Neil Ernst

Hewers & Drawers 4 EVAH

(from today's FMM conference)

Does doi2bib.org work?

Coding is communicating though

Maybe start by not gutting the NSF and driving talent out of the country …

From what I saw in November, some level of accomplishment should include cycling with bare hands and head in freezing weather.

On the one hand, so many LLM talks here at #icse2025. But then when a speaker doesn’t mention it, the omission seems glaring. I think a lot of our (research) assumptions are being invalidated.

This is one of the worst violations of research ethics I've ever seen. Manipulating people in online communities using deception, without consent, is not "low risk" and, as evidenced by the discourse in this Reddit post, resulted in harm.

Great thread from Sarah, and I have additional thoughts. 🧵

From the changemyview community on Reddit Explore this post and more from the changemyview community

The mods of r/ChangeMyView shared the sub was the subject of a study to test the persuasiveness of LLMs & that they didn't consent. There’s a lot that went wrong, so here’s a 🧵 unpacking it, along with some ideas for how to do research with online communities ethically. tinyurl.com/59tpt988

#TechDebt is just around the corner and you do no want to miss the presentation of the 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗗𝗲𝗯𝘁 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗳𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼 on Monday 28 at 14:10! 💪
Zadia Codabux and Neil Ernst will share insights from the Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop on “Reframing Technical Debt”!
🌎 Check out the full program👇
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I managed to sew on 2 buttons this weekend, for the first time, and I'm unreasonably happy about it.

Terrible and short sighted. Sorry to hear this.

Hope you have a relaxing trip in business while the SO takes the kids in steerage.

This material looks great. Do you have a licence for reuse by others eg cc-by? I don’t see one on the repo.

Hosting Ali Ramezani for a talk on real world machine learning here at Matrix Institute at #uvic