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andresmh

@andresmh@hci.social

Faculty at Princeton Computer Science. Board member at Crisis Text Line.

I build and study social computing systems. Currently working on community-owned platforms and social augmented reality.

📍🇲🇽→MIT→MSR→Snap→Princeton

#HumanComputerInteraction
#SocialComputing
#AugmentedReality
#GigWork

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kfury, to random
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Twitter has plunged in value by 71.5% since Elon bought it.

andresmh,
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@kfury I'm sure it has lost value but how can it be assessed so accurately now that it's not publicly traded?

timhwang, to random
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now that i’ve committed to the idea of sunk cost fallacy, it’s ironically proving very hard to discard

andresmh,
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@timhwang

Person that looks like Bill Gates but is not Gates with the sign I see what you did there

jbigham, to random
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lol, this hour on my calendar…

andresmh,
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@jbigham my max number of simultaneous zoom meetings is 3

andresmh,
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@cyberlyra @jbigham @ntnsndr do LLMs also forget to unmute? That’s the ultimate Turing test

Sarahp, to random
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Omg I have to buy a new desk. What’s your favorite home office desk and why? Pics welcome!!

andresmh,
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@Sarahp I'm a fan of UPLIFT. It takes some time to build but it's the best standing desk.

andresmh,
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@Sarahp I now have 4 of those including one in my office and one at home

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

andresmh,
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@jbigham does the city pay for this?

cfiesler, to random
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I just saw that the AI conference NeurIPS has a call for machine learning papers from high school students.

It’s bad enough that folks applying to PhD programs are being told they have to have already published in order to be admitted into a good program. Are we now creating even more pathways just for students who are exceptionally privileged? Imagine having the opportunity to write and publish a paper in a major AI conference in high school…

andresmh,
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@cfiesler, just yesterday, I had a high schooler's CV in my mailbox asking for research opportunities. It's not the first one, plus Princeton is in the middle of nowhere 😬

andresmh, to random
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I was just texting with a friend in Tel Aviv as I take my dog on walk in a beautiful sunny day in central NJ. My friend just mentioned that they’re waiting for some Iranian missiles to land in a few minutes. So surreal how well connected the world is yet…

andresmh, to random
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Woah! Someone posted the 1 billionth Scratch project online:
https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1000000000

The Scratch online community has come a long way since it started as a master's thesis project!

Here is one of the first mock-ups of the website I did around 2005, inspired Flickr and some other "web 2.0" websites of that era

andresmh,
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@gadgetoid the first 103 projects were tests i deleted, then the 104th is a greeting card i made for my girlfriend (now wife) 🥰 https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/104

andresmh,
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@pg right? 🙈Today it would have been Scratch.ai. I skipped the scratch.ly and scratch.io era

andresmh, to random
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Last Fall, a few of us attended a CRA workshop in DC to discuss the future of research on social tech. Here is a report about it that includes topics ranging from governance to decentralization to the role of academia, and more https://cra.org/ccc/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/CCC-Future-of-Research-Workshop-Report_Final.pdf

Check it out!

annabelrothschild, to random
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(1/N) Looking for extra(outside)-Georgia Tech CS faculty perspectives:

I work with several talented GT undergrads, many of whom can graduate BS CS in 3 years, due to AP courses and (relatively) small core curriculum. Would potential PhD advisors hesitate to take a 3 (vs 4 year) straight BS --> PhD student?

With 1 more year they can get a MSc CS, which I've been encouraging them to do, due to my own bias towards having more time to explore intellectually

andresmh,
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@annabelrothschild PhD admission heavily depends on prior research experience and letters of recommendation. Assuming they are strong at both, the only concern might be emotional and intellectual maturity, but I’m not sure a year would make a huge difference

andresmh,
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@annabelrothschild having a publication would be a huge plus

andresmh, (edited ) to random
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The eclipse was amazing. It reminded me of skydiving: a lot of preparation for a few minutes of awe. Totally worth the 4 hours stuck in traffic in Arkansas.

The main tip I learned online is to not waste time trying to take a good picture during totality. So I just took this one photo which shows some stars. But it’s one of those things that there are millions of better photos, so just enjoy the four minutes!

andresmh,
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@bkeegan TIL!

cfiesler, to random
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In honor of discovering that I've apparently had a Wikipedia page for a few months, I decided to tell the story of why I'm not a Wikipedian (a story I told Jimmy Wales lol) and this seems like the kind of thing that might interest you all: https://www.instagram.com/p/C5i1r68Lyk-/

Though TL;DR if you don't want to watch a four minute video, my attempt to increase coverage of children's literature on Wikipedia was met with exactly the kinds of gatekeeping acrimonious jerk behavior you might expect.

andresmh,
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@cfiesler this should trigger a controversy so big that it will deserve a Wikipedia page 😀

andresmh, to random
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It has started! 😎

andresmh, to random
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On why the earthquake took a while to trend on Threads:
"...the earthquake was a regional event, and trends are based on national conversations, it may have simply taken more time for enough people to join the conversation..."

https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/05/threads-missed-its-earthquake-moment-as-the-term-didnt-trend-until-the-afternoon/

drewww, to random
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One of my all-time favorite bits on TikTok is in full swing: industrial grade glycine from Donghua Jinlong.

Starts with a wave of eerie self published promotional videos like this: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRTqkuh2/

Then the faux drama machine kicks into gear: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRTq6vyX/

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRTq6Rwe/

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRTq9N7V/

andresmh,
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@drewww this is it. Tiktok is banned! 😆

jbigham, to random
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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

andresmh,
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@jbigham If I were in the US and about to go to college now, I would seriously consider going abroad.

I had an American friend in college who transferred to our school in Mexico. I thought it was a mistake. Everyone’s dream was to go to college in the US! But now, I think it was a smart choice.

He lived very comfortably in Mexico and even went to a study abroad program in France. He’s now an engineering manager at a FAANG in California.

andresmh,
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@jbigham that's the way to do it! Also, some of the Ivys are now free for families earning less than 100K, which is great. I wouldn't have been accepted since I didn't even speak English, but I would have definitely qualified.

andresmh, to earthquake
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An after shock at 6pm? 🤔

marielgm, to earthquake
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I will not say 'I told you so' but I will respectfully remark that now there's been an in NYC + MA, my demographic group (millennials studying computing in grad school in Cambridge) see the intrinsic value of birdsite today

andresmh,
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@marcua @marielgm good question. I could see the argument of being ok to do event detection relying on instance opt-in. In fact, I think the current "trending now" section does not even have any sort of opt-in.

Searching might be problematic, but event detection seems less so!

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