Tamara Lopez
@parseraisin.bsky.social
Lecturer at the @openuniversity.bsky.social, member of @ou-sead.bsky.social. Following, reading and reposting here, professional updates can be found on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/parseraisin/
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It's time to talk about the Anglosphere world after the university era. What we're seeing, if we zoom back, is the end of the attempt to massify the immediate post-war university. That 60 year strategy is rapidly coming apart. What will post-university Higher Ed look like? (1/2)
June 20, 2025 at 8:08 AM
It's time to talk about the Anglosphere world after the university era. What we're seeing, if we zoom back, is the end of the attempt to massify the immediate post-war university. That 60 year strategy is rapidly coming apart. What will post-university Higher Ed look like? (1/2)
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Welcome to the archives.
June 10, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Welcome to the archives.
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Deep Blue is 30 years old and was capable of defeating chess grand champions. It could be housed in a single cabinet.
ChatGPT spans untold data centers devouring massive amounts of electricity and it got its ass whipped by an 8 bit gaming console from the 1970s.
ChatGPT spans untold data centers devouring massive amounts of electricity and it got its ass whipped by an 8 bit gaming console from the 1970s.
ChatGPT Lost a Chess Game to an Atari 2600
And on the 'Beginner' difficulty level, too.
www.extremetech.com
June 11, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Deep Blue is 30 years old and was capable of defeating chess grand champions. It could be housed in a single cabinet.
ChatGPT spans untold data centers devouring massive amounts of electricity and it got its ass whipped by an 8 bit gaming console from the 1970s.
ChatGPT spans untold data centers devouring massive amounts of electricity and it got its ass whipped by an 8 bit gaming console from the 1970s.
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reminding myself once again that written is better than perfect
May 14, 2025 at 4:04 AM
reminding myself once again that written is better than perfect
A fresh week and a new study begins. Are you an employer in the #UK or know of someone who is? Would you like to take part in a study I am conducting with colleagues at The Open University looking at #AISkills and #AILiteracy in the workplace?
Interested? See our LinkedIn post 👇 & pass it on. Thx!
Interested? See our LinkedIn post 👇 & pass it on. Thx!
#uk #aiskills #ailiteracy | Tamara Lopez
A fresh week and with it a new study begins. Are you an employer in the #UK or know of someone who is? Would you like to take part in a study Soraya Kouadri Mostefaoui, Jill Shaw , Muhammad Anas and ...
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April 28, 2025 at 1:20 PM
A fresh week and a new study begins. Are you an employer in the #UK or know of someone who is? Would you like to take part in a study I am conducting with colleagues at The Open University looking at #AISkills and #AILiteracy in the workplace?
Interested? See our LinkedIn post 👇 & pass it on. Thx!
Interested? See our LinkedIn post 👇 & pass it on. Thx!
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So GenX to be completely forgotten by all the haters.
It’s a real unearned W for all Gen-Xers that the teens use both “boomer” and “millennial” as shorthand for old people but have completely forgotten about us, the worst generation of them all.
April 19, 2025 at 12:47 AM
So GenX to be completely forgotten by all the haters.
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So much of the normalization of AI, the free labor from crowdsourcing to train its models, and the promotion of its forced insertion into every sector of life has depended upon these seemingly tiny, mundane acts of self engagement. Remember Google’s art selfie project? Same deal.
Stop making those little AI image generator memes of yourself as a Barbie or a Ghibli character you are enriching evil companies and destroying the planet and this is like one of the easiest things you can just not do
April 16, 2025 at 1:20 AM
So much of the normalization of AI, the free labor from crowdsourcing to train its models, and the promotion of its forced insertion into every sector of life has depended upon these seemingly tiny, mundane acts of self engagement. Remember Google’s art selfie project? Same deal.
It does look great! Happy to share that one of our @openuniversity.bsky.social students, Maryam Aswat will present her poster about Soft skills in Software Engineering at this year's colloquium.
Maryam conducted her last summer as an intern, you can read her poster here: doi.org/10.21954/ou....
Maryam conducted her last summer as an intern, you can read her poster here: doi.org/10.21954/ou....
April 11, 2025 at 8:29 AM
It does look great! Happy to share that one of our @openuniversity.bsky.social students, Maryam Aswat will present her poster about Soft skills in Software Engineering at this year's colloquium.
Maryam conducted her last summer as an intern, you can read her poster here: doi.org/10.21954/ou....
Maryam conducted her last summer as an intern, you can read her poster here: doi.org/10.21954/ou....
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General registration is now open!
If you would like to join us in Glasgow, please sign up here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bcswomen-l...
Student tickets are £1
Non-student £30
Supporter tickets (if you want to help us out ) £60
If you would like to join us in Glasgow, please sign up here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bcswomen-l...
Student tickets are £1
Non-student £30
Supporter tickets (if you want to help us out ) £60
BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium 2025
The BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium is an annual one day conference for women and non-binary students of Computing and related subjects.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
March 21, 2025 at 1:03 PM
General registration is now open!
If you would like to join us in Glasgow, please sign up here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bcswomen-l...
Student tickets are £1
Non-student £30
Supporter tickets (if you want to help us out ) £60
If you would like to join us in Glasgow, please sign up here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bcswomen-l...
Student tickets are £1
Non-student £30
Supporter tickets (if you want to help us out ) £60
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None of these people seem to understand what being human is, what emotions are, and what is terrifying is how they all seem to be trying to work on making "better" "therapeutic" LLMs for vulnerable people with their absolute bloody bullshit
March 18, 2025 at 1:18 PM
None of these people seem to understand what being human is, what emotions are, and what is terrifying is how they all seem to be trying to work on making "better" "therapeutic" LLMs for vulnerable people with their absolute bloody bullshit
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They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow
As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy
freedom.press
March 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
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Governments should be careful about beleiving more tech will reduce costs - it often drives them up. Plus people pay taxes but machines (and their owners) tend to not, so returns to treasury drop making it all less affordable.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
AI should replace some work of civil servants, Starmer to announce
The new digital ‘mantra’ prompts unions to warn PM to stop blaming problems on Whitehall officials
www.theguardian.com
March 13, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Governments should be careful about beleiving more tech will reduce costs - it often drives them up. Plus people pay taxes but machines (and their owners) tend to not, so returns to treasury drop making it all less affordable.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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We are increasingly concerned about the crisis in UK Higher Education. Read our joint statement with @royalhistsoc.bsky.social , History UK and the @histassoc.bsky.social https://buff.ly/4hSg16N #history #skystorians
More than ever, history and historians need a collaborative and co-ordinated approach
26th February 2025
buff.ly
February 26, 2025 at 10:29 AM
We are increasingly concerned about the crisis in UK Higher Education. Read our joint statement with @royalhistsoc.bsky.social , History UK and the @histassoc.bsky.social https://buff.ly/4hSg16N #history #skystorians
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It's late my love, and life
for mice, though short and rife
with sorrows, traps,
and awful things like cats,
has space for quiet moments too.
Tonight my sweet, let's me and you
go tango like we used to do,
under the bench on platform two.
bbc.co.uk/news/science...
for mice, though short and rife
with sorrows, traps,
and awful things like cats,
has space for quiet moments too.
Tonight my sweet, let's me and you
go tango like we used to do,
under the bench on platform two.
bbc.co.uk/news/science...
Wildlife photos: Squabbling mice top 'people's poll' award
An image of two mice fighting on the underground over a crumb of food tops a popular wildlife photo poll.
bbc.co.uk
November 19, 2024 at 4:49 PM
It's late my love, and life
for mice, though short and rife
with sorrows, traps,
and awful things like cats,
has space for quiet moments too.
Tonight my sweet, let's me and you
go tango like we used to do,
under the bench on platform two.
bbc.co.uk/news/science...
for mice, though short and rife
with sorrows, traps,
and awful things like cats,
has space for quiet moments too.
Tonight my sweet, let's me and you
go tango like we used to do,
under the bench on platform two.
bbc.co.uk/news/science...
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Security expert Bruce Schneier & digital ethicist Davi Ottenheimer: “The U.S. government has experienced what may be the most consequential security breach in its history.” And: “This is beyond politics — this is a matter of national security.” (via @anildash.com) [foreignpolicy.com]
DOGE Is Hacking America
The U.S. government has experienced what may be the most consequential security breach in its history.
foreignpolicy.com
February 12, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Security expert Bruce Schneier & digital ethicist Davi Ottenheimer: “The U.S. government has experienced what may be the most consequential security breach in its history.” And: “This is beyond politics — this is a matter of national security.” (via @anildash.com) [foreignpolicy.com]
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If you want to understand how computer science became more male, you must see Felienne Hermans’ talk at SPLASH. Learn when CS became obsessed with math (1973) and who threw out the social scientists (Dykstra) www.youtube.com/live/-Br66SU... @felienne.bsky.social
[SPLASH'24] Pacific - Onward! (Oct 23th)
YouTube video by ACM SIGPLAN
www.youtube.com
January 27, 2025 at 7:47 PM
If you want to understand how computer science became more male, you must see Felienne Hermans’ talk at SPLASH. Learn when CS became obsessed with math (1973) and who threw out the social scientists (Dykstra) www.youtube.com/live/-Br66SU... @felienne.bsky.social
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Last year I asked a question about the state of tracing JITs, and it led to a wonderful exchange. @cfbolz.bsky.social has written a terrific summary that captures a lot of folk knowledge that would otherwise be lost. Thanks!
pypy.org/posts/2025/0...
pypy.org/posts/2025/0...
Musings on Tracing in PyPy
Last summer, Shriram Krishnamurthi asked on
Twitter:
"I'm curious what the current state of tracing JITs is. They used to be all the
rage for a while, then I though I heard they weren't so effective,
pypy.org
January 6, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Last year I asked a question about the state of tracing JITs, and it led to a wonderful exchange. @cfbolz.bsky.social has written a terrific summary that captures a lot of folk knowledge that would otherwise be lost. Thanks!
pypy.org/posts/2025/0...
pypy.org/posts/2025/0...
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Actually by me and @petraboynton.bsky.social for @lseimpactblog.bsky.social and references @uk.theconversation.com - worth a read if you're interested in research and inequality
@helenkennedy.bsky.social and I wrote about these inequalities and how they harm research more widely earlier this year blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... The Conversation was one of many areas that inspired this piece.
Institutional affiliation should not be a requirement for doing research
Universities espouse a universalist approach to creating and accessing research-based knowledge. However, as Helen Kara and Petra Boynton argue, seen from the outside these claims are hollow. Perha…
blogs.lse.ac.uk
December 18, 2024 at 9:16 AM
Actually by me and @petraboynton.bsky.social for @lseimpactblog.bsky.social and references @uk.theconversation.com - worth a read if you're interested in research and inequality
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I've been writing publicly for YEARS about unis starving the humanities of funding & pitching it towards AI. The AI-developed Comp Lit course at UCLA is just some toes in the water. We're going to see much more of this if faculty don't resist. My piece from 2021: theconversation.com/how-ai-is-hi...
December 9, 2024 at 8:03 PM
I've been writing publicly for YEARS about unis starving the humanities of funding & pitching it towards AI. The AI-developed Comp Lit course at UCLA is just some toes in the water. We're going to see much more of this if faculty don't resist. My piece from 2021: theconversation.com/how-ai-is-hi...
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My department is hiring! Talk to me if you want to know more.
Senior Lecturer (=Assoc. Prof) in Trustworthy AI: www.ucc.ie/en/futures/a...
Lecturer (=Assist Prof) in AI-powered Augmented & Virtual Reality
www.ucc.ie/en/futures/a...
Lecture in Mobile / Edge Computing: www.ucc.ie/en/futures/a...
Senior Lecturer (=Assoc. Prof) in Trustworthy AI: www.ucc.ie/en/futures/a...
Lecturer (=Assist Prof) in AI-powered Augmented & Virtual Reality
www.ucc.ie/en/futures/a...
Lecture in Mobile / Edge Computing: www.ucc.ie/en/futures/a...
Senior Lecturer of Trustworthy AI | University College Cork
Learn, Study and Research in UCC, Ireland's first 5 star university. Our tradition of independent thinking will prepare you for the world and the workplace in a vibrant, modern, green campus.
www.ucc.ie
December 2, 2024 at 4:53 PM
My department is hiring! Talk to me if you want to know more.
Senior Lecturer (=Assoc. Prof) in Trustworthy AI: www.ucc.ie/en/futures/a...
Lecturer (=Assist Prof) in AI-powered Augmented & Virtual Reality
www.ucc.ie/en/futures/a...
Lecture in Mobile / Edge Computing: www.ucc.ie/en/futures/a...
Senior Lecturer (=Assoc. Prof) in Trustworthy AI: www.ucc.ie/en/futures/a...
Lecturer (=Assist Prof) in AI-powered Augmented & Virtual Reality
www.ucc.ie/en/futures/a...
Lecture in Mobile / Edge Computing: www.ucc.ie/en/futures/a...
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huh, turns out coding is not some magic profession, immune to basic supply and demand dynamics, which can absorb infinite workers with no effects on wages or employment. no one could have predicted www.nytimes.com/2024/11/24/b...
Do Coding Boot Camps Make Sense in an A.I. World?
Coding boot camps once looked like the golden ticket to an economically secure future. But as that promise fades, what should you do? Keep learning, until further notice.
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2024 at 2:09 PM
huh, turns out coding is not some magic profession, immune to basic supply and demand dynamics, which can absorb infinite workers with no effects on wages or employment. no one could have predicted www.nytimes.com/2024/11/24/b...
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Academics in their forties
October 25, 2024 at 2:22 PM
Academics in their forties
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Did you hear about the time that our Senior Archive Assistant, Amanda, discovered an 18th Century tomb at the Walton Hall campus?
Read all about Amanda's exciting archaeological discovery: thehootstudents.com/the-discover...
Read all about Amanda's exciting archaeological discovery: thehootstudents.com/the-discover...
November 22, 2024 at 12:16 PM
Did you hear about the time that our Senior Archive Assistant, Amanda, discovered an 18th Century tomb at the Walton Hall campus?
Read all about Amanda's exciting archaeological discovery: thehootstudents.com/the-discover...
Read all about Amanda's exciting archaeological discovery: thehootstudents.com/the-discover...