This was my first concert from an international band. It was at the ANU in 1997.
The idea of one of the biggest Metal bands ever playing at a Canberra Uni bar seems quaint, but that was it.
I had no idea about anything, and thought the support band was TOOL, guessing I just didn't know any of their songs. So I was surprised when they actually started playing a bit later.
ICYMI: Do you use #ChatGPT? Want to help a #PhD candidate with their #research? My colleague at #ANU's School of #Cybernetics, @nedcpr, is currently running a #survey - and he would love your help by filling it out:
Join us at the 2023 #ANU Research Infrastructure Expo to discover the state-of-the-art #researchinfrastructure ecosystem that underpins research excellence at ANU! The Expo is open to the entire ANU community and external partners.
Register: https://quicklink.anu.edu.au/rnyg
📢 Join us for the #IP Fundamentals presentation on Wednesday 19 July, a series of seminars and activities to empower you in IP protection and commercialisation. Participate in the #survey at http://quicklink.anu.edu.au/sjxu to help us tailor resources to your needs. #ANU#research
🎙️Join us at the @nlagovau for the launch of To Be Continued: A Lost Literature podcast! Discover hidden literary gems and explore the impact of digitisation and AI. Panel discussion at 4pm, podcast launch at 6pm. Register http://quicklink.anu.edu.au/6gcy#ANU#unchartedterritory#Trove
Just wrapped up my first week as #ResearchOfficer for #ANU Vice-Chancellor and President Genevieve Bell - and wow am I already learning a lot and meeting some amazing people 😍
First task: get the VC office up-to-date on #women & #leadership. We now have a woman in charge 👏💖💅
You might be a #linguist, or an #ML#engineer, doing things like data specifications, filtering or pre-processing or training #ASR, #STT or #TTS models, or you might work in #fairness or #bias evaluation.
If so, I’d love your help to understand current #dataset#documentation practices, and what we can do to make them better as part of my #PhD#research 🤓 ⌨️ 🎤
The #survey takes 10-20 minutes to complete, and you can opt in to win one of 3 gift cards valued at $AUD 50 each.
Research Protocol 2021/427 approved by #ANU Human Research Ethics Committee
Very interesting post by Dr Zena Assaad, from #ANU's School of #Engineering, on how her views on the academic use of #SocialMedia have shifted, particularly in light of #TwitterMigration:
Delighted to be able to publicise a paper that was presented at the @ALTAnlp 2023 Workshop at the end of last year, co-authored with my #PhD supervisor, Associate Professor @eltwilliams, and written as part of my research at #ANU School of Cybernetics.
Titled "Right the docs: Characterising voice dataset documentation practices used in machine learning", it combines both exploratory interviews and documentation analysis to characterise how large voice datasets - e.g. #LibriSpeech, @mozilla's #CommonVoice, and several others, document their #metadata.
Unsurprisingly, it finds that the #dataset#documentation practices seen currently do not meet the needs of the #ML practitioners who use these datasets.
We show, once again, in the words of Nithya Sambasivan - "everyone wants to do the model work, but nobody wants to do the data work" ...
Reid, K., Williams, E.T., 2023. Right the docs: Characterising voice dataset documentation practices used in machine learning, in: Muresan, S., Chen, V., Casey, K., David, V., Nina, D., Koji, I., Erik, E., Stefan, U. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 21st Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association. Association for Computational Linguistics, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 51–66.
My #PhD colleague at the #ANU School of #Cybernetics, @Amirasadi, has a session up for voting at #SXSW in #Sydney about the practical implications of #AI in #HealthCare - benefits, risks, dangers - and how to enhance health without causing harm.
If you're inclined, I'd really appreciate your help in voting for his session!
(Requires login, but we all know how to use plus addressing)
Thank you in advance everyone, really appreciate it, #Mastodon family ❤️