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ALTAnlp, 1 day ago to programming

ICYMI: CALL FOR PROBLEMS FOR SHARED TASK FOR #ALTA2024 WORKSHOP

The ALTA shared tasks are targeted at #university students with #programming experience.

They should be related to a #language #technology task, able to be automatically evaluated, with training and test #data able to be distributed to participants at low- or no-cost, and should be fun!

📆 Submissions by Friday 7 June 2024.

✉️ shared-task@alta.asn.au

https://alta2024.alta.asn.au/calls

Mer__edith, 3 days ago to random

Last week I had the honor of accepting the 2024 Helmut Schmidt Future Prize

Instead of a traditional speech, I gave this talk on the history of AI, the business of surveillance, & why the use of AI "ad targeting for killing" in Gaza should be illegal👇

https://www.helmut-schmidt.de/aktuelles/detail/die-rede-der-zukunftspreistraegerin

everythingopen, 2 days ago to random

Here's a wrap-up of #EverythingOpen, held last month in #Gladstone.

We cover our brilliant #keynotes, Geoff Huston AM, Jana Dekanovska, Professor @aquigley and @raejohnston highlight standout talks, and present the findings of our #conference #survey 🎉

https://2024.everythingopen.au/news/thats-a-wrap-for-everything-open-2024/

kcarruthers, 4 days ago to random

Microsoft love open source. Perhaps they’re trying to make this the year of Linux on the desktop? 🤷‍♀️
https://eigenmagic.net/@daedalus/112481140413247828

decryption, 4 days ago to random

Issue 2092 of The Sizzle just left my mail server!

Today's headlines:

• Microsoft launches "Copilot+ PCs", further pushing AI as a core Windows feature

• OpenAI used Scarlett Johansson's voice for GPT-4o despite Scarlett rejecting the offer twice

• Telstra to sack 2,800 staff, mostly from its Enterprise division

• Beware of the sharks circling your favourite browser extensions

And the following stuff is on sale thanks to Ozbargain:

• Cheap Edifier speakers, Sony camera cashback, Tesla Model 3/Model Y, Google Pixel Watch, Coles Mobile SIM

If you aren't a subscriber, you missed out on today's issue - don't make that mistake again! Visit https://thesizzle.com.au to sign up for Australia's best tech email newsletter.

thesiswhisperer, 4 days ago to random

Text of my speech for the book launch of "Doing Doctoral research at a distance": https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7198510551981801472

keoni, 4 days ago to random

I'm worried and pessimistic about the future we'll have with all this "AI" stuff. But when others see the work that Te Hiku Media are doing, they're optimistic. I think I need a vacation 😂.

ALTAnlp, 5 days ago to programming

CALL FOR PROBLEMS FOR SHARED TASK FOR #ALTA2024 WORKSHOP

The ALTA shared tasks are targeted at #university students with #programming experience.

They should be related to a #language #technology task, able to be automatically evaluated, with training and test #data able to be distributed to participants at low- or no-cost, and should be fun!

📆 Submissions by Friday 7 June 2024.

✉️ shared-task@alta.asn.au

https://alta2024.alta.asn.au/calls

decryption, 5 days ago to random

Issue 2091 of The Sizzle just left my mail server!

Today's headlines:

• OpenAI's "superalignment" team disbanded, signs lifetime non-disparagement agreement on way out

• Microsoft's CO2 emissions & water use see big increases thanks to AI rush

• iOS 17.5 has a bug that un-deletes random iCloud photos

• New LPCAMM2 form factor makes RAM thin & user replaceable

And the following stuff is on sale thanks to Ozbargain:

• Cheap LEGO Concorde, Logitech keyboard, Adobe Creative Cloud, Edifier headphones, Synology NAS, Nikon Zf camera, TCN/JB Gift Cards, refurb Dell SFF PC, Limbo Android game, Samsung soundbar

If you aren't a subscriber, you missed out on today's issue - don't make that mistake again! Visit https://thesizzle.com.au to sign up for Australia's best tech email newsletter.

thecarpentries, 5 days ago to community

📅 Upcoming community sessions next week (https://carpentries.org/community/#community-events ):

📣 Community Welcome Session: UTC Time: 21 May 2024 15:00
https://pad.carpentries.org/welcome-sessions-2024.

📣 Coffee with The Carpentries’ Executive Director; UTC Time: 22 May 2024 10:00
https://pad.carpentries.org/community-sessions-2024

📣 Workshop Debrief and Teaching Discussion; UTC Time: 22 May 2024 17:00
https://pad.carpentries.org/community-sessions-2024

📣 African Carpentry Community Monthly Meetup, UTC Time: 23 May 2024 10:00
https://codimd.carpentries.org/69NZJLzLSKCZakTPsWpo7Q?both

keoni, 5 days ago to random

Everyone knows that GPT-4o is just OpenAI getting another step change amount of data right? It's hype after hype to scrape as much data as possible. That's the only way this plays out based on the underlying technologies. So don't use it unless you consent to streaming your audio and visual data straight to them to profit from.

kcarruthers, 5 days ago to random

Repeat COVID-19 vaccinations elicit antibodies that neutralize variants, other viruses: People who were repeatedly vaccinated for COVID-19 — initially receiving shots aimed at the original variant, followed by boosters and updated vaccines targeting variants — generated antibodies capable of neutralizing a wide range of SARS-CoV-2 variants and even some distantly related coronaviruses.

Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

https://medicine.wustl.edu/news/repeat-covid-19-vaccinations-elicit-antibodies-that-neutralize-variants-other-viruses/

jessie, 6 days ago to random

Friends, Romans, fellow internet nerds: Do we have resources we like for teaching R to already-competent developers?

ALTAnlp, 6 days ago to Futurology

In the lead up to #ALTA2024, we're highlighting #research papers from previous #workshops.

Here, Yu-Kai Lee, Chia-Hui Chang from #NationalCentralUniversity in #Taiwan 🇹🇼 develop a #dialogue module for story co-telling for #ESL students using open domain information extraction techniques and the construction of a #KnowledgeGraph.

Interesting for anyone working in #LanguageAcquisition or #ComputerAidedLanguageLearning #CALL #NLP

🔗 Paper: https://aclanthology.org/2023.alta-1.2/

linuxaustralia, 6 days ago to sydney

We have a wonderful pipeline of Linux Australia-auspiced events coming up for the back half of 2024, after fantastic conferences earlier in the year by the teams at #DrupalSouth in #Sydney and @everythingopen in #Gladstone

#Drupal meetups:
https://drupalsouth.org/events/drupal-meetups-2024

#KiwiPycon, brought to you in conjunction with @nzpug is on in August in #Wellington for the #Python fans
https://kiwipycon.nz/

Back over the ditch, @pyconau heads to Naarm/Melbourne in November #pyconau
https://2024.pycon.org.au/

Unixbigot, 6 days ago to random

“Emerald 457 Scaley this is Tower. You are clear to approach paddock 22 east”

Air traffic control used to be a fairly unexciting, though important job. After I retired and joined ATC Sans Frontières, I learned just how precarious air travel has made the life of dragons. Dragonkind was driven almost to extinction before ASF provided radio collars and traffic guidance.

“457 please also be advised of helicopter muster operations to your north. Our records show this flock is BSE negative. Good hunting”

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

oliversampson, 7 days ago to InformationTechnology

Some thoughts on where we are with the evolution of #InformationTechnology, #AI and #machinelearning how we got here, complete with a silly #mathematical anlogy.

A thread: 🧵 1/16

arstechnica, 7 days ago to random

What happened to OpenAI’s long-term AI risk team?

Former team members have either resigned or been absorbed into other research groups.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/05/what-happened-to-openais-long-term-ai-risk-team/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

adamsteer, 7 days ago to random

It's job application weekend again with 5 weeks on the current clock. It is painful. there's nothing that really "fits" skills or location (Bendigo, Victoria, Australia). No permanent roles, all short term.

If you want to headhunt a highly trained, super experienced, skilled researcher and geospatial data analyst, who can lead teams and develop concepts from dream to strategy to reality to results, and is trusted to get remote work done - reach out! Save me and my referees a pile of effort.

histoftech, 13 days ago to random

“At Microsoft, the share of senior employees as a portion of the company’s overall workforce declined more than 5 percentage points after the return-to-office mandate took effect, the researchers found. At Apple, the decline was 4 percentage points, while at SpaceX — the only company of the three to require workers to be fully in-person — the share of senior employees dropped 15 percentage points.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/05/12/rto-microsoft-apple-spacex/

KathyReid, 13 days ago to random

In the most glorious "fuck you" I have seen in a while, you know the book that Cumberland City Council banned because they're homophobic bigots - Holly Duhig's "A focus on Same Sex Parents"? Well, the publisher, BookLife Publishing, have made a PDF version of the book available for free.

Sure be a shame if it was shared far and wide now, wouldn't it?

Every time you ban a book filled with hope and kindness, and care and love, we will resist.

https://www.booklifepublishing.co.uk/a-focus-on/same-sex-parents/

#CumberlandCityCouncil #SameSexParents #BookBans #Bookstodon

StillIRise1963, 13 days ago to random

There is more than" journalistic malpractice" going on here. There’s a deliberate sabotaging of the truth and democracy.

ALTAnlp, 16 days ago to Futurology

In the lead up to #ALTA2024, we're highlighting #research papers from previous #workshops.

Here, the ChatGPT C-LARA-Instance, Belinda Chiera, Cathy Chua, Chadi Raheb, Manny Rayner, Annika Simonsen, Zhengkang Xiang, and Rina Zviel-Girshin use the #OpenSource #CLARA platform to evaluate #GPT4's ability to perform #linguistics #NLP tasks such as #segmentation, #lemmatization and #glossing.

🔗 C-LARA platform: https://www.c-lara.org/

🔗 Paper: https://aclanthology.org/2023.alta-1.3/

histoftech, 17 days ago to random

In the spirit of making lemonade from🍋🍋🍋this week, I’d like to find a venue that might publish a scholarly piece informed by personal experience on tech, governance, disability (lack of) accommodations, institutional wealth & DEI hypocrisy. It’d be partly historical but not something that would fit in a history journal. Maybe a journal interested in tech and politics or tech and power that covers multiple disciplines…(1/2)

ALTAnlp, 17 days ago to Korean

ICYMI: CALL FOR SPONSORS FOR #ALTA2024 Workshop

Does your company work in the #language #technology #research space? Work with #LLM or #NLP technology?

We are now announcing our Call for #Sponsors for our upcoming #conference at #ANU in beautiful #Canberra.

This year, we’ve created budget-friendly #sponsorship packages starting from AU$500.

If you're interested please contact our Sponsorship Chair, Mr Charbel El-Khaissi at Charbel.El-Khaissi@anu.edu.au.

Boosts welcome ✅