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Michael Overton

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Associate Professor of Public Administration at the University of Idaho Associate Director of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Data Science Data junkie in my professional life. Huge nerd in my personal life. All opinions are my own.

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Yes, that was intentional.

13.06.2025 21:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It only suggested a small twerk.

13.06.2025 21:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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"Is There a Gold Standard or Need for a City-Centric Approach for Sales Tax Revenue Forecasting" by @slizlarson.bsky.social & @moverton.bsky.social‬ introduces PREE as a way to maximize the accuracy of sales tax revenue forecasting. doi.org/10.59469/pfj...

29.05.2025 12:41 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Dark purple and pink hyacinths sit next to smaller grape hyacinths

Dark purple and pink hyacinths sit next to smaller grape hyacinths

Love our front yard in spring

15.04.2025 23:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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TaMPERing with Large Language Models: A Field Guide for using Generative AI in Public Administration Research The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into social science research presents transformative opportunities for advancing scientific inquiry, particularly in public administration (PA). However...

Check out the Preprint of my article: "TaMPERing with Large Language Models: A Field Guide for using Generative AI in Public Administration Research" if you are interested in learning more about LLMs and how you can use them in scientific research! arxiv.org/abs/2504.01037

03.04.2025 19:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

AI will come for your job once it figures out how to consistently OCR a PDF.

19.03.2025 16:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Are you sure there isn't a more timely topic? s/

17.03.2025 19:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It is pretty disingenuous to claim that you were always saying "rectangles are not GENERALLY squares" when you literally said "Entity classification is *not* a generative task." I really wish you had approached this in good faith.

16.03.2025 00:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sent!

14.03.2025 19:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Are you discussing storytelling with data? If so, I have some slides that might be useful.

14.03.2025 18:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The only thing I can think is that they were actually using a locally hosted LLM and was sending each row as a separate call.

14.03.2025 18:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Like Dr. Resh, I am appreciative of good faith criticisms. But, I must disagree with your assessment. Generative AI especially reasoning models can be used in classification tasks. The LLM-as-a-judge lit is predicated on LLMs producing judgements often in the form of classifications.

14.03.2025 18:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Respectfully, the example would use multiple generative AI skills such as entity recognition and reasoning to infer threat levels. The example implies the use of a multi modal generative AI system, but their are corollaries with LLM natural language understanding and natural language inference.

14.03.2025 04:59 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

A timely article and great example of the potential of LLMs in research.

14.03.2025 02:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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AI unlocks lessons on cello techniques from the 19th century πŸš€ AI meets classical music! University of Idaho researchers used generative AI to translate a century-old book on cello technique, making it freely accessible to musicians everywhere. What lost knowle...

Last fall, IIDS launched a Generative AI Fellowship to empower scholars in exploring how AI can transform their research.

Check out this great write-up on one of our Fellows and see how they’re leveraging AI in their work! πŸ‘‡
www.uidaho.edu/news/feature...

24.02.2025 23:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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