Dominik Herrmann
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Professor @uni_bamberg_of | privacy, information security, and ethics | digital teaching @dikule_uba | enthusiastic speaker | typography nerd | EN/DE
Bamberg, DE
Joined March 2008
I'll summarize our study on app vendors' responses to Subject Access Requests ("What data do you have on record about me?"), which was presented at #ares2020 – and received the Best Paper Award 🥳. @ARES_Conference #sar #apps #privacy #gdpr #dataprotection 1/18
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My workflow for AMAZING creative writing with LLMs: The trick is to give the LLM as much opinionated context as possible, so the writing is deeply influenced by your unique ideas. To do this, we guide the LLM into a Q&A mode before writing. Here’s how: 1. Pick a topic and
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90% of academic papers I read are now AI-assisted. Most researchers are in complete denial. I'm a professor who's been brutally using AI for 18 months. Here's what I learned that could save your career:
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Yes. Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking. Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.
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I vibe coded an app to chat with my Kindle books. (To make a book chattable it flips through the pages using an automated browser and screenshots / OCRs them.) I've been using it for a couple of weeks and it's become an important part of my learning and research workflows. It
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📢 People that I know often send me their draft papers to get feedback. I enjoy doing this sort of informal peer review and would like to open it up to everyone. Details in the Q&A below. What is informal peer review and why is it helpful? The *formal* peer review system serves
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Most researchers make a fatal mistake in their proposal's introduction, but understanding the "Why-What" sequence can change everything... Here's a 15-part structure I use that makes it simple. Let's break it down into 7 broad steps:
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A hypothesis on the accelerating decline of reading: * Broadly speaking, people read for pleasure/entertainment and for learning/obtaining information. * Reading for pleasure has been declining for a while and is being replaced by videos (very sharply among young people).
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People who say they're "bad at tests" tend to just not be very smart. When they blame their low performance on anxiety instead of low intelligence, that's generally just a poor excuse.
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I just realized something most people are going to lose when (as they inevitably will) they start using AIs to write everything for them. They'll lose the knowledge of how writing is constructed.
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Die SPD hat für ihr Mitgliedervotum auf eine rein digitale Stimmabgabe gesetzt. Eine Verifikation ist zwar möglich, aber das Verfahren ist kompliziert. Auf der Partei-Webseite verwechselt man 2FA mit einem simplen Login. Wissen die, was sie tun?
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Die SPD-Mitglieder stimmen noch bis Mitternacht über den Koalitionsvertrag mit der Union ab, am Mittwoch steht das Ergebnis fest. Das Votum läuft unaufwändiger ab als bei der umkämpften Groko-Absti...
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creating a mcp is actually superrr easy 3 steps process to make an mcp in 10 minutes: - copy this file https://t.co/K5uSMntyxa - paste in cursor - write a detailed prompt on what you want the mcp to do and done! bookmark this tweet
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How will AI impact the economy? Can we defend against misuse? What policies would mitigate the risks of AI? Thrilled to share that @random_walker and I are writing another book to tackle these questions! Today, we release a paper laying out our argument: AI as Normal Technology.
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No problem? No purpose. No publication. Stop writing before you can explain who your work actually helps. Good research starts with A problem. Great research starts with the RIGHT one. Because finding the right one is challenging: You can't determine practical significance
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A checklist for secure vibe coded apps. Putting things on the internet is kind of like parking your car in San Francisco—there's inherent risk. 😅 Luckily, there are some straightforward things you can do to minimize those risks. Here are 16 simple things to make secure vibe
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New Anthropic research: How university students use Claude. We ran a privacy-preserving analysis of a million education-related conversations with Claude to produce our first Education Report.
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Anthropic just analyzed one million student conversations with Claude. First time we're seeing real evidence of how students actually use AI for learning, not just surveys or experiments. This is what they discovered... https://t.co/Q3jvWLSjLM
New Anthropic research: How university students use Claude. We ran a privacy-preserving analysis of a million education-related conversations with Claude to produce our first Education Report.
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These papers are fascinating, but my favorite thing about them is they aren't PDFs! They're glorious mobile-friendly web pages with interactive diagrams. I hope everyone else who publishes papers takes note, this us a much better way to share research https://t.co/pDz10pYJpN
For more, read our papers: On the Biology of a Large Language Model contains an interactive explanation of each case study: https://t.co/qJujqtgSRY Circuit Tracing explains our technical approach in more depth:
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PhD Students - Here is an example of a good conclusion. A good conclusion should have the following 6 parts. 𝟏. 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐦 Begin by revisiting the research problem or question that your paper addressed. This reminds the reader of
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Difficult times ahead!
I'm teaching databases this semester at Berkeley. My students all seem unusually brilliant. Not many go to office hours, and not too many folks post on the course forum asking project questions. Weirdly, the exam had the lowest recorded average in my 10 semesters teaching it.
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