mdekstrand

mdekstrand, 28 days ago to random

If a blind student wants to do a CS undergrad specifically to work in assistive technology, what schools would be particularly good for that? (Feel free to boost for reach.)

mdekstrand, 2 months ago to random

"your algorithm can’t do anything that would be illegal if done by a real person" — I appreciate the FTC explicitly articulating this principle. https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2024/03/price-fixing-algorithm-still-price-fixing

mdekstrand, 8 months ago to random

@deilann tired: ACID compliance.

Wired: postgreSQUIRREL, the ADHD-compliant database. Forgets what it’s doing halfway through a transaction! Commits twice because it isn’t sure it did the first time! Replies to queries with paranthetical bonus content!

mdekstrand, 9 months ago to random

so ACM charges members $1300 for OA journal articles now?

mdekstrand, 9 months ago to random

Working w/ a student on prepping camera-ready for a new paper, so took the time to write down a checklist of a bunch of things to check in preparing a final manuscript: https://md.ekstrandom.net/blog/2023/08/final-paper-checklist

mdekstrand, 4 months ago to random

A few songs I learned will be 25 years old next year…

• I Want It That Way (Backstreet Boys)
• Higher (Creed)
• All Star (Smash Mouth)
• (You Drive Me) Crazy (Britney Spears)
• All The Small Things (Blink-182)
• Smooth (Santana)
• Learn to Fly (Foo Fighters)

mdekstrand, 5 months ago to random

This by @kissane is really good, and towards the end covers a solid non-religious argument grounded in demonstrable harms for second-degree defederation from Threads. https://erinkissane.com/untangling-threads

mdekstrand, 3 months ago to random

dear #hci #lazyweb: a lit review chase this week has had me trying to scare up a copy of Frayling's 1993 "Research in Art and Design" (Royal College of Art Research Papers v1n1), and it does not seem to be on the Internet. Worldcat shows one physical copy in Denmark?

Does anyone have a link (or a PDF) they could share w/ me? (feel free to reply by email) #icanhaspdf

mdekstrand, 4 months ago to random

as we see yet another Boeing safety alert, I keep thinking about the role of rendering antitrust law a dead letter.

Since we allowed Boeing to gobble up all their competitors, the US airliner industry consists of one firm. If they were competing with McDonnel-Douglas and Lockheed, suitably stiff penalties and compliance costs could be levied without upending the economics of an entire industry.

mdekstrand, 10 months ago to random

Welp. After 14 years, I no longer have a personal Twitter account.

mdekstrand, 4 months ago to random

Frodo: "It looks like a form of shell. I can't quite make it out."

Gandalf: "The tongue is that of Windows batch files, which I will not utter here."

mdekstrand, 4 months ago to random

New on my blog — a detailed writeup of my setup for Zoom calls, remote teaching, and video recording & production, along with recommendations at a variety of price points for improved quality. https://md.ekstrandom.net/blog/2024/01/zoom-lecture-studio

mdekstrand, 4 months ago to random

When I created my Data Science class, I wrote a guide to writing effective assignment solution notebooks in Jupyter. I've now revised it to be more course- and tech-independent and moved it to my website. https://md.ekstrandom.net/resources/writing-notebooks

mdekstrand, 4 months ago to random

Another #ECIR2024 preprint! Lex Beattie, Henriette Cramer, Sole Pera, and I map the space of goals and “intervention strategies” for consumer-side impacts of IR & #recsys (with application to other stakeholders too).

We argue that effective impact work needs to be well-grounded, contextualized in broad and creative thinking about possibilities, and use methods that are well-matched to the goals. TL;DR put down the regularizer and step away from the algorithm.

https://md.ekstrandom.net/pubs/ecir-impacts

mdekstrand, 10 months ago to random

On the enshittification of academic social media, by @thesiswhisperer — yeah. https://thesiswhisperer.com/2023/07/10/academicenshittification/

mdekstrand, 4 months ago to random

Looks like the NSF/Amazon Fair AI program didn't exist past 2022 — anyone know if that is correct, or whether there's a successor program?

mdekstrand, 2 months ago to random

On the downfall of civilization … https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/sorry-we-machines-destroyed-your-civilization-in-such-a-boring-way

mdekstrand, 1 month ago to random

Super excited to be co-teaching a tutorial at #RecSys2024 this year on doing experiments with POPROX, an #NSFFunded platform currently in development to support user-facing #recsys experiments. Come join us! https://recsys.acm.org/recsys24/tutorials/

mdekstrand, 3 months ago to random

This is depressing. https://housefresh.com/david-vs-digital-goliaths/

mdekstrand, 11 months ago to random

Anyone know why ACM is no longer a co-sponsor of WI-IAT? (It's now IEEE/WIC only instead of IEEE/WIC/ACM)

mdekstrand, 7 months ago to random

I took another swing at writing up my student recruiting page — wanted to highlight more directly why a student might want to work with me & what makes a good fit, with less “please don't do X or Y”. I'm recruiting for Fall 2024! https://md.ekstrandom.net/students/prospective

mdekstrand, 10 months ago to random

SMBC on metrics (and statistical tests). So so right. https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/metrics

mdekstrand, 7 months ago to random

BE/NL IR friends — the Dutch-Belgian IR workshop is next month, CFP now up: https://dir2023.github.io/DIR2023/

mdekstrand, 1 year ago to random

More details to come, but very excited to be organizing a CRAFT session at #FAccT2023 on theories of change in responsible AI with Alexandra Olteanu, Daricia Wilkinson, and @cyberlyra. Stay tuned!

mdekstrand, 9 months ago to random

This is a really good write up of the impact of conferences in Hawai’i. Goes beyond CHI — any conference leadership considering a proposal for a Hawaii event should read it. https://www.chiinhawaii.info/