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recent bookmarks from jmNewsJacker2023-08-17T11:40:13+00:00
https://newsjacker.org/
jmcookies targeted-ads climate-change news factshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:222f5b8b1b68/Google "raters" say they don't have enough time to verify correct answers from Bard2023-04-06T09:16:30+00:00
https://archive.is/L49pO#selection-1915.0-1923.256
jmContractors say they have a set amount of time to complete each task, like review a prompt, and the time they're allotted for tasks can vary wildly — from as little as 60 seconds to more than several minutes. Still, raters said it's difficult to rate a response when they are not well-versed in a topic the chatbot is talking about, including technical topics like blockchain for example.
Because each assigned task represents billable time, some workers say they will complete the tasks even if they realize they cannot accurately assess the chatbot responses.
"Some people are going to say that's still 60 seconds of work, and I can't recoup this time having sat here and figured out I don't know enough about this, so I'm just going to give it my best guess so I can keep that pay and keep working," one rater said.
]]>google raters contractors fact-checking verification llms bard factshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:567070929ebc/Calling Bullshit2022-09-01T10:39:12+00:00
https://www.callingbullshit.org/
jmThe world is awash in bullshit. Politicians are unconstrained by facts. Science is conducted by press release. Higher education rewards bullshit over analytic thought. Startup culture elevates bullshit to high art. Advertisers wink conspiratorially and invite us to join them in seeing through all the bullshit — and take advantage of our lowered guard to bombard us with bullshit of the second order. The majority of administrative activity, whether in private business or the public sphere, seems to be little more than a sophisticated exercise in the combinatorial reassembly of bullshit.
We're sick of it. It's time to do something, and as educators, one constructive thing we know how to do is to teach people. So, the aim of this course is to help students navigate the bullshit-rich modern environment by identifying bullshit, seeing through it, and combating it with effective analysis and argument.
]]>learning science teaching tutorial courses bullshit scepticism factshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:611ec2e256f9/The sustainable fashion conversation is based on bad statistics and misinformation - Vox2020-02-10T11:45:11+00:00
https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/the-goods/2020/1/27/21080107/fashion-environment-facts-statistics-impact
jmI pulled all of these statistics and other common "facts" from reputable sources. McKinsey. The United Nations. The Ellen MacArthur Foundation. The World Bank. International labor unions. Advocacy organizations. And these facts have been cited by publications like the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times.
Not all of these highly respected experts could be wrong. Could they?
It turns out they could. Because only one out of the dozen or so most commonly cited facts about the fashion industry’s huge footprint is based on any sort of science, data collection, or peer-reviewed research. The rest are based on gut feelings, broken links, marketing, and something someone said in 2003.
]]>bad-data data facts factoids misinformation fashion fast-fashion climate-changehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:7f65d4c2f537/Sacha Baron Cohen Uses ADL Speech to Tear Apart Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook2019-11-22T10:58:32+00:00
https://www.thedailybeast.com/sacha-baron-cohen-uses-adl-speech-to-tear-apart-mark-zuckerberg-and-facebook?via=rss
jm“if Facebook were around in the 1930s, it would have allowed Hitler to post 30-second ads on his ‘solution’ to the ‘Jewish problem,’” he said. “So here’s a good standard and practice: Facebook, start fact-checking political ads before you run them, stop micro-targeted lies immediately, and when the ads are false, give back the money and don’t publish them.” [...] “if we prioritize truth over lies, tolerance over prejudice, empathy over indifference and experts over ignoramuses” then “maybe, just maybe, we can stop the greatest propaganda machine in history, we can save democracy, we can still have a place for free speech and free expression, and, most importantly, my jokes will still work.”
]]>adl sacha-baron-cohen racism facts fact-checking facebook social-media propaganda truthhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:11945ca87d99/Some facts on immigration to Ireland2019-01-15T22:15:29+00:00
https://notesonthefront.typepad.com/politicaleconomy/2019/01/the-far-rights-problem-with-immigration-facts.html?fbclid=IwAR2MJkON4vAnWTuPsgFdop61--X0bndsmQd2SZz6ZIo8Jw2uWsGETGeP4Xc
jmLet’s summarise:
Ireland has a relatively high level of non-citizens in its population. But this is down to the high level of UK citizens and citizens from other English-speaking countries (US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand).
Ireland has significantly fewer non-citizens from outside the English-speaking world than high-income EU countries.
The proportion of non-citizens has remained stable over the last 10 years (i.e. there is no ‘surge’).
Non-citizens in Ireland are more integrated into the labour market than any other high-income EU country – that is, there is lower unemployment among non-citizens. So much for the ‘sponging-off-the-state’ argument.
We have had far fewer asylum-seekers and we grant asylum to far fewer than most other high-income EU countries.
The claims of the Far Right and their allies collapse when we look to reality.
]]>immigration facts statistics ireland asylum-seekershttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:8657155c24f0/TheJournal.ie FactCheck is first Irish outlet to officially tackle misinformation on Facebook2018-04-26T13:23:51+00:00
http://www.thejournal.ie/factcheck-thejournal-facebook-partnership-3979720-Apr2018/
jmTheJournal.ie FactCheck project has signed on to carry out third-party fact-checking on Facebook. This will involved testing the veracity of articles posted on the platform and attaching a rating and contextual information to contested items.
Awesome. nice one TJ]]>the-journal fact-checking facebook fake-news facts journalismhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:070395217293/Google’s featured snippets are worse than fake news2017-03-05T22:46:04+00:00
https://theoutline.com/post/1192/google-s-featured-snippets-are-worse-than-fake-news
jmgoogle news lies fake-news obama factshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:5dd733cc78ff/The science behind "don't drink when pregnant" is rubbish2016-02-05T13:06:57+00:00
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2016/02/03/cdc_says_women_shouldn_t_drink_unless_they_re_on_birth_control_are_they.html
jmAs the economist Emily Oster pointed out in her 2013 book Expecting Better, there is also no “proven safe” level of Tylenol or caffeine, and yet both are fine in moderation during pregnancy. Oster pored through reams of research on alcohol and pregnancy for her book and concluded that there is simply no scientific evidence that light drinking during pregnancy impacts a baby’s health. (In one frequently cited 2001 study that suggested light drinking in pregnancy increases the chances of a child displaying aggressive behaviors, the drinkers were also significantly likelier to have taken cocaine during pregnancy.)
My wife also followed the paper trail on this issue in the past. In the papers from which these recommendations were derived, the level of drinking at which any effects were observed in babies was when women consumed at least *9 units every day* for the entire pregnancy. That's an entire bottle of wine, daily!]]>booze alcohol science facts papers medicine emily-oster babies pregnancy pre-pregnant researchhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:d0b9a8935c7f/Study: You Can't Change an Anti-Vaxxer's Mind2015-02-02T15:05:01+00:00
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/02/vaccine-denial-psychology-backfire-effect
jmAccording to a major new study in the journal 'Pediatrics', trying to [persuade anti-vaxxers to vaccinate] may actually make the problem worse. The paper tested the effectiveness of four separate pro-vaccine messages, three of which were based very closely on how the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) itself talks about vaccines. The results can only be called grim: Not a single one of the messages was successful when it came to increasing parents' professed intent to vaccinate their children. And in several cases the messages actually backfired, either increasing the ill-founded belief that vaccines cause autism or even, in one case, apparently reducing parents' intent to vaccinate.
]]>vaccination health measles mmr autism facts via:mrneutron stupidity cdc papers vaccineshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:9c7a4f5a4505/From Gongkai to Open Source2014-12-29T12:35:28+00:00
http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=4297
jmopensource china gongkai tinkering reverse-engineering bunnie-huang open-source mediatek copyright facts fair-use shanzhai patentshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:9c552f35dac4/The ancient Egyptian word for 'cat' was pronounced 'miaow'2014-04-23T16:20:26+00:00
http://www.quora.com/Facts-and-Trivia/What-are-some-of-the-most-mind-blowing-facts-that-sound-like-BS-but-are-actually-true
jmfun quora interesting via:dorothy factoids true urban-legends factshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:81986b3be2e8/Ingenious Dublin2012-10-01T16:02:03+00:00
http://ingeniousireland.ie/ingenious-ireland-mary-mulvihill/
jm
Where in Dublin can you see a Victorian diving bell? What about the skeleton of Tommy, the prince’s elephant? The site of the world’s first earthquake experiment? Or the world’s sports pirate radio broadcast? Our new e-book Ingenious Dublin has all these fascinating stories and more. It is packed with information, places to visit, and lots of illustrations, and covers the city and county, from Skerries windmills to Ballybetagh’s fossil deer.'
EUR 4.99 for the Kindle e-book. I'll buy that!]]>kindle reading books mary-mulvihill science facts dublin ireland historyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:e084041085bc/Facts still sacred despite Ireland's spectrum of conflicting views on abortion - The Irish Times - Fri, Jun 29, 20122012-06-29T10:17:24+00:00
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2012/0629/1224318966035.html
jmpro-choice pro-life abortion data facts via:irish-times research science pregnancy depression pashttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:755a3609f528/Facts Are Sacred2012-03-02T10:10:20+00:00
http://factsaresacred.ie/
jmscience facts news ireland politics data writinghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:eca727c6d110/