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@jonippolito@digipres.club
2025-09-29 14:39:05

Will AI in the classroom mean students asking ChatGPT for help with algebra homework, or strapping on a headband that streams their brainwaves to teachers and parents? In China, teachers are already policing attention with the latter
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Fifth-graders in a Chinese classroom wearing electronic headsets with EEG readouts.

#edtech #k12 #instructionaldesign #aiethics #aiineducation #privacy #surveillance | Jon Ippolito
Will AI-powered education mean asking ChatGPT for help with algebra homework—or strapping on a headband that streams your brainwaves to teachers and parents? In China, the latter is already here. At one elementary school outside Shanghai, fifth graders begin each day by donning electronic headsets equipped with EEG sensors. The devices beam neural data directly to the teacher’s computer, where AI software translates it into reports on each student’s “concentration levels,” updated ev…

@jonippolito@digipres.club
2025-08-29 12:02:23

"They’re unknowingly becoming the bad guys”: AI-powered bounty hunters think they’re helping, but their fabricated bug reports are overwhelming solo maintainers like cURL’s Daniel Stenberg—who’s paid $92K for real flaws and now may scrap the program.

A conference presenter with this quote: A lot of users are annoying. And that's not new. The new thing here is not the only the ease that you can produce this with AI, but also they actually think they are helping out....They're just unknowingly becoming the bad guys. —Daniel Stenberg, "Al slop attacks on the curl project"

#opensource #aicoding #aiethics #textpocalypse | Jon Ippolito
In another sign of a looming AI textpocalypse, open source maintainers are seeing a 20-40% rise in bogus bug reports that are just fishing for bounties. What’s remarkable is that submitters using AI to hunt for vulnerabilities seem to think they are really helping, whereas in fact they’re gumming up the system. Most open-source projects are maintained by single developers in their spare time. To get help, popular projects may offer financial rewards to community members who point out bugs…

@arXiv_mathNA_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-08-29 09:42:31

Curvilinear coordinates and curvature in radiative transport
Johannes Krotz, Ryan G. McClarren
arxiv.org/abs/2508.20852 arxiv.org/pdf/2508.…

Curvilinear coordinates and curvature in radiative transport
We derive a general expression for the streaming term in radiative transport equa- tions and other transport problems when formulated in curvilinear coordinates, emphasizing coordinate systems adapted to the geometry of the domain and the directional dependence of particle transport. By parametrizing the angular vari- able using a local orthonormal frame, we express directional derivatives in terms of curvature-related quantities that reflect the geometry of underlying spatial man- ifolds. Our …

@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2025-10-24 06:54:42

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2. Make it this 👇 mastodon.social/@danielquinn/1

Daniel Quinn (@danielquinn@mastodon.social)
David Suzuki, one of Canada's greatest voices on climate and the biosphere says that it's too late and that the fight against climate change is lost: https://www.ipolitics.ca/2025/07/02/its-too-late-david-suzuki-says-the-fight-against-climate-change-is-lost/ "The units of survival are going to be local communities, so I’m urging local communities to get together." As someone who has loved Suzuki for a long time, this interview was both brutal and refreshing. He's basically saying that we'…

@mszll@datasci.social
2025-10-03 09:49:37

🤩 Fantastic new network plotting package available in Python by Fabio Zanini. The package supports both #networkx :networkx: and #igraph :igraph: networks, and has a wide variety of styling options.

@ncoca@social.coop
2025-10-24 02:22:10

In the #China Pavilion at the Osaka #Expo, robots dance and #AI sings. But on closer look, these companies on display are the same ones sanctioned by the US for trade, human rights, and geopolitical reasons.

Humanoid robots, astronauts, and huge lines: Photos from China’s pavilion at the World Expo
Chinese firms iFlytek and Hytera highlighted AI translation and public safety tech — sidestepping disputes over surveillance and trade secrets.

@fgraver@hcommons.social
2025-10-24 09:13:11

This. 100% this: «…the economy itself is driving us into the ditch. It’s based on the creed of cancer — steady growth — and you can’t have endless growth in a finite world. The global economy is far too big, it’s got to shrink, and it’s got to be distributed more equitably around the world.»
The problem is that even the politicians who understand this are helpless to do anything about it. We have surrendered our future to global corporations and the mega-rich and their hand-picked poli…

Daniel Quinn (@danielquinn@mastodon.social)
David Suzuki, one of Canada's greatest voices on climate and the biosphere says that it's too late and that the fight against climate change is lost: https://www.ipolitics.ca/2025/07/02/its-too-late-david-suzuki-says-the-fight-against-climate-change-is-lost/ "The units of survival are going to be local communities, so I’m urging local communities to get together." As someone who has loved Suzuki for a long time, this interview was both brutal and refreshing. He's basically saying that we'…

@radioeinsmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2025-09-25 16:06:21

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@jonippolito@digipres.club
2025-09-25 13:42:16

A new finding demonstrates the brutal carbon math of AI video: a 6-second clip can burn 4x the energy of a 3-second one. I’ve updated the What Uses More digital footprint calculator to show why “just a bit longer” gets disproportionately expensive.

A chart from Delavande 2025 showing that GPU energy usage scales quadratically with the number of AI video frames generated.

#aiethics #aivideo #aiineducation #ailiteracy #llm #environment #climate | Jon Ippolito
I've updated the What Uses More calculator with new research this week that makes the environmental footprint of AI video potentially far higher than I thought. On Tuesday Julien Delavande, Régis Pierrard, and Dr. Sasha Luccioni published important research showing that doubling the duration of a video generated from a text prompt doesn't just double the energy required, but in fact quadruples it. So if a 3-second clip uses 130 watt-hours (the equivalent of running a light bulb for two hou…

@jonippolito@digipres.club
2025-09-24 13:43:42

On yesterday's Teaching, Learning, and Everything Else podcast, I talked about AI's impact on the environment and classrooms—and argued that it isn’t reinventing education so much as exposing bad habits we should’ve let go years ago link…

Quote: "Instead of thinking of AI transforming pedagogy, I think of AI pointing out problems that were already there. We know there's better ways to teach. We know that project-oriented, individualized learning is better than regurgitation. We know that no one outside of academia writes five paragraph essays anymore. Writing has become discursive and dialogic, and it's dispersed through all these different social media and work contexts. There's lots of reasons to validate writing as a form of …

#highered #aiethics #aiineducation #ailiteracy #generativeai #environment #climate | Jon Ippolito
The impact of AI on education may ultimately have less to do with AI itself and more with the habits it forces us to shed, both in classrooms and in our digital lives. This week I talked with Lew Ludwig’s Denison University students about generative AI's environmental footprint and was a featured guest on Bart Everson's Teaching, Learning, and Everything Else podcast at Xavier University. Bart and I dug into the “IMPACT RISK” framework, in which every letter of the acronym represents a d…