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Requisit post as we approach the end of the year: I’m on pace to read 40-43 books in 2024. This was also my first complete calendar year in the PhD program. Most books branched off from that in one way or another, but not all. Life is good. #BookList2024

I had a great time presenting #Yiddish poetry and #LanguageLearning at the #Digitorium conference with friends and colleagues

It is Mountain Moot week! #MTMoot

Like #poetry? #TaylorSwift? The editor (architect) of this project is a classmate of mine!! Give her a pre-order (or three) — it’s going to be awesome https://t.co/kHD2vnVXbH

I’m putting together a world lit reading list which means scrolling through seven years of #AmReading #LastFourBooks and #BookList posts here, as well as checking my shelves and texting my friends. Good memories

I’ve been logged out of Twitter for the last month… I don’t think it made a big difference in my life (still had FB for personal posts and LI for professional contacts). It was a thing to try, but now I’m back and ready to resume sharing interesting things into the void

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I see research testing the “personality” of AI… but personality depends on prompts. Here’s an example: when GPT-4 was prompted in Korean to act Korean & prompted in English to act American, GPT-4 replicated Big-5 personality differences between 🇰🇷 &🇺🇸 https://t.co/DMykzFAJuM

I've noticed that many don't explore past the free version of ChatGPT. This is a mistake that causes a false sense of reality about what current multimodal AI models are capable of, leaving faculty unaware what paid models are being used by students via API (Link in bio)

Multimodal AI enables entirely different modalities for using AI systems. Here, I give Gemini 1.5 a video my screen (this could be live), and it accurately understands what I am doing & what I could do better. AI, for better or worse, as manager & advisor. Superclippy for real.

It is permissible in English for a preposition to be what you end a sentence with. The idea that it should be avoided came from writers who were trying to align the language with Latin, but there is no reason to suggest ending a sentence with a preposition is wrong.

Both Google and OpenAI/Microsoft have integrated watermarking into their AI-generated images. A good thing, but the issue is that watermarks are easy to remove. And open source solutions mean that bad actors are not really going to be constrained by this. https://t.co/fMJ30mJjQV

Classes that actively involved students upped test scores in a Harvard class by 33%... but students thought they were learning more from non-active lectures. The paradox; being challenged results in learning, but it also shows us how little we know, which makes us feel ignorant

WE USED SCHOOL RULES, A BEHAVIOUR CHART AND STICKERS ON ADULTS - HERE IS WHAT HAPPENED (Written by Hanna, Clinical Psychologist at Spectrum Gaming) This year we tried out a new activity as part of the Autism in Schools train the trainer project. 1/12

10 of the best teaching-related research papers from the first 10 weeks of 2024 (all open source 🔓) ↓

I’m 🤩 for a color-coded example paragraph