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Day 8 (a bit late): Timnit Gebru
Academic authors are authors too, and there are a bunch of people I deeply respect both in my fields and adjacent.
Gebru is someone I have huge respect for because she stood up for her (mild, completely reasonable) principles to the point of losing her job on Google's AI ethics team (since disbanded entirely), and then went ahead and founded an independent research institute to continue doing AI ethics research.
Why was she fired? Because she insisted on publishing her "Stochastic Parrots" paper after it passed Google internal review only to have extra nonstandard scrutiny applied at the last minute. Why did Google want to suppress her paper (which included an academic co-author)? Because it expressed valid criticisms of the large language models fad, and Google was planning to make money off that fad. Personally, I don't think I'd hire an "AI ethics" team only to then try to suppress their publications, and Google seems to now agree, having scrapped the team (during the initial furor, Timnit's boss also effectively quit to support her).
That "Stochastic Parrots" paper? Indeed, it predicts the core underlying problems with large language models that lead to so many of their user-side harms today. You can read it here: #20AuthorsNoMen

Das Programm der #datenspuren25 ist ja schon ein paar Tage raus. Ich freue mich sehr, ein Teil davon zu sein.
Für die #bitsundbaeume Ausgründung Konstruktive Digitale Diskussionskultur (#KDDK

Flexible-Sector 6DMA Base Station: Modeling and Design
Yunli Li, Xiaoming Shi, Xiaodan Shao, Jie Xu, Rui Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26086 https://arx…

Flexible-Sector 6DMA Base Station: Modeling and Design
Six-dimensional movable antenna (6DMA) has emerged as a promising new technology for future wireless networks, which can adaptively adjust the three-dimensional (3D) positions and 3D rotations of antennas/antenna arrays for performance enhancement. This paper proposes a novel cost-effective 6DMA-based base station (BS) architecture, termed the \textit{flexible-sector} BS, which allows the deployed antennas to flexibly rotate and move along a circular track, thus enabling common sector rotation …

Im Interview spricht die DSJ mit Nora Heidemann über ihren Titelgewinn bei der DEM U18w, ihre Teilnahme an der Jugend-EM – und die aktuelle Diskussion rund um Transgender im Schach.
👉 Wir betonen:
- Sportliche Leistung steht im Mittelpunkt.
- Aktuell besteht kein Änderungsbedarf bei den bestehenden Regelungen.
- Ein „White Paper“ soll bald für noch mehr Klarheit und Transparenz sorgen.

JADES Data Release 4 -- Paper II: Data reduction, analysis and emission-line fluxes of the complete spectroscopic sample
J. Scholtz, S. Carniani, E. Parlanti, F. D'Eugenio, E. Curtis-Lake, P. Jakobsen, A. J. Bunker, A. J. Cameron, S. Arribas, W. M. Baker, S. Charlot, J. Chevellard, C. Circosta, M. Curti, Q. Duan, D. J. Eisenstein, K. Hainline, Z. Ji, B. D. Johnson, G. C. Jones, N. Kumari, R. Maiolino, M. V. Maseda, M. Perna, P. G. P\'erez-Gonz\'alez, T. Rawle, M. Rieke, P. …

JADES Data Release 4 - Paper II: Data reduction, analysis and emission-line fluxes of the complete spectroscopic sample
We present the fourth data release of JADES, the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey, providing deep spectroscopic observations in the two GOODS fields. A companion paper presents the target selection, spectroscopic redshifts and success rates, and in this paper, we discuss the data reduction and present emission line flux measurements. The spectroscopy in this work consists of medium-depth, deep and ultradeep NIRSpec/MSA spectra of 5,190 targets, covering the spectral range $0.6\text{--}5.…

Electric work apparently finished I think. Power only off for fifteen minutes or so.
As said, the existing sockets can't be removed for some reason but he's left 'em live rather than a blank face-plate.
Plenty of electric sockets in this room now! Fourteen! And eighteen USB power sockets too!
Face-plates not attached to the sockets yet, do that after the plastering I believe. So they look a bit shoddy for now.
Next up is presumably wall paper stripping and painting but electrician didn't seem to know if he was doing that or someone else or if it'll be done tomorrow so I guess that'll all be a surprise.

Voor het eerst in maanden weer een glaasje wodka. Uit de vriezer, wodka moet altijd uit de vriezer. Het merk is Nemiroff, ook altijd. Uit de Ukraïne, heel goed en niet Russisch. Type De Luxe, maakt me nooit uit, deze was deze keer de goedoopste. Zit wat meer smaak aan dan andere kale varianten. Dat mag, maar ik ben een liefhebber van kale wodka. Of limoen, of peper. Was, al met al, erg lekker.

I love it when cats do this!
🎨by pfeffaroo

This band Ultra Lights are often described as "90s slacker rock". To my ears, upon hearing this, I thought it was a new Soft Pack (aka Muslims) album lol
https://www.ultralightsband.com/

Ultra Lights
Rainbow Vision is a planner brand and creative consulting practice by Leela Hoehn. After 10+ years of building and expanding the Rainbow Vision paper and gift brand Leela condensed the line down to a handful of favorites in 2023. Rainbow Vision is based out of Atlanta, GA

Finally getting around to trying to do something with the shattered solar panel I ended up with when the couriers failed twice to not smash part of my order. The PV layer under the tempered glass is still intact and functional, so my plan is to fill the impact point with CA glue, then coat the entire top with urethane to improve its weather resistance, and ultimately use it to directly power a PTC heating element in a shed. *Any* additional free heat in that building is a plus, and *any* ben…