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Ali Ozkes @ozkesali.bsky.social · 6d

Well played @theguardian.com

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Ali Ozkes @ozkesali.bsky.social · 17d

Constantly harrassed by Microsoft 365.

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Ali Ozkes @ozkesali.bsky.social · 25d

This sounds more Costanza-like.

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Ali Ozkes @ozkesali.bsky.social · Sep 10

Social choice theorists to the fore:

Von der Leyen: "It is time to break free from the shackles of unanimity."

www.politico.eu/article/what...

Ali Ozkes @ozkesali.bsky.social · Sep 10

Well \beta = 0.387 ==> exp(\beta)-1 = 0.473, so it is 47.3% not 38.7%

pubsonline.informs.org/doi/full/10....

Ali Ozkes @ozkesali.bsky.social · Sep 1

🤔

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Ali Ozkes @ozkesali.bsky.social · Aug 27

Well, €3.00 for Ryanair.

Ali Ozkes @ozkesali.bsky.social · Aug 19

I received a review request from a Frontiers journal. The mail included only accept and reject buttons for taking up the review, without any deadline information, or the manuscript itself (just abstract). When I clicked accept, it assumed accept (although revertible), due in 10 days.

Never again.

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Ali Ozkes @ozkesali.bsky.social · Jul 23

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Ali Ozkes @ozkesali.bsky.social · Jul 23

I get a good answer from ChatGPT o3

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Ali Ozkes @ozkesali.bsky.social · Jul 21

What if you offer £1.50 to look the other way?

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Ali Ozkes @ozkesali.bsky.social · Jul 21

How likely it is that you upload your paper to some LLM as if you are reviewer for it to get suggestions, you implement them to anticipate, and the actual reviewer down the line uploads it on their side to some LLM and makes the suggestion to reverse back to original?

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Ali Ozkes @ozkesali.bsky.social · Jul 15

This ayran (yogurt drink) brand with a slogan that sounds like the title of a 1920s QJE article: Globalisation of Food Production

Ali Ozkes @ozkesali.bsky.social · Jul 8

Some natives also could do that: www.youtube.com/shorts/DP2vb... And could even argue afterwards that the cheese should be feminine

Gendered Nouns Are Hard For Everybody…

YouTube video by Loic Suberville

www.youtube.com

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Ali Ozkes @ozkesali.bsky.social · Jul 3

We're convening later today for the final panel for the drafting of the first EU General-Purpose AI Code of Practice. Meanwhile:
European CEOs urge Brussels to halt landmark AI Act - on.ft.com/40toLtu via @FT

European CEOs urge Brussels to halt landmark AI Act

The heads of Airbus and BNP Paribas join intense lobbying effort against new regulations

on.ft.com

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Ali Ozkes @ozkesali.bsky.social · Jun 22

It turns out "delve" is used more since ChatGPT indeed. How much of it is strategic use?

www.theverge.com/openai/68674...

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Ali Ozkes @ozkesali.bsky.social · Jun 19

What do you think the chances are that the link in this abstract from 2001 actually takes you anywhere?

Ali Ozkes @ozkesali.bsky.social · May 24

Some would rather close museums.

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Ali Ozkes @ozkesali.bsky.social · May 21

Wim Wenders' The Grand Pudapest Hotel

Jean-François Bonnefon @jfbonnefon.bsky.social · May 21

Robert Bresson’s Gilmore Girls

Dr Emma L Briant 🐸🎃 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · May 21

Wes Anderson's Dune

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Ali Ozkes @ozkesali.bsky.social · May 17

One should not feel offended when asked about data and analysis details. Better: put everything up timely so you will not be asked.

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Ali Ozkes @ozkesali.bsky.social · May 16

www.wsj.com/economy/will...

Will AI Help or Hurt Workers? One 26-Year-Old Found an Unexpected Answer.

New research shows AI made some workers more productive — but less happy.

www.wsj.com

Ali Ozkes @ozkesali.bsky.social · May 15

Are you also doing air curly quotes when you speak?

bsky.app/profile/ozke...

Paul Hünermund @p-hunermund.com · May 15

Anyone else out here manually replacing ChatGPT's curly apostrophes to not get caught?

Ali Ozkes @ozkesali.bsky.social · May 14

Maybe sb was doing an experiment to see the spread of "delve into" in daily use, that's why it was overly represented in AI output.

Ali Ozkes @ozkesali.bsky.social · May 14

I hear some of you using more "delve into" when you speak so as to defend its use in your texts. Cheaper than actually AI-cleaning your texts ex-post I suppose.

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Ali Ozkes @ozkesali.bsky.social · May 8

Conclave : le vote itéré en action

par Jérôme Lang
decol.hypotheses.org/191

Conclave : le vote itéré en action

Par Jérôme Lang Le 08/05/2025 Il n’aura échappé à personne que se joue depuis hier l’élection du prochain pape. Et cela, au moment où l’on parle de réforme du scrutin parlementaire, ainsi que de celle...

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