Links. Tweets. Photos (Week 2022.29)
I’ll be in Lisbon from July 21st to Aug 3. Get in touch if you want to get together and talk science/tech/whatever else.
Links of the Week
Our BDB-Lab Quarterly updates are up for Summer 2022. We’ve been maintaining software that is >15 years old now (e.g., Jug started in 2008, but got a big update this May).
HI (human intelligence) cannot parse emotion from text: 30% of Google's human-label emotions dataset is mislabeled (/ht @joelgrus). I expect that this is the sort of training set that is used as the basis for automating content moderation.
The war on misinformation is dead. This is very close to my view on misinformation (I would add that I think the internet has made misinformation less of a problem compared to the pre-internet days, which is a minority position, but the opposite is always claimed without any shred of evidence).