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Carl Bergstrom
@ct_bergstrom
Information flow in biology and society.
I am a biology professor at the University of Washington. I study how information flows in biology, science, and society. I wrote a book: *Calling Bullshit*: http://tinyurl.com/fdcuvd7b I love ravens and crows. he/him
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This man is one of the major venture backers of post.news and the main reason why I am still on mastodon. As I see it, #Jeep needs to just straight up give me a truck and let me work my influencer magic. Your chatbot is not "hallucinating".
It's in the headlines . It's in the New York Times. Some AIs even caution us directly in the fine print, as Galactica did . Yes, the term "hallucinate" has an established meaning as AI jargon. Loosely and in the context of large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-3, it refers to situa "I've been unfailingly polite to you, and you've been nothing but rude. I simply wish to have a civil conversation and you...." "Operationalization"
It's not an easy word to say. Somehow I always end up putting an extra "z" in there. My friends find that quite amusing, though probably not as amusing as hearing me say "nuclear" in my native Midwestern. Difficult or not, "operationalization" is a word that is worth adding to you It's not just the engagement-maximizing algorithms...
...that make the internet a toxic wasteland of misinformation. I have spent a lot of time thinking about how the content that we see on most social media platforms has been selected by AI algorithms, trained on almost unimaginable quantities of behavioral data, for the sole purpos When your realtor is Wes Anderson
(The listing and I presume the photographs for this New York farmhouse are by Molly Nolan of Century 21. IMO, they're fantastic and I would love to have someone with this kind of talent in charge of s Elon Musk and Twitter as a digital outrage engine.
In our society's ongoing effort to understand and address the harms caused by social media, tech companies continue to deploy the same strategy that paid dividends for big oil and others. They aim to The h-index as UI hack
Academia is a highly competitive place. In today's academic environment, hiring, promotion, tenure, and grant funding—as well as other less tangible forms of status–are closely tied to quantitative me Actually, go right ahead. Dark-eyed junco
Best wishes for the new year to everyone. (This is a dark-eyed junco, photographed today in Seattle) #birdphotography #birding #birdwatching How to befriend crows: coda.
Yesterday I posted an article of crow photos and instructions for how to befriend crows . In my excitement, I left out a couple of key points. That's sort of the excuse for this post. The real reason, How to befriend crows
For the holiday, a post about how to befriend crows. — Befriending crows is a wonderful thing. I have many crow friends at home and at work. They bring joy at unexpected moments and can rescue a miserabl Why corporate customer service collapses in crisis situations
Today, severe weather has closed airports around the US and tens of thousands of people are spending hours on hold with airlines trying to reschedule flights, only to have their calls dropped. In ligh Science education in an age of twitter disinformation
tl;dr — Science education needs to adapt to a world of misinformation on social media and beyond. Today, prominent antivaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tweeted the ridiculous claim that as director of th PSA: Do not piss off the shoveler
Please do not piss off mama shoveler. She is literally a dinosaur and has no patience for your bullshit. (Female northern shoveler, Spatula clypeata . Seattle, WA) Twitter is now blocking external links
I remember when Elon Musk's Twitter 2.0 was going to support radical free speech. I wasn't thrilled about abandoning 160,000 followers but I was so disturbed by Musk's unmerited and dangerous attacks Dreams of a hummingbird
No narrative here, no clever jokes. The human imagination, let alone human language, has no way to capture the high flicker-fusion ultraviolet inner dream life of a hummingbird. Dreams of a crow
To add a title on post.news, I need to first write a certain amount of text. The thing is, this picture does not need any explanatory text. So many of us have been there ourselves, dreaming the very s Dreams of a cormorant
Sure, the gaggle of coots mostly just clucked and the wigeons just cooed, but nothing was going to deter Millicent from reaching her goals. Keep practicing and some day, she just knew it, some day she
