Huw Day
Research Associate in Digital Health at the VIVO Hub for Enhanced Independent Living (https://www.thevivohub.com/) at the University of Bristol
Co-organiser of the Data Ethics Club (https://dataethicsclub.com/)
Recovering mathematician
he/him
- Reposted by Huw DayCase: Paper released in Datasets & Benchmarks track in NeurIPS and the annotations are wrong. And the authors unresponsive. 🤦♂️ You had one job to do…
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- Reposted by Huw DayQuilicura, Chile, one of the communities I wrote about in EMPIRE OF AI, has launched a brilliant initiative to inspire more responsible AI prompting. Today, don't use AI; ask the townspeople instead: quili.ai. So heartened to see this creative act of resistance.
- Reposted by Huw DayLots of half-baked commentary about Anthropic’s Jan 28 paper about AI coding assistants arxiv.org/pdf/2601.20245 . Firstly it is not primarily about productivity. But how AI use affects on-the-job learning. A thread of observations 🧵
- Reposted by Huw DayLast term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out. As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class. Here's what happened:
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- www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkXr... Always liked Aleksic's work (Etymology Nerd), bit worrying how the audience is laughing as he explains how the world is getting worse
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- Reposted by Huw DayI have issued two changes to my book regarding the water footprint of data centers. I've detailed the changes and the context behind them here: karendhao.com/20251217/emp.... Given the nature of book changes, I wanted to make sure anyone who has an existing copy of the book is aware.
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- Reposted by Huw DayI wrote this brief talk on why “augmenting diversity” with LLMs is empirically unsubstantiable, conceptually flawed, and epistemically harmful and a nice surprise to see the organisers have made it public synthetic-data-workshop.github.io/papers/13.pdf
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- Reposted by Huw DayLLMs didn’t move language modeling research from linguists to AI people, they just moved it from computer scientists who thought language was interesting to computer scientists who thought language was boring
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- Reposted by Huw DayWhy we need to tax the super rich more. Their wealth is growing MUCH faster than everyone else's. And they're using it to outbid you for real resources: housing, assets, healthcare, education and everything else of real value.
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- Reposted by Huw DayNew paper hot off the press www.nature.com/articles/s41... We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance 1/
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- Reposted by Huw DayYou can still sign up to the course for free, worldwide (it runs again in the Spring and Summer) www.futurelearn.com/courses/sust... #sustainabledevelopment #SDGs #sustainabledevelopmentgoals #COP30 #ESD #sustainability @bristoluni.bsky.social @cabot-institute.bsky.social @biltonline.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Huw DayA new paper with Bogdan Georgiev, Javier Gomez-Serrano, and Adam Zsolt Wagner: "Mathematical exploration and discovery at scale" arxiv.org/abs/2511.02864. Further discussion is at terrytao.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/m...
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- Enjoying reading kellerjordan.github.io/posts/muon/ to learn more about the Muon optimizer!
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