#contextual — Public Fediverse posts

Just to show I’ll give AI credit where credit is due…

I had been pondering this from time to time over many years. AI gave a damn good answer and thera- err… debriefing session:

As a freshman undergraduate psychology major at CMU in 1987, we were required to earn credit as subjects in graduate student experiments. I was in a brief, no more than an hour-long experiment in which I was typing on a terminal in a room on my own and told I was communicating with another student whom I never did meet and whose text lines to me came up on my screen. The topic we were told to discuss, I suspect was arbitrary, and had something to do with policies on stores selling alcohol to underage purchasers.

In this experiment was I communicating with an early AI prototype?

Also, all these years later, is it unusual that not having a final debriefing about the experiment bothers me slightly?

Damn! Now I want to apologize to the researchers (again) for having been such a slow typist 😁.

Just to show I’ll give AI credit where credit is due…

I had been pondering this from time to time over many years. AI gave a damn good answer and thera- err… debriefing session:

As a freshman undergraduate psychology major at CMU in 1987, we were required to earn credit as subjects in graduate student experiments. I was in a brief, no more than an hour-long experiment in which I was typing on a terminal in a room on my own and told I was communicating with another student whom I never did meet and whose text lines to me came up on my screen. The topic we were told to discuss, I suspect was arbitrary, and had something to do with policies on stores selling alcohol to underage purchasers.

In this experiment was I communicating with an early AI prototype?

Also, all these years later, is it unusual that not having a final debriefing about the experiment bothers me slightly?

Damn! Now I want to apologize to the researchers (again) for having been such a slow typist 😁.

#Google is testing new #conversational #adformats powered by #Gemini in #AIMode and #Search. These formats, including #ConversationalDiscovery ads and #HighlightedAnswers, aim to make #ads more #contextual and helpful by dynamically generating ad creative based on user queries. https://searchengineland.com/google-tests-new-conversational-ad-formats-in-ai-mode-and-search-478115?eicker.news #tech #media #news

#Google is testing new #conversational #adformats powered by #Gemini in #AIMode and #Search. These formats, including #ConversationalDiscovery ads and #HighlightedAnswers, aim to make #ads more #contextual and helpful by dynamically generating ad creative based on user queries. https://searchengineland.com/google-tests-new-conversational-ad-formats-in-ai-mode-and-search-478115?eicker.news #tech #media #news

Manfred Güllner is stepping down from the day‑to‑day operations of Forsa, the market‑ and opinion‑research firm he founded in 1984. "The main reason for my with... https://news.osna.fm/?p=35265 | #news #analysis #citing #contextual #data

#ITByte: #Contextual #Computing (or context-aware computing) involves systems that collect and analyze information about a user's environment, activities, and needs to provide proactive, personalized, and situation-aware content and experiences.

https://knowledgezone.co.in/posts/Contextual-Computing-68d0146aec2a3c6b9c6437ea

#ITByte: #Contextual #Computing (or context-aware computing) involves systems that collect and analyze information about a user's environment, activities, and needs to provide proactive, personalized, and situation-aware content and experiences.

https://knowledgezone.co.in/posts/Contextual-Computing-68d0146aec2a3c6b9c6437ea

This paper by Raju et al. proposes a unified model – “clone‑structured causal #graphs” (#CSCG) – for #hippocampal #SpatialCoding. It suggests that #SpatialMaps arise from #learning #latent higher‑order sequences rather than representing #EuclideanSpace directly. The model elegantly explains phenomena like #PlaceFields, #SplitterCells, #contextual #remapping, and predicts when #PlaceFieldMapping may mislead.

🌍 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adm8470

#Hippocampus #CognitiveMaps #SequenceLearning #Neuroscience

This paper by Raju et al. proposes a unified model – “clone‑structured causal #graphs” (#CSCG) – for #hippocampal #SpatialCoding. It suggests that #SpatialMaps arise from #learning #latent higher‑order sequences rather than representing #EuclideanSpace directly. The model elegantly explains phenomena like #PlaceFields, #SplitterCells, #contextual #remapping, and predicts when #PlaceFieldMapping may mislead.

🌍 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adm8470

#Hippocampus #CognitiveMaps #SequenceLearning #Neuroscience

Why does academic #reinforcementlearning focus on impractical problems like games? A lot of working #datascience and #machinelearning practitioners use oracle based contextual bandits to solve business problems. Often users don't even think they are doing reinforcement learning and they do it "exploration free"! I wish there was more research done on #contextual bandits...

Why does academic #reinforcementlearning focus on impractical problems like games? A lot of working #datascience and #machinelearning practitioners use oracle based contextual bandits to solve business problems. Often users don't even think they are doing reinforcement learning and they do it "exploration free"! I wish there was more research done on #contextual bandits...

Announcing new #features in version 1.3 of my #Klaro #TYPO3 #Extension EXT:klaro_consent_manager:
✅ #Contextual #Consent for #Content Elements
✅ #Labels enriched with #Fluid
#Videos about this were added to the #documentation
https://docs.typo3.org/p/erhaweb/klaro-consent-manager/1.3/en-us/Introduction/Index.html

Announcing new #features in version 1.3 of my #Klaro #TYPO3 #Extension EXT:klaro_consent_manager:
✅ #Contextual #Consent for #Content Elements
✅ #Labels enriched with #Fluid
#Videos about this were added to the #documentation
https://docs.typo3.org/p/erhaweb/klaro-consent-manager/1.3/en-us/Introduction/Index.html

Contextualize Me – The Case for Context in Reinforcement Learning

Carolin Benjamins, Theresa Eimer, Frederik Schubert et al.

Action editor: Adam White.

https://openreview.net/forum?id=Y42xVBQusn

#contextualize #contextual #reinforcement

Contextualize Me – The Case for Context in Reinforcement Learning

Carolin Benjamins, Theresa Eimer, Frederik Schubert et al.

Action editor: Adam White.

https://openreview.net/forum?id=Y42xVBQusn

#contextualize #contextual #reinforcement

The #Contextual #Owl in an #Asemic Environment. #AsemicArt #AsemicWriting #DeconstructedText #AsemicText #Collage #CollageArt #Art #Scanography #DigitalArt #Photography

The #Contextual #Owl in an #Asemic Environment. #AsemicArt #AsemicWriting #DeconstructedText #AsemicText #Collage #CollageArt #Art #Scanography #DigitalArt #Photography

"Apple says that during the first quarter of last year, 78 percent of searches in the App Store where people could have been shown #ads were from devices that had personalized ads turned off—the “conversion rate” for #advertisers is basically the same for personalized ads and #contextual ads, it says."

#TrackingFreeAds

https://www.wired.com/story/apple-privacy-data-collection/

"Apple says that during the first quarter of last year, 78 percent of searches in the App Store where people could have been shown #ads were from devices that had personalized ads turned off—the “conversion rate” for #advertisers is basically the same for personalized ads and #contextual ads, it says."

#TrackingFreeAds

https://www.wired.com/story/apple-privacy-data-collection/

Building a more #privacy preserving ads-based ecosystem - https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/building-a-more-privacy-preserving-ads-based-ecosystem/ no need for all this technical faffing: just move to #contextual advertising. #mozilla should be supporting this idea, not tinkering at the edges.