Posts by adredish@neuromatch.social
(DIR) Post #ARE0kpEYBPJBF3wGrg by adredish@neuromatch.social
2023-01-02T00:52:58Z
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Coming over to join the conversation here. I'm a poet, playwright, and scientist, studying the neuroscience of decision-making. Currently also very fascinated by impacts of those processes beyond the neuroscience itself, in fields such as psychiatry, economics, etc (For example, I have a new book on morality.)
(DIR) Post #AhU41H5RfHuv7yyJpQ by adredish@neuromatch.social
2024-05-02T12:33:54Z
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I don't normally post political things on social media, but there is so much discussion of negative interactions and I want to show an example of a positive solution.The University of Minnesota has reached a negotiated agreemennt with campus protesters through mutually respectful dialog with the protest leaders. The deal apparently includes agreements about opportunities to communicate divestment plans to the regents, discussions of ways to provide opportunities for advocacy to other students without limiting other students' individual opportunities, discussions to look into collaboration with Palestinian universities and an examination of current cross-university agreements, fully disclosing university expenditures, as well as amnesty and leniency. The protesters have agreed to remove the encampment and to not disrupt commencement ceremonies or finals. University regents and the university police have both agreed to abide by the agreement as well.Now let's see how much the media report this as compared to the negative interactions at other schools.https://z.umn.edu/05012024message
(DIR) Post #Aiz6j4u83rgrjorGds by adredish@neuromatch.social
2024-06-16T12:07:43Z
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@Wolven @inthehands Be careful using generative "AI" to spitball and vomit draft initial versions. The danger is that many of the biases and falsehoods will be baked in to that initial draft. Yes, it is possible to correct them, but it can also be hard to see them in that initial text. Like all the people arguing that fixing coding bugs is harder than generating good code in the first place, it is often hard to see implicit biases hidden in text.What I have seen work is to write the initial text yourself and then ask generative "AI" to do something to the text, which gives you a new perspective. This is analogous to the classic poetry writing technique of inverting every word in a poem, then taking both together and seeing what you make of the combination.(Of course, the concerns about environmental costs and stolen corpora still hold.)
(DIR) Post #AjHkxRcs31FMCWWyhc by adredish@neuromatch.social
2024-06-25T11:54:54Z
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Um... what is going on on Mastodon? A bunch of ads from some user I don't follow just showed up on my home feed.#Mastodon
(DIR) Post #Ao0mrfClxAf4K1ML5M by adredish@neuromatch.social
2024-11-13T13:59:59Z
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@jonny @tdverstynen Wait! So now we are doing retractions based on corporate overreach? And not scientific merit? This raises a very interesting question of what is the goal of the scientific literature.
(DIR) Post #AoLRLMzE8ULvpkwSLA by adredish@neuromatch.social
2024-11-23T20:03:04Z
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@futurebird @albertcardona Not sure, but does this help?https://tauday.com/tau-manifesto
(DIR) Post #AoZQBlwCRrtoO4a0WW by adredish@neuromatch.social
2024-11-30T13:55:52Z
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@stux @inthehands Why are we surprised? I do a review before my exams where I spend the class session at the whiteboard and answer any question the students put forward. Very often, someone asks at least one of the exam questions. (They don't know what's specifically on the exam, but it's "class material", so they should be asking related questions.) One year, the entire exam got asked as questions in the review.When I first did these reviews, I was hesitant to answer the specific exam question, but then I found out that it didn't matter. It didn't matter if I answered the question completely, with all the relevant details, point by point --- the same number of students did well and the same number did poorly.(My exams are open book, open note, and open video-recorded lecture. Still a third of the students do poorly on the exams. It appears getting the good grade in the class is more related to paying attention and doing the work vs trying to BS your way through.*)* I know that it is about attention vs winging it, because every year at least one student fails the first exam, comes to office hours in deep concern, and, after being told to move to the front of the class, do the homework, ask questions, and participate, ends up with a good grade.PS. I grade exams anonymously, so I know that this is not due to me knowing which student is which.
(DIR) Post #B28sHNffQd6Zjs5u7M by adredish@neuromatch.social
2026-01-10T12:43:02Z
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@futurebird I can't be google Free My entire university infrastructure is based on google workspace. And, yes, when I asked the lawyers (OGC = Office of General Counsel) about a decade ago about this, they acknowledged that this meant google could do stuff with the data (translation and the like). Presumably, this now includes AI (although I haven't asked).I never did find out whether they have sanctions in place to prevent google from using PHI (private health information) in the medical school files (which are also all google infrastructure. Or, more importantly, whether those sanctions actually work.