Professor and Co-Director of the Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen
Professor and Co-Director of the Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen
I think I lost my camera. For a little while I consoled myself thinking it the perfect excuse to buy a better camera, but looking at prices it’s clear that the cameras I can afford are of exactly the same quality as the one I lost.
Boo hoo.
Maybe it’ll turn up. If you find a Canon IXUS 400 with my name on it, well, it’s mine. I miss it!
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I’ve been reading through my blog posts on September 11, 2001 and the days that followed. The things that stand out to me – in addition to the horror of the attack itself – are how massively we (or at least I) used the web to understand what was happening, […]
My colleague Jessica Witte has just shared a preprint where she compared the emotional arcs of the stories we generated using gpt-4o-mini to those of human-authored (pre-2022) stories from the subreddit r/WritingPrompts, conveniently gathered in this dataset. She found a distinct difference in the endings of the LLM-generated stories: both […]
Dorothy Bishop, a psychologist, wrote a useful list of what reviewers need to look out now that so many papers are bad science that looks good thanks to LLMs. Read her whole blog post, she explains it well, but here’s a brief version because I’m pretty sure we’ll be needing […]
I recently read a good article on the different kinds of truth a language model operates with by Luke Mann, Liam Magee and Vanicka Arora, Truth Machines: Synthesizing Veracity in AI Language Models, but despite its lovely typology of truths (consensus, correspondence, coherence and pragmatic) it doesn’t help me with […]
I have this hunch that sparkles and glow and shimmer are somehow a point in the latent spaces of LLMs that have more connections than you would expect. Perhaps their connotation to magic and to the unknown matches some of the mystique of genAI? Or perhaps these words are used […]
This LLM-generated paper demonstrates how LLMs fail to cite core scholarship on a topic but generate misaligned citations systematically.
Elin
Oh no! Do you think you lost it while you where in Boston? Silly advise perhaps, but try thinking of your last picture – what was it? What did you do after that?
Jill
D’you what, it’s found! In our travelling companion’s car. Yay! I’ll have it in a few days.
Now I just have to find my iPod, which I think is lurking somewhere behind a closet or under a pile of clothing in a half-packed suitcase…
Sigh.
Marius Watz
I’ll do you better: After having my iPod stolen last November I got a new one, this time with the inscription “Don’t steal this iPod” and my URL. On my way back from Mississippi a month ago I left it on a train seat going in to Amsterdam Centraal. Thinking that I’d definitely finally lost it and couldn’t really justify buying another 40 gig player I’d consigned myself to a music-less period.
3 days later I get an email from an honest gentleman in Houston, who not only has my iPod but wants to send it back to me. Sure enough, I get it back and it’s in its cradle right now, playing sweet tunes…
Marika
Glad you found it: I’m looking forward to seeing the progress on your home make-over 🙂 My very old camera was stolen (I’m sort of annoyed that I think a camera I had for 2,5 years is old – the digital curse). Of course I bought a better one (canon powershot s70), and my travel insurance made it a little less expensive.
Jill
Marius, I’m going to get my iPod inscribed instantly! And you lost it near Amsterdam and are getting it back from Houston? Cool!
And as for my home make-over, I can’t wait for it to be done!!
Darren
Glad you found it! I “lost” my Powershot A70 a few months ago to the local thief, who nipped it out of our car during supper. Unfortunately, even the replacement model for it is more than we can afford, what with my partner’s defense coming next month!