An unfinished thought: AI-based text tools could foster inclusivity, as they allow or make it easier for non-native speakers to produce polished texts. For the peer-review process, these tools can help us to reduce the biases of reviewers towards poorly written texts.

In der neuen Studierendenwerkstatt der TU Hamburg haben Studierende ab sofort die Möglichkeit neben klassischen Werkzeugen auch 3D-Drucker, 3D-Scanner und Lasercutter auszuprobieren. Alle Infos zur feierlichen Eröffnung des SICK MAKERSPACE unter 👉intranet.tuhh.de/presse/pressem…

linux virtual memory fun fact of the day: after a fork+exec to run a subshell, a parent process will page fault on every first write to every single writable page in its address space

An AI-generated image wins the Sony World Photography Awards. "Boris Eldagsen himself has come out and stated after the winning result was announced that this isn’t a photograph at all. It’s an image generated by inputs he provided to the Open AI photo tools". Info+links 🧵👇

Because everyone forgets about the A20 gate!

BABYLON 5 ANIMATED MOVIE coming from Warner Bros. Animation & WB Home Entertainment! Classic B5: raucous, heartfelt, nonstop, a ton of fun through time and space & a love letter to the fans. Movie title, release date and other details coming one week from today. #B5AnimatedMovie

I hate the preprocessor. I hate the preprocessor. I hate the preprocessor.

Why am I doing this three paper one deadline madness again?!

I am so done that even two EuroSys deadlines and two concurrent ATC shepherdings don't stress me out anymore. #TomorrowItIsOver

From Peter Foster Britain after Brexit newsletter. YouGov tracker now has 62% of Brits thinking Brexit has been a failure

One of our key sources of human data is no longer fully “human"! We estimate that 33-46% of crowd workers on MTurk used large language models (LLMs) in a text production task - which may increase as ChatGPT and the like become more popular and powerful. arxiv.org/abs/2306.07899

I was watching Lord of the Rings last night and realized there are many parallels with academia! A thread 🧵👇

For God’s sake, russians going to Crimea for vacation now complain about taking the land route instead of the bridge. BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO DRIVE THROUGH MARIUPOL AND KIDS DONT LIKE IT

"That feeling of the war for the unification of the Russian nation is gradually morphing into a classical territorial war about to whom this or that chunk of the land belongs," Russian historian Andrei Zorin told VazhaTavberidze . rferl.org/a/puti-russia-…

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