Alka Tandan @reframerefine

Itinerant musings from a research professional. linkedin.com/in/atandan Vancouver, British Columbia Joined October 2007

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Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology

a year ago

One of the best papers out there on the problems with the "intelligence explosion," or "recursive self-improvement," or "Singularity" hypothesis, by @ReflectiveAlt. Highly recommended: philpapers.org/archive/THOATS…

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Prof. Katharine Hayhoe @KHayhoe

3 years ago

Here are the big takeaways from the @IPCC_CH Synthesis Report released today. First, climate change has already caused widespread and substantial losses to almost every aspect of human life on this planet, and the impacts on future generations depend on the choices we make NOW.

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Nicholas Guyatt @NicholasGuyatt

3 years ago

For those too young to have lived through what happened twenty years ago, a thread of self-styled left/liberal types endorsing the invasion of Iraq

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Matt Wolfe @mreflow

2 years ago

AI Video is getting more and more exciting. I'm hooked on playing with all of the latest tools available! Here's a good old fashioned thread with 9 AI tools that are currently available to generate videos (with examples). 🧵👇

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Ethan Mollick @emollick

3 years ago

Unintended consequences in even good policies: this paper finds car seat laws saved 57 kids in 2017… but also reduced births by 8,000 that year (& 145,000 since 1980!) as families held off having more than two kids as their cars couldn’t hold more seats! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

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Robert Bateman @RobertJBateman

3 years ago

Legitimate interests in the UK's new data protection bill❗ Legitimate interests got an overhaul in the original Data Protection and Digital Information Bill (DPIB) Yesterday's new bill also introduced some new legitimate interests provisions. A thread on how this all works.🧵

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Lighthouse Reports @LHreports

3 years ago

Algorithms are being used in welfare systems across Europe to hunt for fraud. These machines make life-changing decisions about millions of people. They claim to be accurate and fair. For the first time we got access to fully test these claims lighthousereports.com/investigation/…

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Alka Tandan @reframerefine

3 years ago

nice to see this conversation get a public stage in Vancouver...but doesn't UBC have any academics familiar with this literature...or was the moderator chosen as an 'every man' for the public lecture. Credit to @safiyanoble for gently addressing his questions.

UBC SPPGA @ubcSPPGA

3 years ago

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BLACK ARCHIVES @blackarchivesco

4 years ago

Footage of the Kannapolis, North Carolina community (circa 1941). Originally silent, this footage is a continuation of the film series highlighting the H. Lee Waters collection held at Duke University.

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Robert Bateman @RobertJBateman

3 years ago

There's a lot worth reading in the FB binding decision—probably the most succinct encapsulation of the EDPB's position is at the bottom of para 101 "The GDPR... treats personal data as a fundamental right... and not as a commodity data subjects can trade away through a contract"

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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1

3 years ago

Sunday Evening Coming Down: You don’t have to share the details of your distress (unless you want to) but how about sharing a song that has provided you with profound comfort in a moment you really needed it

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Barsee 🐶 @heyBarsee

3 years ago

10 insanely useful ChatGPT Chrome Extension you didn't know you were missing until now (all Free):

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@emilymbender.bsky.social @emilymbender

3 years ago

Q for those finding interest in playing with #ChatGPT: Why is this interesting to you? What's the value you find in reading synthetic text? What do you think it's helping you to learn about the world and what are you assuming about the tech to support that idea?

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Julian Gough @juliangough

3 years ago

Hmmm. I just had a bizarre experience, involving a global news organisation and a trillion dollar corporation. (I got caught in the middle, so... owch.) It’s not the sort of experience the people involved usually talk about in public… so I think I’ll talk about it in public. 🧵

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Lule @luledemmissie

5 years ago

@JohnHMcWhorter @JohnHMcWhorter I value the perspective you bring in many areas. You call anti-racism a religion & you make some good points. But you are also revealing yourself as a different sort of zealot in your singular quest to prove it wrong. More nuance & less zero-sum arguments please🙏🏾

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Rob Morris @RobertRMorris

3 years ago

We provided mental health support to about 4,000 people — using GPT-3. Here’s what happened 👇

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Nader R Hasan @Nader_Hasan_law

3 years ago

I think that the Wagner Court of 2022 may be the least friendly to Charter rights of any @SCC_eng in the post-1982 Charter era — at least in the criminal context. 1/

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Alka Tandan @reframerefine

3 years ago

Still relevant "...come at this from the perspective of where good intentions might go awry, especially in a moment in which narrow versions of media literacy and critical thinking are being proposed as the solution to major socio-cultural issues." points.datasociety.net/you-think-you-…