Are we slowly entering the post data annotation world?
The act of annotating data for ML has always been a shortcut to access concepts not present in the training data. This new work, incorporates literature with data to achieve a fuller picture with complementary information.
Specifically the tech,
utilizes GPT-4 to induce reliable disease-specific human expert concepts from medical literature and incorporate them with a group of purely learnable concepts to extract complementary knowledge from training data.
The internet is big, actually
Over a decade ago I heard from researchers that they used twitter as a sort of internet nematode. Since then, I’ve repeated that the population on twitter does not represent the real world much the way works in nematode is far from works in humans.
Katherine Alejandra Cross via Bluesky Won’t Save Us discusses the nature of social media:
Like radiation, social media’s algorithms and network effects are invisible scientific effluence that leaves us both more knowledgeable and more ignorant of the causes of our own afflictions than ever; in turn, this leads to deepening distrust in the experts who are blamed for producing them
And further articulates the actual effect of social media where the very online amplify a signal only they see:
Put simply: staring at the doomscroll isn’t good for anyone, but it’s especially dangerous for people with power and influence. Perhaps such a harm-reduction approach is more compassionate than an outright ban, weaning overly online journalists and celebrities off of the more dangerous stuff, steadily unplugging them from the Necronomicon of networks no mortal was meant to stare into.
As they used to be called, before they became users, the denizens of the internet, would very much benefit from a return to the old ways of the internet where you built a little corner of your own.
Which brings me to a different post by Chris Holdgraf at How I’m trying to use BlueSky without getting burned again where he acknowledges that platforms are useful but ultimately not places to sink too much into.
I’m going to try treating BlueSky as a temporaryplace to make connections or share ideas, but do my best to direct attention, deeper thoughts, “real” value to places that I have more control over.
We get 6 useful rules to consider and have the mindset of inviting friends over for tea than hanging out at the local global cafe:
- Build your castle on land you own
- Shamelessly use other kingdoms just like they’re using you
- Always move people back to your kingdom, never to another kingdom
- Operate like your castle can get shutdown tomorrow
- Be suspicious of new kingdoms that give away easy visibility
- Give good reasons to go back to the Castle in your Kingdom. And be persistent!
As if she couldn’t be cooler
via ‘She believed you have to take sides’: How Audrey Hepburn became a secret spy during World War Two
When Allied airmen heading for Germany had to make an emergency landing in the Netherlands, Visser ‘t Hooft sent Hepburn to the forest to meet a British paratrooper with code words and a secret message hidden in her sock. She made the meeting, but on the way out of the forest, she saw Dutch police approaching. She bent down to pick wildflowers, then flirtatiously presented them to the police. They were charmed and didn’t interrogate her further. After this, she often carried messages for the resistance.
“She believed very much that there is a struggle between good and evil and you have to take sides,” Dotti says.
Aneesh Sathe 
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