Die Vienna Conference on Citizenship Education bringt die Politische Bildung in den Austausch mit aktuellen Themen der kritischen Gesellschaftswissenschaften und leistet einen Beitrag zur Internationalisierung. Durch den wechselseitigen Transfer zwischen Praxis und Theorie soll die Didaktik der Politischen Bildung wissenschaftlich weiterentwickelt werden.
CALL FOR PAPERS!
für die 7th VIENNA CONFERENCE ON CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION
am 06. & 07. November 2025
Eat the Rich?
Politische Bildung im Kapitalismus:
Transformativ – Disruptiv – Asymmetrisch
Zum Einreichen eines Vortrags mailen Sie bitte einen Abstract (ca. 2.500 Zeichen inkl. Leerzeichen; zum Einreichen eines Posters ca. 2.000 Zeichen) bis zum 01.06.2025!
Die UB der @tu_muenchen hat den Softwarevergleich #Literaturverwaltung aktualisiert. Sehr hilfreich, wenn man sich einen Überblick über die Funktionen von #Zotero, #Citavi, #Mendeley, #EndNote, #JabRef, #Papers und #Paperfile verschaffen möchte: https://mediatum.ub.tum.de/1316333
https://niklas.reviews/csaba-szabo-unreliable
I've just reviewed Csaba Szabo's ''Unreliable: Bias, Fraud, and the Reproducibility Crisis in Biomedical Research'.
It's a tour-de-force through how most biomedicine research results are impossible to reproduce, how the field is corrupted by fraud, and what some real scientists are doing to counter all of this.
@bookstodon #book #reading #CsabaSzabo #BookReview #reviews #books #science #biomedicine #papers #research #NonFiction
"I took much pains in sorting and folding of papers."
I agree so very very much, Sam. The folding part is often overlooked. A paper that is being put to use must be folded. It's a mark of recognition and appropriation. The unfolded paper is alien, the folded paper is trusted.
[The truth, I'm not sarky.]
@SrRochardBunson scratch that: this makes it impossible to write any #papers re: #SocialStudies, #Psychology, #Medicine or basocally anything involving #humans and not #engineering and even there it'll be had to avoid said vocabulary!
For those who like #papers, here’s the #deepseek one:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.12948
Reading this is such a joy. There is real dedication in optimizing the training data and method to yield maximum output performance. This is real technological innovation.
Silicon Valley on the other hand has had their thought corrupted by economic & political power. When you’re big you start to order people around and they start being scared of being critical of you. Being big ends up being the only target.
This has given me a reading list.
The 7 Most Influential Papers in Computer Science History https://terriblesoftware.org/2025/01/22/the-7-most-influential-papers-in-computer-science-history/ #InformationTheory, #Papers, #Sql, #Turing
Happy Publication Day! SFWA published my essay aggregating advice for authors (+ pretty much anyone else) thinking about donating their documents to archives some day!
Read it here --> https://www.sfwa.org/2025/01/21/preservation-guidance-for-authors-planning-to-donate-their-personal-papers-to-archives/
Calling for Contributions for #ossym25
The Open Search Symposium brings together the European + International Open Search community for the seventh time
in 2025. This time, we are heading up north all the way to Helsinki, Finland from 8-10 October.
In this early planning stage, we are now calling for #papers and #demos from the Open Search Community. The deadline for submissions is 1 March 25.
What and how to submit:
https://opensearchfoundation.org/en/events-osf/ossym25/
@Rxiv_mechanobio
Rant! I'm trying to access these #papers from #PRE with #Firefox (through my uni's mirror because they're paywalled), and there's a #captcha by #cloudFlare which blocks me.
It just loops on this tick-box variant of a captcha. Trying with #chromium I don't even have the captcha page.
(It's the same with the CNRS mirror, so not an issue with the paywall thing I guess)
Can someone tell me if they have the same problem?
My team and I have been working hard this year to establish our #research in the #academic literature, alongside all the public talks and workshops etc.
This is the first in a series of #papers about historical #technology in #Australia - bringing together #cybernetics, #archaeology and the Overland Telegraph Line
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03122417.2024.2437190
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There are many interesting questions to be explored from here: are these new metrics sufficient to capture models’ ability to learn world models? What about the problems that can’t be reduced to DFA? How can we map next-token prediction to learning the deeper and more holistic representation of the world, or should we find new ways?
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Another interesting find is that random walks actually yield far better performance, because the models get to explore all corners of the world, albeit at a much higher cost.
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The authors then tested two instances of DFA: navigating streets in New York City and playing the board game Othello. They found big gaps both between the conventional metrics (next-token test and current state probe) and the new metrics (pictures), and model performance (measured by the new metrics) when the “world” changes, e.g., randomly increasing cost on certain roads in the city (“noisy shortest paths” in picture 1).
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The compression precision measures how well a model can conclude that the same state, no matter what input sequences are used to reach it, should lead to the same accepted sequences. The distinction precision, on the other hand, measures how well a model can recognize input sequences that lead to different states.