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Engineering professor, computational scientist, jazz buff, techie, academic writer & font geek. Faculty director of the GW Open Source Program Office. https://lorenabarba.com www.linkedin.com/in/lorenabarba
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I did a hands-on tutorial for easily creating a static website using #Jekyll and #GitHub Pages. No local installations—everything is done directly on @github.com! Follow along to: – Fork a Jekyll theme – Deploy with GitHub Actions – Edit the content – Solve issues with #GitHubCopilot (link in reply)

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

I just released a preprint reporting on my experiment with generative AI in my Engineering Computations course. TL;DR: It was a mess. The biggest issue? The "illusion of competence." #GenAI #education #edtech

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

Starting now! So excited for our inaugural #GWOSCON Dean Geneva Henry welcoming everyone with optimism about the role of #OpenSource in our university. Inspiring!

submitted 70 days ago • 1 comment

There's still time to book your free ticket for GW OSCON from March 24-25 next week. Register: go.gwu.edu/oscon #opensource #academicOSS #openscience #openresearch

submitted 76 days ago • 1 comment

March 2, 1867. CHAP. CLVIII. — An Act to establish a Department of Education. "…for the purpose of collecting such statistics and facts as shall show the condition and progress of education in the several States and Territories."

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

I'm at the "Uncertainty Quantification and Trustworthy AI Algorithms for Complex Systems and Social Good" workshop" at the Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation, IMSI, in Chicago. Should be fun! (Funded by NSF.) #UQ #AI #TrustworthyAI www.imsi.institute/activities/u...

submitted 91 days ago • 1 comment

📣New paper alert: "Verification and Validation for Trustworthy Scientific Machine Learning" We propose 16 recommendations to establish trust in #SciML models through rigorous V&V practices adapted from computational science: arxiv.org/abs/2502.15496 #MachineLearning #ComputationalScience

submitted 98 days ago • 1 comment

I'm finally getting around to editing videos from online teaching during pandemic times (to remove dead times and student names and likeness), and uploading them to YouTube. This is for my "Engineering Computations" undergraduate course: #Python functions #EngineersCode #Jupyter

submitted 105 days ago • 1 comment

The George Washington University, where I work, has joined a lawsuit as a co-plaintiff in challenge of the federal action to slash payment of facilities and administration (a.k.a. "indirect") costs for NIH research grants. www.aau.edu/newsroom/pre...

submitted 111 days ago • 0 comments

The deadline to submit a regular or lightning talk for the inaugural GW OScon has been extended until Monday. Are you in the Washington DC area and love #OpenSource software? Apply to give a talk and join us in March! We have great keynote speakers lined up, too. Check out: go.gwu.edu/oscon

submitted 114 days ago • 0 comments

DeepSeek is the perfect illustration for why you don’t want vendor lock-in. The university CTOs that signed a contract for ChatGPT Edu at $1.4million must feel sorry right now.

submitted 125 days ago • 0 comments

Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']: Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.

submitted 144 days ago • 437 comments

We absolutely need to deliberately teach students how to use a variety of AI tools, and so-called "AI skills" are real and more difficult than they appear. The temptation to overuse AI to skirt the hard work of authentic learning is strong! Unsupported, students' use of AI is harming them right now.

submitted 146 days ago • 0 comments

I'm having way too much fun with AI-generated podcasts of my class materials 😂 — I hope students will enjoy them too! youtu.be/dI8JBHB0kv0

submitted 153 days ago • 1 comment