Resources and mutual support for disabled, neurodivergent, and/or chronically ill folks in computing. Access - Equity - Support. Tweets by @ShirKi. RT≠endorse.
Disabled in Computing
Joined June 2023
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I read a 💔 story today about the creator of Strawberry Shortcake/the Care Bears,
Muriel Juneberry Fahrion, who gets 0 royalties from the endless products made from her IP, all bc in the 70s she was work for hire 🥺
She lives on Social Security and her independent online store.
ALT Image of a little old white lady wearing red strawberry earrings, matching red circle framed glasses and a white pair of overalls. There is a tattoo of Strawberry Shortcake on her arm. She’s sitting in front of a brown chair.
ALT outtathinairstudio Do you get royalties for Strawberry Shortcake or Care Bears? I don't and I never did. I signed a WORK for HIRE agreement when I began my job at American Greetings. Back in the 70s. As far as I know no one on staff got royalties. Independent freelancers sometimes did. I supplement my Social Security with what I make from my art. When my husband died in 2018 after a long and horrific period I lost most of my Retirement money and was in debt. I relaunched my studio under Outta Thin Air. I am now out of debt and was able to build a #TinyStudio. I appreciate all the patrons have purchase my art merch. My personal selling site outtathinairstudio.com #QAndASeries My plan is to add to this series as the questions continue to pop up.
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For all these reasons and more, I was delighted to hear that Andrew Barto & @RichardSSutton are received this year's Turing award, the highest honor in our field. Calling it "incredibly well-deserved" does not even begin to do it justice. Huge congratulations, Andy & Richard! 5/5
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In 2017, as a freshly-minted PhD, I had the deep honor and privilege of representing @ACMSIGIR at the Turing 50th celebration, where I had the unique joy of meeting many of the awardees and having fascinating conversations with Barbara Liskov and @MartinHellman2. 4/
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More recently I had the pleasure of seeing Andy again at Jim Kurose's retirement party. By then, his and @RichardSSutton's foundational work on reinforcement learning were widely recognized to be the key to the deep learning systems underlying effectively all contemporary AI. 3/
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I didn't know back then about his many storied research accomplishments, which were already impressive long before deep learning was cool; I just knew he was the nicest department chair I had ever met (@jallan_umass, soon to be my PhD advisor, did not become chair until 2015). 2/
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In Spring 2011, after @gonendh got an offer from @UMassAmherst, I came as a prospective PhD student to visit @ManningCICS (then a dept). Andy Barto was dept chair. He met with me 1:1, chatted and shared tales of Leverett's (then) shitty internet service. 1/
Meet the recipients of the 2024 ACM A.M. Turing Award, Andrew G. Barto and Richard S. Sutton! They are recognized for developing the conceptual and algorithmic foundations of reinforcement learning. Please join us in congratulating the two recipients! bit.ly/4hpdsbD
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I loved how much this team stepped up when I lost the ability to manage this project due to pregnancy and later childcare. It was really inspiring to see this come together
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A group of us came together to challenge the dominant narrative of AI research - paper out today. We posit that “AGI” is as nebulous to define as its supposed benefits, and we argue that principled scientific, engineering and societal needs should drive AI research instead. 👇
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Greater specificity, pluralism, and inclusion in AI research are more important than pursuing AGI, especially if the goal is to improve people's lives. In this paper, we describe "traps" associated with the pursuit of AGI that can impede achieving this and other worthwhile goals.
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Read the paper here: bit.ly/StopTreatingAGI
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The paper is joint work with @CGraziul, @struthious, Hananel Hazan, @L_badikho, @evijit, @Katherine Heller, @undersequoias , @fabriciomurai, @ErykSalvaggio, @andrewthesmart, Todd Snider, Mariame Tighanimine, @TaliaRinger, @mmitchell_ai and @ShirKi.
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I’m thrilled to share new work arguing that the research community should stop treating AGI as a North-Star goal! Debates about AGI miss the forest for the trees.🧵
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JOB: Postdocs.
@DisabledStem @StemDisabled @BlkDisHigherEd @TheMindHears @DisInHigherEd @DisabledInCS
I'm hiring! Postdocs to work on alignment, normative reasoning and infrastructure; strong admin manager to strategize for and coordinate research and policy work. Strategic comms position closed but could reopen. Policy researcher opening soon. See gillianhadfield.org
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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
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You know there are varying degrees of disability, right? For some people, working at home is their only option. Also, many healthy people are caregivers to severely disabled family members who need constant care that they can only provide if they work from home!
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This is disgraceful. Remote work is so helpful for many disabled people as well as parents and caregivers. Hopefully remote work accommodations will remain available as the ADA requires, but even if so, people will have to jump through endless hoops to get such accommodations.
