Notices by Djoerd Hiemstra 🟥 (djoerd@idf.social)

A surprise to no-one in particular: LLM reasoning models cannot reason about, nor "understand" the Towers of Hanoi.

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/a-knockout-blow-for-llms

Dear students of my courses,

I am very sad to have to say this: The university board's hostility against some of our students shocked me. This is not done in my name. I believe the current board is incapable of treating students as full members of our university. Students should be treated with equal respect as our professors and staff. The board does not seem to realize that there would be no university without our students. Resigning is probably the best they can do.

https://chng.it/GDk7n2nn2n

Holy sh*t. This is a real xkcd, not funny, disturbing, and also one that must be shared

https://xkcd.com/3081/

@aral Thank you, I joined eV

Fridays for Future! Friday 31 May will be another "Universitetsstrejk för klimatet"

https://klimaatmars.nl/en/home/

There will be a "Science block":

https://klimaatmars.nl/de-mars/#blok24

Motivated by the KNAW/NWO code of conduct, universities should decide that collaborations with fossil fuel companies are fundamentally opposed to scientific integrity.

https://www.knaw.nl/en/publications/netherlands-code-conduct-research-integrity

There are plenty good reasons for universities to break the ties with companies that do not credibly act on the goals of the Paris Agreement.

https://gerritschaafsma.medium.com/reasons-for-leiden-university-to-cut-ties-to-the-fossil-fuel-industry-247afe2cfd28

Fossil fuel companies use their partnerships with universities for greenwashing of their reputation.

https://www.budget.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/fossil_fuel_report1.pdf

Fossil fuel companies try to undermine the credibility of researchers that research climatic change.

https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2022/10/19/oil-money-undermines-academic-autonomy-opinion

Research funding from fossil fuel companies leads to biased research results and delays development of technologies that reduce the use of fossil fuels.

https://drilled.media/news/hearingdocs-universities

Learn more about the fossil ties at your university: Visit https://www.mappingfossilties.org and join with others at your institution to take action.

Awesome lists about all kinds of interesting topics, curated by the community.

https://github.com/topics/awesome

Search engines with their own indexes (posted by Rohan "Seirdy" Kumar in March 2021 but updated in Sept. 2023)

https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexes/

Viktor Lofgren of Marginala asks today's most important question:

Why does the web look like a shopping maill?

(through the eyes of search engines, social media platforms, forums, ...)

Not on Marginalia: https://search.marginalia.nu/

#ossym2023

@aral @osf
Touché ... I really don't want those foundations, no... but I do want to break up companies that control search and advertisements, though. What would you propose?

Random thought: We need an "Open Advertisement Foundation" next to the Open Search Foundation @osf ... #ossym2023