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avandeursen, 9 days ago to random

NYT: “Automakers generally retain a car’s location information for years — as long as 15 years in the case of Hyundai. “

“Of the 45 location data requests that Hyundai received in the past two years from the police, slightly more than half involved stolen vehicles”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/30/technology/regulators-investigate-carmakers-driver-tracking.html?unlocked_article_code=1.oU0.A-1-.hVZnRK6858bW&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

avandeursen, 11 days ago to python

From HN: Google laid off its “Python Foundations” team. Responsible for internal Python tooling and migrations, and contributing to the external Python ecosystem. Fascinating discussion on HN as well. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40171125

#python #google #hackernews

cfiesler, 1 month ago to random

In anticipation of the imminent end of my sabbatical (and not much travel this month), April is going to be a content creation push for me. Any suggestions for topics? This will mostly be short form video (Instagram/TikTok) though I might be persuaded to a blog post or two. But I think my question for you is: What do you think people need to know? About AI or other tech ethics, IP law, internet stuff, HCI, women in computing, academia... etc.? I know some of you might have good ideas. :)

rafa_font, 1 month ago to random

Dear Mastodonians,

Could you please recommend European scientists that are researching the environmental impacts of datacenters and/or AI?

I've suggested in my workplace to assess the environmental footprint of our IT infrastructure, which is mostly cloud-based and uses gradually AI.

The Staff Committee might invite experts in the field to gather more information.

Thanks!

#greenIT

avandeursen, 2 months ago to Bulgaria

"To keep pace, an essential step is to modernise the long-term EU budget and to double the spending for research and innovation" -- Statement by the ERC Scientific Council on the next EU framework programme for research and innovation (FP10).

Yes, that is correct -- double (!) EU spending for research and innovation.

https://erc.europa.eu/news-events/news/statement-erc-scientific-council-next-eu-FP

#erc #fp10 #eu

avandeursen, 2 months ago to random

Our #AAAI24 poster today is about turning gold into blue and changing a 3 into a 5, all with the help of the energy that trained models happen to collect anyway. ECCCos FTW! (Poster nr 514)

@patalt has a great blog post explaining it all, with amazing pictures that are also on the poster: https://www.paltmeyer.com/blog/posts/eccco/

ECCCo using energy to move to the center of the blue swarm
Turning factual 3 into counterfactual 5 that indeed looks like a 5, using ECCCo
Turning a 3 into a 5, which however still looks like a 3

avandeursen, 2 months ago to Ukraine

Bumped into a demonstration in Vancouver to support #Ukraine, so I decided to join. 🇺🇦

People demonstrating to support Ukraine at the Jack Poole Plaza in Vancouver, Canada

avandeursen, 2 months ago to random

V-JEPA: The next step toward Yann LeCun’s vision of advanced machine intelligence (AMI) — https://ai.meta.com/blog/v-jepa-yann-lecun-ai-model-video-joint-embedding-predictive-architecture/

#AAAI24

avandeursen, 2 months ago to random

Yann LeCun has some recommendations in his #AAAI24 keynote:

• Abandon generative models in favor joint-embedding architectures
• Abandon probabilistic model in favor of energy-based models
• Abandon contrastive methods in favor of regularized methods
• Abandon Reinforcement Learning in favor of model-predictive control; Use RI only when planning doesn't yield the predicted outcome, to adjust the world model or the critic

avandeursen, 2 months ago to random

At the opening event of #AAAI24, the 38th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, in Vancouver.

The scale of this AI conference is quite different from what I'm used to in software engineering. 2,400 accepted papers (out of 10,000 submissions), all presented as posters in three nights with 800 posters each, and a subset of 240 papers presented in "orals". And 5,000 participants.

Getting ready for being completely overwhelmed.

https://aaai.org/aaai-conference/

avandeursen, 3 months ago to random

RIP Dries van Agt, Dutch minister of Justice (1971-1977) and prime minister (1977-1982) for the Christian democrats. He later voted the green party, claiming it wasn’t him who had changed, but his own party which had become less progressive.

After a visit to the West Bank in 1999, Van Agt became a prominent advocate of Palestinian rights: “Then I saw the many unholy things happening in the Holy Land.”

https://rightsforum.org/memoriam/dries-van-agt/

#vanagt #driesvanagt #rightsforum

avandeursen, 3 months ago to academicchatter

If you’re considering writing an ERC personal grant proposal, you may find these bits of advice helpful: https://enspire.science/category/erc-posts/

#erc @academicchatter #ercgrant

avandeursen, 3 months ago to random

Interested to lead and organize the 50th edition of ICSE, the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering, in 2028 in North America? Make a bid!! See the @SIGSOFT blog for more details! Letter-of-Interest due by March 1st, 2024!

https://sigsoft.medium.com/call-for-hosting-icse-2028-in-north-america-4af4753a6b1c

avandeursen, 4 months ago to mastodon

Decided to not be annoyed by, but to embrace the fact that Mastodon doesn't try to list all replies or the exact number of boosts and likes of posts from other servers.

They're a selection that reflects the interests on my local server. If I need see the exact answers and numbers, I can just copy the URL of the post, and open it in a separate browser tab.

#mastodon #MastodonTips

avandeursen, 4 months ago to webdev

Fantastic post on (levels of maturity) in managing performance, by @slightlyoff

> Teams that reach top-level performance have management support at the highest level. Those managers assume engineers want to do a good job but have the wrong incentives and constraints, and it isn't the line engineer's job to define success — it's the job of management.

https://infrequently.org/2022/05/performance-management-maturity/

#webapps #webdev #performance #TechnicalLeadership

avandeursen, 4 months ago to webdev

“Making the world’s fastest website, and other mistakes”

> To prove we weren’t wasting everyone’s time, we used Web Performance Optimization Stats and internal data to calculate that each kB of client-side JavaScript cost us ≈$100,000 per year, and every millisecond until Time to Interactive at least $40,000.

Brilliant five part blog post on web app performance by @tigt

https://dev.to/tigt/making-the-worlds-fastest-website-and-other-mistakes-56na

#webdev #javascript

avandeursen, 4 months ago to random

New York Times sues OpenAI and Microsoft over A.I.’s use of copyrighted work.

> Millions of articles from The New York Times were used to train chatbots that now compete with it, the lawsuit said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/27/business/media/new-york-times-open-ai-microsoft-lawsuit.html?unlocked_article_code=1.JE0.ycSr.rW39ZJaSxAHL&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

grimalkina, 4 months ago to random

To revive (jk it's never gone just buried under administrivia and the weight of healing from general occupational hazards like researcher harassment) my love for science, I've been rereading the early and famous papers that helped us understand that smoking causes lung cancer. Famous beautiful examples of causal reasoning and difficult to remember how HARD IT WAS to tell this story back then. Profoundly poignant to see people use the weapons of evidence reasoning to create real health change.

avandeursen, 4 months ago to random

Very interesting long read on “value capture” — when measurements like grades, citation counts, or step counts take over the true values (learning, writing, health) you actually care about. Also related to “stop the numbers game” by David Parnas (“Counting papers slows the rate of scientific progress”).

https://philarchive.org/rec/NGUVCH
https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=a185c913482fc0d0e42291bec4748e24438c130b

Via @smallcircles, @aredridel
#ErkennenWaarderen #RecognitionRewards

grimalkina, 4 months ago to random

I guess I'm back here specifically only for the use case of people tagging me to talk about research I love :)

avandeursen, 5 months ago to random

Today at #esecfse23: Elvan Kula presenting our work on delay prediction of epics in large scale agile development. We learn “delay patterns” from historic delay data of over 4000 epics at ING Bank. We then use these patterns to predict delay with increasing precision as the epic unfolds.

https://2023.esec-fse.org/details/fse-2023-research-papers/87/Dynamic-Prediction-of-Delays-in-Software-Projects-Using-Delay-Patterns-and-Bayesian-M

#agile #delayPrediction

avandeursen, 6 months ago to random

Pretty alarming NYT article on GM’s Cruise self-driving cars. Insufficiently prioritizing safety, despite requiring that

> “vehicles were supported by a vast operations staff, with 1.5 workers per vehicle. The workers intervened to assist the company’s vehicles every 2.5 to five miles”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/03/technology/cruise-general-motors-self-driving-cars.html

gvwilson, 6 months ago to random

Heaven and Dirty Dishes: https://third-bit.com/2023/10/21/heaven-and-dirty-dishes/