#paper
My daughter created these tiny paper snacks including a cheeseburger with all layers, french fries, and three different kinds of chips (with tiny chips in each bag).
Posting for December 4th #ArtAdventCalendar
#Tiny #Small #Snacks #Food #Miniature #Paper #PaperArt #Art #Kids
#ArtAdventCalendar Day 4. My love for #paperArt started after a burnout as I slowly turned back to life with turning #paperBeads. I became so fascinated by #paper that I started to design jewellery combining glass art, textile elements and paper yarn. In a one-week process with several steps,the paper beads become as hard as softwood and waterproof. Meanwhile, I also build plants and insects made of paper ... stay tuned!
#jewelry #JewelryArt #glassbeads #jewellery #ArtJewellery #beads #glassArt
New #Paper published in Quantum: Recovery With Incomplete Knowledge: Fundamental Bounds on Real-Time Quantum Memories
(3/3) So are there any #OSM experts out there, per chance?
We'd love to hear from you! ❤️
For more info, check out our #paper on this: https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.08093
And the #code repository on Github: https://github.com/dw-innovation/kid2-spot
New #Paper published in Quantum: Understanding the interplay of entanglement and nonlocality: motivating and developing a new branch of entanglement theory
For the presentation "Why standard entanglement theory is inappropriate for the study of Bell scenarios" by David Schmid, please visit https://pirsa.org/20040095
New #Paper published in Quantum: The quartic Blochnium: an anharmonic quasicharge superconducting qubit
New #Paper published in Quantum: Differentiable matrix product states for simulating variational quantum computational chemistry
Another new blog post - gasp!
NLDL 2024: My rainfall radar paper is out!
https://starbeamrainbowlabs.com/blog/article.php?article=posts%2F538-nldl2024-paper-out.html
Impressionist photography is FUN
#icm #icmphotography #impression_shots #eosr #rf70200f28lisusm #butterflies #paper #origami #origamiart #nyc #bk #brooklyn #madeinbrooklyn #canon #RFLens #rflenses #newyorkcity #paintingwithlight
🪲🪲🪲 Citation alert from a #dung #beettle #paper 🤔🤔🤔
With Antonio Vallecillo, we already defended the idea of #modeling being a #interdisciplinary discipline (see https://lnkd.in/etjUgMr6) but I never expected to see my work influencing #entomologists doing research on #dung #beetles. 😁😁
(btw, the image is not fake but the citation is indeed a mistake, yet another example of the drawbacks of relying too much on #citation metrics for researchers' #evaluation)
#ArtAdventCalendar Day 3. I am fascinated by #paperArt. #Paper is one of the most versatile materials. It can be cut, shaped, coloured, embossed, and even altered to resemble fabric, embroidered and felted. In a special mixture with plaster of Paris, it becomes a modelling clay. So I can live out my love of #archaeological finds. Inspired by #neolithic #goddesses. Paperclay with hand-grinded ochre and ultramarine
#paperclay #paperArtist #sculpture #ochre #ultramarine #pigments #NaturalPigments
OMG!
Stop the presses!
I've won one "emergency pizza."
"What do you mean 'stop the presses?'"
I mean that you have to stop the printing presses.
"Printing presses?"
Yes, those presses that are used to print newspapers.
"Newspapers?"
:catthinking: Go to The Washington Post website and imagine that printed on paper.
"Paper?"
Tell me you know what paper is!
"Oh, yeah. That thing I use to wipe my rear end with."
:headache: That's toilet paper. Newspaper can be used as toilet paper, but not the other way around.
"So what about your emergency pizza?"
Damn... I don't remember.
:why:
#pizza #StopThePresses #PrintingPress #newspaper #paper #ToiletPaper #forgetfulness
Escape Me If You Can: How #AI Reshapes News Organisations’ Dependency on Platform Companies https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21670811.2023.2287464?af=R #paper #journalism #platforms #periodismo
Regulatory capacity capture: the United Kingdom’s online safety regime https://policyreview.info/articles/analysis/regulatory-capacity-capture-united-kingdoms-online-safety-regime #paper #platforms
Long-term risk of cardiovascular side-effects following attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder treatment with sympathomimetic amines
https://academic.oup.com/eurheartj/article/44/Supplement_2/ehad655.2760/7390816?login=false
Good Interpretation by PhD with strong critique :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiXK8rHkVLg
TLDR by LLM:
1. Background: Study on cardiovascular safety of long-term use of sympathomimetic amines in ADHD treatment.
2. Purpose: Investigates risks of heart failure, acute coronary syndrome, and stroke in patients on these drugs.
3. Methodology: Danish national registers, monitoring 77,420 patients over 18 (1998-2020) prescribed ADHD medication for cardiovascular outcomes.
4. Results: High dosage treatment linked to increased risks of heart failure, stroke, but not acute coronary syndrome, compared to discontinued treatment.
5. Conclusion: ADHD treatment is necessary, but awareness of potential cardiovascular risks is important for risk factor mitigation and treatment decisions.
Check out our new collaborative #OpenAccess paper on "Fast motion view of a headwater creek—A hydrological year seen through time-lapse photography": https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hyp.15026
You can also go straight to the video: https://www.youtube.com/embed/74S7DfT7Uhs
#paper #water #research #science #plants
Anyways, you should really watch Chris' cool 45m minute talk about this topic, where I learned about this stuff! He starts with an excellent, beginner friendly introduction to \pi_2 homotopy of spheres, which features a demonstration wrapping potatoes into napkins. If you have never heard about homotopy groups, go and watch the first quarter hour!
If you like the laconic humour of the potato idea, do check out Chris' numerous and very funny videos about computational gadgeds on his channel. You'll learn something, and each of them will make you smile.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_aKlvL2Wo0
The #paper is here:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.08706
You don’t need to head out to the forest to find plump morels or chanterelles. Artist Ann Wood sprouts incredibly realistic paper mushrooms within her Minneapolis studio.
Probably my best catch this year from Bluesky.
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John Penniman
@historiographos.bsky.social
I will never recover from this student email.
“Good Afternoon Professor Penniman,
Hope you had a great break! I was wondering if it would be acceptable to use sources from the late 1900’s for our final paper (I found an interesting paper from 1994). I there a cut off date of publication? See you tomorrow,”
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An interesting gift guide in this week's Noted from Jillian Hess explores the inexpensive notebook/pad options favored by creative people along with some reflections on their process.
This quote from Toni Morrison resonated with me:
I don’t have an outline. Sometimes I sit down and write out what could be called a précis, except that it goes on and on and on. It’s like a plot, but it isn’t; it’s just things I think about the people and what happens. Notes. They’re notes, I suppose, but sometimes they have continuity.
#stationery #paper #PaperNotebooks #pen #pencil #ThinkingTools #writing #WritingTools #notebooks #notetaking #notes
New #Paper published in Quantum: Quantum Deep Hedging
Currently reading Anticipatory Systems, Evolution, and Extinction Cascades by Judith Rosen #paper
The duo behind Studio Ibbini juxtaposes negative space and botanical filigree in their new laser-cut paper works.
New #Paper published in Quantum: Energy measurements remain thermometrically optimal beyond weak coupling
New #Paper published in Quantum: Efficient classical algorithms for simulating symmetric quantum systems
Dis/Trust and data-driven technologies https://policyreview.info/articles/analysis/distrust-and-data-driven-technologies #ux #paper
From Wild East to Forbidden City: Mapping Algorithmic News Distribution in #China through a Case Study of Jinri Toutiao https://www.informahealthcare.com/doi/full/10.1080/21670811.2022.2121932?af=R #journalism #periodismo #paper
This was a commission I did at the end of last year on A4 paper. To be honest, I really like this job, both for the result and for how much the client loved it.
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Essa foi uma comission que fiz no final do ano passado em papel A4. Pra ser sincero eu gosto muito desse trampo, tanto pelo resultado quanto pelo o tanto que o cliente adorou.
#comission #job #freelancer #openforcomissions #drawing #traditionaldrawing #mastodonart #mastoart #paper #girl #woman #nanquim #ink #desenho
I meant that #literally - correspondence on #paper in paper envelopes.
As for #email encryption, it's still too difficult for the average person to set up and use (correctly). Even if you're capable of it, you cannot assume the people you communicate with will be equally proficient.
So anything truly #confidential I do not send by email, ever. Then to minimize the remaining risk, I run my own mail service. #Gmail still has half my email, because they have half of everyone's email.
Today was the year’s final North Star Auction, and it was a hoot. It will probably take me until spring to sort through all the paper that went home with me.
Full article: Hey #Google, What is in the News? The Influence of Conversational Agents on Issue Salience - https://www.informahealthcare.com/doi/full/10.1080/21670811.2023.2234953 #journalism #periodismo #paper
Full article: Accounting for #Personalization in Personalization Algorithms: #YouTube’s Treatment of Conspiracy Content - https://www.informahealthcare.com/doi/full/10.1080/21670811.2023.2209153 #paper
Full article: How #Propaganda Works in the Digital Era: Soft News as a Gateway - https://www.informahealthcare.com/doi/full/10.1080/21670811.2022.2156366 #journalism #periodismo #paper
Full article: Strategic Rituals of Loyalty: When Israeli Journalists Face Digital #Hate - https://www.informahealthcare.com/doi/full/10.1080/21670811.2022.2118144 #journalism #Israel #paper
#Fast and #Parallel Webpage #Layout (2010)
https://lmeyerov.github.io/projects/pbrowser/pubfiles/paper.pdf
"In this #paper, we introduce new #algorithms for #CSS selector matching, layout solving, and font rendering, which represent key components for a fast layout engine. Evaluation on popular sites shows speedups as high as 80x. We also formulate the layout problem with attribute grammars, enabling us to not only parallelize our algorithm but prove that it computes in O(log) time and without reflow."
If your job, or hobby, requires production of documents that have to get the approval of others before the document is circulated widely, eg almost any #academic #paper
how many years working full time before you realize that you never put a word like "final" in the title, but the tile is always
<descriptive title> <last edit><author>
or some simple variant of that ?
#word #writing #academia #AcademicChatter #science #STEM #Reports
and YES this is subtooting
Today's #paper is "Workarounds to Computer Access in Healthcare Organizations: You Want My Password or a Dead Patient?"
https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~sws/pubs/ksbk15-draft.pdf
It's an ethnographic study of hospital systems and the ways in which IT security policies clash with real work, and the ways with which healthcare workers find to subvert and work around them.
Notes at https://ferd.ca/notes/paper-you-want-my-password-or-a-dead-patient.html & https://cohost.org/mononcqc/post/3647311-paper-you-want-my-p
Bookmarked “Pile of Index Cards | Flickr“.
Pile of index cards, as a cultural genetic code.
@dustcircle nice paper mill, every few million years earlier a new #paper, plus press release. Good for PR, but have to read the fine print whether they really learned something. #Astrodon #AcademicChatter #astronomy
New #Paper published in Quantum: Variational Quantum Linear Solver
Anyone here got access to papers on Emerald inside?
Looking for this one:
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/A-meta-analysis-of-the-effect-of%C2%A0chatbot-on%C2%A0the-Cheng-Zhu/b4e63b73910dc35ea484e08ada2f9abd82f5f0f3
I actually built this thing and it works exactly as described on that Wiki page! 👍 But you’ll have to try a few times to get the scale of the printout to fit the diameter or the tube. It needs to fit exactly. It won’t work otherwise. I needed to scale the printout to 99% to get it right.
Important: Follow the instructions exactly!
And yes, I used a #Pringles roll for it because it has the right diameter. 😝 Still not really a fan of that stuff. 🤢
http://wiki.franklinheath.co.uk/index.php/Enigma/Paper_Enigma
New #Paper published in Quantum: NISQ-compatible approximate quantum algorithm for unconstrained and constrained discrete optimization
New #Paper published in Quantum: NISQ-compatible approximate quantum algorithm for unconstrained and constrained discrete optimization
New #Paper published in Quantum: NISQ-compatible approximate quantum algorithm for unconstrained and constrained discrete optimization
New #Paper published in Quantum: Solve single photon detector problems
Look who I found at our local library - TOTORO from "My Neighbor Totoro" at the Sulzer Regional Library in Chicago.
#StudioGhibli #Ghibli #スタジオジブリ #Miyazaki #Totoro #MyNeighborTotoro #Anime #Craft #Paper #Library #Libraries #Chicago #CPL #ChicagoPublicLibrary
Open (For Business): Big Tech, Concentrated Power, and the Political Economy of Open AI https://ssrn.com/abstract=4543807 #paper
"The Arctic is warming at almost 4 times the global average rate. Here we reframe this amplified Arctic warming in terms of global climate ambition to show that without Arctic amplification, the world would breach the Paris Agreement's 1.5 and 2 ∘C limits 5 and 8 years later, respectively."
Duffey, A., Mallett, R., Irvine, P. J., Tsamados, M., and Stroeve, J.: ESD Ideas: Arctic amplification's contribution to breaches of the Paris Agreement, Earth Syst. Dynam., 14, 1165–1169, https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-14-1165-2023, 2023. #Research #Paper #Climate #ClimateChange #Science #Arctic #Polar #ClimateCrisis @science
🔈 Crumpled sheets reveal a mechanism for glassy relaxations
https://phys.org/news/2023-11-crumpled-sheets-reveal-mechanism-glassy.html
A new 3d model. It's something simple but I find it highly useful: a stencil for drawing lines on Field Notes unlined notebooks. This way I can draw on some pages and take notes or write lists on others.
#3dprinting @3dprinting #fieldnotes #fieldnotesbrand #notebook #paper
https://www.printables.com/model/645564-notebook-line-stencil
2/
As you might have read my posts in the past, the answer is clearly: not at all. But it is easy these days to feel there’s an existential crisis going on. Have we been here before? Why, yes! This very insightful paper [1] walked us through the many evolutions/revolutions that have happened in the field of Machine Translation, which had transitioned over the years from rule-based, statistical-based, to the era of Neural MT and LLMs.
call for paper rivista Rizomatica – filosofia – psicologia – tecnologia – Political and Social Sciences
Cerchiamo contributi (2-15 cartelle) per il sesto numero di Ri
#Rizoma #capitalismo #futuro #guerra #informazione #organizzazione #pace #paper #politica #PoliticalAndSocialSciences #PRIN #redazione #research #ScienzeSocialiEUmanistiche
Type Checking Type Classes (Tobias Nipkow, Christian Prehofer)
#PLT #paper #typetheoryerence problem for a system with type classes as in the functional programming language Haskell. Type classes are an extension of ML-style polymorphism with overloading. We generalize Milner’s work on polymorphism by introducing a separate context constraining the type variables in a typing judgement. This leads to simple type inference systems and algorithms which closely resemble those for ML. In particular we present a new unification algorithm which is an extension of syntactic unification with constraint solving. The existence of principal types follows from an analysis of this unification algorithm.”
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/158511.158698 (✎ https://pinboard.in/u:elliottcable/b:a0b45a4e5526)
/via https://lawrencecpaulson.github.io/2022/03/02/Type_classes.html
Our paper "Tabbed Out: Subverting the Android Custom Tab Security Model" got accepted at IEEE S&P 2024! Watch out this space for the preprint if you're into mobile & web (in)security. Congrats to my coauthors from TU Wien: Philipp Beer, Lorenzo Veronese, and Martina Lindorfer!
This is a follow-up to Philipp's thesis that resulted in a preliminary paper discussed last year at the #secweb workshop! Congrats to Philipp, and looking forward to more cool research together 🔥 #proudadvisor
Hi everyone, we updated our paper on cephalic furrow mechanics with an exciting evo-devo twist :)
What can this fold tell us about the interplay between genetic patterning, tissue mechanics, and the evolution of morphogenesis?
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.03.30.534554v2
#Paper #PrePrint #DevBio #EvoDevo #Mechanobiology #Evolution #CephalicFurrow
the #paper is not #openaccess 😢
Next time I got an unfair or unprofessional #referee report for my #scientific #paper, I will call them a 🥝 (ref. the referee from #NewZealand on the #FRAvRSA)
#academicchatter #Rugby #RugbyWorldCup #RWC2023 #academicmastodon
four #cats for #catober #watercolor on wet media #paper #catsofmastodon #fediart #mastoart
I love writing in my #paper notebook in the early hours, while it’s still dark and everyone is asleep. I used to turn up the brightness on my #laptop and use that to see by, but the white light was super harsh on my eyes.
Solution: create a red rectangle, and make it full screen. Instant night light that’s bright enough to write by! So simple, I love it. Here's a Dropbox link to the PNG I'm using. https://swiy.co/red-light
This week I dug my notes from the #paper "How in the World Did We Ever Get into That Mode? Mode Error and Awareness in Supervisory Control" on Mode Error.
Automation that requires the operator to select and monitor any sort of mode while doing their work in the name of flexibility actually tends to increase the cognitive burden rather than decrease it, and designers should be aware of that effect.
Notes at https://ferd.ca/notes/paper-how-in-the-world-did-we-ever-get-into-that-mode.html & https://cohost.org/mononcqc/post/3189443-paper-how-in-the-wo
Quite an interesting read: Decline in Independent Activity as a Cause of Decline in Children’s Mental Wellbeing.
"Those of us old enough to have been children in the 1970s or earlier know from experience that children then had far more freedom to roam, play, and engage in various activities independently of adults than do children today."
https://cdn2.psychologytoday.com/assets/2023-02/Children%27s%20Independence%20IN%20PRESS%20.pdf
#research #paper #science #article #reading #children #parenting #education
This is a pet peeve. #Pizza boxes have been trash-talked by #recyclers for years because they are LAZY.
Yeah, I said it.
Have you seen the shit that goes into a #paper plant as ‘virgin' pulp? C’mon, it is not possible that a little grease and cheese really causes trouble. https://mstdn.social/@redcrew/111229049994524034
@steele
Follow more, boost more, interact more... It's really that simple.
And use hashtags: #Learning, #Books, #MentalModels, #Pens, #Pencils, #Paper, #Notebooks, #Tools, #Knots, #DIY, #EDC, #ProductivityAdvice, #Coffee, #Beer, #SoftwareDevelopment, #Tolkien, #Rucking, #Soccer, #ChillyWeather, etc.
I've seen #FountainPen and #Calligraphy people out the wazoo. I've seen shitloads of #Coffee people. Ditto #Tolkien. Ditto #Beer.
Nothing is going to be handed to you; there is no algorithm.
They are right here:
#learning #books #mental models #pens #pencils #paper #notebooks #tools #knots #DIY #EDC #productivityAdvice #coffee #beer #softwareDevelopment #Tolkien #rucking #soccer #chillyWeather
Click on one: it opens a column, at the top is a follow button, follow the hashtag like a person forever,
rinse
repeat with each hashtag,
then step two
follow the best peeps using te hashtag, and maybe their follows too.
An updated (and expanded) introduction:
My main interests are written communication, teaching writing, and education, particularly as they relate to productive disagreement explored in various contexts: rhetoric, organizational & workplace communication, organizational learning, training, research, emergent strategy, coalition work, and facilitation.
Throughout, I try to attend to the roles played by power differentials and oppressive and exploitative social systems, seeking insights from critical scholarship and intersectional practice.
My approaches are described in detail here: https://fromtherostra.com/research/ And in a shorter post here: https://fromtherostra.com/2023/03/10/when-disagreement-is-inclusive/
Beyond these main interests, I also try to stay engaged with historical and contemporary nonreligious, freethought, Humanist, and secular perspectives, dabbling in recovering historical perspectives that reveal more diversity than is sometimes assumed to exist as well as points of productive interplay among religious and nonreligious viewpoints.
My reading for fun is mostly sci-fi—I particularly enjoy the subgenre of persons and artificial/technological intelligences working together to solve problems, such as Becky Chamber’s fantastic A Closed and Common Orbit, which help cleanse my palate from the all-too-non-fictional and terrible “AI” hype and “AI” deployment in today’s world.
Finally, I enjoy discussing stationery, notebooks, and the analog writing tools by which we materialize our ideas along with how we balance digital and analog methods.
Hashtag list follows:
#CriticalPedagogy #CriticalManagementStudies #CriticalEd #CriticalEdTech #education #EdTech #EmergentStrategy #FountainPens #freethought #HigherEd #Humanism #interbelief #interfaith #intersectionality #introduction #nonreligion #labor #LaborUnions #OrganizationalCommunication #PaperNotebooks #Paper #Pencil #Pen #rhetoric #SciFi #secular #stationery #TeachingWriting #writing #WritingTools
#paper
Hemodynamics during the 10-minute NASA Lean Test: evidence of circulatory decompensation in a subset of ME/CFS patients
https://translational-medicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12967-020-02481-y
New #paper! (#OpenAccess)
Coralline algae reefs thrive at the limits of sunlight exposure. They do this with a highly flexible photoacclimatory strategy, utilising whatever light they receive
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2023.1329
#JournalArticle #publish #OpenScience #OpenData #photosynthesis #conservation #Brazil #algae #CorallineAlgae #RedAlgae #PhycologyFriday #seaweed #mesophotic #MarineScience #Biology #Ecology #OceanScience #UmeåUniversity #Ocean #UmeåUniversity #UmeåUniversitet @Umea_Uni_Marine
This week I wrote down notes on a #paper titled AI Art and its Impact on Artists (https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3600211.3604681)
It covers a history of image generation with ML, the impact it has on artists, and an ethical and legal contextualization of it.
Notes at https://ferd.ca/notes/paper-ai-art-and-its-impact-on-artists.html & https://cohost.org/mononcqc/post/3108386-paper-ai-art-and-it
Very proud to have contributed to the #paper led by Tamara Ben-Ari et al. from @labos1point5 analysing the ~ 130 000 #academic #travels from ~160 #research units in #France over 2019 and discussing their #carbon emissions. Most importantly, the paper reports various #mitigation strategies and quantify their potential for reducing their #CarbonFootprint.
#sustainability #SustainableResearch @academicchatter #academicchatter #AcademicLife #academicmastodon
read more: https://eartharxiv.org/repository/view/5995/
This week's notes are on a #paper by David Woods on the four definitions of "Resilience" used in #ResilienceEngineering
The four terms are related to resilience as:
- rebound
- robustness
- graceful extensibility
- sustained adaptability
Specifically, the two later categories are those that yield more interesting insights.
Notes at https://ferd.ca/notes/paper-four-concepts-for-resilience-engineering.html & https://cohost.org/mononcqc/post/3019560-paper-four-concepts
This week's #paper is the Strategic Agility Gap by David Woods: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-25639-5_11
It puts together a lot of the concepts he has written about in the past, particularly around the need of organizations to balance growth in capabilities with the ability to adjust to the changes they enable, and how sustained adaptability becomes a requirement in these environments.
Notes at https://ferd.ca/notes/paper-the-strategic-agility-gap.html & https://cohost.org/mononcqc/post/2950533-paper-the-strategic
And here's the second layer, all glued down. I'm really loving this!
It's just slapped together for the Noe Valley Art Festival tomorrow, but this is giving me all kinds of ideas.
And I bet my quilting friends will like this too :)
Hello Fediverse! Since I x-ed out X, I thought it was time I updated my #introduction:
My name is Stevie (She / Her / Mrs).
I am a #Jesus following, neurodivergent #SoftwareDeveloper who loves #science (from #space to #quantum), #stationary (from #paper to #fountainPens), and #stories (in all their forms and #writing too).
Sometimes I like to post lyrics that speak to me, more often I put my foot in my mouth, but I always try to promote being authentic rather than anonymous.
🌈🐙✨
From analog to digital: a snapshot of my process moving handwritten notes over to a digital (and more easily searchable) format
Several years back, I started storing notes in file folders punched for two-prong fasters. On the left side are a handful of sheets for noting overarching themes and connections. On the right side are detailed notes from specific sources.
As I move the notes into a digital space, I am condensing and summarizing, but direct quotes remain plentiful. After all, whether my notes are on paper or in a computer, they are always part of a commonplace approach.
And while much of the paper is being recycled, some will always remain.
#notetaking #notes #stationery #paper #PKM #OfficeSupplies #WritingTools
Another attempt at making paper... it turned out really well. I made a larger 3D printed mold and deckle and experimented with adding in bits of shredded paper to the pulp. (See the post for more photos.)
➡️ https://rasterweb.net/raster/2023/09/15/paper-making-again/
this week's #paper was going over an old classic, Jo Freeman's Tyranny of Structurelessness (https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm).
She covers problems around structureless groups, and then ways in which groups could more effectively be structured for democratic purposes without necessarily replicating existing structures.
Notes at https://ferd.ca/notes/paper-the-tyranny-of-structurelessness.html & https://cohost.org/mononcqc/post/2727574-paper-the-tyranny-o
I made a batch of handmade recycled paper today. I can really only do 10 sheets with my current set up. They’ll need to dry for a day or two (or three) and then I’ll put them in the hydraulic press to flatten them. (Kitchen sponge for scale.)
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[3] Previously: “Model Editing: Performing Digital Brain Surgery”. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/benjaminhan_llms-causal-papers-activity-7101756262576525313-bIge
[4] Shirui Pan, Linhao Luo, Yufei Wang, Chen Chen, Jiapu Wang, and Xindong Wu. 2023. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap. http://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
10/ REFERENCES
[1] Fabio Petroni, Tim Rocktäschel, Patrick Lewis, Anton Bakhtin, Yuxiang Wu, Alexander H. Miller, and Sebastian Riedel. 2019. Language Models as Knowledge Bases? http://arxiv.org/abs/1909.01066
[2] Vishwas Mruthyunjaya, Pouya Pezeshkpour, Estevam Hruschka, and Nikita Bhutani. 2023. Rethinking Language Models as Symbolic Knowledge Graphs. http://arxiv.org/abs/2308.13676
9/ But LLMs can certainly help in bringing in domain-specific or commonsense knowledge in a data-driven way. In conclusion: why not both [4]? :-)
8/ There are surely other benefits of using KGs to collect and organize knowledge. They do not require costly retraining to update, therefore can be updated more frequently to remove obsolete or incorrect facts. They allow more trackable reasoning and can offer better explanations. They make fact editing more straightforward and accountable (think of GDPR) compared to model editing [3].
7/ Their result shows that even #GPT4 achieves only 23.7% hit@1 on average, even when it scores up to 50% precision@1 using the earlier proposed LAMA benchmark (screenshot). Interestingly, smaller models like BERT can outperform GPT4 on bidirectional, compositional, and ambiguity benchmarks, indicating bigger is not necessarily better.
6/ In each benchmark, instead of asking LLMs to retrieve masked words from a cloze statement, it also asks the LLMs to retrieve all of the implied facts and compute scores accordingly (screenshot).
5/ Instead, they focus on more intricate topological and semantic attributes of facts, and propose 9 benchmarks testing modern LLMs’ capability in retrieving facts with the following attributes: symmetry, asymmetry, hierarchy, bidirectionality, compositionality, paths, entity-centricity, bias and ambiguity (screenshots).
4/ But is that all? A recent paper revisits this question and offers a different take [2]. The authors believe just testing isolated fact retrieval is not sufficient to demonstrate the power of KGs.
3/ The result shows that even without specialized training, language models such as BERT-large can already retrieve decent amount of facts from their weights (screenshot).