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dwshaffer.bsky.social
Professor of leaning analytics, quantitative ethnographer, husband, father, sailor
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Show us your writing process in a gif

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

The sheer number of times someone has told me "AI doesn't work for my field because of [specialized knowledge], but I can see how it's useful in other fields."

submitted 20 days ago • 14 comments

I think people have a kind of Gell-Mann amnesia towards LLMs — like, they can think "AI is bad at things I am good at and know about, but good at things I can't judge because I'm bad at them" Tech bros think AI is good at everything, including coding, and that's because they are also bad at coding

submitted 20 days ago • 13 comments

THIS 👇👇

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Has anyone else listened to the T lately and been reminded of the Star Trek episode Patterns of Force, with T as John Gill, mumbling his way through speeches while Nazism rages? Maybe giving T too much credit, though memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/John_Gi...

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments

So let me get this straight: To use AI you have to learn a new programming language called “question asking”, only there are no rules to guide you and the machine’s responses are indeterminate. Sign me up 🙄 www.windowscentral.com/software-app...

submitted 124 days ago • 1 comment

Wait. Black holes have *sides* now???

submitted 144 days ago • 0 comments

Happy Christmas, BlueSky And may I recommend this for your Christmas watching👇 m.imdb.com/title/tt4729...

submitted 145 days ago • 1 comment

Earthrise. Taken #OTD 56 years ago. In terms of seeing that we're all on this one single planet, it's one of the most important photos ever taken.

submitted 146 days ago • 137 comments

The second foundational myth of the tech industry is that tech people can solve any problem because non-tech people are all dumb This is particularly annoying in education, because teaching a room full of 8th graders right before lunch is WAY harder than writing code Believe me, I’ve done both

submitted 146 days ago • 0 comments

Makes about as much sense as any data mining

submitted 146 days ago • 0 comments

THIS makes me think

submitted 149 days ago • 167 comments