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Micah Corah

@micahcorah.bsky.social

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Assistant Prof, CS@Mines Aerial and multiple robots; autonomous filming, mapping, perception Enjoys: 🧗‍♂️🚴‍♂️🎸🎶🤘 Ursula Le Guin stan. Call me on my ansible. He/him pronouns 💖💜💙 Opinions my own. https://www.micahcorah.com/

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Estelle Smith @estellesmithphd.bsky.social · 2d

More new members to welcome to our #CSCW2025 Starter Pack! Can't wait to see many of you in-person soon in Bergen. 🇳🇴
@cyberlyra.bsky.social
@lkurek.bsky.social
@mara-ulloa.bsky.social
@muitanprasert.bsky.social

🔥 go.bsky.app/SPumuMT 🔥

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Micah Corah @micahcorah.bsky.social · 2d

No feeling quite like reading intricate and empathetic prose 😊

Micah Corah @micahcorah.bsky.social · 2d

Gotcha. I imagine the place to start is engineering exercises in your relevant area and maybe familiarizing with any advanced tools of interest to you

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Micah Corah @micahcorah.bsky.social · 2d

Matrix math is generally where you start, but I wouldn't know what to recommend. Why pick up Matlab now?

PS I'm more a fan of Julia, but that's not necessarily the right thing for all people

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Micah Corah @micahcorah.bsky.social · 2d

I'd throw a rock at that for a 🍪
(don't tell me it's illegal; I've made my choice)

Micah Corah @micahcorah.bsky.social · 2d

The problem is drones tend to cause pain before you can make them feel pain...

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Micah Corah @micahcorah.bsky.social · 2d

I'd give them scritches if I could, even if I missed my flight 😅

Micah Corah @micahcorah.bsky.social · 2d

They can take my PhD away for this... but they can't take my dignity! (doesn't have any)

Micah Corah @micahcorah.bsky.social · 2d

Me: *sits down; writes furiously*

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

CALLING ALL INTELLECTUALS: would Jay Jay the Jet Plane be a drone if you gave him a lobotomy

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

if you gave Jay Jay the Jet Plane a lobotomy, I’m pretty sure that would make him into a drone

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Micah Corah @micahcorah.bsky.social · 2d

Found out my flight was delayed because...

A dog (still a good boy?) pooped on a plane and caused cascading delays 💩😂

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Micah Corah @micahcorah.bsky.social · 3d

Like, I'm sure some are ambiguous, but sometimes the ChatGPT is *loud*

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Micah Corah @micahcorah.bsky.social · 3d

But, there's never a good time to learn Matlab?

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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 4d

This is staggering. “The staff of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the journal that reports on health trends and emerging infectious threats, was also laid off.”

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

www.nytimes.com

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Micah Corah @micahcorah.bsky.social · 5d

Hacking a smart card shuffler *that has a camera inside*

I imagine there's some data and metrics stuff here the casino cares about... But really wild example of risks of collecting sensitive data!

Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 5d

For the latest episode of Hacklab, we carried out one of the more fun and stressful hacking experiments of my career: We hacked a casino card shuffler to help me cheat in a game of poker against unsuspecting players in Vegas. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ20...

I Cheated At Poker By Hacking A Casino Card Shuffling Machine | Hacklab | WIRED

YouTube video by WIRED

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Micah Corah @micahcorah.bsky.social · 5d

I don't like to go out of my way to say nice things about... But it's really great to see them take the lead on rejecting this!

Naomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social · 5d

You know, it is almost universally acknowledged by the Harvard science people that, much as we love our work and colleagues, MIT is just institutionally cooler

MIT becomes first school to reject proposed ‘compact’ with Trump administration - The Boston Globe

MIT president Sally Kornbluth said the university’s practices already “meet or exceed” the federal government’s list of demands.

www.bostonglobe.com

Micah Corah @micahcorah.bsky.social · 5d

The pettiest cultural victories may be the most delicious

Micah Corah @micahcorah.bsky.social · 5d

Oh! You have good taste!

Micah Corah @micahcorah.bsky.social · 6d

No Blood Incantation!? They and the Denver metal scene are probably big enough by now to merit representation!

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Cella (is on the job market) @cellllla.bsky.social · 6d

✨I’m on the academic job market ✨

I’m a PhD candidate at @hcii.cmu.edu studying tech, labor, and resistance 👩🏻‍💻💪🏽💥

I research how workers and communities contest harmful sociotechnical systems and shape alternative futures through everyday resistance and collective action

More info: cella.io

Cella M. Sum –

cella.io

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Micah Corah @micahcorah.bsky.social · 6d

So, I know the kids all ignore folder hierarchy these days... But "save as" on Microsoft Office no longer defaults to the initial file location?

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Micah Corah @micahcorah.bsky.social · 7d

Opened Facebook again to see how bad things got... My recipe slop metastasized into video 🤮

Micah Corah @micahcorah.bsky.social · 7d

Hasn't that already been around for a while?

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 8d

Y'all who keep lecturing protesters to "not give them an excuse" need to pause for a minute. Imagine yourself telling a DV victim, "Be sure not to mouth off or make any mistakes so he won't hit you. Don't give him an excuse! It's what he wants!" That's what you fools sound like.

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 10d

Putting aside the question of AI personhood, a slur requires a history of dehumanization.

In order to fuction, the slur has to call into being that history of dehumanization for its injurious force. There is no such history for LLMs, regardless of claims otherwise.

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Micah Corah @micahcorah.bsky.social · 10d

P.S. the quotes were about Holocaust denial. He doesn't need sympathy.

P.P.S. looks like the book sometimes screws up CU Denver and DU