Doug Beeferman
@dougb
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Research programmer @CCCatMIT. NLP, search, computational social science. Past corporate techie. I've run Datamuse since 2000 (https://t.co/3UO4gwTxVj). He/him
SF and Boston, USA
Joined March 2007
RT @DosGamesCOM: Random game of the day:.Cyberbox (Puzzle: Doug Beeferman, 1991). Download/play: #dosgaming #retro….
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RT @Marcus_Byrne: The 1970s. What if smartphones had existed back then? The old VHS recordings of memories—your parents' lifeless, soulless….
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RT @civicsearch: More cities are exploring ranked-choice voting and other alternative electoral systems. Hear their insights and experience….
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RT @civicsearch: Short-term rentals create both opportunities and challenges for the residents of cities struggling with housing affordabil….
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RT @ERjournal_AERA: Through redrawing attendance boundaries to "promote racial and ethnic diversity in elementary schools," authors hope th….
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RT @johnjhorton: This sound made up, but it really happened. I was at this clam shack in Falmouth today. Older man in front of me steps up….
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RT @christapeterso: every website now is like “oh were you looking for Answers? well here are Sentences”.
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RT @civicsearch: We were delighted to be an exhibitor at the @NSBAPublicEd annual conference this weekend in New Orleans! Links to our ha….
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Search local government meetings and texts
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RT @ifyoudontlisten: I can’t believe it took me so long to discover this thesaurus!!!! sharing it so more writers and ppl who need it can u….
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"Contrary to futurist discourse. Silicon Valley has instead delivered infinite arrays of two-dimensional spectacle combined with total civilisational stagnation in the crumbling three-dimensional world.".
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RT @gquaggiotto: CivicSearch is a searchable archive of public meetings from 500+ US & Canadian municipalities. "The data is organized into….
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RT @random_walker: The conclusion that @sayashk and I have reached over and over: direct harms from gen AI (that you can regulate) pale in….
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RT @mmitchell_ai: This tweet & follow-up ("need more gpus") is unfortunately another good example of how AI culture can be alienating to pe….
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RT @mmitchell_ai: Reflecting on Claudine Gay, I'm reminded that a fundamental of racism--that we should all be aware of--is the disparate a….
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". when you can convince everyone that AI might turn everyone into paperclips tomorrow, or on the flip side might cure every disease on earth, it’s easy to distract people from today’s issues of ghost labor, algorithmic bias, and erosion of the rights of artists and others.".
The "effective altruism" and "effective accelerationism" ideologies that have been cropping up in AI debates are just a thin veneer over the typical blend of Silicon Valley techno-utopianism, inflated egos, and greed. Let's try something else.
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RT @mmitchell_ai: Understanding AI: No, AI learning from training data is not "just like humans reading books". If you must force the metap….
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