Posts by patriciajhawkins@mastodon.art
(DIR) Post #ASAxtrpRb1IjKmhJLs by patriciajhawkins@mastodon.art
2023-01-30T17:37:06Z
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@simon Yeah -- It's the world's biggest, best supplied predictive text game.
(DIR) Post #ASAyawFJ36SJUBKfLs by patriciajhawkins@mastodon.art
2023-01-30T17:45:17Z
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@simon Research. It knows how to give properly referenced citations, so you ask it to write an article summarizing the research on the pros and cons of xyz topic, listing your concerns. And then you use that as a well-structured summary for digging into the articles -- and authors -- that it found. Maybe you should list it as a co-author? Or just mention using it as a research technique. Rather like using a reference librarian, though. Or an old-fashioned card-catalogue.
(DIR) Post #ASMMrjKdqe4z0ZmcEK by patriciajhawkins@mastodon.art
2023-02-04T22:42:27Z
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@mekkaokereke Couple of categories not in conviction statistics databases: Racial disparities in deals offered by plea bargains: https://eji.org/news/research-finds-racial-disparities-in-plea-deals/And convictions due to wrongful charges from police malfeasance. Which, when they lead to group exonerations, don't show up in "wrongful convictions databases" -- but which is typical of bogus charges in minority communities. https://www.criminallegalnews.org/news/2020/may/15/racism-and-wrongful-convictions/So our stats on exonerations are racially skewed -and also of those still wrongfully jailed.
(DIR) Post #ASMMrl7xAn7OZnrVjM by patriciajhawkins@mastodon.art
2023-02-04T22:56:19Z
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@mekkaokereke I see elsewhere you dealt w/ plea bargains. this stuff is SO endless.
(DIR) Post #ATKDhmGVehKrSgm0XY by patriciajhawkins@mastodon.art
2023-03-06T02:41:27Z
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@johnquiggin @drsylvainpronovost @emilymbender Tell 'em it's just predictive text on steroids. And it just finds the next most likely thing to say, with a little randomness thrown in for realism.Most people these days have played predictive text games, and get how bad it can be.
(DIR) Post #ATKSOLy6hVmZiKMTui by patriciajhawkins@mastodon.art
2023-03-06T02:43:12Z
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@johnquiggin @drsylvainpronovost @emilymbender If you want to teach somebody something, pick metaphors that are already part of their world.
(DIR) Post #ATYYnRwKxJibPaK4LQ by patriciajhawkins@mastodon.art
2023-03-11T23:02:09Z
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@delong @johnquiggin @drsylvainpronovost @emilymbender Always high-dimensional sparse regression? Well no; in the 1990s, it was fuzzy logic and object-oriented programming (and gullible investors) and before that it was govmn't grants and... oh wait, looky here! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_artificial_intelligenceAnyway, as you say (and IME) it's been a series of big gee-whiz publicity panics that settle down to just being normal niche computer programming techniques.
(DIR) Post #ATYYnSxRAiC0ZHqShM by patriciajhawkins@mastodon.art
2023-03-11T23:11:00Z
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@delong @johnquiggin @drsylvainpronovost @emilymbender Gullible deep pockets of one sort or another, yes. Though the computing techniques that have resulted are generally solid -- it's just that they're never in retrospect "AI." Or the huge breakthroughs that they're advertised to be.
(DIR) Post #ATpMto0qoDwXxn3bVI by patriciajhawkins@mastodon.art
2023-03-21T03:20:31Z
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@Tilopa Also the NYPD is a far bigger, nastier force than the Capitol Police; and reinforcements would show up no problem, when needed. He got 10,000 on Jan 6; only 2,000 went inside the capital building; a hell of a lot of those have been arrested and tried; some are doing time, some are on probation. So -- may get two, three thousand, *maybe*? NYPD will eat them for lunch. Squash 'em like cockroaches. Or at the very least, constrain them to permissible free speech activities.