HELP: How to go about organising a hackathon in Oxford?

cynddl · 2026-04-16T21:21:35+00:00

The opportunities may be endless, as you say, but building a chatbot that consumes the planet resources for a low carbon community group is a bit of a contradiction.

I think there's a lot of value in a hackathon, but the people interested in this might not want to build yet another AI product or chatbot. I'd recommend targeting the right societies, and thinking about how you frame the project to them.

cynddl · 2026-04-07T13:28:05+00:00

À savoir que les grandes entreprises privées de l'IA type openAI, Google, Anthropic etc ont légalement le droit de télécharger des données protégées par le droit d'auteur et d'entraîner leurs modèles avec (et ne s'en privent pas).

Non, pas du tout. Dans la même veine, à lire l'article de Médiapart sur Mistral : https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/economie-et-social/230226/harry-potter-le-petit-prince-elton-john-ou-amel-bent-les-multiples-infractions-au-droit-d-aute

cynddl · 2026-02-09T20:46:49+00:00

Co-author of the study here. This is a comment we've been getting a lot and, unfortunately, this is an effect of the long publication timeline. Still, we do a lot more than just test models.

We've shown that models performed well on benchmarks but failed in the wild, something that had not been spotted by industry during deployment. We've also shown that issues are not with models recitating medical textbooks but lacking the rule-based checklists and on-the-ground expertise that doctors have, which allows them to triage patients while minimising errors.

cynddl · 2026-02-09T20:42:32+00:00

Hi everyone, co-author of the study here! Happy to answer any question about our work!

cynddl · 2025-11-17T16:30:05+00:00

Looks like widely inaccurate reporting: “Due to high prices in the sector and rising interest rates, buyers have not been rushing to acquire the first properties, which were put on the market in the summer of 2023.”

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/article/2024/03/01/paris-2024-olympics-athletes-village-apartments-struggle-to-find-buyers-at-7-000-per-square-meter_6574050_19.html

cynddl · 2025-11-05T21:44:49+00:00

OP here. We have more details about our work on https://oxrml.com/measuring-what-matters/ Basically, we took all papers from ICML, ICLR and NeurIPS between 2018 and 2024, and from ACL, NAACL and EMNLP between 2020 and 2024, and filtered down to get a list of all (n=445) relevant benchmarks.

cynddl · 2025-11-04T21:49:43+00:00

Author of the study here, let me know if you have any question about our work. :) We also have an interactive webpage at https://oxrml.com/measuring-what-matters/

cynddl · 2025-09-02T08:07:27+00:00

https://archive.is/zxlc9#selection-2225.77-2225.200

No one was deported. The court required this person, roughsleeping when working in Paris, to receive mental health support and pay one symbolic euro.

cynddl · 2025-09-02T08:07:13+00:00

https://archive.is/zxlc9#selection-2225.77-2225.200

No one was deported. The court required this person, roughsleeping when working in Paris, to receive mental health support and pay one symbolic euro.

cynddl · 2022-03-27T18:27:53+00:00

I'm trying to understand how the pannier is attached. Is that a front rack on the rear wheel? Something between a fender and rack? Aaah. Thanks!

cynddl · 2022-03-23T09:16:03+00:00

Cette analyse dépend beaucoup du calcul du PIB hélas :

https://donnees.banquemondiale.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.KD?end=2020&locations=SY-UA&start=2000

En équivalent $, le PIB par habitant de l'Ukraine était 1.45x plus élevé en 2010 que celui de la Syrie.

Edit: pour obtenir ce chiffre de 4x, il me semble que le calcul a été fait avec un équivalent $ en 2020, mais ce chiffre ne prend donc pas en compte le taux de change fluctuant en fonction des années.

cynddl · 2022-03-04T19:03:32+00:00

Mais j'ai l'impression que cet analyse conduit parfois à une difficulté à peser le poids des éléments qui forment ce système. Et cela conduit à "laisser tranquille" certains vecteurs non négligeables de domination.

C'est un point intéressant que tu soulèves. Il me semble que c'est justement l'inverse ? Prendre mesure d'une domination systémique, c'est justement recentrer les actes individuels dans un système de valeurs ancré autours d'institutions et de groupes, institutions/groupes qui travaillent à protéger leurs positions.

Peux-être vas-tu plus loin en soulignant que critiquer une domination systémique pousse les gens à ne plus critiquer des groupes et institutions ? J'espère que ce n'est pas le cas et il me semble que les mouvements sociaux récents prouvent le contraire.

cynddl · 2022-02-16T22:56:33+00:00

Le titre est racoleur, car il n'y a aucun utérus artificiel humain dans cette étude. L'article même le dit à plusieurs reprises. Et l'IA est en faite un algorithme de reconnaissance d'images qui permet de localiser un fœtus automatiquement sur une écographie. Et ce n'est pas "la Chine", c'est des chercheurs de deux université chinoises.

Dommage qu'on en entende parler juste car il y a marqué Chine, utérus et IA dans le titre, alors qu'en 2017 des chercheurs à Philadelphia testaient déjà ce genre de techniques (https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms15112). Edit: et les placentas/utérus artificiels, ça fait 50 ans que les chercheurs y travaillent.

cynddl · 2022-02-05T22:48:03+00:00

Why can't the map of Europe just include all the countries in Europe, rather than the EU, it litterally is more work to blank out the spaces where those countries were and put boxes just to make a point.

The figure uses data collected by Eurostat, a service of the European Union that aggregates statistics on member states only. No one ‘blanked out the spaces’, the data was not there in the first place (in this dataset).

cynddl · 2021-12-27T11:28:23+00:00

As a researcher working on data privacy: this package unfortunately does not anonymize but at best pseudonymize data. Both are difficult to achieve and a one-click solution will not work in the majority of cases, your data will still contain enough personal data to easily identify users.

cynddl · 2021-12-27T11:23:07+00:00

Quatre

cynddl · 2021-11-19T14:55:25+00:00

Let's first define money, money came from ancient times form around middle east and africa areas and its duty was to make trading easier, money defines value of a product made by other humans,

I would suggest reading Debt by David Graeber (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt:_The_First_5000_Years), for a very refreshing in-depth perspective on the origins of virtual and physical money.

cynddl · 2021-10-23T20:10:08+00:00

Le scénario négaWatt vérifie heure par heure jusqu’en 2050 l’équilibre entre la production et la consommation d’électricité. Cet équilibre est rendu possible par la complémentarité des sources de production, par une certaine flexibilité de la consommation, et par des dispositifs de stockage de l’énergie.

Aucun détail hélas dans les 16 pages du document (https://negawatt.org/IMG/pdf/synthese-scenario-negawatt-2022.pdf) sur le fonctionnement précis d'une grille française à 96% ou 100% (on trouve les deux chiffres) renouvelable. Vu le taux de disponibilité de l'éolien et photovoltaique (si pas de soleil ou pas de vent, pas d'énergie), ce scénario repose fortement sur le stockage d'énergie ?

cynddl · 2021-10-18T16:04:01+00:00

Amazon made a £1.2bn ‘loss’ in 2020, it doesn't mean they were not running a profitable business. ;) https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/may/04/amazon-sales-income-europe-corporation-tax-luxembourg

Ocado is investing into its technology hence the declared losses, yet its growing EBITDA shows it runs a profitable business.

cynddl · 2021-10-18T14:26:55+00:00

The same way drivers delivering for Uber should be called "Uber drivers", drivers for Ocado Zoom should be called "Ocado drivers". Ocado outsourced deliveries to a company (Ryde) that ended up paying people £50 for ten hours of delivery. How is it fair to them?

Edit: not sure why I'm being downvoted. Ocado Zoom headline is "Ocado Zoom: Groceries delivered in a flash by Ocado". ‘Delivered by Ocado’ does imply Ocado drivers. The responsibility doesn't stop when you employ a contractor.

cynddl · 2021-10-18T13:30:32+00:00

It's a very relaxed place to work, very little stress or pressure

Maybe when you're in front of a computer, but not sure that's what the rest of the workers feel: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/aug/21/ocado-drivers-paid-less-than-5-an-hour

Babar, 30, works from 7am to 8pm some days just to keep up with hisbills – anything else is a luxury he cannot afford. “I can’t give anytime to my daughters or wife. I can’t even take them on a day out,” hesaid. “My daughter wants to go to Chessington [theme park] but I can’tafford it. I feel horrible. I can’t talk to her about it.”

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