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Assistant Professor
This Assistant Professor position will teach graduate and undergraduate courses, conduct research in the field of Sociology, participate in departmental service, and mentor graduate students.
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As a new arrival in the US I can confirm this is a thing. I plan to train my own AI agent to sleep for me going forward
Best newsletters for AI research? Students are asking for recs
Guess what's better than your dog having diarrhea?
Your dog having diarrhea when you've left the house while the robo vacuum is running so it can smear it around the entirety of your apartment.
I have pictures but I think my account would get suspended
Your dog having diarrhea when you've left the house while the robo vacuum is running so it can smear it around the entirety of your apartment.
I have pictures but I think my account would get suspended
You win some you lose some: yeah my daughter woke up at 5am but at least the dog had also shit all over the living room during the night
Hearing that she made sure to sit in the wings of the plane
Reposted by: Christopher Barrie
When Maria Branyas Morera died last year, aged 117 and still in relatively good health, she was the oldest person on Earth. But how?
A new study provides some clues.
A new study provides some clues.
How to live to 117? Researchers find clues in the world’s oldest woman.
A new study offers clues about what made Maria Branyas Morera exceptional — and what it could mean for the rest of us.
www.washingtonpost.com
by Christopher Barrie — Reposted by: Patrick Präg
good openly accessible qualitative interview question response transcript datasets?
My 14 m/o daughter just switched on the record player and the new CMAT album was on and now she's bopping to it in her own and brb my heart is melting
by Andreu Casas — Reposted by: Christopher Barrie, Chris Hanretty, Ben O’Loughlin
🚨Hiring a fully funded (3.5 years) PhD for the @ldnsocmedobs.bsky.social to research social media and politics. Candidates should have quantitative/computational skills and/or be interested in content curation/moderation. UK home candidates only unfortunately. www.royalholloway.ac.uk/media/hquftp...
www.royalholloway.ac.uk
Update: I just ordered a framed version of this.
But I did also go to the gym.
This is the start of my online generative art empire
But I did also go to the gym.
This is the start of my online generative art empire
I am spending my Saturday morning making Mondrian-inspired Schelling model visualizations instead of going to the gym
Just realised I had this on my whiteboard while I took office hours and honestly I can explain
ChatGPT's response to my exploratory questioning about the state of the research in sycophantic AI:
> love this question — it’s exactly the kind of frontier-y thing that needs careful methods + a bit of audacity
> love this question — it’s exactly the kind of frontier-y thing that needs careful methods + a bit of audacity
Daycare: it's very important that your child come every day in order to establish a rhythm in early weeks.
Also daycare: in week 2 of daycare, we will be having two days off for Rosh Hashanah.
Also daycare: in week 2 of daycare, we will be having two days off for Rosh Hashanah.
Anyone know where I can get the last 100 years or so of Hansard parliamentary speech in UK w/o having to pay for They Work For You or process a bunch of XML?
Oh fantastic! I'd like to see the Julia implementation. Great book btw. I've loved reading it