Looking for examples for class of STRUCTURE/ADMIXTURE-style bar plot of hunter gather, early farmer, and steppe ancestry proportions for Europeans. Arranged temporally so it shows the various turn overs. Looking for something broad in temporal scope but simple enough to talk undergrads through.
A study measured the performance of 800 developers before and after getting GitHub's Copilot. It found: - No change in productivity - No change in burnout levels - A 41% increase in the bug rate!?? Aren't you thrilled we're burning the world to power these AI models?
Code analysis firm sees no major benefits from AI dev tool when measuring key programming metrics, though others report incremental gains from coding copilots with emphasis on code review.
'The language universe is shrinking – can we stop it?' Interview with Evan Kidd on the importance of initiatives that document and help strengthen Australia’s first languages, and foster a multilingual future
Languages across the planet are disappearing at an alarming rate. Are multilingual societies key to reversing this trend?
"Perceived gendered self-representation on Tinder using machine learning" now out in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications in the Sexuality, gender & society collection www.nature.com/articles/s41...
My group just finished up a new paper that I'm excited to get out into the world: "On Classification with Large Language Models in Cultural Analytics" (to be published at CHR): github.com/bamman-group...
Data and code to support "On Classification with Large Language Models in Cultural Analytics" - bamman-group/ca-classification-data
“Just found out that Taylor & Francis has sold access to all Routledge Books data to Microsoft to train their AI”
This is big news. Suspected for ages -- but looks like we've found a smoking .. spear point?
Extremely exciting - first comprehensively identified bone spear point from a #Neanderthal site! Found some time ago at Abric Romaní, northern Iberia, but recently analysed in detail, likely hafted by being held directly in wood shaft & fixed with (plant?) cord. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Scientific Reports - First identification of a Neanderthal bone spear point through an interdisciplinary analysis at Abric Romaní (NE Iberian Peninsula)