Andrew Mitchell

Our latest article and the capstone paper from @soundscape_SSID! We've spent 6 years working towards creating useful single-value indices of soundscape quality. Here we present SPI, our method for defining perception-focussed, context dependent Soundscape Perception Indices!

Radar graphs are among the worst ideas in data visualization. The whole point of them is to show the area and you can usually reorder the labels freely in order to create a desired dramatic effect. Two versions of the same graph: - left one tells the story that AI is rapidly replacing whole industries - right one shows the "jaggedness" and reinforces the idea that humans will always have something that AI won't be able to replicate

@TMoldwin @burkov And before that it was expert systems and automation. All of these were forms of AI and we just progressively restrict and redefine the current zeitgeist of what people mean when they say AI.

@TMoldwin @burkov But that doesn't mean it wasn't AI. The problem is we associate AI with whatever the current method or hype is. Right now that's LLMs. A decade ago it meant computer vision, before that it was network analysis and recommenders, before that handwriting recognition and chess.

I remember the times when, to be considered an expert in AI worth listening to, you would at least have read this book *at least* once. Now every clown with internet access who asked ChatGPT to generate some Python code and managed to run it thinks of themselves as an AI expert and shares their wisdom with humanity.

@SPathak1851881 @phreespeech @LotusEater29 @CarrieT12235597 @TurningPointOU Apparently this is the article they're responding to psycnet.apa.org/record/2014-01… Yeah, for sure a 0 for that section of the rubric. There's absolutely no evidence the student read beyond the 1st sentence of the abstract.

@SPathak1851881 @phreespeech @LotusEater29 @CarrieT12235597 @TurningPointOU Depends what kind of article, I think. If they're responding to an academic article, then no it's a 0. There's absolutely no reaction to the content, results, or arguments of the article. If it was like a news or opinion piece, then maybe 1/5.

For a psychology course at the University Oklahoma, Samantha Fulnecky was asked to write a 650-word essay reacting to an article about how people are perceived based on societal expectations of gender. In her essay, Fulnecky argued that traditional gender roles should not be considered stereotypes. She cited the Bible to support her stance that eliminating gender in society would be "detrimental" because that would put people "farther from God's original plan for humans." She received zero points out of 25 on the essay. Transgender professor, Mel Curtis, said Ms. Fulnecky, failed to use empirical evidence/and called parts of her essay offensive. "To call an entire group of people 'demonic' is highly offensive, especially a minoritized population," the instructor wrote in the online grading platform. Fulnecky says she followed the assignment guidelines and should not be penalized for her religious viewpoints. OU officials point to the formal grade-appeal process as the student awaits a decision. We at Turning Point OU stand with Samantha. We should not be letting mentally ill professors around students. Clearly this professor lacks the intellectual maturity to set her own bias aside and take grading seriously. Professors like this are the very reason conservatives can't voice their beliefs in the classroom. Kuddos to Samantha for leading by example and standing up for what she believes in. @UofOklahoma , do better! #universityofoklahoma #trans #woke @ou_president @uofoklahoma @TPUSA @GovStitt @theoudaily @ounightly @SenadorJett @senmullin

@JeremiahRabitor @ms_frazzled Autocorrecting "engineers" to "assholes" is a crazy bug, you should report that.

@ms_frazzled Assholes are necessary to civilization. Somebody has to build things.

@MagnesNitratr @nikicaga I'm literally saying to put their skin in the game. Their value is not fully compensated if the company is that profitable and their income does not give them the ability to buy in. That shortfall should be addressed with shares of the company commensurate with the value they add

@AcousticsMan @nikicaga Risk in lost capital. You want to own the means of production? Buy your way in like everyone else. You want a stable paycheck? Get a job working for someone who has already shouldered that risk. Yall want all the benefits without any skin in the game.

Lmao, what's wrong with simply believing in a tax system that wouldn't allow so much wealth accumulation

@MagnesNitratr @nikicaga And I was just responding to your statement that they are compensated according to the surplus value of their labour. Is that irrelevant now? x.com/MagnesNitratr/…

@AcousticsMan @nikicaga In practice, they are able to negotiate what the free market dictates their labor is worth. That figure changes depending on the scarcity and demand of their abilities. The value added is irrelevant, because they are not entitled to it without also accepting the risk inherent.

@MagnesNitratr @nikicaga In practice they are able to get what they can negotiate and what the person with the power is willing to part with. In principle, their value is what they contribute to the growth of the company, regardless of their success in salary negotiations. These are often not equivalent.

@AcousticsMan @nikicaga They deserve what they agreed to exchange their time for when wages were negotiated at hiring. If that math changes they’re free to renegotiate or walk away at any time with or without notice. Yall are absurd.

@MagnesNitratr @nikicaga If the company is making that much profit, I'd argue the value they're creating is more than the income they've been allotted, within the context of that company. They deserve a share of it.

@AcousticsMan @nikicaga When I hire someone they exchange the surplus value of their labor for a stable, reliable, *no risk* income. They aren’t entitled to or deserving of anything else.

@markdanehy @nikicaga Honest question, isn't there such a thing as non voting shares? The expectation could be that the other people involved in making the company successful have a right to the capital, without necessarily ceding control.

@nikicaga 🧵 3/X Will you confiscate part of my ownership to maintain that limit? Tax me (remember, this is not money or earnings. It is the value assessed by others willing to buy my stock, or some other valuation of my business) - thus forcing me to sell a portion to pay the tax?

@MagnesNitratr @nikicaga You didn't build that company alone. Once other people got involved, they should share in the wealth generated by the success of their company. Altogether the company might be 10-20 mil but it should be owned in part by all the people making it successful, not just a few.

@nikicaga Cool, so if I build a company from the ground up once it’s worth 10-20m I have to start selling chunks of it until I’m no longer in control? I don’t think you realize how quickly net worth can reach that level. All those same economists who told you tariffs were bad also 1/2

We need a new Marshall Plan for shipping air conditioning units to Europe

@BritDaddySays Not entirely sure, they're both Bachelor of Science. In some cases it's just different traditions for the same thing - even within the UK, you get most unis referring to them as PhD whereas Cambridge awards a DPhil. Still the same degree, just a different acronym.

@AcousticsMan why do they say BSc and not BS in the UK?

The UK's system already is an effective lifelong grad tax for many. But only the ones who go into low to mid paid fields (as they should and this includes engineers, drs, etc) pay and never catch up to the interest. Make it fair across the board - every grad pays the same tax.

All of society benefits when barriers to education are lowered and grads benefit with better jobs and higher pay. So remove the "can I afford it, will I ever pay off my loans" question and also make sure it's not only poorer students who have to pay the rest of their lives.

I really think the UK should realise its loan system is already a graduate tax. Only, it's a grad tax only for people w/o rich parents or who don't go into finance.