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CareerFair-Shikhar Sachdev: “Applying to jobs online is like navigating a maze. Amidst the special torture that is resume parsing software, the inability to reuse information across different application tracking systems (ATS), and the existence of a certain company that rhymes with every day of the week, it can get pretty frustrating. I wanted to explore …
Popular Information: “Scholastic, the popular publisher of children’s books, is a big business. It is a publicly-traded company with a market capitalization of $1.15 billion. Its CEO, Peter Warwick, collected a total compensation of $3,300,361 in 2023, and at least four other executives were paid over $1.3 million. Since 1981, Scholastic has hosted book fairs …
@The_AI_Skeptic – Long Post: Why Generative AI is Currently Doomed We’re so used to technology getting better. Every year there’s a new iPhone with a faster processor. It’s the way of the world… or so it seems. Sometimes, bigger doesn’t mean better. Take, for example, LLMs like ChatGPT. If you keep scaling them up, they …
Can linguists distinguish between ChatGPT/AI and human writing?: A study of research ethics and academic publishing Methods in Applied Linguistics, ISSN: 2772-7661, Vol: 2, Issue: 3, Page: 100068 Received 3 June 2023, Revised 18 July 2023, Accepted 18 July 2023, Available online 7 August 2023, Version of Record 7 August 2023. There has been considerable intrigue …
Use this Explainer and Tropes Chart to help students understand what antisemitism is, how it shows up in contemporary settings, why it persists, and how it impacts individuals and communities….”What Forms Does Antisemitism Take and Where Does It Show Up? Because humans often divide our societies into “in” groups and “out” groups, and because we …
One Useful Thing – Ethan Mollik – A FAQ of Sorts – “I have been talking to a lot of people about Generative AI, from teachers to business executives to artists to people actually building LLMs. In these conversations, a few key questions and themes keep coming up over and over again. Many of those questions …
CNBC: “Microsoft received Notices of Proposed Adjustment from the Internal Revenue Service for an additional tax payment of $28.9 billion, the company said in an 8-K filing Wednesday. Microsoft said the dispute concerns the company’s allocated profits between countries and jurisdictions between 2004 and 2013. It said up to $10 billion in taxes that the …
Ethan Zuckerman: “One of my favorite things in academia is that you can go a decade without seeing a friend and remain at least somewhat in touch with what they’re doing and thinking by reading their work. Dr. Heather Ford, Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Technology Sydney, where she leads the cluster …
Smith, Michael L., Language Models, Plagiarism, and Legal Writing (August 16, 2023). University of New Hampshire Law Review, Vol. 22, (Forthcoming), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4542723 “Language models like ChatGPT are the talk of the town in legal circles. Despite some high-profile stories of fake ChatGPT-generated citations, many practitioners argue that language models are the way …
The next Help! I’m an Accidental Government Information Librarian webinar is scheduled for October 18 from 3:00-4:00pm (Eastern). Session topic: Reporting on the World of Government Information – a panel presentation from the editors of “Government Information Landscape and Libraries”. Hosted by Jim Church (UC-Berkeley), Kay Cassel (Rutgers University) and Kate Tallman (University of Colorado …
Brewster Kahle – The Guardian: “The US library system, once the model for the world, is under assault from politicians, rightwing activists and corporate publishers. Book bans are at record levels, and libraries across the country are facing catastrophic budget cuts, a fate only narrowly avoided by New York City’s public libraries this summer. In …
USAToday: “…It’s impossible to know how many book-ban attempts have been inspired by BookLooks.org, which adds new reviews weekly […The site launched in 2022 to showcase a book-rating system that has also been used by right-wing political activist group Moms for Liberty.] But in one researcher’s national database tallying more than 3,000 challenges to library …
