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AI often mangles African languages. A network of thousands of coders and researchers is working to develop translation tools that understand their native languages
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Researchers train and apply an LLM and an image generator to create bespoke South Park episodes
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The coolest library on Earth: At the University of Copenhagen, researchers store ice cores that hold the keys to Earth’s climate past and future
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I interviewed the researcher behind the Misinformation Susceptibility Test
https://youtu.be/vodNabH5qoM But some important context: Earlier this month I saw a post regarding a Misinformation Susceptibility Test and was curious how 20 binary questions could be an...
https://youtu.be/vodNabH5qoM
But some important context:Earlier this month I saw a post regarding a Misinformation Susceptibility Test and was curious how 20 binary questions could be an indicator of someones media biases.
I started digging into the related paper and while the methods and analysis was interesting, there was still a lot of questions. So I reached out to Dr Rakoen Maertens who headed the study and we agreed to a discussion on the assessment and his experiences in social psychology.
The video above is an unlisted, unedited cut of the interview and I'd love to get some feedback:
Firstly: I have offered the Dr a tildes invite and he may engage with any questions or discussion. Time was limited and there were a lot of topics that was only briefly touched on or overlooked. Here is the original paper and supplementary resources if you want to see some of the language model work and bigger 100 question tests.
Secondly: I am going to do a more through edit and posting this on a dedicated channel. Since cutting off reddit, twitter and tiktoc; I've sort of rediscovered a love learning and investigations. I'd like to know if people like this form of engagement and discussions. No fancy production, just simply engaging with the research and academics behind topical and interesting ideas.
I'm already reading into fandom psychology, UV reflective paint, children's TV and CO2 scrubbing technology.
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Crows and magpies using anti-bird spikes to build nests, researchers find
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Johnson & Johnson sues researchers who linked talc to cancer
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Millions of GitHub repos likely vulnerable to RepoJacking, researchers say
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Artificial Intelligence Sweden is leading an initiative to build a large language model not only for Swedish, but for all the major languages in the Nordic region
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As it joins NATO, Finland recorded its highest year-on-year increase in military spending since 1962 – global military spending rose by 3.7% in real terms
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Bioluminescence helps researchers develop cancer drugs for brain
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This guy shares cool maps of the world every day on Facebook
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Belgium launches nationwide safe harbor for ethical hackers
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Fifth person confirmed to be cured of HIV
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The ‘breakthrough’ obesity drugs that have stunned researchers
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Over-reliance on English hinders cognitive science
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Stanford Medicine researchers measure thousands of molecules from a single drop of blood
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World's oldest European hedgehog discovered in Denmark – posthumous discovery gives conservationists hope for the mammals' future preservation
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In 1952, a landslide caused a tsunami that killed a Greenlandic man – some researchers think he might have been an early victim of anthropogenic warming
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Researchers successfully prevent peanut allergic reactions in mice, blocking onset in its tracks
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A Dutch researcher named Frank Hoogerbeets had predicted the Türkiye earthquake two days before it had happened
Dude actually made this tweet on 3rd February, two days before the dreaded quake hit Turkey: Sooner or later there will be a ~M 7.5 #earthquake in this region (South-Central Turkey, Jordan, Syria,...
Dude actually made this tweet on 3rd February, two days before the dreaded quake hit Turkey:
Sooner or later there will be a ~M 7.5 #earthquake in this region (South-Central Turkey, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon). #deprem
What's interesting about this researcher is that he doesn't study earthquakes through the traditional or established way of Seismology. Instead, his institute, SSGEOS specializes in "monitoring geometry between celestial bodies related to seismic activity". It's incredible how little we know about the world we live in and how much more there is to know yet.
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Researchers look a dinosaur in its remarkably preserved face
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Age that kids acquire mobile phones not linked to well-being, says Stanford Medicine study
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Finnish research and technology organisation VTT connected the quantum computer HELMI with the pan-European supercomputer LUMI to enable a hybrid service for researchers
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In meteorite, Alberta researchers discover two minerals never before seen on Earth
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Use these tips to take an amazing science photograph
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Svante Pääbo deserves his accolade – palaeogenetics is an expanding field that tells us who we are
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Swedish researcher Svante Pääbo has won this year's Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his research into how human beings evolved
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Isolated group of polar bears found surviving in south-east Greenland thanks to freshwater discharge from glaciers
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Researchers devise iPhone malware that runs even when device is turned off
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Researchers grew tiny plants in moon dirt collected decades ago
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Belgian researchers discover way to block coronavirus
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Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg has created an energy system that makes it possible to capture and store solar energy for up to eighteen years
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A stereo movie created by NASA researchers shows the altitude of the Tonga plume during the eruption
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Brown bears switch habitats in the spring so they can hunt reindeer and moose calves, researchers have said
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US Army creates single vaccine against all COVID and SARS variants, researchers say
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Researchers shrink camera to the size of a salt grain
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African researchers say they face bias in the world of science. Here's one solution.
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Researchers who built similar system explain why Apple's CSAM scanning system is dangerous
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UCSF researchers achieve the ability to interpret neurological signals into speech
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Researchers develop weight loss device using powerful magnets to keep your mouth closed
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Cornell researchers see atoms at record resolution
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For the first time, researchers have identified the remains of a sailor from the doomed 1845 Franklin expedition of the fabled Northwest Passage
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Academic surveillance software company Proctorio is suing a researcher critical of them, seeking to obtain private communications
@Ian Linkletter: Proctorio is expanding their lawsuit against me and I urgently need your help.On the eve of the BC Supreme Court hearing to dismiss their lawsuit, Proctorio has applied for a court order allowing them to pry into my PRIVATE communications.Our response: https://t.co/jJdQ47P8Pe pic.twitter.com/leCr8yevsx
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Only two and a half billion tyrannosaurus rex inhabited the planet in total, researchers say
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New technique reveals centuries of secrets in locked letters
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A new coronavirus variant is spreading in New York, researchers report
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Researchers levitated a small tray using nothing but light
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Signal ignores proxy censorship vulnerability, bans researchers
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70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers
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