@WiseWoman@fediscience.org
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WiseWoman

@WiseWoman@fediscience.org

I still teach various media and software-oriented subjects at an engineering college in Berlin, Germany, although I retired in April 2023. Projects on Internet and eLearning interest me, as well as my work on detecting and educating about plagiarism.
My web bookmarks are found at https://pinboard.in/u:weberwu
I let tootfinder index my comments.
Pronouns: she/her/Dr.

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senficon, to random German
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Was zu befürchten war: Die Clearingstelle Urheberrecht im Internet fordert jetzt die Sperrung von durch deutsche Internetzugangsanbieter. https://cuii.info/empfehlungen/

WiseWoman,
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@senficon
Sci-Hub has the best user interface of all times: Put the DOI into the box and get the PDF, if it is available. Done.

I am a member of a number of libraries and have to first search if this journal is at any of the libraries. Then I have to fire up the VPN, and usually log in a few times before the right cookie is set. And only if the moon phase is right will I be offered a link I can follow, often only a per-chapter link. Sigh.

inquiline, to random
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Ahahaha just received an email from the uni, subject line

"How can you avoid research misconduct allegations?"

Answer: don't be someone that emboldened rightwing shitheads get in their sights

WiseWoman,
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@inquiline
Gee, I thought it was "don't commit research misconduct, aka FFP (Fabrication, Falsification, Plagiarism)", plus today I suppose "don't use ChatGPT to write your papers for you!

WiseWoman,
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@inquiline
But from what I have seen, it's not just "misplaced quotation marks". I see a good bit of plagiarism where it shouldn't be. Doesn't matter who the author is and it should not be about the person, but about the TEXT. If the paper is plagiarized, retract it. If a book is plagiarized, stop selling it. The university needs then to decide if they will sanction the person, not the court of public opinion.

WiseWoman,
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@inquiline
But a smear campaign does not work if there is no plagiarism to begin with. And with plagiarism it does not matter who is documenting the plagiarism. If you have a side-by-side, anyone who can read can sort out that they are (almost) the same.
Campaigns without offering proof are of course completely unwarrented and should be ignored.

WiseWoman,
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@kenmarable @inquiline

Yes, I understand your point. White youth should not avoid prison if they are committing drug offences.

We have been having similar debates in Germany over public documentation of plagiarism. The press only reports on politicians, so there is a perception that politicians are targeted, when the vast majority are academics who have heavily plagiarized in their doctoral dissertations. Plagiarism has to stop, on all levels.

wikimediaDE, to random German
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😍 Wir haben uns sehr über die Post gefreut @WiseWoman

Das gute Stück bekommt einen Ehrenplatz in der Geschäftsstelle.☕

WiseWoman,
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@wikimediaDE @tunda
Danke, aber nein, muss mich ja verkleinern und Sachen loswerden!

wikimediaDE, to random German
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Aus aktuellem Anlass haben wir heute eine ❓❓ Quizfrage ❓❓

➡️ Was hat Wikipedia mit Kaffeefiltern zu tun? :wiki: ☕

  1. Preis: Ruhm
  2. Preis: Ehre
  3. Preis: Konfetti

Mitraten lohnt sich also! 😄

Den ersten Tipp gibt es um 14.30 Uhr.

WiseWoman,
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@wikimediaDE
Protest gegen den Upload-Filter, ich habe eine bedruckte Filter im Büro km Schsukssten 😆

WiseWoman,
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@wikimediaDE
Eigentlich schmeiße ich nichts weg, was interessant ist. Musste jetzt, wo ich im Ruhestand bin, 4 Container schredden und umpteen Kisten nach Hause schleppen. Aber ich war noch nicht am Glaskasten, wollt ihr es zurück? 😂

freyablekman, to Trains
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Good morning everyone 👋

Today I am travelling (almost) transcontinental by train. Few changes so what could possibly go wrong… 😑 probably a few things but I’m prepared!🤣 I will add to this thread during my trip today

So let’s get going! 🏠🚇🚄🚄🏖️

WiseWoman,
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@freyablekman
Good luck! No strikes planned today. As long as you have water, food, and something to read you should be fine!

emilymbender, to random
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Arghh - more problematic reporting, this time about robo-therapists.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/mar/02/can-ai-chatbot-therapists-do-better-than-the-real-thing

A thread:
/1

WiseWoman,
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@emilymbender
When Joseph Weizenbaum created Eliza in the 1960s, this nonsense was published:
Colby, K. M., Watt, J. B., & Gilbert, J. P. (1966). A Computer Method of Psychotherapy: Preliminary Communication. In The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 142, S. 148-152.

1/2

WiseWoman,
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@emilymbender

“ […] several hundred patients an hour could be handled by a computer system designed for this purpose. The human therapist […] would become a much more efficient man since his efforts would no longer be limited to the one-to-one patient-therapist ratio as now exists.”

This prompted Weizenbaum to write "Computer Power and Human Reason", a book that is soooo important today.

2/2

peterdrake, to writing
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Looking at an algorithms book where the very first thing, at the top of chapter 0, is an epigraph in Latin, with no translation.

Is there any better way to tell an unconfident student, "You are not smart enough to read this book?"

WiseWoman,
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@peterdrake
Name and share, please!
So often the 'quotes' in Computer Science books are given with no source the wrong one. Authors pretend to be learnèd, but they aren't.

jon, to random
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Why third party rail ticket booking platforms are only inadvertently solving cross border ticketing problems

They're answering: “Is there a train from A to B, and can we sell tickets for it?”

I want to answer: “I want to go from A to B, how do I do that?”

Blog post 👇
https://jonworth.eu/trainline-rail-europe-and-omio-only-inadvertently-solving-cross-border-rail-ticketing-headaches/

WiseWoman,
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@jon Have you tried rome2rio? I find they do a decent job of telling me alternatives of getting from A to B.

lauren, (edited ) to random
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Alaska Airlines COO sits next to 737 MAX 9 door plug on the first flight after grounding. The report didn't indicate whether or not she was wearing a parachute.

WiseWoman,
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@lauren
She. Constance von Muehlen, the COO of Alaska Airlines, is a woman. Don't assume all C-suites are men.

WiseWoman,
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@lauren
Strange, I saw it on CNN too. She has short hair, but her name is underneath the video.

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@lauren
Okay, I'm in Germany so I read CNN online: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/01/26/business/first-boeing-737-max-9-with-passengers-flies-after-grounding/index.html

WiseWoman, to ChatGPT
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An adjunct professor for computer security found some odd stuff her students turned in:

https://labs.ripe.net/author/kathleen_moriarty/the-llm-misinformation-problem-i-was-not-expecting/

It was not the students' use of a that was the problem, but they were using material found on the internet that itself was created by a hallucinating ChatBot and published without verification!

This is a type of model collapse we will be dealing with not just at universities in the near future.

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Humans are motivated extrinsically and intrinsically to learn. It's popular to talk about "helping students to find internal motivations" in education, and a good idea, intrinsic motivation is more sustainable, better aligned with an individuals needs.

External motivations are also useful, but primarily to shape internal motivations. This is what grading is supposed to be about.

Somewhere along the path of collecting gold stars you realize you really just want to know how the topic works. 1/

WiseWoman,
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@futurebird
In Germany, anyone who wants to can sign up and take many classes without credit if there is space available. Not generally labs, but lecture classes. Of course, except for a small fee each semester, university education is free here, you just need the grades or the waiting time to secure a place.

antiaall3s, to random
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"All creatures welcome*"

*except immuno-compromised, chronically ill and many disabled creatures.

WiseWoman,
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@antiaall3s @linuzifer
I also attended remotely but remember being greeted by at least two speakers. The Heralds were always good at including questions from the Internet on all Q&A. The Matrix-Chat didn't always work (for me, I would have preferred IRC) but was a way to get questions asked. I was glad to see some of the angels and speakers with masks. I am glad the remote option works so well - and thanks to the signal Angel's for making the magic work!

WiseWoman,
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@jr @antiaall3s
What IRC server was it on? I saw the bridge from Matrix (when it worked) but couldn't find the rooms on IRC. I'll have to look closer next time.

Ruth_Mottram, to random
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Most of the specialised computers/servers at work are named for DWEMs* (or pagan gods/goddesses), so at casual lunch conversation yesterday we brainstormed a few names for the next generation of servers (we came up with Meitner, Hammer + Lehman, maybe Curie is too obvious) - but why stick with white women, what other more diverse candidates should we have for naming servers etc after? Would love some more suggestions to take to IT.

*(Dead, White, European Males).

WiseWoman,
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@mwfc @Ruth_Mottram

I wouldn't use living persons. We use planets and moons to name our servers, and I am sure that flower and bird names would be nice, too.

I have a list of adventurers https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzerin:WiseWoman/Entdeckerinnen , scientists https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzerin:WiseWoman/Wissenschaftlerinnen and artists https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzerin:WiseWoman/K%C3%BCnstlerinnen that were "women in red" in the Wikipedia, that is, without an article. Slowly articles are growing, thanks to initiatives such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_Red

jonny, to random
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Ok I know its new and I love the project but idk if importing from the python stdlib counts as a reference implementation of an algorithm: https://www.wikifunctions.org/view/en/Z10125

WiseWoman,
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@jonny
Uh, no, not in my book. I want to see the gorey details of this!

vowe, to random German

Was die Jugend so trägt

WiseWoman,
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@vowe
https://www.arrel.de/shop/erwachsene/liberte-egalite-fckafde/

jonny, to random
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looking at an allen institute openscope dataset where all the stimulus presentation times as measured by the reported "start" and "end" times are actually 230ms as opposed to the expected 250ms in an experiment where that would actually matter, and while the data is available, the analysis code isn't (github repo linked from the paper doesn't exist) and neither is the code that generated the dataset (didn't even try even tho i personally gave a talk to them about why this was important) so i actually have no idea if the results are correct, or incorrect due to the analysis code or the experimental code. i am yet again saying that open data without open tooling is only marginally better than no data at all, even tho nobody seems to care about open tooling lmao

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@drmikepj @jonny
Retired is not dead. Ask the engineer if they are willing to describe what they did. Of course, many of their notes may have been discarded. So much material gets lost when people retire and no one cares about looking for what to save.

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Today I learned that if you host your lab web page on the cloud via your own domain name, then when you are hit with vexatious legal threats your university will refuse to provide legal assistance on the grounds it is a "personal professional page" rather a work created in your university capacity.

WiseWoman,
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@ct_bergstrom
Yup, learned that lesson the hard way. If my name is in the paper with the university name spelled correctly, they are delighted. When I get threats or sued, I'm on my own.

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