Thomas Kober
@tttthomasssss.bsky.social
Linguational Computist
Bayesian Naïveist
Entropy Ma(r)ximist
Probably Approximately Correctist
Bayesian Naïveist
Entropy Ma(r)ximist
Probably Approximately Correctist
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Oslo University Hospital caught using trans patients' journals for research purposes:
- Without the patients' consent to participate in research
- Affecting minors
- 1700 of them
- Taking highly sensitive information from said journals
This is a HUGE breach.
- Without the patients' consent to participate in research
- Affecting minors
- 1700 of them
- Taking highly sensitive information from said journals
This is a HUGE breach.
Tidligere i år meldte vi et forskningsprosjekt til redelighetsutvalget ved OUS og UiO.
Nå er forskerne felt for alvorlige brudd på forskningsetiske normer.
Nå er forskerne felt for alvorlige brudd på forskningsetiske normer.
Oslo universitetssykehus felt for ulovlig forskning på transpersoner
Forskere ved Oslo universitetssykehus har forsket på transpersoner uten godkjenning. Nå er de felt for alvorlige brudd på forskningsetiske normer.
www.forskning.no
October 8, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Oslo University Hospital caught using trans patients' journals for research purposes:
- Without the patients' consent to participate in research
- Affecting minors
- 1700 of them
- Taking highly sensitive information from said journals
This is a HUGE breach.
- Without the patients' consent to participate in research
- Affecting minors
- 1700 of them
- Taking highly sensitive information from said journals
This is a HUGE breach.
Wow submitting to ARR has reached the level of bureaucracy of filing a tax returns claim in Germany.
October 7, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Wow submitting to ARR has reached the level of bureaucracy of filing a tax returns claim in Germany.
Ah yes, the smell of returning from holiday and finding sb irrevocably deleted my main cloud instance for the project together with all data.
August 26, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Ah yes, the smell of returning from holiday and finding sb irrevocably deleted my main cloud instance for the project together with all data.
Wine vending machines are one of the best parts of a holiday in Austria
August 15, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Wine vending machines are one of the best parts of a holiday in Austria
Not sure how I missed this, but BisectingKMeans is _the shit_. Its fast, produces very crisp clusters for a range of problems, and is implemented in sklearn
May 26, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Not sure how I missed this, but BisectingKMeans is _the shit_. Its fast, produces very crisp clusters for a range of problems, and is implemented in sklearn
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1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but
2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.
2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.
LLMs hallucinating nonexistent software packages with plausible names leads to a new malware vulnerability: "slopsquatting."
LLMs can't stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything
: Hallucinated package names fuel 'slopsquatting'
www.theregister.com
April 12, 2025 at 11:43 PM
1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but
2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.
2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.
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Deadline for applying to SICSS-Edinburgh is coming up soon!
The summer school will run from May 26 – June 6.
Apply now 👉 sicss.io/2025/edinbur...
#SICSS2025 #SICSSEdinburgh
The summer school will run from May 26 – June 6.
Apply now 👉 sicss.io/2025/edinbur...
#SICSS2025 #SICSSEdinburgh
Summer Institute in Computational Social Science
sicss.io
March 18, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Deadline for applying to SICSS-Edinburgh is coming up soon!
The summer school will run from May 26 – June 6.
Apply now 👉 sicss.io/2025/edinbur...
#SICSS2025 #SICSSEdinburgh
The summer school will run from May 26 – June 6.
Apply now 👉 sicss.io/2025/edinbur...
#SICSS2025 #SICSSEdinburgh
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Join us at our upcoming workshop at ICLR, XAI4Science: From Understanding Model Behavior to Discovering New Scientific Knwlg, Apr 27-28
submissions on a-priori (ante-hoc) & a-posteriori (post-hoc) interpretability & self-explainable models for understanding model’s behvr welcm tinyurl.com/3w8sddpm
submissions on a-priori (ante-hoc) & a-posteriori (post-hoc) interpretability & self-explainable models for understanding model’s behvr welcm tinyurl.com/3w8sddpm
ICLR 2025 Workshop XAI4Science
Welcome to the OpenReview homepage for ICLR 2025 Workshop XAI4Science
openreview.net
January 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Join us at our upcoming workshop at ICLR, XAI4Science: From Understanding Model Behavior to Discovering New Scientific Knwlg, Apr 27-28
submissions on a-priori (ante-hoc) & a-posteriori (post-hoc) interpretability & self-explainable models for understanding model’s behvr welcm tinyurl.com/3w8sddpm
submissions on a-priori (ante-hoc) & a-posteriori (post-hoc) interpretability & self-explainable models for understanding model’s behvr welcm tinyurl.com/3w8sddpm
The 8yr old wanted (and got) a radio (the actual analog AM/FM thing) for Christmas and it is truly amusing to see a child that’s growing up with predominantly digital on-demand media explore radio
January 19, 2025 at 1:38 PM
The 8yr old wanted (and got) a radio (the actual analog AM/FM thing) for Christmas and it is truly amusing to see a child that’s growing up with predominantly digital on-demand media explore radio
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One of the longest running and prestigious journals in our field is the Computational Linguistics Journal. It's been around since 70s. It's got a brand new social media account now:
@complingjournal.bsky.social
Latest news about upcoming issues to be there there! #NLProc #CLjournal #NLP
@complingjournal.bsky.social
Latest news about upcoming issues to be there there! #NLProc #CLjournal #NLP
January 19, 2025 at 12:17 PM
One of the longest running and prestigious journals in our field is the Computational Linguistics Journal. It's been around since 70s. It's got a brand new social media account now:
@complingjournal.bsky.social
Latest news about upcoming issues to be there there! #NLProc #CLjournal #NLP
@complingjournal.bsky.social
Latest news about upcoming issues to be there there! #NLProc #CLjournal #NLP
tfw you press delete,delete,enter for 10mins b/c you’re too lazy to write a regex
January 17, 2025 at 10:27 AM
tfw you press delete,delete,enter for 10mins b/c you’re too lazy to write a regex
Currently at the postscript file format specification stage rabbit hole
January 11, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Currently at the postscript file format specification stage rabbit hole
*voting by letter and looking through the candidates on the list (name & bday)*
*spots sb with a bday in 2000*
*looks up*
Huh, they must have just been born, how can they be on the candidate list?!
#ElderMillenial
*spots sb with a bday in 2000*
*looks up*
Huh, they must have just been born, how can they be on the candidate list?!
#ElderMillenial
January 11, 2025 at 12:02 PM
*voting by letter and looking through the candidates on the list (name & bday)*
*spots sb with a bday in 2000*
*looks up*
Huh, they must have just been born, how can they be on the candidate list?!
#ElderMillenial
*spots sb with a bday in 2000*
*looks up*
Huh, they must have just been born, how can they be on the candidate list?!
#ElderMillenial
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Boss made a dollar,
Grandad made a dime.
But that was a poem
From a simpler time.
Boss made a thousand,
Gave my Dad a cent.
But that coin paid the mortgage,
Or at least it paid the rent.
Now bosses make a billion,
And give us workers jack.
Then smugly blame society,
For the labor that they lack.
Grandad made a dime.
But that was a poem
From a simpler time.
Boss made a thousand,
Gave my Dad a cent.
But that coin paid the mortgage,
Or at least it paid the rent.
Now bosses make a billion,
And give us workers jack.
Then smugly blame society,
For the labor that they lack.
January 4, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Boss made a dollar,
Grandad made a dime.
But that was a poem
From a simpler time.
Boss made a thousand,
Gave my Dad a cent.
But that coin paid the mortgage,
Or at least it paid the rent.
Now bosses make a billion,
And give us workers jack.
Then smugly blame society,
For the labor that they lack.
Grandad made a dime.
But that was a poem
From a simpler time.
Boss made a thousand,
Gave my Dad a cent.
But that coin paid the mortgage,
Or at least it paid the rent.
Now bosses make a billion,
And give us workers jack.
Then smugly blame society,
For the labor that they lack.
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I made a starter pack for people in NLP working in the area of tokenization. Let me know if you'd like to be added
go.bsky.app/8P9ftjL
go.bsky.app/8P9ftjL
December 20, 2024 at 6:37 PM
I made a starter pack for people in NLP working in the area of tokenization. Let me know if you'd like to be added
go.bsky.app/8P9ftjL
go.bsky.app/8P9ftjL
This is starting to get out of hand...
December 15, 2024 at 9:45 PM
This is starting to get out of hand...
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starter pack for the Computational Linguistics and Information Processing group at the University of Maryland - get all your NLP and data science here!
go.bsky.app/V9qWjEi
go.bsky.app/V9qWjEi
December 10, 2024 at 5:14 PM
starter pack for the Computational Linguistics and Information Processing group at the University of Maryland - get all your NLP and data science here!
go.bsky.app/V9qWjEi
go.bsky.app/V9qWjEi
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Inspired by @wimlds.bsky.social , I looked for a "Women in Machine Learning" starter pack and couldn't find one.
So I created one! May have some mistakes. I'll try to do an AI ethics one next. 🤗
go.bsky.app/LT6CwNN
So I created one! May have some mistakes. I'll try to do an AI ethics one next. 🤗
go.bsky.app/LT6CwNN
December 11, 2024 at 4:02 AM
Inspired by @wimlds.bsky.social , I looked for a "Women in Machine Learning" starter pack and couldn't find one.
So I created one! May have some mistakes. I'll try to do an AI ethics one next. 🤗
go.bsky.app/LT6CwNN
So I created one! May have some mistakes. I'll try to do an AI ethics one next. 🤗
go.bsky.app/LT6CwNN
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**Black UK PhD students**
Fully funded PhD study - fees and stipend
-Faculty of Arts, Law and Social Sciences
-Faculty of Health and Life Sciences
**Tell everyone**
www.bristol.ac.uk/study/postgr...
Fully funded PhD study - fees and stipend
-Faculty of Arts, Law and Social Sciences
-Faculty of Health and Life Sciences
**Tell everyone**
www.bristol.ac.uk/study/postgr...
Black heritage PhD scholarships | Study at Bristol | University of Bristol
We welcome applications for full scholarships to postgraduate research programmes starting in 2025.
www.bristol.ac.uk
December 8, 2024 at 5:55 PM
**Black UK PhD students**
Fully funded PhD study - fees and stipend
-Faculty of Arts, Law and Social Sciences
-Faculty of Health and Life Sciences
**Tell everyone**
www.bristol.ac.uk/study/postgr...
Fully funded PhD study - fees and stipend
-Faculty of Arts, Law and Social Sciences
-Faculty of Health and Life Sciences
**Tell everyone**
www.bristol.ac.uk/study/postgr...
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Information Engineering in Oxford is currently advertising not one, but THREE associate (assistant) professorships:
* eng.ox.ac.uk/jobs/job-det...
* eng.ox.ac.uk/jobs/job-det...
* eng.ox.ac.uk/jobs/job-det...
I've been in this Department for 18 years, and it's a great place to work—come join us!
* eng.ox.ac.uk/jobs/job-det...
* eng.ox.ac.uk/jobs/job-det...
* eng.ox.ac.uk/jobs/job-det...
I've been in this Department for 18 years, and it's a great place to work—come join us!
December 5, 2024 at 12:41 PM
Information Engineering in Oxford is currently advertising not one, but THREE associate (assistant) professorships:
* eng.ox.ac.uk/jobs/job-det...
* eng.ox.ac.uk/jobs/job-det...
* eng.ox.ac.uk/jobs/job-det...
I've been in this Department for 18 years, and it's a great place to work—come join us!
* eng.ox.ac.uk/jobs/job-det...
* eng.ox.ac.uk/jobs/job-det...
* eng.ox.ac.uk/jobs/job-det...
I've been in this Department for 18 years, and it's a great place to work—come join us!
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Next, starter packs for NLP/AI + X:
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AI for Conservation: bsky.app/starter-pack...
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December 3, 2024 at 4:09 AM
Next, starter packs for NLP/AI + X:
NLP & Culture: bsky.app/starter-pack...
NLP & Legal: bsky.app/starter-pack...
NLP & Politics: bsky.app/starter-pack...
AI for Conservation: bsky.app/starter-pack...
AI for Science: bsky.app/starter-pack...
AI, News and Journalism: bsky.app/starter-pack...
...
NLP & Culture: bsky.app/starter-pack...
NLP & Legal: bsky.app/starter-pack...
NLP & Politics: bsky.app/starter-pack...
AI for Conservation: bsky.app/starter-pack...
AI for Science: bsky.app/starter-pack...
AI, News and Journalism: bsky.app/starter-pack...
...
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As a disabled web accessibility practitioner. This pisses me off. Extremely.
GENERATIVE AI DOES NOT AND CANNOT EVER REPRESENT DISABLED PEOPLE.
Just fucking hire disabled people like me who know what they're doing.
Believing AI over disabled people is ABLEISM and DEHUMANIZING. For fucks sake.
GENERATIVE AI DOES NOT AND CANNOT EVER REPRESENT DISABLED PEOPLE.
Just fucking hire disabled people like me who know what they're doing.
Believing AI over disabled people is ABLEISM and DEHUMANIZING. For fucks sake.
November 29, 2024 at 5:32 PM
As a disabled web accessibility practitioner. This pisses me off. Extremely.
GENERATIVE AI DOES NOT AND CANNOT EVER REPRESENT DISABLED PEOPLE.
Just fucking hire disabled people like me who know what they're doing.
Believing AI over disabled people is ABLEISM and DEHUMANIZING. For fucks sake.
GENERATIVE AI DOES NOT AND CANNOT EVER REPRESENT DISABLED PEOPLE.
Just fucking hire disabled people like me who know what they're doing.
Believing AI over disabled people is ABLEISM and DEHUMANIZING. For fucks sake.
Same, but with code. Also, each version contains 1 extremely cool feature and it’s practically impossible to extract it from either version
Nobody ever talks about the absolute fucking horror of having like 85 different versions of a novel on your computer, and the way you, if you are me, have not kept track of them correctly, so one of them is 125,000 words, another like, 86,000, and the differences are major, berserk, untraceable.
November 26, 2024 at 10:39 PM
Same, but with code. Also, each version contains 1 extremely cool feature and it’s practically impossible to extract it from either version
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1. Hey NAACL #NLP #NLProc members please VOTE for the 25-26 exec! We have an amazing lineup of candidates, see statements here naacl.org/elections/20...
How to vote: current members look for an email from Election Runner!
How to vote: current members look for an email from Election Runner!
NAACL: Nations of the Americas Chapter of the ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics)
website for the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the ACL
naacl.org
November 26, 2024 at 9:38 PM
1. Hey NAACL #NLP #NLProc members please VOTE for the 25-26 exec! We have an amazing lineup of candidates, see statements here naacl.org/elections/20...
How to vote: current members look for an email from Election Runner!
How to vote: current members look for an email from Election Runner!