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Professor of Digital and Computational Studies Eric Chown recently joined other experts to discuss the ethical challenges that come with using Artificial intelligence (AI). Read more about it here! bit.ly/44c1XP0
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Eric Chown
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Eric Chown
@EricChown55
The Sarah and James Bowdoin Professor of Digital and Computational Studies at Bowdoin College.
Maine, USA Katılım Mart 2016
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@benedictevans TV and newspapers couldn't monitor you as you interacted with them, nor could they use AI to learn the things that you specifically pay more attention to.
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@Lever_Press @flnasc Thank you so much! It has been a real pleasure working with Lever.
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"Meaningful Technologies" focuses on the feedback loop between digital metaphors and technology: its meaning, how it changes over time, and how it impacts learning and attention. It's now available and completely free to read, here: doi.org/10.3998/mpub.1… #OpenAccess
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Our new book is out: Meaningful Technology: How Digital Metaphors Change the Way We Think and Live.
fulcrum.org/concern/monogr…
@BowdoinCollege
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@BowdoinCollege Fernando and I can’t wait for this to come out.
Lever Press@Lever_Press
New year, new books! We're so excited about this first publication of 2023: "Meaningful Technologies: How Digital Metaphors Change the Way We Think and Live" by @EricChown55 and Fernando Nascimento. Available in print and #OpenAccess later this month!
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Eric Chown retweetledi
New year, new books! We're so excited about this first publication of 2023: "Meaningful Technologies: How Digital Metaphors Change the Way We Think and Live" by @EricChown55 and Fernando Nascimento. Available in print and #OpenAccess later this month!
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@science_gamer @ZachWeiner Yes, exactly - that’s how you would test it.
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@EricChown55 @ZachWeiner *IF* pi is normal.
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Quick, reframe the question of whether pi is normal in terms of Waldos
Graham Sutherland (Polynomial^DSS) ➡️ chaos.social@gsuberland
@ZachWeiner I can confidently say that Waldo does not directly appear in the first hundred billion binary bits of pi, based on a variety of 1bpp bitmaps (down to an 18x24 of his face), formats, orientations, and a generous ~25% levenshtein distance tolerance.
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@JuddLegum “Algorithms are opinions embedded in code” - Cathy O’Neill
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It's important to remember that algorithms are created by PEOPLE. The impact of algorithms reflects the decisions made by those PEOPLE. There is nothing natural about this. It's something Facebook is actively choosing to do.
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Facebook has created an alternative universe (a metaverse, if you will) where right-wing propaganda from Breitbart is more popular than the New York Times and right-wing propaganda from the Daily Wire is 3x more popular than the New York Times.
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@EricChown55 @BowdoinCollege Thank you, Eric! It was so good to meet you (albeit virtually) during my campus interview! Would be great to connect!
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I'm so excited to share that I've just accepted an offer for a tenure-track position at @BowdoinCollege as Assistant Professor of Chemistry!
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@scottmccloud Once upon a time I wrote a chapter for a book on the relationship of spatial processing and linguistics on that very topic.
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@jkottke I had the exact same reaction, except I stopped after 2. I did watch the last 15 minutes of the finale though, just to see who was in the box.
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Even after 2.5 episodes, I could not get into The White Lotus – was bored, irritated, reminded unfavorably of Twitter. What am I missing?
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@DamonRutherford @JPosnanski To get genius you need to get about 2/3s of the possible points. So if you look at the points for genius you can get a good estimate. Today the total should be around 150 points.
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@JPosnanski Is there a way to see how many words you still need to find? I feel like I'm close to finding them all!
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@josephinewrites Putting things in your contacts should work. Some people do it so their swear words aren’t autocorrected.
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To the spell-check gods: can we please find a way to not *constantly* autocorrect every non-Anglo name I type in my emails? I hate that Mai gets corrected to Mia, Saya to Says, etc... maybe there's an option I can choose in my Gmail settings? Like don't correct capitalized words?
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@zeynep Some colleagues and I in Digital and Computational Studies at Bowdoin have a paper coming out soon that is closely related to this concept. Since everything we do involves interdisciplinary work we are developing a framework on how to do it.
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On the serious side, a bunch of what I've done is genuinely lane-crossing, and I've mostly done it in order to facilitate the interdisciplinary, synthetic analyses we do need. There's a genuine question there on how to do this well in general, and the dangers (which are real).
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The cat is out of the bag, folks! I knew this day would come, when I'd be outed.😁 And in a piece where I talk about sociological aspects of mask mandates, too. Cruel irony after more than a year of pandemic writing.
(FWIW, Dr. for PhDs is NYT convention, not about me).
Ross Garber@rossgarber
Today the @nytimes published a piece on a medical issue by someone named Zeynep Tufekci. The NYT refers to her as “Dr. Tufekci” and describes her as a professor. A reader might reasonably infer she is a physician and a professor of medicine. She is a sociologist.
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@jkottke Maine started yesterday! My daughter gets her first shot tomorrow.
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FYI, after today’s CDC approval, CVS has opened Covid-19 vaccination appointments for ages 12-15 in some states already. cvs.com/immunizations/…
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