Masthash

#BigData

The Japan Times
17 hours ago
Laboratoire ERIC
1 day ago

13/11/23 – Soutenance de HDR de Nadia Kabachi : Contributions aux #bigdata – traitement, gestion, sécurisation et exploitation de données dans des environnements distribués et dynamiques

Jury

Pr. Marc Bui, Université Paris 8 - EPHE, RapporteurPr. Lynda Mokda

https://eric.msh-lse.fr/13-11-23-soutenance-de-hdr-de-nadia-kabachi-contributions-aux-bigdata-traitement-gestion-securisation-et-exploitation-de-donnees-dans-des-environnements-distribues-et-dynamiques/

#Soutenances

Estelle Platini
1 day ago

The first AI war was in May 2021.

#IDI stands for the Intelligence Division of the Israel army. Here is some praise of technology usage:

May 2021 "is the first time that the intelligence services have played such a transformative role at the tactical level.

This is the result of a strategic shift made by the IDI [in] recent years. Revisiting its role in military operations, it established a comprehensive, “one-stop-shop” intelligence war machine, gathering all relevant players in intelligence planning and direction, collection, processing and exploitation, analysis and production, and dissemination process (PCPAD)".

Avi Kalo: https://www.frost.com/frost-perspectives/ai-enhanced-military-intelligence-warfare-precedent-lessons-from-idfs-operation-guardian-of-the-walls/

(to be continued) 🧶#longThread

#history #BigData #analytics #planning #CrowdSourcing #intelligence #CROSINT #MilInt #military #AIWar #AIWarfare #israelGaza #israelGazaWar #israelHamas #Hamas #Habsora #israel #army #productivity #ethics #bias #AIEthics #AIRisks #organizations #engineering

BigDataLove.com #AI »In firing Altman, OpenAI’s board wanted to keep the element of surprise« https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/1/23984818/openai-microsoft-altman-nadella-firing-newyorker #BigDataLove #BigData #ML #NLP

James House-Lantto (He/Him)
3 days ago

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-delete-personal-data-public-record-websites/

A quick guide on how to delete your personal information from public places on the net, not only from places such as Facebook, but from the Databrokers who buy & resell info, many of them will respect specific requests to delete info (not all of them),

The article covers a lot of the big names: facebook, google, WhitePages, 411.info, PeopleFinders, BeenVerified, 192.com, PeekYou, Intelius, Radaris.

#Privacy #Internet #PublicInfo #BigData #DataBroker #OnlinePrivacy

BigDataLove.com #AI »Data In The Music Business: How Universal Music Group Is Leveraging Data And Analytics To Serve Its Artists And Audience« https://www.forbes.com/sites/randybean/2023/11/30/data-in-the-music-business-how-universal-music-group-is-leveraging-data-and-analytics-to-serve-its-artists-and-audience/ #BigDataLove #BigData #ML #NLP

BigDataLove.com #AI »ChatGPT is winning the future — but what future is that?« https://www.theverge.com/23981318/chatgpt-open-ai-launch-anniversary-future #BigDataLove #BigData #ML #NLP

BigDataLove.com #AI »Voicemod will now let you create and share your own AI voices« https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/30/23981835/voicemod-ai-voice-creator-community-voices #BigDataLove #BigData #ML #NLP

BigDataLove.com #AI »Interview: Sam Altman on being fired and rehired by OpenAI« https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/29/23982046/sam-altman-interview-openai-ceo-rehired #BigDataLove #BigData #ML #NLP

BigDataLove.com #AI »Microsoft joins OpenAI’s board with Sam Altman officially back as CEO« https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/29/23981848/sam-altman-back-open-ai-ceo-microsoft-board #BigDataLove #BigData #ML #NLP

David Llewellyn-Jones
4 days ago

The #HPC #BigData and #DataScience devroom 💻 📓 🧪 at #FOSDEM is still accepting presentation proposals. Deadline is this Friday 1st December.

All open-source-related HPC, compute and data science talks welcome!

https://hpc-bigdata-fosdem24.github.io/

FOSDEM'24 will be in Brussels 3-4 February 2024.

https://fosdem.org/2024/

The FOSDEM logo: a magenta cog with two magenta circles side by side in the centre.
Egghat
4 days ago

heise online: Diskriminierung auf Verdacht: Französischer Sozialhilfe-Algorithmus ist im Netz​ https://www.heise.de/news/Diskriminierung-auf-Verdacht-Franzoesischer-Sozialhilfe-Algorithmus-ist-im-Netz-9542694.html
#BigData bei der Arbeit …

BigDataLove.com #AI »Spotify Wrapped 2023 assigns you a ‘sound town’ based on your music taste« https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/29/23980024/spotify-wrapped-2023-sound-town #BigDataLove #BigData #ML #NLP

MPI Innovation & Competition
5 days ago

📃 Program now available ❗ RISE6 Workshop (18/19 Dec) with keynote by Ina Ganguli (University of Massachusetts Amherst) & 7 inspiring sessions on:

#Networks & #Peer Effects
#Science of Science
#Sustainable Innovation
#BigData
New #Methods in #Innovation #Research
#Specialization and #Technology in #Industry
#KnowledgeDiffusion
#VentureCapital

https://www.ip.mpg.de/fileadmin/ipmpg/content/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/MPI_RISE6_Program.pdf

From young reseachers for young researchers!

Please #share the news.

Picanúmeros
5 days ago

Pues nada, ya tenemos "Big Data" en el Diccionario de la RAE.

Parece que lo ponen como sinónimo de "macrodatos", los cuales a su vez se definen como "conjunto de datos que, por su gran volumen, requieren técnicas especiales de procesamiento"

¿Opiniones?

Si queréis la mía (que no vale un pimiento): esperaba más, pero podría haber sido peor.

#bigdata #cienciadedatos #datascience

Captura de pantalla de la web del Diccionario de la RAE donde aparece la definición de Big Data. Se lee lo siguiente: "localismo inglés; literalmente datos grandes. Definición 1: macrodatos (sinónimo de macrodatos). Definición 2: inteligencia de datos (rama de la informática)"
Captura de pantalla de la web del Diccionario de la RAE donde aparece la definición de macrodatos. Se lee lo siguiente: "de macro- y el plural datos. Definición 1: conjunto de datos que, por su gran volumen, requieren técnicas especiales de procesamiento. Sinónimo: big data."

BigDataLove.com #AI »Amazon’s Q AI assistant lets users ask questions about their company’s data« https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/28/23980203/aws-amazon-query-generative-ai #BigDataLove #BigData #ML #NLP

Dennis Alexis Valin Dittrich
5 days ago

On the Estimation of Regression Models by Row https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.15829
"These procedures can be used to speed up the computation of estimates computed via OLS, IV, Ridge regression, LASSO, Elastic Net, and Non-linear models including probit and logit… This has implications for estimation and inference with #BigData, where memory constraints may imply that working with all data at once is particularly costly"
#Econometrics

BigDataLove.com #AI »AWS’ transcription platform is now powered by generative AI« https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/27/23978822/aws-transcription-amazon-generative-ai #BigDataLove #BigData #ML #NLP

BigDataLove.com #AI »6 Benefits of Data-Driven Project Portfolio Management (PPM) Software« https://www.smartdatacollective.com/benefits-data-driven-project-portfolio-management-ppm-software/ #BigDataLove #BigData #ML #NLP

CAIS NRW
6 days ago

Das 69. @GESIS easy-Heft ist draußen!🥳👇
https://www.gesis.org/angebot/wissen-vermitteln/publikationen/easy

Diese Ausgabe ist die Fortsetzung eines kollaborativen Schwerpunktheftes, in dem Forscher:innen von GESIS & CAIS sich mit Fragen der #Digitalisierungsforschung auseinandersetzen. Die Beiträge seht ihr hier in der Übersicht...👇 👀

@JohannesBreuer @kerosafr @I_RoBo_
#Digitalisierung #Digital #Daten #BigData #SmartCity

easy social sciences
69 / 2023
Neue Daten und Methoden in der Sozialforschung: digital & transformativ

gesis
Copyright: GESIS
Inhalt

Julian Kohne, Josephine B. Schmitt & Johannes Breuer
Einführung: Digitalisierungsforschung. Ein Einblick in die Bandbreite
der Forschung zu und mit digitalen Daten

Isabelle Borucki
Digitale Methoden in der Politikwissenschaft.
Auf dem Weg in virtuelle Welten?

Felix Soldner
The Dark Web. A Brief Introduction

Sandra Kero
Jung, weiblich und extrem rechts.
Die narrative Kommunikation weiblicher Akteurinnen auf Instagram

Annika Deubel & Pauline Heger
Periods in the Public Eye. Investigating Risk Perceptions of Data Sharing
in Reproductive Health Applications

Niklas Frechen, Pauline Heger, Christoph Bieber & Mennatullah Hendawy
Making Sense of the Big Data Mess.
Why Interdisciplinarity Matters in Smart Cities
Fabienne Gallaire
1 week ago
heise online
1 week ago

Künstliche Intelligenz: Unter Putin soll Russland zur KI-Macht werden

Auf einer Konferenz warnte Präsident Putin vor einer westlichen Monopolstellung im Bereich Künstlicher Intelligenz. Moskau soll ebenfalls eine KI-Macht werden.

https://www.heise.de/news/Kuenstliche-Intelligenz-Unter-Putin-soll-Russland-zur-KI-Macht-werden-9539907.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege

#BigData #CloudDienste #KünstlicheIntelligenz #Spracherkennung #UkraineKrieg #WladimirPutin #news

Ruth Mottram
1 week ago

An "ostensibly a bit dull but actually crucially important" session on managing #Data #OpenScience and #BigData at #ESSI - preparing for the digital twins and the increasing emphasis on #MachineLearning - a nice status from #PolarView on #FAIR data in the #PolarRegions
#ESSI

A slide showing status of polar data and making it FAIR
Weizenbaum-Institut
1 week ago

How can #ethics be effectively implemented when working with large datasets & designing data representations?

New paper "Making Arguments with #Data" by Selena Savic & Yann Patrick Martins:

➡️ https://doi.org/10.34669/WI.WJDS/3.2.4

#digitalsovereignty #openaccess #openresearch #wjds #feminism #ai #bigdata #bias @jazoza @heimstaedt @bherlo @ecl @claraigk

You say you good at #BigData #DataViz #statistics and love #OpenSource ?

come prove it! this 135MB archive contains 3.3GB of localization stats, tell us what you can do with it!

https://jibecfed.fedorapeople.org/partage/2023-11-23.7z

this contains one folder per fedora release, and one json file per language.

#Fedora #translation #FOSDEM

tmwProjects
2 weeks ago

Exploring Polars: a versatile data processing library for Rust & Python. Great for handling large datasets, offering lazy evaluation, memory efficiency, and fast computations. Useful in data science and big data projects. Check it out for more detailed insights.

https://www.pola.rs

#DataScience #BigData #programming

Digitalcourage OG Kiel
2 weeks ago

📣 Veranstaltungshinweis

Heute Abend um 18 Uhr findet im Studio Filmtheater in Kiel eine Sondervorstellung von "Total Trust" statt mit anschließender Diskussion mit der Produzentin Saskia Kress von Piffl Medien [und uns].

🌐 https://www.studio-filmtheater.de/film/total-trust

#️⃣ #Kino #Cinema #China #Kiel #TotalTrust #uberwachung #surveillance #Orwell #BigData #KI #BigBrother #SocialScoring

IT News
2 weeks ago

How Apache Arrow accelerates InfluxDB - Historically, working with big data has been quite a challenge. Companies that wanted ... - https://www.infoworld.com/article/3710331/how-apache-arrow-accelerates-influxdb.html#tk.rss_all #analytics #database #bigdata #sql

joshuatj
2 weeks ago

2008 backend Java harvester --> 2013 Supplejack --> now "was that a problem?" There's #bigdata in cultural heritage https://digitalnz.org/

#NDF23

Analyse Asia
2 weeks ago
Thorsten Claus
2 weeks ago

Auch hier sei gesagt, währed den Anfängen!
#Überwachung: #BigData-Firmen nutzen #ChatGPT als übermächtigen Hilfssheriff | heise online
https://www.heise.de/news/Ueberwachung-Big-Data-Firmen-nutzen-ChatGPT-als-uebermaechtigen-Hilfssheriff-9533121.html

KubikPixel™
2 weeks ago

»Überwachung: Big-Data-Firmen nutzen ChatGPT als übermächtigen Hilfssheriff«

Wenn dies fehlerhafte Anschuldigungen auswirkt und wegen der politischen Voreinnahmen der KI auch Unschuldige argumentiert inhaftiert oder gar tötet. Wenn dies per Computer & Technik systematisch geschieht, können Menschen offiziell scheinbar nichts dafür.

🕵️ https://www.heise.de/news/Ueberwachung-Big-Data-Firmen-nutzen-ChatGPT-als-uebermaechtigen-Hilfssheriff-9533121.html

#ki #kunstlicheintelligenz #verurteilung #hilfssheriff #uberwachung #bigdata #us #chatgpt #spionage #europa #russland

IT News
2 weeks ago

Child sweatshops power the AI industry - A disturbing Nov. 15 report has revealed that child labor is being used to train a... - https://readwrite.com/child-sweatshops-power-the-ai-industry/ #bigdata #news #ai

Dr. A. L. Castonguay
2 weeks ago

I love finding historical data visualizations like this because it lets me know that all the hours I log doing data entry of random dead people *will* pay off. Many thanks to Marcus Bingenheimer at Temple University for putting his work up under a CC license. #bigdata #digitalhumanities #gephi #Iseedeadpeople

https://github.com/mbingenheimer/ChineseBuddhism_SNA

@gerrymcgovern

“Content audit”
key action

I am curious about the storage demands of #bigdata and it’s ever expanding needs.

Can anyone talk to this?

There could be massive content audits before the never-ending online performance surveys are automatically sent.

Analyse Asia
2 weeks ago
Nicolas Dandrimont
2 weeks ago

Le projet Software Heritage, l'archive universelle des codes sources de logiciels, recrute un·e nouvel.le developpeur·euse pour contribuer au développement de sa plateforme, et particulièrement pour participer à la maintenance de ses composants #frontend (interface de navigation basée sur #Django et nos APIs #REST et #GraphQL).

On fait du #Python, du #Cassandra, du #BigData, du #LogicielLibre (évidemment), et plein de trucs cool.

L'équipe est rattachée au centre Inria de Paris mais la localisation est possible dans tous les centres Inria en France (Bordeaux, Lille, Lyon, Grenoble, Rennes, Saclay, Sophia Antipolis, Nancy). Télétravail possible 2-3j / semaine.

Détails et contact:
https://www.softwareheritage.org/2023/11/13/developpeur%e2%b8%b1se-fullstack-python-django/?lang=fr

Grille de salaire ingénieurs de recherche contractuels Inria, page 9 de https://madada.fr/request/1575/response/1436/attach/6/DGDA%20DRH%20Cadre%20emploi%20contractuels%202016%2012.pdf?cookie_passthrough=1

#JeRecrute

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Software Heritage, the universal archive for software source code, is recruiting a new developer to contribute to the development of its platform, and specifically to help maintain our Web components (#Django #Frontend, #REST and #GraphQL APIs).

We do #Python, #Cassandra, #BigData, #FreeSoftware (obviously) and lots of other cool stuff.

This is an on-site recruitment at one of the Inria research centers in France (Paris, Bordeaux, Lille, Lyon, Grenoble, Rennes, Saclay, Sophia Antipolis, Nancy). Open to part-time (2-3 days/week) remote work.

Details and contact: https://www.softwareheritage.org/2023/11/13/fullstack-python-developer/?lang=en

Salary range on page 9 of https://madada.fr/request/1575/response/1436/attach/6/DGDA%20DRH%20Cadre%20emploi%20contractuels%202016%2012.pdf?cookie_passthrough=1

#GetFediHired

Open Source JobHub
3 weeks ago

Are you looking for a senior role in open source? @wikimediafoundation has openings at the senior, director, and VP levels. Browse #OSJobHub now and see if one is right for you https://opensourcejobhub.com/company/875/ #jobs #career #Wikimedia #SRE #DataEngineer #BigData #VP #talent #hiring

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Giuseppe Bilotta
3 weeks ago

Dimenticavo di segnalare che è aperto un bando (scade il 20 novembre, quindi spargete la voce) per un assegno di #ricerca di tipo “Grant” sul tema «Sviluppo e applicazione di tecniche di #machineLearning per l’analisi
integrata di DataCube ottenuti da immagini satellitari» all'interno del progetto PIANETA‌ DINAMICO — SAFARI. Aiutateci a costruire un algoritmo per identificare lo stato di un vulcano con tecniche di monitoraggio satellitare

https://amministrazione-trasparente.ingv.it/web/trasparenza/papca-p/-/papca/display/3074176?p_auth=2ErYbynd&p_p_state=pop_up

#lavoroOffro #concorso #bigData

Test Double
3 weeks ago

FREE TRAINING ALERT: Do you have a Data as a Product mindset? If not, you're missing opportunities to better serve your customers and maximize your revenue.

We got you. Double agent Jen Tedrow breaks it down in this Data as a Product 101 webinar hosted by Women in Analytics.

https://link.testdouble.com/daap101

Stay tuned for two more webinars in this series on DaaP. #data #bigdata #dataanalytics

Digitalcourage OG Kiel
3 weeks ago

📣 Veranstaltungshinweis

Nächste Woche, am 21.11., findet um 18 Uhr im Studio Filmtheater in Kiel eine Sondervorstellung von "Total Trust" statt mit anschließender Diskussion mit der Produzentin Saskia Kress von Piffl Medien [und uns].

🌐 https://www.studio-filmtheater.de/film/total-trust

#️⃣ #Kino #Cinema #China #Kiel #TotalTrust #uberwachung #surveillance #Orwell #BigData #KI #BigBrother #SocialScoring

Filmplakat des Dokumentarfilms "Total Trust". Es zeigt ein menschliches Auge in Nahaufnahme, wobei die Iris eine Kameralinse ist. 
Überschrift: "Total Trust - Ein Film von Jialing Zhang - Wenn das die Gegenwart ist, wie sieht dann unsere Zukunft aus?"
Lewis Westbury 💛💙🌱
3 weeks ago

📖✨ The Machine That Won The War - a cautionary tale and short story about #BigData, #DataQuality, #ParticipatoryAI and #DigitalCurrency from Isaac Asimov, the grandfather of science fiction. First published in 1961.

➡️ https://bit.ly/tmtwtw

I estimate it's a 5-10m read. #Multivac #FTW

It's the "is this a pigeon" meme. The young man gestures to a butterfly and asks "Is this participatory AI?" The butterfly is labelled as "the machine that won the war".
Muge Onal Baser
3 weeks ago

"Discussions about AI often focus on the futuristic threat posed by superhuman intelligence. But AI is already woven into the fabric of our daily lives. The way we travel, the food we eat, how we spend our money, the news we read and our social interactions – the influence of AI is everywhere …"

#artificialintelligence #AI #machinelearning #ML #algorithms #data #bigdata

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2023/oct/25/a-day-in-the-life-of-ai

Open Source JobHub
1 month ago
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Autonomie und Solidarität
1 month ago

Total Trust - Totales Vertrauen #Film
Wenn das die Gegenwart ist, wie sieht dann unsere Zukunft aus?

"Was passiert, wenn der Schutz unserer #Privatsphäre missachtet wird? Wie umfassend sind die aus Big Data gewonnen Informationen über unsere Aktivitäten und Überzeugungen, Abneigungen, Vorlieben und Gewohnheiten? Lässt sich sicherstellen, dass diese Daten nicht in die falschen Hände geraten? Sind sie vielleicht schon in den falschen Händen?

„Total Trust“ ist ein zutiefst beunruhigender und bewegender Film über die unheimliche Macht von #BigData und #KI, über ihren Gebrauch und Missbrauch im öffentlichen wie im privaten Leben, über Zensur und Selbstzensur. Anhand eindringlicher Schicksale von Menschen in China, die überwacht, eingeschüchtert und sogar gefoltert wurden, erzählt „Total Trust“ von den Gefahren aktueller Technologien in den Händen einer ungezügelten Macht. Mit China als Spiegel schlägt der Film Alarm: Der zunehmende Einsatz von digitalen Überwachungstools ist längst ein globales Phänomen – auch in demokratisch geführten Ländern." (Pressetext)

https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=ZDBLvJoKOtY

#Überwachung #Technology #KünstlicheIntelligenz #Antireport #Hamburg #Hansaplatz #Autoritarisierung

Crystal Steltenpohl
1 month ago

Pleased our paper on ethical considerations for qualitative research at the crossroads of open science and big data is out. Working on getting an open access version out - will share again once I have that! #Psychology #Qualitative #BigData https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12912

Development Seed
1 month ago

🔍 Other tools struggle with large datasets. 𝑳𝒐𝒏𝒃𝒐𝒂𝒓𝒅, however, can render a whopping 3 million points in just 2.5 seconds!
#BigData #Geospatial

Dr. Steve Thompson
1 month ago

Welcome to Mozilla’s first-ever Annual Consumer Creep-O-Meter"

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/annual-creep-o-meter/

"In 2023, the state of our digital privacy is"

"Very Creepy"

#internet #privacy #tracking #surveillance #identity #bigdata

MoritzMStar
1 month ago

@tagesschau #bargeldlos zahlen bedeutet auch #Überwachung . Bargeld bedeutet auch #Anonymität. Ich habe nichts zu verbergen aber ich möchte auch nicht ständig getrackt, überwacht werden. Freies Land mit freien Bürgern wird Vergangenheit, armes Deutschland.#scoring #datenschutz #Chatkontrolle #grundrecht #bigdata.

Lorry
1 month ago

"Food deserts in Rural Nova Scotia" is an interesting map from #NSCC #COGS - Representing how far people in various locations have to drive to a #supermarket.

There's also one for #Halifax, representing the walking time which is in this article, along with the PDF: https://cca-acc.org/2023-cca-presidents-prize-winner-food-deserts-in-urban-halifax-dartmouth.html

#NovaScotia #FoodDeserts #Maps #Data #DataScience #BigData #Canada #CCA #CanadianCartographicAssociation

A map of nova scotia, colour coded by distance to supermarkets.

Today at the Big Data & Society online webinar (4pm BST/5pm CEST), @ptubaro will present "Where does AI come from?" featuring the results of our #DiPLab research projects TRIA (on Latin America) and HUSH (on African countries). Find the zoom link here: https://bigdatasoc.blogspot.com/2023/09/colloquium.html #ai #bigdata #webinar #sociology #digitallabor

Big data and society webinar ft. Paola Tubaro
Andrea
2 months ago

Interessant, aber fast zu erwarten.

Eine Rednerin fragte "Who feels guilty about climate change?".

Wie schon gesagt. Es sind zw 300 u 400 Menschen anwesend.

Was glaubt ihr, wieviele Menschen die Hand gehoben haben?

Lösung kommt, nachdem die Umfrage geschlossen ist.

#GreenIT #BigData

Peter Brodersen
2 months ago

Hvad blev der egentlig af "Big Data" som selvstændigt fænomen, ud over at en række konsulenthuse holdt nogle workshops, hvor firmaer dukkede op og insisterede på, at de faktisk også brugte eller kiggede på "Big Data"? #BigData

Sam :mastodon: :vivaldi_blue:
2 months ago

@jcrabapple
Well, if they can't get us all to take DNA tests, might as well start capturing facial and retinal scans. #bigdata #bigbrother

JQ
2 months ago

Fascinating article on a collaboration between #AmazonRing cameras and police and fire departments across the U.S. This is a grant-funded collaborative research piece between #TheMarkup, #AfroLA, and #LATimes.

https://themarkup.org/neighborhood-watch/2023/10/11/accidental-spies-amazon-ring-owners-may-be-unknowingly-emailing-police

My personal takeaway is it really highlights the complexity of digital #privacy, #security, and #infosec. As an amateur #infosec hobbiest the negative impacts from Ring to communities and society are glaringly obvious: such as growing the divide between more privileged and less privileged classes in local communities, promoting fear, further skewing the role of police as only protecting privileged classes. This is also very intertwined with #cambridgeanalytica and related current scandals, the roll of #bigdata in #uspol, and so much more. Plus throw in all the challenges with #AI.

We can't bury our heads in the sand on this, but its such a complicated, insidious, and nefarious topic ... its really hard to communicate this to people. Just like climate change.

Open Source JobHub
2 months ago

The nonprofit behind Wikipedia, @wikimediafoundation is seeking SREs, Data Scientists, Big Data Engineers, Lead Counsel, and more. Browse current openings on #OSJobHub https://opensourcejobhub.com/company/875/ #jobs #career #OpenSource #Wikipedia #SRE #Wikimedia #DataScientist #engineer #BigData

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HistoPol
2 months ago

@ben

Alternative headline:

#LLM-powered #BigData is already eating up the planet. We don't have to wait for #AGI

But then,#OpenAI aka #Microsoft never was the #DontBeEvil company...

https://mastodo.neoliber.al/@Neblib/111161982500846474

You still think we own the digital devices we bought? No, we don't. We can't even repair them. Big Tech has way too much power over the connected devices in our households, and hence over our lives.
Here is an interesting story: The Man Amazon Erased
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/man-amazon-erased
#righttorepair #surveillance #bigtech #bigdata

Statistics Globe
3 months ago

Hey, I've created a tutorial on how to group and summarize daily data to monthly and yearly intervals using the R programming language. The tutorial contains two examples that compare Base R and the tidyverse packages: https://statisticsglobe.com/aggregate-daily-data-to-month-year-intervals-in-r

#statistics #bigdata #tidyverse #package

Jim Parsons
3 months ago

@erictopol

1) #ArtificialIntelligence isn’t a
“wave” –  it's an “injection” – by #TechnoFascist #SiliconValley Billionaires [a few funded by a sovereign immune Trillionaire 🇸🇦]

2) if you're a #data harvesting corp or institution *not* doing #AI as picured below? – you're doing it wrong

#AI #ML #BigData
#AIEthics
#EthicalAI
#Health #HealthTech
#DigitalHealth
#MentalHealth
#DigitalMentalHealth
#MedMastodon
#Surveillance
#BioSurveillance
#SurveillanceCapitalism
#USpoli
#Privacy
#Democracy

@jensclasen #KI ist eh fast immer nur #BigData #MachineLearning...

Das Problem ist dass wir fast nur #TechIlliteracy haben, weil #IT kein #Pflichtfach ist!

Und nein, die #Microsoft-Werbeveranstaltung namens #ECDL zählt nicht!

Jim Parsons
3 months ago

@baldur @briankrebs

Having followed #OpenAI #CHatGPT since launch my sense remains:

#AI (in current iteration) just a 1/2 dozen #SiliconValley #TechnoFascist billionaires throwing 💩 at wall to see what sticks (standard valley #VC model). Asymmetric leveraging of #Microsoft, #Salesforce, other #BigTech incumbents as “injection distributors" smart.

Cory Doctorow: “Open” “AI” isn’t
(18-Aug-2023)
https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/18/openwashing/#you-keep-using-that-word-i-do-not-think-it-means-what-you-think-it-means

#AI #ML #BigData
#OligarchBlitzkrieg
#AIBlitzkreieg
#Privacy
#Democracy

Doctors in Unite
3 months ago

Dr Martin Blanchard gives a vital and chilling explanation here of exactly what private healthcare wants to do (and is, in some cases, already doing) with NHS patients’ data:

https://doctorsinunite.com/2023/08/20/nhs-crisis-who-profits-and-what-are-they-doing-with-our-healthcare-data/

#NHS #BigData #PrivateHealthcare #DataPrivacy

Jim Parsons
4 months ago

@arstechnica @Npars01 @benjedwards

#Microsoft is now essentially (metaphorically) a ‘subsidiary’ of #OpenAI (asymmetric, highly leveraged distribution model)

There’ll be TONS more sh*t like this to come... until it’s normalized and ignored – paving the way for “Dawn of the #AI Misinformation / Disinformation Age” 🤦🏻‍♂️

#BigTech
#AI #ML #BigData
#Enshitification
#SiliconValley
#AIBlitzkrieg
#OligarchBlitzkrieg
#Ottawa
#Canada
#Democracy

Evan Engel 🎱
4 months ago

"But what has me worried right now is not just the possibility that the whole generative AI economy—still based more on promise than actual commercial use—could see a massive, gut-wrenching correction, but that we are building our entire global and national policy on the premise that generative AI will be world-changing in ways that may in hindsight turn out to have been unrealistic."

Wouldn't be the first time! #selfdrivingcars #metaverse #BigData #AI

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/what-if-generative-ai-turned-out

Jim Parsons
4 months ago

@asymco
Given what #ElonMusk has done with #Twitter (“X” now = open pit #PersonalData mine to fuel his + Hows-of-Saud private #AI services)
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/23/08/15/1619242/saudi-arabia-and-uae-race-to-buy-nvidia-chips-to-power-ai-ambitions
… is it fair to apply a metaphor that every #Tesla is akin to rolling 5,000 lbs #Android #smartphone, bristling with sensors, persistently harvesting #data that will ultimately power future Musk/Tesla/X #AI services?
👇
“The Radical Scope of #Tesla’s Data Hoard” https://spectrum.ieee.org/tesla-autopilot-data-scope

#AI #ML #BigData
#BigTech #Privacy

arkhi
4 months ago

“ShareWithCare”: Deutsche Telekom raises awareness for responsible use of children’s photos on the Internet

https://www.telekom.com/en/company/details/share-with-care-telekom-raises-awareness-1041810

Do your government or Internet Service Provider do something similar?

#parenting #digital #children #bigdata #privacy #shareWithCare #education

(thanks @inseo)

Frederick
4 months ago

Can we please, as people who work with large public #datasets, start using torrents? I am just simply trying to find an old version of the #ImageNet Object Detection from Video dataset, and all of the links are broken! For multiple years! Another ImageNet dataset I’m downloading is downloading at 500KB/s.

People have clearly been looking for and using these datasets, and now I need to retrain something and I’m without them. We need to band together and start a torrent tracker for datasets so that we don’t need to rely on one website to download from. With proper permission from the dataset owners of course…

I’m so committed I might buy my own domain and start hosting a torrent tracker. Anyone interested?

#DataScience #DataEngineer #MachineLearning #BigData #torrents #torrenting #archiving #archivist

Chris J. Karr
4 months ago

* Registered a new company with the State of Illinois for the purposes of publishing new weird fiction from the city of Chicago, home of the original Weird Tales.

* Published a new edition of the inaugural edition of Weird Fiction Quarterly on Amazon.

* A new horizontal scaling solution deployed for a customer whose data gathering is officially Big Data (i.e. we can't do all that we need to from one server any more).

(Continued...)

#BigData #WeirdFiction #GuessImAPublisherNow