Eytan Adar
@eytan.adar.prof
Michigan faculty, http://www.cond.org
When reacting to some kind of new (manufactured) scandal every day, the press forgets they can come back the next day and say: you didn't know about it yesterday, but you've had a day to think about this, what's your reaction?
Q: What's your reaction to yesterday's purge of senior ICE officials? When is it time for Congress to do some oversight?
MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know any of the details of that yet. I just heard about that, literally I was walking in.
MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know any of the details of that yet. I just heard about that, literally I was walking in.
October 29, 2025 at 12:05 PM
When reacting to some kind of new (manufactured) scandal every day, the press forgets they can come back the next day and say: you didn't know about it yesterday, but you've had a day to think about this, what's your reaction?
Fun paper from a recent project with UMich alumni Tenghao Ji. Can we pick better images for Wikipedia articles? Given all the choices in the Wikipedia Commons, which image is best as an "instructional aid?" (1/5)
September 23, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Fun paper from a recent project with UMich alumni Tenghao Ji. Can we pick better images for Wikipedia articles? Given all the choices in the Wikipedia Commons, which image is best as an "instructional aid?" (1/5)
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John Derby Evans Professorship in Information (Assistant or Associate Professor) at UMSI. Apps due Nov 1. www.si.umich.edu/people/facul...
John Derby Evans Professorship in Information (Assistant or Associate Professor) | umsi
The University of Michigan School of Information (UMSI) invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position focusing on technology and society.
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September 15, 2025 at 5:20 PM
John Derby Evans Professorship in Information (Assistant or Associate Professor) at UMSI. Apps due Nov 1. www.si.umich.edu/people/facul...
We need something more technical sounding than "co-evolution" to describe this... RHLAF: reinforcing human learning through AI feedback? HAAF: human adaptation through AI feedback? :)
As LLMs Improve, People Adapt Their Prompts
a study shows that a lot of the real world performance gains that people see are actually because people learn how to use the model better
arxiv.org/abs/2407.14333
a study shows that a lot of the real world performance gains that people see are actually because people learn how to use the model better
arxiv.org/abs/2407.14333
August 23, 2025 at 6:12 PM
We need something more technical sounding than "co-evolution" to describe this... RHLAF: reinforcing human learning through AI feedback? HAAF: human adaptation through AI feedback? :)
I'm very curious... Are cheese curlers often used in the bathtub? Was the art director like, "how do I show that our cheese curler is rust proof?"
July 17, 2025 at 12:58 PM
I'm very curious... Are cheese curlers often used in the bathtub? Was the art director like, "how do I show that our cheese curler is rust proof?"
If you depend on EMNLP/ARR for your publishing or for hiring/promotion, I feel bad for you.
July 1, 2025 at 6:48 PM
If you depend on EMNLP/ARR for your publishing or for hiring/promotion, I feel bad for you.
I'm not sure who recommended it to me, but let me pass it on since it was a fun read: "Get the Picture" by Bianca Bosker
June 23, 2025 at 9:01 PM
I'm not sure who recommended it to me, but let me pass it on since it was a fun read: "Get the Picture" by Bianca Bosker
Who knew... Claude can be funny... ;) Real researchers don't use LLMs: claude.ai/share/91111e...
May 4, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Who knew... Claude can be funny... ;) Real researchers don't use LLMs: claude.ai/share/91111e...
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Decision-making studies appear in HCI, vis, & increasingly AI/ML, but how “good decision” is defined is often ad-hoc
My #CHI2025 talk today will answer Qs like:
What's a decision problem?
What's the best possible performance on a decision problem?
What minimum info must participants be given?
1/2
My #CHI2025 talk today will answer Qs like:
What's a decision problem?
What's the best possible performance on a decision problem?
What minimum info must participants be given?
1/2
April 29, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Decision-making studies appear in HCI, vis, & increasingly AI/ML, but how “good decision” is defined is often ad-hoc
My #CHI2025 talk today will answer Qs like:
What's a decision problem?
What's the best possible performance on a decision problem?
What minimum info must participants be given?
1/2
My #CHI2025 talk today will answer Qs like:
What's a decision problem?
What's the best possible performance on a decision problem?
What minimum info must participants be given?
1/2
I occasionally watch this couple doing a massive rebuild on their house. It's interesting how much they use/trust ChatGPT: youtu.be/KEgQO6ynJWE?.... Guess this is the new post-search world, but I'm waiting for the episode where they figure out it gave them bad advice on something critical.
they messed up our windows and.. just watch the ending (ep. 60)
YouTube video by Jenna Phipps
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April 9, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I occasionally watch this couple doing a massive rebuild on their house. It's interesting how much they use/trust ChatGPT: youtu.be/KEgQO6ynJWE?.... Guess this is the new post-search world, but I'm waiting for the episode where they figure out it gave them bad advice on something critical.
Worth the occasional repost given today's world
On the politics of stats/vis. Advice to "statistical workers" from an editorial in a Chinese newspaper from 1961:
February 16, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Worth the occasional repost given today's world
We need to stop talking about indirects as: oh, I need $100k for research, but we charge the government $155k so I can give $55k to my institution for whatever. 1/2
February 8, 2025 at 4:03 PM
We need to stop talking about indirects as: oh, I need $100k for research, but we charge the government $155k so I can give $55k to my institution for whatever. 1/2
The new administration is just crazy. What other organization achieves the same policy effect no matter who gets hired? They can bring in the super strategic or super incompetent and the results (at least short term) are the same.
January 23, 2025 at 4:04 AM
The new administration is just crazy. What other organization achieves the same policy effect no matter who gets hired? They can bring in the super strategic or super incompetent and the results (at least short term) are the same.
Well, at least I'll have finished one book in 2025. Recommended if you like board games and/or artifacts of social life. www.goodreads.com/book/show/20...
The Game Changers: How Playing Games Changed the World …
Why is playing games a universal human instinct?Why did…
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January 3, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Well, at least I'll have finished one book in 2025. Recommended if you like board games and/or artifacts of social life. www.goodreads.com/book/show/20...
Consider a fictional graduate student brain N, and a scientist Q who wishes to use N in their research pipeline (e.g. for analysis and/or interpretation). Functionally, N is not fully understood by Q. Is it acceptable to use N? To be clear, there's a difference, but not sure it's "understanding."
Scientific Integrity Question
Consider a fictional AI system M, and a scientist S who wishes to use M in their research pipeline (e.g., for analysis and/or interpretation). Functionally, M is not fully understood by S. In your opinion, is it acceptable that S uses M in their research pipeline?
Consider a fictional AI system M, and a scientist S who wishes to use M in their research pipeline (e.g., for analysis and/or interpretation). Functionally, M is not fully understood by S. In your opinion, is it acceptable that S uses M in their research pipeline?
December 29, 2024 at 3:00 PM
Consider a fictional graduate student brain N, and a scientist Q who wishes to use N in their research pipeline (e.g. for analysis and/or interpretation). Functionally, N is not fully understood by Q. Is it acceptable to use N? To be clear, there's a difference, but not sure it's "understanding."
Google easter egg made me think I was having a vertigo episode. Very tipsy. Very funny.
December 12, 2024 at 3:41 AM
Google easter egg made me think I was having a vertigo episode. Very tipsy. Very funny.
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📢📢I'm recruiting PhD students for Fall 2025 to join my research lab at the University of Michigan!
Interested in doing research in social computing systems? Consider applying! 📢📢
Application deadline: Dec 15
cse.engin.umich.edu/academics/gr...
Interested in doing research in social computing systems? Consider applying! 📢📢
Application deadline: Dec 15
cse.engin.umich.edu/academics/gr...
Graduate Admissions | Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan
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December 10, 2024 at 2:06 AM
📢📢I'm recruiting PhD students for Fall 2025 to join my research lab at the University of Michigan!
Interested in doing research in social computing systems? Consider applying! 📢📢
Application deadline: Dec 15
cse.engin.umich.edu/academics/gr...
Interested in doing research in social computing systems? Consider applying! 📢📢
Application deadline: Dec 15
cse.engin.umich.edu/academics/gr...
If you like Wordle, let me recommend Typeset (dvc.games/products/typ...). You can try the digital variant here: mxjasperbeatrix.itch.io/typeset but I like the physical version (easier to play with others).
TYPESET
TYPESET is a love letter to the creativity and fluidity of words, as well as printmaking and typesetting tradition. Simply put: Place letters in order from left to right, using vowels as needed, to tr...
dvc.games
December 8, 2024 at 12:35 AM
If you like Wordle, let me recommend Typeset (dvc.games/products/typ...). You can try the digital variant here: mxjasperbeatrix.itch.io/typeset but I like the physical version (easier to play with others).
FWIW, blueark.app worked well. $5 to copy my tweet history over. Not sure *my* tweets were worth that... But that's not their fault.
November 13, 2024 at 12:49 PM
FWIW, blueark.app worked well. $5 to copy my tweet history over. Not sure *my* tweets were worth that... But that's not their fault.
Happy Stress Day to all those who celebrate!
November 5, 2024 at 12:58 PM
Happy Stress Day to all those who celebrate!
The regulation of AI debate feels like that scene out of Contact where the government panel tells Jodie Foster's character that she can't go meet the aliens because she doesn't represent humanity. But then some crazy billionaire is like, whatevs...
October 24, 2024 at 4:33 PM
The regulation of AI debate feels like that scene out of Contact where the government panel tells Jodie Foster's character that she can't go meet the aliens because she doesn't represent humanity. But then some crazy billionaire is like, whatevs...
Hotels that don't reset alarm clocks between guests deserve a special place in hell.
November 13, 2024 at 8:03 AM
Hotels that don't reset alarm clocks between guests deserve a special place in hell.
Speaking of CHI reviewing, anyone want to pay for my services in review matchmaking? I'm starting a consulting business: CHI Yenta.
November 13, 2024 at 8:03 AM
Speaking of CHI reviewing, anyone want to pay for my services in review matchmaking? I'm starting a consulting business: CHI Yenta.
I understand "after hours" access door; Or after hours "access" door; Or after hours access "door." But why "after hours access door?" Famous quote by LS&A?
November 13, 2024 at 8:03 AM
I understand "after hours" access door; Or after hours "access" door; Or after hours access "door." But why "after hours access door?" Famous quote by LS&A?