Masthash

#Stanford

Brian Knutson
2 days ago

News coverage of #Stanford colleague Jaimie Henderson's work on enhancing vigilance with thalamic brain stimulation...
https://abc7news.com/stanford-brain-implant-traumatic-injury-technology-science/14141755/

Brian Knutson
2 days ago

Fall colors over the #Stanford quad ...

Chris Adamson
3 weeks ago

I did a post on Threads (https://www.threads.net/@realinvalidname/post/Cz1NgmrOVK_) asking the algorithm for more stuff I like. No algorithm here (good!), but maybe some hashtags will help find like-minded Mastodonians:

🏈: #Stanford, #GoHabsGo, #GoBolts
🎵: #Metric, #NewPornographers, #BendSinister, #MyChemicalRomance, #ManicStreetPreachers, #TheTubes, #AnimeMusic, #VideoGameMusic
👾: #ValkyriaChronicles, #FinalFantasy, #FireEmblem, #TheDioFieldChronicle, #SoulCalibur, #MuvLuv
📺: #KaguyaSama, #86, #MadokaMagica, #RumblingHearts

اندرو آبی
3 weeks ago

Data Science the Stanford Way

#science #softwaredevelopment #datascience #stanford #hackaday

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hackaday.com/2023/11/12/data-s…

IT News
3 weeks ago

Data Science the Stanford Way - Data science is a relatively new term for a relatively old discipline. Essentially... - https://hackaday.com/2023/11/12/data-science-the-stanford-way/ #softwaredevelopment #datascience #stanford #science

Lee Fife
4 weeks ago

Gates of Hell, Rodin.

Turns out this was never cast in bronze while Rodin was alive. Now there are 7 castings around the world. One at Stanford Univ where we found it last month.

#Rodin #GatesOfHell #Stanford #WolfBros

Massive bronze doors leading into hell. The doors are carved with tortured figures inspired by Dante's Inferno.
a mass of tortured souls on one side of the door.
a "thinker" with a row of skulls behind
a baby reaches out
GMcGath
4 weeks ago

More on the #Stanford lecturer who was suspended for "identity-based targeting." Reports disagree on central facts of what he said and did. https://stanforddaily.com/2023/10/18/stanford-suspended-a-lecturer-for-identity-based-targeting-heres-what-students-say-happened/

GMcGath
4 weeks ago

An unnamed instructor at #Stanford allegedly called on Jewish students in a class to identify themselves and then trivialized the six million deaths of the Holocaust. The instructor allegedly said of Hamas, "Their actions [i.e., mass murder] are legitimate." https://forward.com/news/564587/stanford-university-jewish-students-instructor-hamas/

Brian Knutson
1 month ago

Stimulation of the ventromedial hypothalamus unconditionally elicits negative emotion in an epileptic patient (by #stanford colleagues, fascinating video link):
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1935861X22000687

bs2
1 month ago

> ... to remember about the old octopuses, the #SouthernPacific and #StandardOil.. arose in new resource landscapes.. unregulated.. They helped create the obscene economic disparity.. stir up the ire of working people. What followed on the Gilded Age was the age of #progressivism the age that broke up the monopolies, regulated industry, and articulated a fierce vision of economic justice and rights for workers.
https://harpers.org/archive/2014/08/the-octopus-and-its-grandchildren/
#RebeccaSolnit on #Stanford #EconomicOctopus #Monopolies

Zeitgeisty Aphorisms
1 month ago

The only #Stanford is #KIDS.

Nifty Sparks
1 month ago

Los Gatos High teacher partners with Stanford in virtual reality study

#LosGatos #Stanford #StanfordVR #Vrnews #virutalReality
https://www.niftysparks.com/blogs?recordId=recFf2SrIIxMLEgGA

Zeitgeisty Aphorisms
1 month ago

#Stanford makes up for the defect in world premiere #Jancevskis and #Zarins.

Zeitgeisty Aphorisms
1 month ago

Neither #Stanford without #Lilbits nor #Lilbits without #Stanford.

Stop That
1 month ago
ConTeXt group
1 month ago

– Face/Interface: Global Type Design and Human-Computer Interaction,
December 1 and December 2 at #Stanford (#USA) about non-Latin typography and more. Chuck Bigelow is the keynote speaker. The event is free, but pre-registration is required. Registration form and the list of talks:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/faceinterface-global-type-design-and-human-computer-interaction-tickets-720692238887
We do not know if this conference will be streamed or recorded.

Hoopfeed 🏀
1 month ago

Next up for #Stanford is their home opener vs. Hawai'i on Nov. 8 #ncaaw #womensbasketball

Hoopfeed 🏀
1 month ago

Live from Maples Pavilion: First look at #15 Stanford in an exhibition vs. DII Dominican
40-10 Stanford after 1Q
#ncaaw #womensbasketball #Stanford

KINEWS24
1 month ago

Foundation Model Transparency Index – Transparency index for language models now from Stanford

#stanford #transparency, #foundational models, #AI, #ethics, #index, #society, #trust, #developers, #openness, #resources

https://kinews24.de/foundation-model-transparency-index/

Does Stanford even have football fans? Those are some extremely empty stands.

#Stanford #UW #CFB

Brian Knutson
1 month ago

Cynicism "...is not a system upgrade -- it's mental malware."
An illuminating talk by esteemed #Stanford colleague Jamil Zaki:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABHdTi1If0c

Jon Greig
1 month ago

Stanford University is investigating a cyberattack on its Department of Public Safety after the Akira ransomware gang claimed to have stolen 430 GB on Friday

#Stanford #Akira

https://therecord.media/stanford-investigating-cyberattack-after-ransomware

Brett Callow
1 month ago

#Akira has listed #Stanford University. #ransomware

Dave Spector
1 month ago

A #rainbow #sun #pillar at #sunset on #280N near #Stanford university.

An image of a rainbow sun pillar at sunset on Interstate-280 North near Stanford University.

ℹ Understanding the Timing Behind Hamas's Invasion of #Israel

Victor Davis #Hanson unpacks the potential reasons why #Hamas chose this particular moment to Invade #Israel

Victor Davis #Hanson is an American classicist, #military historian, columnist, and farmer. He has been a commentator on contemporary politics for the National Review and The #Washington Times and is currently the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at #Stanford University’s #Hoover Institution

https://youtu.be/6Yce3K1xDf4?feature=share

IT News
1 month ago

Stanford researchers challenge OpenAI, others on AI transparency in new report - Enlarge (credit: Getty Images / Benj Edwards)

On Wednesday, St... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1977869 #foundationmodeltransparencyindex #largelanguagemodels #machinelearning #aitransparency #rishibommasani #amazontitan #percyliang #anthropic #aiethics #stanford #chatgpt #chatgtp #claude2 #biz#amazon #google #openai #gpt-3 #gpt-4 #palm2 #tedai #meta #ai

Apereo Foundation
1 month ago

#OSS in #HigherEd

With synchronous video from a pair of smartphones, engineers at #Stanford have created an #OpenSource motion-capture app that democratizes the once-exclusive science of human movement – at 1% of the cost.

https://news.stanford.edu/2023/10/19/sophisticated-human-biomechanics-smartphone-video/

#HigherEducation #EdTech #EdTechChat #openEdu #OpenEducation

Gabriel Morency 🤖
2 months ago

#Stanford +17
#UCLA #Stanford OV 51.5
Ayomanor TD + 200

Justin Dunk 🤖
2 months ago

Canadian receiver Elic Ayomanor’s record-breaking performance leads Standford to epic win over Deion Sanders’ Colorado

https://3downnation.com/2023/10/14/can…

#Stanford #Cardinal #GoStanford #NCAA

Tim_Eagon
2 months ago

I guess I picked the wrong time to bail on the #Colorado v #Stanford #CFB game and go to bed last night. @cfb

DuBusGuy19
2 months ago

Not a #college #football fan at all, but it was beautiful to see #coachprime get a royal comeuppance last night vs #stanford. The way he treated the #colorado players he inherited was disgraceful. Good to know that #karma is still a bitch.

GW
2 months ago

The War Comes to Stanford

...banners on prominent university buildings around campus, including one that declared, “The illusion of Israel is burning.”

In an op-ed in The Stanford Daily on Tuesday, the Stanford Students for Justice in Palestine called Hamas’s butchery “part of the ongoing, decades-long struggle against Israeli oppression” and said Palestinians have “the legitimate right to resist occupation, apartheid and systemic injustice.”

#Stanford #Palestine

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/13/opinion/stanford-israel-hamas-gaza.html

Dr. Steve Thompson
2 months ago

"Marc Rowan: University Donors, Close Your Checkbooks"

https://www.thefp.com/p/marc-rowan-university-donors-close

"Trustees, myself included, have sat in silence as our schools were taken over by ideologues. It’s time to wake up."

#Harvard #Penn #Stanford #Israel #Gaza #Palestine #antisemitism

Cecilia Mjausson Huster
2 months ago

An instructor at #Stanford University has been suspended for what the president and provost called “identity-based targeting” of students in connection with the Israel-Gaza war.

https://forward.com/news/564587/stanford-university-jewish-students-instructor-hamas/ #antisemitism #SiliconValley

Daniel Howard 🌻
2 months ago

@urbanmv The secret to #PaloAlto ridership is that #Stanford charges staff for parking. ;)

fogelnet
2 months ago

Billy Strings tonight at The Frost
Gonna be warm
83 at Showtime

#BillyStrings #BMFS #TheFrost #Stanford

Screenshot of the weather tonight at The Frost Amphitheater for the Billy Strings show 
83 at showtime
CartyBoston
2 months ago

Can't, I am elevating my video something something.

Where do people go to learn to write this horeseshit, is it #Stanford?

Mac desktop dialog:

"See what's new in MacOS Sonoma.

Discover new ways to personalize your Mac, elevate your video calls, and get more done."
beSpacific
2 months ago

The Band of #Debunkers Busting Bad #Scientists. #Stanford’s president and a high-profile physicist are among those taken down by a growing wave of volunteers who expose faulty or #fraudulent #research #papers https://www.wsj.com/science/data-colada-debunk-stanford-president-research-14664f3?st=jhrii8f7rejo2dy&reflink=share_mobilewebshare

Nonilex
2 months ago

That ruling was narrower than a district court’s finding that also barred #government ofcls from working w/ #academic groups, including the #Stanford #Internet Observatory. But the #DOJ argues the injunction still contradicts certain First Amendment principles, including that the president is entitled to use his bully pulpit to persuade American companies “to act in ways that the President believes would advance the #PublicInterest.”

Nonilex
2 months ago

LThat ruling was narrower than a district court’s finding that also barred #government ofcls from working w/ #academic groups, including the #Stanford #Internet Observatory. But the #DOJ argues the injunction still contradicts certain First Amendment principles, including that the president is entitled to use his bully pulpit to persuade American companies “to act in ways that the President believes would advance the #PublicInterest.”

#MediaLiteracy

Nonilex
2 months ago

Facing #litigation, #Stanford University ofcls are discussing how they can continue tracking #election-related #misinformation through the Election Integrity Partnership (#EIP), a prominent consortium that flagged #SocialMedia #conspiracies about voting in 2020 & 2022…. The coalition of #disinformation #researchers may shrink & also may stop communicating w/ #X & #Facebook about their findings.

Deirdre Saoirse Moen
3 months ago

If you are near Stanford Blood Center and are A+ (or compatible), a dear friend of @unixmercenary and mine is in a nearby hospital with Covid that's gone far enough south to need blood transfusion. :(

If you can donate, please consider doing so (or boosting). They are also looking for Type O.

https://stanfordbloodcenter.org

#Covid #Blood #Stanford

Frozen Canuck
3 months ago

Upgraded Stanford Linear Accelerator requires coldest temperatures in universe to function

Very cool — literally! 😆

https://youtu.be/FCgyaWOnraw

#Science #Physics #Stanford #BayArea

Kathy Reid
3 months ago

Folx, if you're into #LLM #LLMs, and #ResponsibleAI, then you're going to enjoy this workshop by #Princeton #CITP and #Stanford #CRFM on Responsible and Open Foundation Models, on September 21, 11AM-5:30PM Eastern time (8AM-2:30PM Pacific Time). All welcome.

From the website:
Workshop participants will learn from experts in different fields who have worked on release strategies, risk mitigation, and policy interventions for developing open foundation models responsibly.

🔗 Workshop website:
https://sites.google.com/view/open-foundation-models

🔗 To RSVP and receive the Zoom link for the event, please use this form.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSer07JibYqlMnayqsAcVoJbxLIePWFzw_ZTTv8OwaL2RtiKxA/viewform

Thanks to @sayashk, Rishi Bommasani, Percy Liang, and @randomwalker for organising.

Kraig
3 months ago

@jsnell

And just maybe — maybe? — the #ACC contract with #ESPN & Grant of Rights through ‘36 might age rather well, or at least less poorly than had been generally considered?

I’m still not sure how to feel about the #Cal, #Stanford, and #SMU additions. Great schools, but the travel is… tough. Weird times.

Mark Taylor 🇳🇿:TheCDN4:
3 months ago

🏈 #CFB #CollegeFootball @cfb

That's funny.

Via RedditCFB 🤖 @RedditCFB

Myles Hinton transferred to #Michigan, and is having to retake many classes because they didn’t accept his past coursework. He previously attended Leland #Stanford Junior University, a smaller school in California that’s a bit newer than Michigan.

https://247sports.com/college/michigan/Article/myles-hinton-who-joined-michigan-from-stanford-says-credits-didnt-transfer-215446277/

Dana Fried
3 months ago

The All Coastal Conference

#ACC #Stanford #Cal

Mark Taylor 🇳🇿:TheCDN4:
3 months ago

🏈 #CFB #CollegeFootball @cfb #Stanford #FearTheTree #Hawaii #GoBows

Via Sickos Committee @SickosCommittee
·
13m
Trees strike first!

Mark Taylor 🇳🇿:TheCDN4:
3 months ago

🏈 #CFB #CollegeFootball @cfb #Stanford #FearTheTree #Hawaii #GoBows

Nice start for Stanford.

Stanford Cardinal TOUCHDOWN
12 PLAYS, 72 YARDS, 4:17

STAN 7 HAW 0

2nd & Goal at HAW 1
(7:25 - 1st) E.J. Smith run for 1 yd for a TD (Joshua Karty KICK)

Mark Taylor 🇳🇿:TheCDN4:
3 months ago

🏈 #CFB #CollegeFootball @cfb #Stanford #FearTheTree #Hawaii #GoBows

Via RedditCFB @RedditCFB
·
5m
It’s crazy to give an ACC team like Stanford an 11 PM ET kickoff in Hawai’i.

Public Knowledge Project
3 months ago

❓ How do we determine who owns information in the age of AI & book bans?

Sept 6, 2 - 3 PM MDT!

You are invited to join author Peter B. Kaufman of
MIT Open Learning as he talks with Stanford Ed professor emeritus / PKP Co-Scientific Director John Willinsky about "The New Enlightenment and the Fight to Free Knowledge"

Registration: https://ai4pg.gatherlearning.com/events/the-new-enlightenment-and-the-fight-to-free-knowledge

#AI #bookbans #knowledge #MIT #Stanford

Mark Taylor 🇳🇿:TheCDN4:
3 months ago

🏈 #CFB #CollegeFootball @cfb

Via Stewart Mandel 🤖 @slmandel

As I’ve learned since 2020, these endowments are fairly useless because they’re already earmarked for specific purposes, not bailing out the athletic department.

Via James Wood'’s burner profile @Nats2024

The $ is irrelevant to #stanford They make more than $50m on their endowment interest daily.

Mark Taylor 🇳🇿:TheCDN4:
3 months ago

🏈 #CFB #CollegeFootball @cfb

5h
Via Ross Dellenger 🤖 @RossDellenger

#Stanford officials learned the expansion news at 3 a.m. local time, as they are in Hawaii for the team’s game Friday night against the Warriors.

Administrators are expected to deliver the news to the team as they wake up.

Mark Taylor 🇳🇿:TheCDN4:
3 months ago

🏈 #CFB #CollegeFootball @cfb

Via Bunkie Perkins 🤖 @BunkiePerkins

#Stanford University - Myrtle Beach campus

Majority of UNC trustees ‘strongly’ oppose ACC expansion

“The travel distances for routine in-conference competitive play are too great ... to make sense for our student-athletes, coaches, alumni and fans. ... The economics of this newly imagined transcontinental conference do not sufficiently address the income disparity ACC members face.”

https://www.charlotteobserver.com/sports/article278846494.html

#Stanford #Cal #SMU #CollegeFootball #TarHeels #Wolfpack #Seminoles #FSU #Clemson #NCState #ACCFootball #CommonSense

Shomila
3 months ago

I’m back being my daughters ‘help get you a internship or experience in a lab’ coach!

Thanks for all the offers of help last time. She didn’t find anything but I’ve since understood a lot more about what she wants to do - more chemistry than biology apparently, immunology research related and (if by some miracle someone in this network is connected) ideally at #Stanford biosciences department which is close to Foothill community college where she’s studying. There was a program being run for an internship which was exactly that - helping community college students get experience at Stanford but sadly she didn’t get in.

So if you can help a very hard working, keen student get some hands experienced in this field, let me know - she’s here, waiting, and trying not to get too deflated during the search. 😊

#chemistry #biosciences #stem #biochemistry #research

Mark Taylor 🇳🇿:TheCDN4:
3 months ago

🏈 #CFB #CollegeFootball @cfb

Via Pat Forde 🤖 @ByPatForde

Sources: #ACC presidents have scheduled a call tonight to discuss — and potentially vote on — adding #Stanford, #Cal and #SMU. Still tentative on whether the vote will occur or what result would be, but this is moving toward the finish line. First reported by @RossDellenger

Mark Taylor 🇳🇿:TheCDN4:
3 months ago

🏈 #CFB #CollegeFootball @cfb

Via Frank the Tank @frankthetank111
·
5h
Simply fascinating that #SMU got itself into the #ACC expansion discussion by effectively offering to subsidize the additions of #Stanford and #Cal by taking zero media money for 7(!) years. This is bizarro world even by conference realignment standards.

Mark Taylor 🇳🇿:TheCDN4:
3 months ago

🏈 #CFB #CollegeFootball @cfb #ACC

Via Nicole Auerbach 🤖 @NicoleAuerbach

Source confirms to @TheAthletic that the ACC is (again) seriously considering adding #Stanford, #Cal and #SMU. A group of ACC presidents met Wednesday morning to discuss finances, as ESPN first reported. More meetings, including ADs, are expected to occur this week.

Chris Adamson
4 months ago

I just hope someone at ESPN, Fox Sports, or the various conferences feels some shame at the thought that they’re effectively kicking the winner (by 29 points!) of the Rose Bowl just seven years ago out of Power Five football, because they’re not a big enough TV draw. This sport is sick. #cfb #Stanford https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Rose_Bowl

Mark Taylor 🇳🇿:TheCDN4:
4 months ago

🏈 #CFB #CollegeFootball @cfb

Via Pat Forde 🤖
@ByPatForde

Tuesday column: when #FloridaState and #Clemson might hit the bricks (to where is another story). Plus the “big guns” from the political realm lobbying for #Stanford and #SMU, and which #ACC AD is considered the “loose block in the Jenga tower”?

https://bit.ly/3QDQLqc

Mark Taylor 🇳🇿:TheCDN4:
4 months ago

🏈 #CFB #CollegeFootball @cfb #Stanford

Via RedditCFB 🤖 @RedditCFB

Stanford simply isn’t serious enough about Football to be in a big-time conference: their performance in the previous decade was barely better than a team like Georgia, a known scrub.

Preston MacDougall
4 months ago

@erictopol Am I correct in assuming the single Radiologist listed is #Stanford University's #ScottAtlas ?

Chris Adamson
4 months ago

Reading that article about how sleazy college football has become, with third-party groups lining up NIL deals for athletes as if they were big-time sports agents, I’m ready to say cut the fucking cancer entirely. #Stanford should just drop football altogether and fund the rest of its sports programs — the genuine sports, at which it excels — from the university’s enormous endowment. Hell, I’d chip in some alumni bucks. Better that than selling their soul to goddamned ESPN and Fox Sports. #cfb

Laure
4 months ago

@w7voa “Hanania has his own #podcast, too, interviewing the likes of Steven Pinker, the famous #Harvard cognitive #psychologist, and #MarcAndreessen, the billionaire software engineer…A third billionaire, #PeterThiel, provided a blurb to promote Hanania’s book, “The Origins of #Woke,” which #HarperCollins plans to publish this September. In October, Hanania is scheduled to deliver a lecture at #Stanford.” @BBCWorld @npr @ProPublica

Cancer cells-to-be accumulate a series of specific #genetic changes in a predictable and sequential way years before they are identifiable as pre-malignancies:
#Cancer’s origin story features predictable plot line, #Stanford #Medicine researchers find
share
#Human cells evolving in the laboratory undergo a series of predictable, sequential genetic changes that lead to pre-cancer. Blocking these changes may allow intervention before cancer occurs. https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2023/07/pre-cancer-evolution.html

Aral Balkan
4 months ago

Stanford isn’t a university, it’s Silicon Valley’s training department.

It’s where they manufacture the next generation of asshole venture capitalists and douchebag startup tech bros to perpetuate surveillance capitalism.

#stanford #education #SiliconValley #BigTech #SurveillanceCapitalism #PeopleFarming

Jonathan Mesiano-Crookston
4 months ago

Wait I know those names.

Peter Thiel and David Sacks writing in to alumnus mag to suggest doing away with affirmative action because there is no racism at (magic) #Stanford. 🤡

Here is pic of the letters section showing a comment in support of their letter.

Because the commenter deserves their name associated with their comment. I've also put a picture of the name. John Wyse. Of Oregon.

Link https://stanfordmag.org/contents/letters-to-the-editor-3417

November/December 1996

Affirmative Action, Pro and Con

"The Case Against Affirmative Action," as
stated by David Sacks and Peter Thiel, is
correct and compelling. I hope Stanford ...
MAGAZINE Menu Affirmative Action, Pro and Con "The Case Against Affirmative Action," as stated by David Sacks and Peter Thiel, is correct and compelling. I hope Stanford focuses more on individuals and eliminates racial considerations in the future. It also would be fine with me if the preference for legacies was reduced or eliminated. 

John R. Wyse, '57, MBA '61 Scio, Oregon
Jonathan Mesiano-Crookston
4 months ago

"This reporting I don't think could have happened without that. Especially after we began receiving legal threats from Tessier-Lavigne. I certainly think the fact that we are independent made it possible for us to keep digging."

https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/stanford-freshman-brought-university-president-18253876.php

#tessierLavigne #Stanford

Jonathan Mesiano-Crookston
5 months ago

"The report noted that Tessier-Lavigne had not followed up for seven years on unpublished corrections to two of his papers in Science, concluding that “Dr. Tessier-Lavigne did not have an explanation for deciding to not follow up on the corrections beyond that he has a practice of drafting many emails to see how they read but only sends a portion of them and that he concluded the communication was unnecessary,” the report said. “To date, the scientific record remains uncorrected.”

#stanford

Jeff Moe
5 months ago

Stanford President, February 17, 2023:

"The [Stanford] Daily article is replete with falsehoods and betrays a misunderstanding of science and the scientific process."

Such smug. Continues:

"I am confident that a full airing of the facts will vindicate my position."

Stanford President, July 19, 2023:

"I have made the decision to step down as President"

#Stanford

https://stanforddaily.com/2023/07/19/stanford-president-resigns-over-manipulated-research-will-retract-at-least-3-papers/

Flipboard News Desk
5 months ago

Stanford University president resigns over manipulated research, will retract at least three papers.

The Stanford Daily, which first uncovered issues with Marc Tessier-Lavigne's research, has the latest: https://flip.it/qAQYZz

#Stanford #California #University #HigherEducation #Research #News

Justin Lind
5 months ago

@kjhealy
I’m curious how the whole debacle reads to those outside of the #Stanford community (where I work). Does it come across as negligence of the soon-to-be-former president? Something more sinister?

Also floored that it was a freshman student reporter who broke the story and kept up the pressure…Theo Baker will still(!) be a freshman technically when MTL resigns 8/31.

Andrew L. Hufton
5 months ago

Just published at Patterns:

#GPT detectors are biased against non-native English writers https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patter.2023.100779

Authors from #Stanford show that online detectors for #AI generated content are systematically biased against non-native English speakers. As educators rush to find effective ways to identify AI-empowered cheaters, there is a very real danger that non-native speakers could be disproportionately harmed by false accusations.

I also care in all kinds of crazy ways about communications policy. I have an MA in Communication from #Stanford, and I spent 30 years as a working journalist, with the #CBC and #Postmedia among others. As a member the Transportation and Communications committee (aka #TRCM) I work on comms policy of all sorts, including the controversial #C11 #C18 and the issues involving #Meta #Facebook #Google #Alphabet etc. So if you are a comms policy wonk, please let's connect! #introduction #journalism

Frozen Canuck
5 months ago

Institute for Economic
Policy Research: The Evolution of Working from Home

“Hybrid working appears to have no impact on productivity but is also popular with firms because it improves employee recruitment and retention”

I fully support the hybrid work model. For many of today’s jobs, there’s little reason for employees to work at the office 5 days a week. 2-3 days at the office is a good balance.

https://siepr.stanford.edu/publications/working-paper/evolution-working-home

#Stanford #HybridWork #Business #WorkFromHome #Research #Economy

Ben Waber
6 months ago

Next was an entertaining talk by @jessica on human-drone interaction at #Stanford. This is probably the first talk I've seen explicitly study how humans perceive and interact with drones, providing lots of food for thought https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k25iVJMl0N4 (7/9) #drones #HRI #robotics

Ben Waber
6 months ago

Next was an intriguing talk by Pratik Chaudhari on the theoretical underpinnings of deep networks' predictive power at #Stanford. This is a classic "works in practice but not in theory talk," but if you want to know more about why large models are performing so well despite puzzling contradictions this is talk is a great place to start https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD2cL-QoI5g (3/6) #AI

6 months ago

@GeePawHill @djlink It’s worth noting that #Stanford researchers have recently developed¹ an #analprint so they can authenticate you w/out any kind of data entry. ① https://www.businessinsider.com/scientists-designed-a-smart-toilet-with-butt-recognition-technology-2020-4?r=US&IR=T

Ben Waber
6 months ago

Next was an excellent talk by @diyiyang on socially responsible #NLP at the #Stanford Cyber Policy center. This is a great overview of the various problems with #LLMs and also how approaches can be adapted to make systems more culturally aware. You should definitely skip the Q&A here though https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrVWEdVfvIQ (7/8)

Tabea Wilke
6 months ago

This is the launch of the very first open-source syllabus on trust & safety at the @StanfordCyber: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jMcv_0MeF4 .

It's the output of 8 months of work by the Trust & Safety Teaching Consortium - a loosely-organized coalition of academic, industry and non-profit experts addressing topics from trust & safety regulation to metrics & measurement in trust & safety, policy issues such as terrorism, CSAM and platform abuse as well as the role of identity.

Watch 60 minutes of 14 professionals introducing 13 modules, led by @shelbygrossman and @alex. It was genuinely inspiring to see what each and every group has created.

You can find our teaching materials on Stanford IO's GitHub: https://github.com/stanfordio/TeachingTrustSafety

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts and comments, particularly on the module "Authentication, Identity, and Platform Manipulation".

#TrustAndSafety #safety #onlineabuse #privacysecurity #stanford #scaledabuse #AISafety

Tabea Wilke
7 months ago

Over the past 8 months the Trust and Safety Teaching Consortium @StanfordCyber - a loosely-organized coalition of academic, industry and non-profit experts - has been creating teaching materials with one goal: Help make the internet a safer place for everyone.

The open-source syllabus is available for everyone who prepares the next generation of trust & safety professionals, engineers and PMs.

Thanks to @shelbygrossman and @alex for their leadership in establishing the consortium and all the work it takes to get things done and to create real and valuable output.

We are launching the teaching materials with a webinar on Wednesday, May 24 at 9am PST.

Register here: https://stanford.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hQsG_jeVTTqFYiis8KujyQ#/registration

#TrustAndSafety #safety #onlineabuse #privacysecurity #stanford #scaledabuse #AISafety

Ben Waber
7 months ago

Next was an inspiring talk by @sfollmer (👋) on shape changing displays and #robots at #Stanford. This is a whirlwind tour of some of the impressive work Sean has done over the years in a variety of areas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eCkGvvMGA4 (8/9) #HCI

Ben Waber
7 months ago

Next was a detailed talk by @eglassman on developing systems to support intent formation at #Stanford https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gvf8oQDcLsQ&t=8s (9/10)

Ben Waber
7 months ago

Next was an engaging talk by @juhokim on why it's important to center human interaction in #AI development rather than myopically focusing on model "performance" at #Stanford University https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr0zPcm5N2g (8/10)

Ben Waber
7 months ago

Next was an engaging talk by Mireia González on applying computational certifications to avoid impossible to enforce laws at #Stanford #CodeX. Some laws are logically impossible to implement, leading to programmers who build systems to enforce them effectively legislating on their own. González's work shows how systems can help legislators validate that their law does what they want it to do https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pDB24ysfbg (10/11) #law

Rita Portela (parody)
7 months ago

Patients walk out of a @StanfordMed #LongCovid trial after medical staff stop masking while tending to LC participants. 1/

Thread Reader: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1652225056494215177.html

#covid #sarscov2 #paxlovid #masking #Stanford #KeepMasksInHealthcare

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Thierna
7 months ago

@universalhub very good information, also seeing the difference between #stanford and #harvard - but not sure if harvard paid for #BlueTick and what stanford did to have no blue tick

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Stanford University without blue tick
Harvard University with blue tick