Hello #fediverse,
I have a question. Because everyone is integrating these stupid chatbots for "summaries", I am very skeptical of having my work circulating, even just internally within the university cohort, because I don't want my stuff to be fed to LLMs.
Is there a way to export these files in a was that when people feeds them to their "assistants" the assistants' dataset gets "poisoned" and can scrap it properly?

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Currently teaching lm/glm.

Does anyone know a real life (publicly available) dataset for which the fitted value vs residuals plot would look like this? (quantitative response y; as many predictors as you want, here it was generated with a single one but if there are several, it's ok)

🔁 welcome

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I'm a bit late to the party and somehow missed this, but here's an open letter to Dutch Universities (both academic and of applied sciences) and their executive boards, to ask that they stop the uncritical adoption of AI technologies in higher education.

openletter.earth/open-letter-stop-the-uncritical-adoption-of-ai-technologies-in-academia-b65bba1e

Please sign!

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Trying to read a paper related to my research. I have access to it through my university's arrangements with the publisher, meaning that the uni pays (several £100k per year) for the access.

Publisher website (#Elsevier): error "there was a problem providing the content you requested"

#Scihub website: here you go, read this PDF for free and with no hassle whatsoever

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Edit: I wasn't sure that it was really paying "millions per year" so I looked it up. Couldn't find current numbers but I found this list from 10y ago saying most UK unis pay an average of ~£800 000 per year just for Elsevier journals:
gowers.wordpress.com/2014/04/2…

Apparently this Lovelace disruption labs idea is in the air again. I like the idea of labs with junior researchers given more independence and resources for longer time periods, but I don't think it'll be as disruptive as hoped for if they do this. 👇

jameswphillips.substack.com/p/…

The proposal is for 15 year fellowships, and junior researchers will be "mentored, but not controlled, by groups of senior custodians who ... will also contribute to recruitment, renewal decisions and resource allocation". If resources and jobs are in control of seniors, then they are in control whether you call it that or not.

I think these things if they're created will give some really great jobs for a hand selected few, but those few will be selected based on ideological alignment with those who already control the majority of funding in science. The 15 year timescales will help, but it'll be a missed opportunity to do something better and actually disruptive.

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Lovelace vision document: ARIA's proposed twin - a network of new research laboratories using different organisational principles

‘You will not concede me Philosophical poetry. Invert the order! Will you give me poetical philosophy, poetical science?’ Ada Lovelace

^{James W. Phillips (James W. Phillips' Newsletter)}

"Cornell President Michael Kotlikoff announced the agreement on Friday, saying it upholds the university’s academic freedom while restoring more than $250 million in research funding that the government withheld amid investigations into alleged civil rights violations."

Huh.

Must have a different definition of "academic freedom" than the one I'm familiar with.

apnews.com/article/trump-corne…

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