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vrandecic

@vrandecic@mas.to

Husband. Dad. Cat housemate. PhD. Works on Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions at Wikimedia Foundation. Wikidata founder. Previously: ontologist at Google, Wikimedia Trustee, and RPG author. Berkeley, CA, roots in Braฤ, Croatia, grew up in Germany. he/him. Views my own.

Posting cat pics and occasionally other stuff.

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vrandecic, to random
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I seriously believe that one of the best things Google could do for the Web ecosystem is to bring back Google Reader.

vrandecic,
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@jebba no

mekkaokereke, to random
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Fantastic accomplishment!โ™ฅ๏ธ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿฟ

https://19thnews.org/2023/07/chanda-prescod-weinstein-physicist-tenure-rare-feat/

And when she tried to join the Fediverse, she was greeted with a barrage of hate, sexism, racism, and anti-semitism that should have never been allowed to happen.

So now no one on Fediverse gets to interact with her directly about her work on here. Our loss. ๐Ÿ˜ข

Which is why we'll make it so that this type of terrible welcome is unlikely to happen again. Allowing it to happen to her was a choice. We will make better ones.

vrandecic,
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@juergen_hubert @mekkaokereke @tlitf @orionkidder as a Croatian who benefited from the German university system, the same

vrandecic, to random
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Would you like to work with me at the Wikimedia Foundation? We are looking for a Software Engineer to work on Wikifunctions and Abstract Wikipedia. Share with folks who could be interested!

https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/5191315

vrandecic, to random
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I don't agree with everything in this comic, but I sure learned a lot.

https://thenib.com/im-a-luddite/

vrandecic,
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@jonny I really like some of the ideas in your writing, but I'm often struggling with accessing the text and really understanding it. I'll try to read the paper you linked. I really want to understand it.

vrandecic, to random
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The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Research Manager! Work with a brilliant team of researchers in a transparent organisation and with worldwide collaborations.

Share wide, share often.

https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/5143645

vrandecic, to random
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Not only did the seven hottest days in the history of humanity happen this month, this chart is the scariest thing I've seen this year.

vrandecic, to Wikipedia
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A well researched, deep article by the New York Times about and . I'm very much impressed by the story.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/18/magazine/wikipedia-ai-chatgpt.html?unlocked_article_code=ssB7mfkqB0t51GefJ1j3pbs6rMjXwlIEipTg6nv2Z1AH43qBXw-qmeYa4A_5qYtu01NxXYiPX84zxivjzivtNZO2InIB1-sIXnsUN2Q-iVuKsRqO8MZxYew21O5aLDny_hMF6crFjuIvNcsSJKn13KeZu7CUzYhvYnojK5x_zLcaGhtarxsaHtdcG9vzYQTFU-GUUg68I-_D1saYoS6V2KLlWIPrnw0IEZiFyvWNIzRKyK2UjYmOd6q50jqQ6EcB2UBIRNfVLpuyHsaQ6PXc19cd0impVQ8C9AlyrUkZUvfq7GGh2u1Mm_D41N3Lk5_bNXJp9zOPDXXaihtMIPzu&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

vrandecic, to random
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Wikimedia's CTO @selenadeckelmann with a thoughtful article on Wikipedia and generative AI such as LLMs

https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2023/07/12/wikipedias-value-in-the-age-of-generative-ai/

vrandecic, to Cat
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It's Saturday. I wanna stay in bed!

vrandecic, to random
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Great progress on deciphering the so far undecipherable central Asian Kushan script

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-968X.12269

vrandecic, to Cat
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Peek-a-boo

brainwane, to Jokes
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Some , when I make them up, feel more like I've discovered them, revealed them, like stumbling over a partially-unearthed fossil and picking it out.

Like, the is so inevitable, so elegantly prefigured in the pre-existing setup, "hiding in plain sight," that once I've said it, I can hardly believe I'm the first.

I request that you reply to this post with a you came up with that you feel like you discovered.

(I wonder what patterns we'll find. Lots of puns? Reversals?)

vrandecic,
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@brainwane not one I discovered, but that very much feels discovered:

Why do geeks sometimes mix up Halloween and Christmas?

Because DEC25 = OCT31

I'm sure there's a nearby yet unmined joke involving Tim Burton's Nightmare before Christmas

vrandecic,
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@brainwane I would be surprised if not. To me it feels like it fits your description of a discovered joke well.

luis_in_brief, to random
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๐Ÿคฏ found in the back of an Oxford University Press book I ordered from Amazon on June 8, 2023:

vrandecic,
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@luis_in_brief print on demand I assume

vrandecic,
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@luis_in_brief quite a bit, I assume. In the last few years, most of the new books I ordered seemed to be print on demand (minus three books that are popular).

How was the prize?

vrandecic, to Cat
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Ciao Bella

vrandecic, to Russia
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I unexpectedly find Mastodon far superior to Twitter to keep up on the situation

jeffjarvis, to random
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Prigozhin v. Putin :: DeSantis v. Trump.
There is no one to root for.

vrandecic,
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@jeffjarvis I root for the v.

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So far I am totally impressed with โ€˜s ability to relay real time news on events. I checked the bird site as a comparison, and itโ€™s miles behind because they donโ€™t display posts chronologically and boost subscriber posts, which tend to be old. Yay !

vrandecic,
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@timbray @krst

I found @kevinrothrock pretty good so far, but I can't vouch for that account in any meaningful way

vrandecic, to animals
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Sir Timothy found a new spot on top of the fridge

vrandecic, to random
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The pressure when you use your time-based authenticator app, trying to type those six digits in before the time runs out...

vrandecic,
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@shreyan no no, sometimes you open the app and the timer is like three quarters down...

vrandecic, to random
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The story of the Red Delicious apple should be a lesson about trusting the market. Yes, eventually the market would correct, but with a lot of pain.

Red Delicious was for years selected for storage and looks, neglecting taste. Eventually consumers noticed, and stopped buying, but apple orchards take years to be replaced. In the late 90s the industry lost more than $700 million and Clinton bailed them out.

The belief in the invisible hand needs to be moderated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Delicious#History

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