A while ago, Richard Pope introduced me to Andrew Schrock also at the Harvard Kennedy School, and it has been great to see other anthropology/science technology studies people and what they're reading.
<script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> Worth reading the thread, but it's been sufficiently interesting for me to order a used copy for ~£2 and I'm hoping for good things.When research gets difficult, as it always does when researching organizing, I always return to the late Sally Hacker, a feminist and organizational sociologist who described her methodology as "doing it the hard way." pic.twitter.com/gqTeuQQYz7
— Andrew R. Schrock (@aschrock) October 8, 2019
I have a huge backlog of books that need reading, but Health Stuff has been leaving me laid out and my eyes won't co-operate. If only audible covered my DPhil reading backlog.
I've also been reading a copy of the LRB that I bought for a long train journey. The takedown of John Updike that's been all over twitter has been delighful.
<script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>bury me in this lede https://t.co/YGsHFb3nlr pic.twitter.com/GWBw5zQ9fU
— rachel syme (@rachsyme) October 2, 2019
We've got a supplier lined up to start. We've got a department to work with. It's fun and still mindbendingly complicated (good thing) I've been trying to write a little newsletter for the team to send out the links I've seen each week, and I think you deserve them too.
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AI and the Law. When can you use AI to select documents on a server to be part of evidence in a case? There's case law on that. Go from Sections 5 to 24 (more or less).
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Thinking about the culture of people building Artificial Intelligence. This came up in my PhD reading this week, and I thought it would be worth sharing. <--- PDF
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Things AI can actually do well and where it is still dreadful.
I've just been diagnosed with ulcerative colitis after five weeks of pain and blood. Glad to have a diagnosis and a treatment plan. Sad to have another disease that's going to mess with my life. It is early days, so I don't know what this is going to be like to live with. It's painful so far and I'm pretty exhausted and feel a bit through the wringer with it all. I'm grateful to the offers of company but it will need to wait until my energy is higher.
Got some films back. I've been using Aperture photography off TCR to develop since Lomo in Soho closed down. They're really good. A bit pricey, but good folks and do an amazing job with the prints and good detail on the scans.
I'm feeling a bit out of strategy. I want lots of things that seem mutually exclusive. I want to get a more senior role in the next year or two. I want to work with less than daily travel. I'd like to do four days a week so I can be a parent. I'm looking for people's ideas on what I should or could do to get there.
- What do you show to people looking for democracy data? This note from Democracy Club has had me thinking. Data we put up on candidates shapes what is considered important in a candidate. I think, perhaps, that it is fair to judge a candidate on their ideas, not if they've been in the army. We have to remember that every data point we put up can be used for bad reasons. Put up gender data, arseholes can select for only men to vote for. Worse options for BAME, LGBT or really anyone else who can be described and found by data. The sociological framing of this data is as important as the data itself.
<script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> ^^^^^ No."Create minimum requirements for prospective MPs to stand for election" https://t.co/ReFMwvKfPZ
— Rejected Petitions (@rejectpetitions) October 1, 2019
- I want to do a deep dive into the debate on algorithmic law. I am not convinced by the Australian debate. Not everything that is an innovation is a good idea and research on law and algorithms that I've seen at conferences recently suggests that it's the constant reinvention of the wheel: improving processor speed doesn't make the problems of removing humans better. Anyway, needs a proper read as I'm not sure (in a "hmmm" way).
Been listening/hallucinating to a few songs on repeat. They don't fit together, but I've put them in a playlist anyway.
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