[#]TedChiang being brilliant as always, offering in a single interview not only one of the most useful definitions of science vs. magic I have seen, but also an astute description of LLMs.
“A search engine gives us information directly from the horse’s mouth. LLMs are like a search engine that rephrases information instead of giving it verbatim or pointing you to the original source. In some respects, that is really cool, but they’re not rephrasing it reliably. It’s like asking a question and getting an answer back from someone who read the answer but didn’t really understand it and is trying to rephrase it to the best of their ability. I call LLMs a blurry JPEG because they give a low-resolution version of the internet.”
[#]SF #bookstodon #technology #EnglishLiterature #ScienceFiction
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/life-is-more-than-an-engineering-problem/
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The Unlikely Harmony Between Finnish and Scots: An Evening with Donald Adamson
[#]UniversityOfHelsinki published an interview with our old teacher and friend, conducted by our current English students.
[#]Finnish #Scots #translation #poetry
Suomenkielinen versio haastattelusta löytyy vaihtamalla sivun kieltä.
[#]kirjamastodon
https://www.helsinki.fi/en/faculty-arts/news/unlikely-harmony-between-finnish-and-scots-evening-donald-adamson
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Kirjallisuudentutkimuksen oppihistoriallinen seminaari Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seuran juhlasalissa - mainiota itsereflektiota tieteenalan menneisyydestä ja nykytilasta. 🤓
[#]MarkkuLehtimäki navigoi narratologian erilaisten kasvannaisten 😉 keskellä.
[#]sks #kirjallisuudentutkimus #kirjallisuus
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Aaand @JariKakela is here!
[#]sf #sciencefiction #UniversityOfHelsinki #HelsinginYliopisto #LiteraryStudies
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17.1.2025 klo 13.15 FM Ilpo Hirvosen teoreettisen filosofian väitöskirjan “Husserl and the Internalism-Externalism Debate" tarkastustilaisuus Helsingin yliopistossa.
Vastaväittäjä apulaisprofessor Søren Overgaard (Kööpenhaminan yliopisto) ja kustos dos. Mirja Hartimo (Helsingin yliopisto)
@yliopistobotti #HelsinginYliopisto #UniversityOfHelsinki #filosofia #philosophy
https://helsinginyliopisto.etapahtuma.fi/Default.aspx?TabID=959&group=v%C3%A4it%C3%B6stilaisuudet
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Huhtikuusta 2025 alkaen ”Opin.fi-palvelu tuo suomalaisten yliopistojen ja ammattikorkeakoulujen avoimet opinnot helposti saatavillesi.” #HelsinginYliopisto mukana myös!
https://digivisio2030.fi/opin/
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[#]SilentSunday
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Tsemppiä ja sympatiaa kaikille Suomen Akatemian hakemusta tänä viikonloppuna viilaaville kohtalotovereille!
Anyone else here grappling with their Finnish Research Council application this weekend? Kudos and best of luck!
🤓🙌🏻📚💰
[#]SuomenAkatemia #akateeminenura #AcademicChatter #FinnishResearchCouncil #funding
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Tietoliikennekaapelin korjausalus Telepaatti! 👏👏
[#]aidinkieli_iati #yleuutiset
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Hyvää Joulua kaikille - pärjäilkää!
Merry Christmas everyone - hang on in there!
🎄🙂
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Enaktiivisuutta kotimaisille kirjallisuudentutkijoille! 🤓
Avaimen uudessa numerossa katsaus tämän tutkimussuunnan mahdollisuuksiin; tekijöinä allekirjoittanut, Anna Ovaska @annaovaska ja Kaisa Kortekallio.
Ja onnea 20-vuotiaalle lehdelle!
[#]enactiveCognition
[#]4E #kirjallisuudentutkimus #kirjamastodon #enaktiivisuus #kognitio #ruumiillisuus
https://journal.fi/avain/article/view/148195
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“I pursued outside funding for my research for my next book. The proposal, A Snowball’s Chance in Hell, received excellent feedback. However, I am still awaiting the final word, as the grant is contingent upon whether the incoming presidential administration declares the National Endowment for the Humanities a terrorist organization.”
[#]AcademicChatter #IHearYou
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-faculty-members-self-evaluation-at-the-end-of-the-semester
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Shaun Gallagher was in Finland in September for our conference “Action in Perception 2024: Presence, Art, Making, Life”. The philosophy journal n&n interviewed him, and the English version has been published free on their website!
[#]enactivism #cognition #narrative #ShaunGallagher #philosophy #embodiment #technology
https://netn.fi/artikkelit/the-enactive-mind-in-the-midst-of-other-people-institutions-and-technology-interview-with-shaun-gallagher/
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TFW you have submitted the application for the permission to hand in the application. :D
@esko @annaovaska #UniversityOfHelsinki #AcademicChatter #ResearchFunding #EiKunEteenpäin
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Finland’s team is through into the Europeans in women's football! Well done team, and sympathies for Scotland, who came so close.
[#]football #finland
https://www.hs.fi/urheilu/art-2000010877810.html
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Guardian review on the reissue of Johanna's Not Before Sundown (Ennen päivänlaskua ei voi).
(I still prefer the original translation of the title, even though even the British version is now “Troll: A Love Story”…)
[#]JohannaSinisalo #JohnSelf #Guardian #Finland #literature #bookstodon #SF
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/dec/01/troll-a-love-story-by-johanna-sinisalo-review-a-playful-tale-of-interspecies-affection
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[#]SilentSunday
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[#]StephenColbert ja Suomi mainittu! Torille? 😀
[#]TheLateShow #meanwhile
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVHg6VoOCT8
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An optimistic take on the silliness of #chatbots and how much of our fear stems from the ”belief that humans, like computers, can be hacked: that our normal programming can be bypassed with the right combination of words. To invest #language with such power is charmingly old-fashioned, like Socrates decrying the corrupting power of poets. It’s also an incomplete model of human behaviour, which fails to account for the myriad cues we use to judge the veracity and intentions of social actors.”
I admit I remain worried - even if for nothing else than the amount of money and mental resources vulnerable people end up spending, if no kind of regulation is brought in. Snakeoil sellers had to be curbed, so these too? But how to regulate the sales of something over the final content of which the seller has no control? (And of course regulating anything on the internet is, well…)
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n19/james-vincent/horny-robot-baby-voice
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Samantha Harvey's #Orbital is a beautiful book - very glad to see it win!
[#]Booker #SamanthaHarvey #bookstodon
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/nov/12/orbital-by-samantha-harvey-wins-booker-prize-2024
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