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Here is a write-up of our project submission for the #GoogleAIHackathon, task was to build a creative app using their #Gemini LLM. We built an LLM (Gemini) based evaluation framework for RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) systems optimized with example-driven prompts using #DSPy to generate scores from #RAGAS (-style) metrics. Shoutout to Dave Campbell and Mayank Bhaskar my co-contributors to the project for all their hard work! Links to video and GitHub in post -- https://sujitpal.blogspot.com/2024/05/finetuning-ragas-metrics-using-dspy.html
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Here is a write-up of our project submission for the #GoogleAIHackathon, task was to build a creative app using their #Gemini LLM. We built an LLM (Gemini) based evaluation framework for RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) systems optimized with example-driven prompts using #DSPy to generate scores from #RAGAS (-style) metrics. Shoutout to Dave Campbell and Mayank Bhaskar my co-contributors to the project for all their hard work! Links to video and GitHub in post -- https://sujitpal.blogspot.com/2024/05/finetuning-ragas-metrics-using-dspy.html
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“This new wave of technology has unlocked powerful capabilities that are cheap, easy to access and use, targeted, and scalable. This clearly brings risks. [..] In the words of the security expert Audrey Kurth Cronin, "Never before have so many had access to such advanced technologies capable of inflicting death and mayhem."
“The Coming Wave Technology, Power, and the Twenty-First Century’s Greatest Dilemma”
By Mustafa Suleyman with Michael Bhaskar
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India is on track to achieve its emission targets well before 2030, according to a report by IFC1. The report praises India’s climate actions, such as expanding renewable energy, issuing green bonds, and joining the NGFS network. The implication is that India is a global leader in green finance and low-carbon development. #India #EmissionTargets #IFC
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India is on track to achieve its emission targets well before 2030, according to a report by IFC1. The report praises India’s climate actions, such as expanding renewable energy, issuing green bonds, and joining the NGFS network. The implication is that India is a global leader in green finance and low-carbon development. #India #EmissionTargets #IFC
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India is on track to achieve its emission targets well before 2030, according to a report by IFC1. The report praises India’s climate actions, such as expanding renewable energy, issuing green bonds, and joining the NGFS network. The implication is that India is a global leader in green finance and low-carbon development. #India #EmissionTargets #IFC
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India is on track to achieve its emission targets well before 2030, according to a report by IFC1. The report praises India’s climate actions, such as expanding renewable energy, issuing green bonds, and joining the NGFS network. The implication is that India is a global leader in green finance and low-carbon development. #India #EmissionTargets #IFC
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India is on track to achieve its emission targets well before 2030, according to a report by IFC1. The report praises India’s climate actions, such as expanding renewable energy, issuing green bonds, and joining the NGFS network. The implication is that India is a global leader in green finance and low-carbon development. #India #EmissionTargets #IFC
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With 100s of talks, articles, blogs & meetings, 1,000s of social media posts, plus events & Australia’s first major symposium connecting #womeninSTEMM, sharing best practice & policy, funding & programs, and >55K GEDI allies & advocates (inter)nationally… well it’s been a thrilling journey to say the least! 🤩 Thanks Sarah Chapman & Madhu Bhaskaran, Women in STEMM Australia directors past + present, and my cofounder, Michelle Gallaher. Proud to continue as an Ambassador cheering you all on! 👏🏽💪🏼
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I've joined a #CriticalRealism Reading Group and I really like it. I seem to have stuck with it for 3 chapters in a row (we meet once a month). I have been wondering why I'm sticking with it.
I think it's because:
- others are more or less at my level of understanding of CR so I can more or less keep up
- discussions are usually about what we *don't* understand
- we are multi-disciplinary, so always looking for the relevance of CR to our fields -
Margaret Archer as heterodox post-Bourdeusian
Another piece of evidence to add to Fred Vandenberghe’s thesis that Margaret Archer should be interpreted as a heterodox post-Bourdeusian. In Ghassan Hage’s (very interesting) Pierre Bourdieu’s Political Economy of Being he shares this memory of working with Bourdieu:
In a private chat Bourdieu once said to me something that stayed with me and that I later scribbled on a piece of paper. He said (not word for word): “I suppose it might be useful to start researching a space by thinking of some binary oppositions that one, as a researcher, thinks are crisscrossing it, as long as one then works to show why they are neither as binary nor as oppositional as they first seem, which, mind you, doesn’t mean they are not there.”
This was something Archer was already primed to grapple with, as you can see in my interview with her, through her frustration with the limitations of the empiricist demography she was initially trained in. There’s an immediate resemblance between what Hage reports here and Archer’s analytical dualism, formulated in the late 1980s but whose logic pervades her earlier work, particularly as it was developed through engagement with prevailing theoretical approaches in historical sociology in Social Origins of Educational Systems.
My instinct is to read this as a problem Archer was already unusually sensitive to, which she elaborated upon through engaging with Bourdieu’s work and ultimately critiquing it. But it’s one which Bourdieu himself was also attuned to. The difference being that Archer developed a lose sensibility into a systematic logic and analytical principle, running with it in a way that led her to transcend Bourdieu’s thought. The place for realism came in understanding why the binaries continually reassert themselves and cannot ultimately be dissolved into epistemic perspectivalism.
I feel a bit conflicted about my enthusiasm for the post-Bourdeusian thesis because I know she hated it. But the prevailing tendency is to read Archer as a sociological critic of Giddens and a sociological elaborator of Bhaskar. Whereas I would argue the main body of her thought was fully formed by the time she met Bhaskar, it was a matter of elaborating its philosophical foundations (and then through the reflexivity trilogy onwards filling in the gaps in the critical realist approach through pursuing the threads left in her earlier work). Instead I think she should be read as deeply shaped by the LSE of the 1960s (positively: Popper, Lakatos, Percy Cohen, Gellner + negatively: Glass, Watkins), an ambivalent engagement with systems theory, the Lockwood paper which she subjectively identified as the biggest influence on her work, a love of historical sociology and a deeply conflicted engagement with Bourdieu. These were the initial formative influences, with Bhaskar sitting alongside thinkers like Taylor and Frankfurt in the subsequent more philosophical phase of her work, before I think C.S. Peirce (whose work she loved in a way I don’t think was always completely apparent in the writing) was the last big systematic influence on her thought.
#analyticalDualism #archer #bourdieu #DavidGlass #Gellner #GhassanHage #historicalSociology #Lakatos #lse #Watkins
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Margaret Archer as heterodox post-Bourdeusian
Another piece of evidence to add to Fred Vandenberghe’s thesis that Margaret Archer should be interpreted as a heterodox post-Bourdeusian. In Ghassan Hage’s (very interesting) Pierre Bourdieu’s Political Economy of Being he shares this memory of working with Bourdieu:
In a private chat Bourdieu once said to me something that stayed with me and that I later scribbled on a piece of paper. He said (not word for word): “I suppose it might be useful to start researching a space by thinking of some binary oppositions that one, as a researcher, thinks are crisscrossing it, as long as one then works to show why they are neither as binary nor as oppositional as they first seem, which, mind you, doesn’t mean they are not there.”
This was something Archer was already primed to grapple with, as you can see in my interview with her, through her frustration with the limitations of the empiricist demography she was initially trained in. There’s an immediate resemblance between what Hage reports here and Archer’s analytical dualism, formulated in the late 1980s but whose logic pervades her earlier work, particularly as it was developed through engagement with prevailing theoretical approaches in historical sociology in Social Origins of Educational Systems.
My instinct is to read this as a problem Archer was already unusually sensitive to, which she elaborated upon through engaging with Bourdieu’s work and ultimately critiquing it. But it’s one which Bourdieu himself was also attuned to. The difference being that Archer developed a lose sensibility into a systematic logic and analytical principle, running with it in a way that led her to transcend Bourdieu’s thought. The place for realism came in understanding why the binaries continually reassert themselves and cannot ultimately be dissolved into epistemic perspectivalism.
I feel a bit conflicted about my enthusiasm for the post-Bourdeusian thesis because I know she hated it. But the prevailing tendency is to read Archer as a sociological critic of Giddens and a sociological elaborator of Bhaskar. Whereas I would argue the main body of her thought was fully formed by the time she met Bhaskar, it was a matter of elaborating its philosophical foundations (and then through the reflexivity trilogy onwards filling in the gaps in the critical realist approach through pursuing the threads left in her earlier work). Instead I think she should be read as deeply shaped by the LSE of the 1960s (positively: Popper, Lakatos, Percy Cohen, Gellner + negatively: Glass, Watkins), an ambivalent engagement with systems theory, the Lockwood paper which she subjectively identified as the biggest influence on her work, a love of historical sociology and a deeply conflicted engagement with Bourdieu. These were the initial formative influences, with Bhaskar sitting alongside thinkers like Taylor and Frankfurt in the subsequent more philosophical phase of her work, before I think C.S. Peirce (whose work she loved in a way I don’t think was always completely apparent in the writing) was the last big systematic influence on her thought.
#analyticalDualism #archer #bourdieu #DavidGlass #Gellner #GhassanHage #historicalSociology #Lakatos #lse #Watkins
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Margaret Archer as heterodox post-Bourdeusian
Another piece of evidence to add to Fred Vandenberghe’s thesis that Margaret Archer should be interpreted as a heterodox post-Bourdeusian. In Ghassan Hage’s (very interesting) Pierre Bourdieu’s Political Economy of Being he shares this memory of working with Bourdieu:
In a private chat Bourdieu once said to me something that stayed with me and that I later scribbled on a piece of paper. He said (not word for word): “I suppose it might be useful to start researching a space by thinking of some binary oppositions that one, as a researcher, thinks are crisscrossing it, as long as one then works to show why they are neither as binary nor as oppositional as they first seem, which, mind you, doesn’t mean they are not there.”
This was something Archer was already primed to grapple with, as you can see in my interview with her, through her frustration with the limitations of the empiricist demography she was initially trained in. There’s an immediate resemblance between what Hage reports here and Archer’s analytical dualism, formulated in the late 1980s but whose logic pervades her earlier work, particularly as it was developed through engagement with prevailing theoretical approaches in historical sociology in Social Origins of Educational Systems.
My instinct is to read this as a problem Archer was already unusually sensitive to, which she elaborated upon through engaging with Bourdieu’s work and ultimately critiquing it. But it’s one which Bourdieu himself was also attuned to. The difference being that Archer developed a lose sensibility into a systematic logic and analytical principle, running with it in a way that led her to transcend Bourdieu’s thought. The place for realism came in understanding why the binaries continually reassert themselves and cannot ultimately be dissolved into epistemic perspectivalism.
I feel a bit conflicted about my enthusiasm for the post-Bourdeusian thesis because I know she hated it. But the prevailing tendency is to read Archer as a sociological critic of Giddens and a sociological elaborator of Bhaskar. Whereas I would argue the main body of her thought was fully formed by the time she met Bhaskar, it was a matter of elaborating its philosophical foundations (and then through the reflexivity trilogy onwards filling in the gaps in the critical realist approach through pursuing the threads left in her earlier work). Instead I think she should be read as deeply shaped by the LSE of the 1960s (positively: Popper, Lakatos, Percy Cohen, Gellner + negatively: Glass, Watkins), an ambivalent engagement with systems theory, the Lockwood paper which she subjectively identified as the biggest influence on her work, a love of historical sociology and a deeply conflicted engagement with Bourdieu. These were the initial formative influences, with Bhaskar sitting alongside thinkers like Taylor and Frankfurt in the subsequent more philosophical phase of her work, before I think C.S. Peirce (whose work she loved in a way I don’t think was always completely apparent in the writing) was the last big systematic influence on her thought.
#analyticalDualism #archer #bourdieu #DavidGlass #Gellner #GhassanHage #historicalSociology #Lakatos #lse #Watkins
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Margaret Archer as heterodox post-Bourdeusian
Another piece of evidence to add to Fred Vandenberghe’s thesis that Margaret Archer should be interpreted as a heterodox post-Bourdeusian. In Ghassan Hage’s (very interesting) Pierre Bourdieu’s Political Economy of Being he shares this memory of working with Bourdieu:
In a private chat Bourdieu once said to me something that stayed with me and that I later scribbled on a piece of paper. He said (not word for word): “I suppose it might be useful to start researching a space by thinking of some binary oppositions that one, as a researcher, thinks are crisscrossing it, as long as one then works to show why they are neither as binary nor as oppositional as they first seem, which, mind you, doesn’t mean they are not there.”
This was something Archer was already primed to grapple with, as you can see in my interview with her, through her frustration with the limitations of the empiricist demography she was initially trained in. There’s an immediate resemblance between what Hage reports here and Archer’s analytical dualism, formulated in the late 1980s but whose logic pervades her earlier work, particularly as it was developed through engagement with prevailing theoretical approaches in historical sociology in Social Origins of Educational Systems.
My instinct is to read this as a problem Archer was already unusually sensitive to, which she elaborated upon through engaging with Bourdieu’s work and ultimately critiquing it. But it’s one which Bourdieu himself was also attuned to. The difference being that Archer developed a lose sensibility into a systematic logic and analytical principle, running with it in a way that led her to transcend Bourdieu’s thought. The place for realism came in understanding why the binaries continually reassert themselves and cannot ultimately be dissolved into epistemic perspectivalism.
I feel a bit conflicted about my enthusiasm for the post-Bourdeusian thesis because I know she hated it. But the prevailing tendency is to read Archer as a sociological critic of Giddens and a sociological elaborator of Bhaskar. Whereas I would argue the main body of her thought was fully formed by the time she met Bhaskar, it was a matter of elaborating its philosophical foundations (and then through the reflexivity trilogy onwards filling in the gaps in the critical realist approach through pursuing the threads left in her earlier work). Instead I think she should be read as deeply shaped by the LSE of the 1960s (positively: Popper, Lakatos, Percy Cohen, Gellner + negatively: Glass, Watkins), an ambivalent engagement with systems theory, the Lockwood paper which she subjectively identified as the biggest influence on her work, a love of historical sociology and a deeply conflicted engagement with Bourdieu. These were the initial formative influences, with Bhaskar sitting alongside thinkers like Taylor and Frankfurt in the subsequent more philosophical phase of her work, before I think C.S. Peirce (whose work she loved in a way I don’t think was always completely apparent in the writing) was the last big systematic influence on her thought.
#analyticalDualism #archer #bourdieu #DavidGlass #Gellner #GhassanHage #historicalSociology #Lakatos #lse #Watkins
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The emphasis placed in Lacanian psychoanalysis on symbolisation isn’t an open-ended matter of putting everything into words. It rests on an account of libidinal economy in which some inarticulate matters are stumbling blocks for the subject, whereas others are not. This is how Bruce Fink describes it in the Lacanian subject:
One of the faces of the real that we deal with in psychoanalysis is trauma. If we think of the real as everything that has yet to be symbolized, language no doubt never completely transforms the real, never drains all of the real into the symbolic order; a residuum is always left. In analysis, we are not interested in just any old residuum, but in that residual experience that has become a stumbling block to the patient. The goal of analysis is not to exhaustively symbolize every last drop of the real, for that would make of analysis a truly infinite process, but rather to focus on those scraps of the real which can be considered to have been traumatic. By getting an analysand to dream, daydream, and talk, however incoherently, about a traumatic “event,” we make him or her connect it up with words, bring it into relation with ever more signifiers.
Contrast this with what Roy Bhaskar once characterised as the ‘free-wheeling’ conception of freedom found in someone like Richard Rorty, for whom self-articulation is a perpetual project without centre or foundation. Or the articulation of Taylor’s subject for whom, as Margaret Archer once (critically) put it, the emotions act as a ‘moral direction finder’.
https://markcarrigan.net/2024/08/20/the-libidinal-economy-of-symbolisation/
#charlesTaylor #Lacan #libidinalEconomy #margaretArcher #reflexivity #richardRorty #royBhaskar #symbolisation
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After my lunch yesterday, the crowds waiting to get into #NotreDame were insane. So I got up early today, and was there at the opening time of 7:45. They didn't actually open the doors till after 8, but I was able to get in without crowds (just a few hundred people, about half of whom were there for Mass). The Mass started when I was inside and the sound quality was excellent. Whoever engineered the sound system knew what they were doing.
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I'm on the TGV from Lille to Paris. Why can't we have trains like this in the United States?
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YottaDB r2.06 provides a timely fix to a bug in r2.04, in which the compiler generates incorrect code for an unusual code pattern. We recommend that you use r2.06 instead of r2.04. https://gitlab.com/YottaDB/DB/YDB/-/releases/r2.06 #NoSQL
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YottaDB r2.06 provides a timely fix to a bug in r2.04, in which the compiler generates incorrect code for an unusual code pattern. We recommend that you use r2.06 instead of r2.04. https://gitlab.com/YottaDB/DB/YDB/-/releases/r2.06 #NoSQL
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Spot on: #VA tech mess began in Kansas City https://amp.kansascity.com/opinion/readers-opinion/guest-commentary/article315506519.html #Cerner #Oracle
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Spot on: #VA tech mess began in Kansas City https://amp.kansascity.com/opinion/readers-opinion/guest-commentary/article315506519.html #Cerner #Oracle
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Spot on: #VA tech mess began in Kansas City https://amp.kansascity.com/opinion/readers-opinion/guest-commentary/article315506519.html #Cerner #Oracle
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Spot on: #VA tech mess began in Kansas City https://amp.kansascity.com/opinion/readers-opinion/guest-commentary/article315506519.html #Cerner #Oracle
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We welcome Jordan Lenchitz to the YottaDB blog with his post YottaDB as a Creative Platform: Experimental Video Art at Scale (https://yottadb.com/yottadb-as-a-creative-platform-experimental-video-art-at-scale/). It is truly a unique use of our software, one that we had never imagined. Thank you very much, and congratulations, Jordan! #video #art #nosql #sql
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We welcome Jordan Lenchitz to the YottaDB blog with his post YottaDB as a Creative Platform: Experimental Video Art at Scale (https://yottadb.com/yottadb-as-a-creative-platform-experimental-video-art-at-scale/). It is truly a unique use of our software, one that we had never imagined. Thank you very much, and congratulations, Jordan! #video #art #nosql #sql
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RE: https://mastodon.acm.org/@JEDI/116341926201698581
Less than two weeks to go! Please submit your abstracts soon. #SIGIR2026 #JEDIWorkshop #IR4Good #EmancipatoryIR #SocialJustice #Democracy
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RE: https://mastodon.acm.org/@JEDI/116341926201698581
Less than two weeks to go! Please submit your abstracts soon. #SIGIR2026 #JEDIWorkshop #IR4Good #EmancipatoryIR #SocialJustice #Democracy
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RE: https://mastodon.acm.org/@JEDI/116341926201698581
Less than two weeks to go! Please submit your abstracts soon. #SIGIR2026 #JEDIWorkshop #IR4Good #EmancipatoryIR #SocialJustice #Democracy