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Keynote address from the OpenFest 2023 online symposium 'New Perspectives on Open Research', which took place on 7 September 2023.OpenFest 2023 Online Symposium Keynote 1 - Martin Paul Eve, Against AusterityAbstract:Arguments for open access are usually split along two axes: the educational and the financial. On the former, it is easy to see that the progress of science and scholarship is...

An instant classic. You’ll listen on repeat as world-renowned author, botanist, Indigenous ecology professor and byrologist Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer talks about her passion for moss. Cozy up for the most beautifully doled-out information about hidden worlds, overlooked mysteries, botanical drama, for

In this talk, I'll share some lessons we learned building a high-performance code search engine, designed to meet GitHub's large scale. GitHub code search is the world's largest publicly available code search engine, with more than 60 million repositories and over 160 TB of content indexed. To build it, we had to turn the unique content-addressable nature of Git repositories to our adv...

Graham Harman is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Liberal Arts Program Coordinator at SCI-Arc. He was born in 1968 in Mt. Vernon, Iowa, and earned his BA from St. John's College (Maryland), his MA from Penn State University, and his PhD from DePaul University. He is the author of eighteen books, most recently Art and Objects (Polity, September 2019). Graham is the 2009 winner of the...

On 20–21 October 2016 The New York Review of Books Foundation and Fritt Ord hosted the conference ‘Technology and the Human Future.’ Full programme and list of panelists here: http://www.frittord.no/arrangementer/technology-and-the-human-future/ Panel 5 A Discussion of Artificial Intelligence Chair: Simon Head, University of Oxford, New York University, and the New York Review of Books Foundation...

Video recordings are made possible by Great Circle https://greatcircle.com/, which helps companies prevent, prepare for, respond to, and learn from their emergencies. LFI Conf 23 was powered by Jeli.io with Premier Sponsor, Indeed. Dr. David Woods, The Ohio State University Incident response anywhere is like incident response everywhere. Well not exactly. Each world has unique attributes, tooling,...

Listen to this episode from Yeah Nah Pasaran! on Spotify. This week we have a chat with Prof. Emily M. Bender about stochastic parrots, Large Language Models and AI hype.

Computer security is now a public policy issue. Election security, blockchain, "going dark," the vulnerabilities equities debate, IoT safety , data privacy, algorithmic security and fairness, critical infrastructure: these are all important public policy issues with a strong Internet security component. But while an understanding of the technology involved is fundamental to crafting good...

A post-show stream designed to take listener phone calls off-air and online. The show itself airs from 7 to 8 pm ET on WBAI 99.5 FM in New York City. www.2600.com/offthehook

Large Language Models are already revolutionizing the software development landscape. As hackers we can only do what we've always done, embrace the machine and use it to do our bidding. There are many valid criticisms of GPT models for writing code like the tendency to hallucinate functions, not being able to reason about architecture, training done on amateur code, limited context due to toke...

The enshittification of the internet follows a predictable trajectory: first, platforms are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. It doesn't have to be this way. Enshittification occurs when companies gobble each other up in an o...

On May 4th, the White House announced the AI Village at DEF CON's Generative AI Red Team and their participation, followed by announcements from the House and Senate AI Caucus leadership and the National Science Foundation. In this panel, we'll hear from top officials and executives about how they're balancing the explosion of creativity and entrepreneurship from the advent of GenAI wi...

We’re running the largest live AI hacking event ever in the AI village this year. Anthropic, Google, HuggingFace, Meta, NVIDIA, OpenAI, and Stability, have all provided models to attack and Scale AI have built the platform. This event is orders of magnitude bigger than any previous AI red team effort. There are observers from the White House, NIST, NSF, and the EU coming to learn from hackers. We...

Veilid is an open-source, peer-to-peer, mobile-first networked application framework, with a flagship secure messaging application named VeilidChat. Veilid is conceptually similar to IPFS + Tor, but faster and designed from the ground-up to provide all services over a privately routed network. The network also enables development of distributed applications without a 'blockchain' or a &#39...

[rerelease] What you’re reading right now was written by an artificially intelligent — though not sentient — neural network designed to write descriptions for podcasts. Or was it? You don’t know, and that’s what makes AI so fascinating, cool, and scary. Since Josh loves all of those feelings, he sat down with the founder of controversial AI-generated art startup Midjourney, David Holz, to unpack t...

Josh gets a rare chance to sit down with the former Editor-in-Chief of Meta's Threads app, Katie Notopoulos. As an internet denizen known to be controversial and divisive, Katie wasted no time stirring the pot on the Instagram-adjacent social app. On today's episode, the two discuss what went wrong — and right — in the early days of Zuckerberg's would-be Twitter killer, and Katie sets...

EPA Climate Change Lecture, Dublin Mansion House, April 19th 2023

What happens when we teach a computer how to learn? Technologist Jeremy Howard shares some surprising new developments in the fast-moving field of deep learning, a technique that can give computers the ability to learn Chinese, or to recognize objects in photos, or to help think through a medical diagnosis. (One deep learning tool, after watching hours of YouTube, taught itself the concept of &quo...

"...the vast power of superintelligence could be very dangerous... currently, we don't have a solution for steering a potentially superintelligent AI..."

Chela Scott Weber, Research Library Partnership, OCLC From 2020–2023, OCLC was a partner on Building a National Finding Aid Network (NAFAN). Led by the California Digital Library, NAFAN was an IMLS-supported research and demonstration project designed to build the foundation for a national archival finding aid network to address the inconsistency and inequity of the current archival discovery land...

This week on my podcast, I read a recent Medium column. “Enshitternet: The old, good internet deserves a new, good internet,” clarifying that our aspiration shouldn’t be to restore the internet’s former glory, but to make a new and glorious internet. The enshitternet wasn’t inevitable. It was the result of specific policy choices: the decision to encourage monopoly formation, which created the cor...

Мы организовали интервью с тем самым Мартином Клеппманном книгу которого мы прочитали - Designing Data-Intensive Applications. Обсудим книгу, поговорим про будущее data systems и о новых исследованиях Мартина: 📍 https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first/ 📍https://automerge.org/ Martin Kleppmann is a researcher in distributed systems and security at the University of Cambridge, and author of the b...

In different technological circles - arguably in a lot of those - Martin Kleppmann needs no introduction. Most famous for his best-selling book “Designing Data-Intensive Applications”, Martin is also currently busy working as a Senior Research Associate and Affiliated Lecturer at the University of Cambridge Department of Computer Science and Technology. A great speaker and writer, capable of expla...

For fifty years David Harvey has written and lectured on Capital, becoming one of the world’s foremost Marx scholars. In addition, his work on the history and geography of capitalist development has transformed our understanding of neoliberalism and the spread of inequalities across the globe. In this interview David Harvey recalls the formation of his Marxist ideas, intellectual influences, and w...

Biomimicry, the practice of looking deeply into nature for solutions to engineering, design and other challenges, has inspired a film about it's ground-breaking vision for creating a long-term, sustainable world. This film covers how mimicking nature solves some of our most pressing problems, from reducing carbon emissions to saving water. The film, titled "Biomimicry" features Janin...