Applied Scientist @Microsoft; Prev Responsible AI @AWS. I love to laugh, especially at myself.
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If they pulled this off well โฆ this will be a game changer for collaborations
Donโt code alone. Slack Code is live.
Humans and agents. Same channel. Same work.
Launching today with agents from @AnthropicAI, @github, @Cognition, and @vercel. This is real multiplayer coding. See it at @Dreamforce #DF26
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This is such a disaster. A CS PhD takes on average 5โ6 years. So, my international students will fall out of status before finishing their research program. Disaster.
The Trump administration will limit how long a foreign student can remain in the U.S. on a student visa under a new regulation announced on Thursday, increasing the hurdles for foreign students and universitiesโ ability to recruit them.
Read more: wsj.visitlink.me/fpk5vv
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Learning to Move Like Professional Counter-Strike Players
discuss: huggingface.co/papers/2408.1โฆ
David Durst (the first author) plays with and against MLMove bots. The video is from David's perspective. The MLMove bots synchronize their attack so two of them fight David at the same time.
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Publicly shaming an Ivy league school for claiming credit for the success of a women scientist whose work it disrespected and rejected is one of the best uses of community notes Iโve ever seen.
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!Alert Carolina!
Emergency: Armed, dangerous person on or near campus. Go inside now; avoid windows. alertcarolina.unc.edu
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This is not sad, this is a warning. A company did everything (mostly) right: created a vitally useful free service, worked hard to keep it healthy, shared data for research. Then another company swooped the data and made it compete against itself.
What the actual F
Five Democrats have lined up for HD.3822, a bill in the MA House to allow the state to harvest spare organs and bone marrow for as little as 60 days off a prison sentence โ a policy that would disproportionately impact people of color already overrepresented in prisons. #mapoli
ALT Meet the Massachusetts lawmakers behind the prisoner bone marrow and organ harvesting bill. Filed by Representatives Carlos Gonzรกlez (Democrat from Springfield) and Judith Garcรญa (Democrat from Chelsea). Cosponsored by Representatives Shirley Arriaga (Democrat from Chicopee), Bud Williams (Democrat from Springfield), and Russell Holmes (Democrat from Boston)
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Here's what out-of-control bureaucracy looks like. The Green card application today (all those pages on the left) v. 2003 (those 4 pages on the right). Understand this: We got no new laws during this time. We just got new bureaucrats cato.org/blog/uscis-has-addeโฆ
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Learn about "The Effects of System Initiative during Conversational Collaborative Search," by @lolthyself , @BogeumChoi , Jaime Arguello, an Honorable Mention from CSCW '22: Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing: bit.ly/3FepAvT #ACM #computing
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Appasaheb Pawar died yesterday. You are not likely to know him.
But you should.
He had been fighting for his land rights in Maharashtra's Beed district for about 10 years.
He knocked on all concerned doors. Wrote multiple letters to multiple authorities.
This is his story:-
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Let us introduce t/ other newly introduced recognition type,๐ ๐ฒ๐๐ต๐ผ๐ฑ๐ ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ผ๐ด๐ป๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป๐ - awarded for strong examples of work that includes well developed, explained, or implemented methods, n/or methodological innovation,
This award goes to..
Congratulations authors!
Excited that our work on Mixed-Initiative Interactions to support Collaborative Search has received two recognitions at #CSCW2022: Honorable Mention and a Methods Recognition!!! Very happy with this recognition for my dissertation research :) arxiv.org/pdf/2202.09728.pdf
๐๐ฒ๐ ๐๐ ๐ฐ๐ผ๐ป๐ด๐ฟ๐ฎ๐๐๐น๐ฎ๐๐ฒ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐๐๐ต๐ผ๐ฟ๐ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐๐ฒ ๐ต ๐ฝ๐ฎ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ ๐๐ต๐ถ๐น๐ฒ ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ป๐ธ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ฎ๐น๐น ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐๐ ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐๐ถ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฑ๐ ๐๐ผ๐บ๐บ๐ถ๐๐๐ฒ๐ฒ ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ถ๐ฟ ๐๐ฎ๐น๐๐ฎ๐ฏ๐น๐ฒ ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ธ.
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Just a quick reminder that you can win a Nobel with an h-index = 29 (according to the usually inflated google scholar). Quantitative measures of scientific output are not the way to go to a bright future for humanity.
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We systematically studied the #BoycottBollywood activity on social media with attention to drivers and network characteristics.
TL;DR:
1 Ideated by key RW influencers
2 Trended by Sushant Singh Rajput fans
3 Presents South film industry as morally superior
Thread / full paper
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CHIIR 2023 will be in Austin TX USA 19-23 March 2023 Co-chaired @jaceksg @riehsooyoung Hosted at @UTAustin @UTiSchool Dates Oct 5 abstracts, 12th full, perspective papers, workshops, tutorials, 26th short papers, demos, DC papers #CHIIR2023 @ACMSIGIR @IXlab_UT #inperson #remote
