMaok, 11 days ago

@impactology

Wikipedia tells me his "family was at the centre of Vienna's cultural life" and describes his family home as a palace. His father had an "industrial empire."

Thus, I think the MBAs would find a way to make it work.

JMMaok, 13 days ago

@gentrifiedrose @Adam_Cadmon1

Just clarifying that yes, Columbia also did have a rapist doctor https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/07/nyregion/columbia-university-robert-hadden-settlement.html

JMMaok, 15 days ago

@impactology

I’d say we have the full range, from opulence to grungy basements, and everything in between.

JMMaok, 21 days ago

@exador23 @ai6yr

Not sure if this makes it better, but that’s a student project, and they are trying to use the school colors. So it’s more likely a lack of experience making charts than anything nefarious.

JMMaok, 28 days ago

@JulianOliver @adam_harvey.

There has already been quite a bit of research on YouTube radicalization. One example

https://www.ucdavis.edu/curiosity/news/youtube-video-recommendations-lead-more-extremist-content-right-leaning-users-researchers

Not all of it has such clear cut results, though.

JMMaok, 28 days ago

@JulianOliver

Yes, some of that may be what I call ‘adversarial promotion,’ where a search for something like sea level rise or even climate itself is used to target climate denial content.

Something I have observed anecdotally is that my recommended content and targeted ads vary as my neighbors change. Not sure to what extent your blank slate removes geography. But under realistic conditions your targeted content may reflect your neighbors’ interests.

JMMaok, 27 days ago

@JulianOliver

Admirable op sec. Hard to know who even would be your ‘neighbors’ in that context :-)

A few years back living in an apartment some new neighbors brought a marked increase in gun content :-(

JMMaok, 1 month ago

@raiderrobert

This country is capable of generating value. We have considerable human, natural, and infrastructure resources. Perhaps it would be OK if many billionaires left, rather than continuing to exert disproportionate power within our political system? We could continue to generate value, this time with a more equal distribution. The billionaires excelled at capturing value and aren’t necessary to create it. 1/2

JMMaok, 1 month ago

@raiderrobert

The main weakness I see with my own statement above is that the US is so central to the world economy that even other countries’ billionaires are invested in controlling our political system. So do they ever really leave?

Another factor, though, is philanthropy. Many would choose that over taxation. There are problems with their pet projects, but our spending of tax dollars isn’t perfect, either. So we might wind up with an OK mix overall. 1/2

JMMaok, 1 month ago

@impactology

Umm, I dare you to tag even one historian in this thread :-)

I’m not even a historian, but they absolutely need courage, such as when they find evidence that completely upends the conventional wisdom.

JMMaok, 1 month ago

@impactology

To me it sounds like you’re taking a superficial view of what historians actually do. It’s easy to miss what is difficult about other people’s jobs.

For example, they need to generate a narrative out of facts. That requires creativity. A bunch of receipts, letters, photos, newspaper articles, etc. don’t just arrange themselves into a narrative. I think there are probably historians in archives asking “What on earth do I say about all this???”

JMMaok, 1 month ago

@grimalkina @brainwane

Something I’d be particularly interested to learn is to what extent there has been systematic review of biographies of women removed on notability grounds. Which if any Wikipedias have done that? (I mean operational/ administrative review more than research.)

At a minimum, it seems likely that some of those people will clearly meet the criteria after a few years.

JMMaok, 1 month ago

@maitri

There is a science presence here! One of the more active hashtags is #openscience .

You might also check out the local timelines of some science-specific instances, like fediscience.org and scicomm.xyz .

Also, lots of discipline-specific hashtags, lists, and maybe even instances to help you connect!

JMMaok, 1 month ago

@mimsical

I’d love to see you turn your attention to the people whose work is being disrupted by other people’s “increased productivity.” Talk to the recruiters fielding unsustainable volumes of applications of dubious authenticity. Talk to publishers canceling fiction writing contests, or taking hits to their reputations as obvious LLM text slips through their editorial process. Talk to college admissions officers.

JMMaok, 1 month ago

@remixtures

Let’s not overlook the absence of women in public life signaled by ‘Their content is mostly argued about by well-educated men with polarized views …”

JMMaok, 1 month ago

@Codeberg

Lack of comprehensive, beginner-friendly documentation.

JMMaok, 1 month ago

@Codeberg

It’s more a question of tone or approach than specific information that’s hard to find. It reads like the target audience is people who have been using GitHub for years then decided to go open source :-)

I’ll come back with some examples later today, or maybe later in the week depending how today goes … Thanks for your interest.

JMMaok, 1 month ago

@stephenpa @impactology

These sound good. I have a brainstorming template in a Google Doc that I default to pageless mode, sort of a baby step in that direction.

A problem I observe is that the complexity / richness of something like Mural tends to be overwhelming to people who only use any given tool like that once every 6 months. People who work in design / consulting and use the same tool every day have a completely different level of muscle memory.

JMMaok, 2 months ago

@mikemccaffrey

Wikipedia has the key points: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Chao

JMMaok, 2 months ago

@impactology

I have some thoughts on the screener. First, the word "screener" seems to go against a lot of what you seem to care about. Maybe reframe it a bit as "is this opportunity for you?" rather than "will we select you?"

Also, a screener is usually brief. Can you make a list of yes/no questions to use as a first screen?

You have a lot of questions! Some thoughts: Try a simpler approach, give a word count range, have an AI policy.

JMMaok, 2 months ago

@impactology

I taught in a very applied context, economics for public administration and policy. So I’m mainly referring to how the CORE economics curriculum (which we discussed before, I think) starts with markets with some market power. This is in contrast with every other economics textbook I encountered, which start with perfect competition. Asking students to set aside the many market failures they already know well from lived experience. 1/2

JMMaok, 2 months ago

@impactology

🤨 Not sure how you meant that.

As it plays out in the US, starting from perfect competition is usually a wealthy white man authoritatively telling others to disregard their lived experience, and it is a fairly violent part of teaching economics. Asking people to start from a position where markets don't have asymmetric information, power differentials, externalities, etc. turns a lot of people off of economics, no matter how it might simplify the math or narrative. 1/2