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I played drums in the band in high school. It would be fun to play again, but I just no longer have time.

I understand the holiday, but we really need the #covid19 #omicron case count data for King County, Washington from over the weekend to decide whether to send kids to school tomorrow. kingcounty.gov/depts/health/c…

What if nothing went viral? Bound the exponent / flatten the curve: only k of your followers get to see your retweet. Selected at random, or by hand, or by likelihood of engagement, but bounded. Would it make any difference? Better? Worse?

"The constitution makes no reference to abortion." Are they fucking serious? That's the argument? #RoeVWade was balancing government responsibility to protect health vs 14th amendment right to privacy. What is this disingenuous strawman horseshit? politico.com/news/2022/05/0…

"Responsible Data Management," by @StoyanoJ, @SergeAbiteboul, @BillgHowe, H. V. Jagadish, and @SScdotopen, argues that #responsibility for the operation of systems does not stop when they are deployed. bit.ly/3NCoICI

I'd like to see a LaMDA instance talk to a LaMDA instance, with a human facilitator: will they start to ignore the facilitator and talk to each other? Will they interrupt? When given a choice of which prompt to respond to, what do they choose?

This makes me terribly sad. Thank you for all the great and inspiring encounters over the many years, Martin. RIP. cwi.nl/news/2022/in-m…

It's hard to overstate the influence Martin's originality, humor, and brilliance had on me. He cared about data mgmt for science back when only ~6 people in the DB community did. My favorite person to talk to at every DB conf, and I missed too many lately. cwi.nl/news/2022/in-m…

This is a major milestone for US AI Ethics law. Brings in groundwork for: - Safety - Equity - Data Rights - Transparency - Consent Yay for Suresh Venkatasubramanian and sorelle 's work I know must underlie this! technologyreview.com/2022/10/04/106… Thanks for the reporting Melissa Heikkilä

🚨Curious how LLMs deal with uncertainty? In our new #EMNLP2024 Findings paper, we dive deep into their ability to abstain from answering when given insufficient or incorrect context in science questions 💡arxiv.org/pdf/2404.12452 Joint work w/ Bill Howe Lucy Lu Wang UW iSchool