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Cathy Gao-Howard MD MS @catgaohow.bsky.social · May 18

Northwestern has not received any NIH funds since March. No written communication about why or what can be done. Thank you Ben Singer for raising awareness at #ATS2025

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Luke Rasmussen @lrasmus.bsky.social · Mar 27

Are we currently clean on OPSEC? Asking for a friend.

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Peter Embí @embimd.bsky.social · Nov 19

“Posting personal information to Grok is more like, ‘Wheee! Let’s throw this data out there, and hope the company is going to do what I want them to do,’” Dr. Malin said.
Yup - listen to @bradmalin.bsky.social! Caveat Emptor!
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/w...

Elon Musk Asked People to Upload Their Health Data. X Users Obliged

Privacy experts cringed when people started feeding their medical images to the A.I. tool Grok.

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BSidesChicago Oct 31-Nov 1, 2025 @bsideschicago.bsky.social · Oct 1

If you didn't make the cut, feel free to reach out to cfp at bsideschicago.org and we will do our best to provide feedback to help you improve. And again, so many great talk just missed the mark due to running out of time slots. #BSidesChicago #CFP

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · Jun 23

I don’t know why AI needs gigantic amounts of energy to come up with really shitty takes when most of y’all seem to do it just with burritos and tequila

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Luke Rasmussen @lrasmus.bsky.social · Jun 4

If that's true, then I must be tremendously fit! Can't wait to tell my doctor the good news.

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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · May 30

SIPS 2024 Online Program

We are happy to announce that the online conference schedule is now ready to view. View the Online program here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tppQ2LwDzpdqatTA0JUm3NZ9k1vrer2qWKJVxv0r5HQ/edit#gid=1932976819
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Luke Rasmussen @lrasmus.bsky.social · May 28

Sorry, all I can hear is "Goodbye Horses" playing in the background...

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · May 20

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Ten simple rules to leverage large language models for getting grants.

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · May 3

it's nice to see Cybertrucks just parked alongside more ordinary vehicles

two grey dumpsters amongst some parked cars

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Luke Rasmussen @lrasmus.bsky.social · May 7

About $4.50 a bottle 🥁
Am curious if it's legit, but I'm more and more skeptical of all this stuff being more than a way to sell product.

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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · Apr 30

Working on another data dictionary today, I am reminded again how important these documents are in the research life cycle. Creating data dictionaries early on creates a roadmap for your entire project, leading to more high quality and usable data.
cghlewis.com/blog/data_di...

Using a data dictionary as your roadmap to quality data | Crystal Lewis

An introduction into why and how to build a data dictionary.

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Luke Rasmussen @lrasmus.bsky.social · Apr 3

I realize I'm being a snarky jerk, but given what happened with Epic's sepsis model, this just feels a little... ironic. Hopefully they will use their own tools.

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Luke Rasmussen @lrasmus.bsky.social · Mar 25

I remember one of my science teachers had one, and there were 2 videos he showed on it :) I thought it was pretty cool too!

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Jason Moore @moorejh.bsky.social · Mar 12

'We introduce the first model-stealing attack that extracts precise, nontrivial information from black-box production language models like OpenAI's ChatGPT' arxiv.org/abs/2403.06634 #llms #chatgpt

Stealing Part of a Production Language Model

We introduce the first model-stealing attack that extracts precise, nontrivial information from black-box production language models like OpenAI's ChatGPT or Google's PaLM-2. Specifically, our...

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Luke Rasmussen @lrasmus.bsky.social · Feb 20

Really great read, thanks for highlighting!

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Jason Moore @moorejh.bsky.social · Feb 20

Nice piece from @CACMmag on large language models cacm.acm.org/magazines/20... #llms #artificialintelligence #nlp

Talking about Large Language Models

Interacting with a contemporary LLM-based conversational agent can create an illusion of being in the presence of a thinking creature. Yet, in their very nature, such systems are fundamentally not lik...

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Jason Moore @moorejh.bsky.social · Feb 1

Found this on my desktop. Classic in the making...

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Luke Rasmussen @lrasmus.bsky.social · Jan 29

So true! Sadly, I know I have been that speaker on more than one occasion...

Luke Rasmussen @lrasmus.bsky.social · Jan 2

Love reading #informatics papers that have a #ResearchSoftwareEngineering focus! Kudos to Post et al for describing their architecture and approaches with TDD. academic.oup.com/jamiaopen/ar...

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Jason Moore @moorejh.bsky.social · Dec 20

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Luke Rasmussen @lrasmus.bsky.social · Dec 7

Thanks for confirming my suspicions

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BSidesChicago Oct 31-Nov 1, 2025 @bsideschicago.bsky.social · Nov 18

We'll be doubling the space for #BSidesChicago 2024 - surveys were commenting on many talks overflowing. And #CareerVillage will be a thing for sure! #Hacking #CyberSecurity

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rnbwkat 🏳️‍🌈 @rnbwkat.bsky.social · Nov 13

#BSidesChicago is up on BSKY!
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Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com · Nov 6

New euphemism for Twitter discovered, thanks to Metroid Fusion (2002)

Screenshot of Metroid Fusion that says, “attacker: the parasitic organism we now know as X.”

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