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A great write-up on #ATmosphere from New_ Public Expert-In-Residence @cjtait.bsky.social!
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leaflet.pubWe will discuss this paper in the civic participation journal club. Cannot wait to read it at lunchtime tomorrow🍎
Brihi Joshi
Reasoning about the "why" behind user behavior can improve LLM personas! ✨🧠📈 📝Excited to share our new work: Improving LLM Personas via Rationalization with Psychological Scaffolds 🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2504.17993 🧵 (1/n)
“We want to destroy the humanities as a field, we only want people working vocations, we don’t want you thinking, speaking, writing for yourself.” Is, once again, a Saturday morning cartoon villain’s plot.
Dare Obasanjo
Tech CEOs like to argue that AI will disrupt entry level jobs that involve research & analysis. Interestingly enough they don’t say this about tech jobs despite this being where AI seems to have found better product market fit than in displacing junior lawyers and financial analysts. I wonder why?
We're applying for grant funding to support further panproto development (including hiring a developer and a postdoc) and are looking for users who would be willing to write a letter of support. If that sounds like you, please get in touch with @aaronstevenwhite.io!
also hitting a few bumps with semble but Donna Haraway’s Situated Knowledges could be a really cool fit here
