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Zachary Levonian

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Data science + ML engineering. HCI PhD @grouplens. Researching: health, social support, recommendation, applied NLP. Mastodon: @[email protected]

Tacoma, WA
Joined August 2017
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Zachary Levonian
3 months
It looks like the academic migration to Bluesky will be successful this time (RIP to Mastodon). So I have also migrated there, hopefully permanently:
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Zachary Levonian
14 days
@sparr0 Sure, what did you have in mind? You may already have these btw, but Adam Waytz sent me the raw exported image files via Qualtrics, which are libs_raw.png and cons_raw.png.
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Zachary Levonian
3 months
RT @EstelleSmithPhD: Come join my research lab in @CSatMines and pioneer a ✨✨brand new field ✨✨for #HCI in online spiritual care! I am look…
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Zachary Levonian
4 months
So cool to see my friend @joelmjaeger quoted in the Washington Post today as a climate and energy expert!
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Zachary Levonian
5 months
@jeffbigham @IanArawjo I was just a reviewer on a very nice note-style CSCW paper. After a round of revisions, it got 40% longer 😬 but at least it got in!
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Zachary Levonian
5 months
@_alialkhatib agree this is hard, and if you solve this conceptual problem we'll all be very grateful. I like Yang et al.'s paper from a few years ago on this topic because it's grounded in design as a process; it's nice to have some practical stakes for conceptual work
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Zachary Levonian
5 months
@moultano @norvid_studies This is a particularly funny interpretation because the same study shows that basically everyone allocates more moral concern to humans compared to non-humans. It's an interesting study, but lots of limitations!
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Zachary Levonian
5 months
@jskf__ @norvid_studies @SealOfTheEnd The wild part is that the authors gave a "click the number" task but the actual data is (x,y) clicks on an image! We can blame Qualtrics for making it easy to do this kind of nonsense
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Zachary Levonian
6 months
RT @emollick: Been waiting to see clear studies on this: “LLMs can mark open text responses to short answer questions, across various by su…
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Zachary Levonian
8 months
@_alialkhatib my thoughts felt scattered, so your further thoughts are appreciated! I agree with your opening: it's hard to articulate this stuff, because it's hard to tell how simple it is (or isn't). Current HCD feels antithetical to destruction, but I can't tell if that's fixable or not.
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Zachary Levonian
8 months
I wrote a few additional notes about using LLMs for hint generation on my personal blog.
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Zachary Levonian
8 months
Fun seeing an article I did a bit of work on get featured! I wish it was a higher-quality article 😅
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depths of wikipedia!
8 months
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Zachary Levonian
8 months
@lizbmarquis I basically agree with this, but I think this under-rates the usefulness of workarounds. There's potential for supporting Doctorow's notion of "adversarial interoperability" instead, reshaping information control to be less hierarchical.
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Zachary Levonian
9 months
@vboykis FYI, the embedded tweet links in this old blog post appear to be malformed/broken.
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Zachary Levonian
10 months
RT @ACM_CSCW: Hello CSCW Community! 📣🌞☺️ Please consider submitting to the Poster Track of #CSCW2024. Posters are an opportunity to descri…
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Zachary Levonian
11 months
RT @ZhutianChen: @UMNComputerSci is offering a 10-week summer @NSF REU program for undergraduate students who are interested in research on…
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Zachary Levonian
11 months
@nickmvincent If we think of these systems as meme makers, it's easy to see the appeal to users (meme, fancam, etc. makers are popular!), but it's harder to see any obvious commercial potential beyond existing audio editing tools.
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Zachary Levonian
1 year
@xuanalogue Did you see this paper in FAccT a few years ago from a philosopher? Introduces the Is-Ought gap in the gentlest way possible. He knew his audience!
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