This page has some issuesTomi Slotte Dufva

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  1. NO! My data can not be used to train AI models!

    There has been rapid development in machine learning models recently. The scientific achievements are in many ways impressive and valuable (Gupta et al., 2022; Ardila et al., 2019). However, some of the development has been more focused on commerce, i.e. selling different products based on these trained models. Lensa AI , for instance, is a smartphone app that creates AI images based on your selfie. They sell ”magic avatar packs ” for 5€ and also require membership. Other similar image-alteration or text-to-image products ask for equal payments, and some stock image banks have started selling AI-generated images. Even though a…

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  2. Academic workflows part 2

    Not far from two years ago, preparing for my dissertation defense, I wrote about the academic software I used to write the doctoral dissertation. Now that I have been working in academia for about one and a half years, I thought to revisit the subject and write a little about the tools I use today. Why, you might be asking yourself, why oh sweet lord why? Because I am obsessed about finding the best software to use, and I am tormented by the thought of millions of people writing their articles on MS word. I think that we should appreciate…

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  3. AA = Apps for Academics

    As I am nearing the defense of my dissertation, I thought to glance back at some of the software I have been using to write my dissertation and other academic stuff (book chapters, blog posts, abstracts, applications, etc.). First, I must confess I spend far too much time on evaluating and trying out different apps that might get me to be more productive. I also acknowledge that I obsess far too much over the design of the software. I admit this. Obviously, it is part of my excellence in procrastination. Anyway, I think there are three essential apps one should…

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