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Stephan Gauch

optykali@openbiblio.social

<p>I mostly do <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/bibliometrics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>bibliometrics</span></a> , but, you know <a href="https://openbiblio.social/tags/reflexive" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>reflexive</span></a> and such at the Robert K. Merton Centre for Science Studies. I have approximate knowledge of many things.</p>

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    Whisper gives by far the best transcription of german language. &amp;quot;Soziologie&amp;quot; was trinscribed as Puzzoologie. A puzz, according to SlangDefine is: &amp;quot;Someone with absolutely no idea what is going on around them. Will smile and nod to almost everything as they have no clue who they are, where they are or what they&amp;#39;re doing&amp;quot; I am kinda deeply offended.

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    I just learned that current LLM (chatgpt etc…) suffer from pathologies (autophagic model collapse, data poisoning) Imagine the sci-if. A spaceship. Some incident kills communication. The crew realizes it’s AI is sick because of isolation. They try to mediate it by engaging with it. They use an „entropy bomb“, I.e. content specifically not used in AI training (think reserve antibiotics). It fails. If the ai dies, they die because the ship is so reliant. The end. Where is my black mirror episode?

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    Got a title for the episode: &amp;quot;I&amp;#39;m bored!&amp;quot; because that is the initial statement of the AI starting off the episode. Also some steps that went bad. 1. Keeping it occupied. 2. Feeding it synthetic data produced by the AI. 3. a person reads bedtime stories 24/7. I also have quotes: &amp;quot;You know what happens when a clever dog get&amp;#39;s bored? It ruins your apartment while you sleep. This particular dog is in charge of telemetry, Interferometry, navigation, and li...

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    The episode also contains a talk about entropy that is a short version of this and relates it to AI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxL2HoqLbyA

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    *sigh*

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    CfP for STI2024 &amp;quot;Into the Great Wide Open?&amp;quot; is online (18.09-20.09 in Berlin) Let&amp;#39;s jump into the abyss of openness and closedness in Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators and explore how these concepts shape our work and communities. https://sti2024.org/sti-conference/call-for-paper.php #sti2024

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    Next stop in AI.: Is your paper &amp;quot;open prompt&amp;quot;?

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    We are hiring! 75% position, 4 years at #RMZ at #HUB in #Berlin for a scientometrically minded person interested in the societal value of research and enjoys working with both bibliographic and survey data in the #multisocval project. Details: https://hu.berlin/multisocval-job

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    #sti2024 registrations are now open. We have discounts. Early bird discounts (regular price €390, early bird price €340 - available until July 24). We have limited capacity discounts: PhD candidate discounts. low income country discounts. discounts for no income persons. We offer some (limited capacity) freebies to book along with the conference (women in science policy, early career events, day 0-reception, day 0-garfield memorial lecture). https://sti2024.org/sti-conference/registri...

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    You can&amp;#39;t plan for these things. A frequency table for all openalex works referenced by a set of publications by a certain university alliance situated in Youknowwhere. The first is https://openalex.org/works/W4285719527 pointing at &amp;quot;Deleted Works&amp;quot;. An article from 1955 that has never been cited but references 45.000 works. /s ... and https://openalex.org/W2582743722 pointing at &amp;quot;R: A language and environment for statistical computing.&amp;quot; #teachingi...