Why did #Stanford students host a group of #Ukrainian neo-Nazis?

https://jweekly.com/2023/07/06/why-did-stanford-students-host-a-group-ukrainian-neo-nazis/

For every Thiel there is a Baker. So glad to see recognition for @tab_delete in @washingtonpost #Stanford ↘️ https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/07/28/theo-baker-stanford-president-tessier-lavigne/

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/MarietjeSchaake/status/1686360149332484096

Part of the problem is that there is literally not enough time in the day to do all priorities well, and some have to be de-prioritized:

"In large laboratories...the lab head has limited time and resources to devote to training early-career scientists."

More reactions:

https://www.statnews.com/2023/07/20/stanford-president-marc-tessier-lavigne-resignation-debate/

#science #research #stanford #academia #AcademicMastodon

ICYMI: Incisive commentary from Stanford PhD + @STAT's Jonathan Wosen on #Stanford president resigning:

#Science is a team sport. But how do we distribute responsibilities, trust, & blame in a way that lets work occur but also prevents stuff falling through cracks?

https://www.statnews.com/2023/07/19/stanford-president-marc-tessier-lavigne-resignation-analysis/

#AcademicMastodon #academia #research

Wow...

https://tinyurl.com/w94cz8w6

#Stanford #science #research

@cbarbermd There were problems in 2011! #stanford #research #medicine https://stanforddaily.com/2023/07/19/sources-refused-to-participate-in-stanford-investigation-of-president-after-they-werent-guaranteed-anonymity/

BREAKING: #Stanford president to resign after investigation finds he failed to ‘decisively and forthrightly’ correct research

https://www.statnews.com/2023/07/19/marc-tessier-lavigne-stanford-president-resignation/

#AcademicMastodon #research #ethics

Hier ist ein Gespräch mit dem #Stanford - Professor Christopher Gardner, Ernährungswissenschaftler. Es geht darin vor allem um den Proteinbedarf. Er erklärt dass eine vielseitige pflanzliche Ernährung, die den Kaloriebedarf deckt, auch den Proteinbedarf decken wird. Und es ist nicht wichtig, ob man pflanzliche oder tierische Proteine zu sich nimmt, denn die Proteine verden beim Verdauen in die Einzelteile bzw. Amminosäuren zerlegt.
#vegan #vegetarisch #klimaschutz
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=DMwf_9wqWY0

Important new #Stanford study on the racial factor in police violence https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/will-police-stop-end-arrest-listen-its-first-27-seconds

Walking on Stanford University campus after visiting the Cantor Arts Center. #paloalto #stanford #selfie

It's interesting trying to outline a sociological (#sociology) while presently out of a university and thus digging into databases to help the outline (particularly this involves several fields like material engineering and archival practice that I don't know much about). Thankfully I'll be near #Stanford soon and the Green Library does allow the general public to enter. Probably going to spend two full days there.

@sociology #socialscience #research #outline #writing #data #academia

“Nobody in their right mind wants to be a manager. It’s a lot of work, & you don’t get to do the fun stuff. The only good reason to be a manager is so some other bozo doesn’t be the manager— and ruin the group you care about.” - Steve Jobs CEO of #Apple & #Pixar at #Stanford

#University websites using #MediaWiki, #Wiki hacked to serve #Fortnite spam

By Ax Sharma, April 21, 2023

"Websites of multiple U.S. universities are serving Fortnite and 'gift card' spam.

"Researchers observed Wiki and documentation pages being hosted by universities including #Stanford, #MIT, #Berkeley, #UMassAmherst, #Northeastern, #Caltech, among others, were compromised.

"BleepingComputer confirmed the malicious campaign was live, and had targeted additional scholastic websites including that of the #UniversityOfMichigan.

"These websites appear to be running either TWiki or MediaWiki—the latter being a #CMS platform that powers #Wikipedia and multiple #Wikimedia websites.

"These wiki pages, purportedly uploaded by spammers, lure readers into visiting bogus sites that claim to be offering 'free gift card,' 'Fortnite Bucks,' and cheats, among other digital artifacts.

"Users should refrain from clicking suspicious links within the compromised Wiki pages."

#HackingNews

Read more:
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/university-websites-using-mediawiki-twiki-hacked-to-serve-fortnite-spam/

Just me and the dogs talking a walk in the garden to observe, plan, and reflect.

#generativeagents #stanford #ai #farmlife

Generative Agents might be one of the most fascinating paper's you'll read on #ai this year.

Or this week, space moves fast.

#ai #stanford #generativeagents #smallville #sims #llm #chatGPT

https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.03442

Ars Technica: Surprising things happen when you put 25 AI agents together in an RPG town https://arstechnica.com/?p=1930578 #Tech #arstechnica #IT #Technology #largelanguagemodels #Generativeagents #machinelearning #Gaming&Culture #Googleresearch #AIgaming #Stanford #TheSims #Biz&IT #JRPGs #RPGs #AI

Did you know you can copy an #ML model by learning from its outputs? In other words, the original model will be the "teacher" of the new, "student" model.

This what #Stanford did for #Alpaca, a #LLaMa taught by #ChatGPT: https://newatlas.com/technology/stanford-alpaca-cheap-gpt/ #LLM

This is an affordable trick, yet it leaves room to specialize your model to your use case.

Free Speech Doesn’t Mean Free Rein to Shout Down Others

Stanford Law School shout-down. The Federalist Society chapter at Stanford Law School invited Judge Kyle Duncan of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

..there’s nothing inherently wrong with that. Students objected to a number of the judge’s views and court rulings. But protests that go so far as to shout down or disrupt speeches or events aren’t free speech but rather mob censorship.

#mob #Stanford

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/23/opinion/free-speech-campus.html

If Judge Stuart Kyle Duncan were a statue in my town square, I would deface it.

#Stanford #FederalistSociety #DEI

#Stanford led study reveals a fifth of #California #SierraNevada #ConiferForests are stranded in #habitats that have grown too #warm for them. The researchers created #maps showing where #warmer #weather has left #trees in conditions that don’t suit them, making them more prone to being replaced by other species. The findings could help inform long-term #wildfire and #ecosystem #management in #ZombieForests. #ClimateCrisis #GlobalHeating #Wildfires #forests https://news.stanford.edu/2023/02/28/zombie-forests/