A blue robot bird talking to a red robot bird. The blue bird says, "They're saying there's a website." The red bird replies, "What kind of website?" Blue bird says, "Government website. You can report unsafe products." Red bird replies, "Excellent work, Johnson. Excellent work." The text reads: Report and search for unsafe products. SaferProducts.gov

A blue robot bird talking to a red robot bird. The blue bird says, "Did you get the invite to my potluck?" The red bird replies, "Oh! Uh. No. Did you send it?" Blue bird says, "Yeah! Sent it like a week ago. Are you sure you didn't get it?" Red bird replies, "Oh, uh. I'll check. You know sometimes things just go missing in my place. Haha. or, you know, mail might be slow." The text reads: Report and search for unsafe products. SaferProducts.gov

"A blue robot bird talking to a red robot bird. The blue bird says, "All my potluck invites have tracking numbers. I know you got it. Don't bring the mail into this." The red bird replies, "Sigh. Listen, I just..." Blue bird says, "If you don't want to come just check "No" on the RSVP. You don't have to make this awkward." Red bird replies, "Listen, Johnson. It's not that I don't want to come. I love your potlucks it's just..." The text reads: Report and search for unsafe products. SaferProducts.gov"

A close up of a red bird that is fake but believes it is real. The text reads: Ever since I was a chick - a thing I would have been since I am a real bird - I've dreamed of hosting my own potluck. The smell of food in slow cookers and chafing dishes, a home filled with family and friends, the quiet background music of a solid playlist at just the right volume, the laughter of people having an inside joke that I am also inside. That's the dream, Johnson. And the problem is, your potlucks - they're just too good! Who needs a second potluck when the Johnson Potluck always has the best food, and the best music, and Eagle-class ambience? How could anyone else ever live up to that kind of potluck? That's why I didn't RSVP yet, Johnson. I love your potlucks, but sometimes they also make me sad. I just know my dream could never be as good as what you make here in the real world.

Birds are real.

04.06.2025 14:32 — 👍 923    🔁 166    💬 21    📌 28

Prompting ChatGPT as part of a talk is the new "the dictionary definition of this term is" rhetorical cliché of this decade. #MLANet25

01.05.2025 15:19 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

VINDICATION. [Text Word], my personal field tag of choice for keyword searches, was demonstrated to be the most effective tag at balancing sensitivity and specificity in pediatric search hedge development (although [All Fields] is a close contender). #MLANet25

01.05.2025 13:29 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Standing room only in Papers Session 9, room 305! Katherine Howell's presentation comparing gen AI-developed searches to expert-developed ones is obviously a hot topic. #MLANet25

01.05.2025 13:02 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching.

Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.

30.04.2025 23:31 — 👍 18635    🔁 6467    💬 45    📌 35

I literally have slides I teach from pushing back against this narrative in my "analyzing search results" lecture. I even made a reverse bell curve of evidence to push back against the supremacy of evidence pyramids as the be-all-end-all.

30.04.2025 18:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Honestly, this is one of the better plenaries we have - hearing from the types of users we support about their efforts making a real impact! #MLANet25

30.04.2025 18:22 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A middle aged man helplessly holds an alligator’s tail as it steals his hat

In a sentence never before uttered by humans, I am delighted to share that an alligator stole my conservation instructor’s hat by jauntily walking into the water while wearing it 🐊

08.02.2025 00:20 — 👍 21949    🔁 6664    💬 357    📌 522