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Maksym Polyakov 🇺🇦🌻 @maksympolyakov.bsky.social · 8h

I like it. (P drive, H drive, T drive could mean different things, but IMO it is better than any of those I have used before)

Everything is now on OneDrive. Collaboration within the organisation is great, but with the outside is not so.

Maksym Polyakov 🇺🇦🌻 @maksympolyakov.bsky.social · 10h

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 14h

a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,

r/ExpectationVsReality u/Additional-Simple858 • 3d
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Al 'doctor' said my back pain is depression, not a slipped disc. Now physical therapy won't get approved.
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Maksym Polyakov 🇺🇦🌻 @maksympolyakov.bsky.social · 12h

🙋‍♂️

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Economists for Ukraine @econ4ua.bsky.social · 12h

Russian strikes devastated #Ukraine’s power grids this weekend, blocking access to heating in winter conditions for millions.

Econ4UA has supported Ukrainians through winters since 2022. Our aid is now more needed than ever.

Help us send supplies: ai4good.org/economists-f...

Donate for Ukraine - Winter and Power - AI for Good Foundation

Winter is the most challenging time in Ukraine: Russian attacks damage power supply, leaving vulnerable populations in the dark, cold and vulnerable.

ai4good.org

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 14h

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 22h

Russian strike on a church in Dnipropetrovsk region. Its dome caught fire.

Thankfully, no one was injured.

Russia has destroyed or damaged hundreds of churches in Ukraine while claiming it "protects" the Orthodox faith.

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 1d

In a targeted overnight strike, Russian drones hit a symbol of Ukraine's green energy future. The "Clear Energy" combined heat and power plant, built in 2016, was the nation's first major biomass facility.

Maksym Polyakov 🇺🇦🌻 @maksympolyakov.bsky.social · 2d

"U.S. to supply cotton to Uzbekistan" 🫢

Luxon should learn from President Mirziyoyev and broker a deal to buy milk and lamb from the US

kun.uz/en/news/2025...

U.S. to supply cotton to Uzbekistan

President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev and U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick held talks in Washington, focusing on expanding cooperation in agriculture. According to reports, initial agree...

kun.uz

Reposted by Rosemary A. Joyce, Maksym Polyakov

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

menswear writer here 👋 camo will not hide you inside a gym

Kash Patel wears a camo polo shirt with a trucker cap and mid-brown pants inside a gym.

Maksym Polyakov 🇺🇦🌻 @maksympolyakov.bsky.social · 2d

You too, Adobe Acrobat?

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 2d

One nice thing about being able to give this talk was that I was able to say a little bit—in the context of “data science” and also the use of LLMs in research—about the philosophical ideas of the late Katherine Hawley on trust and commitment. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZamP...

Still from my talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZamPCbvBAgE

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🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 @militarynewsua.bsky.social · 2d

❗️During the night, the 🇺🇦Ukrainian military shot down 415/503 🇷🇺Russian air targets

Shot down/launched:

▪️406/458 attack UAVs of the Shahed, Gerbera type (drones of other types)
▪️?/25 Iskander-M/KN-23 ballistic missiles
▪️?/10 Iskander-K cruise missiles
▪️?/7 Kh-47M2 Kinzhal aeroballistic missiles

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🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 @militarynewsua.bsky.social · 3d

❗️Approximate route of 🇷🇺Russian drones and missiles tonight during attack on 🇺🇦Ukraine

Maksym Polyakov 🇺🇦🌻 @maksympolyakov.bsky.social · 3d

Meanwhile, another russian UAV hit 9-storey residential building in Dnipro, destroying apartments from 4th to 6th storeys

Maksym Polyakov 🇺🇦🌻 @maksympolyakov.bsky.social · 3d

"Criminals posing as US immigration officers have carried out robberies, kidnappings, and sexual assaults in several states"

www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves

In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.

www.wired.com

Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 3d

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

Maksym Polyakov 🇺🇦🌻 @maksympolyakov.bsky.social · 4d

💯

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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 4d

A warehouse with many “Shaheds” and UAV launch sites exploded in Donetsk last night, reported commander Robert “Madyar” Brovdi. He said it was the result of a months-long intelligence operation successfully executed overnight.

Maksym Polyakov 🇺🇦🌻 @maksympolyakov.bsky.social · 4d

There is no way the Michelin guide would bring 36,000 additional international visitors to NZ without rating bakeries

Reposted by Stephan Lewandowsky, Euan G. Ritchie, Steve Peers , and 1 more Stephan Lewandowsky, Euan G. Ritchie, Steve Peers, Maksym Polyakov

James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 4d

A magnificent piece of work. Comprehesive, revelatory & shocking. Journalism this good is always rare & precious but never moreso than at times like this. Latter day Lord Haw Haws being plumped, preened & delivered to your doorstep in plain sight by a Nazi-saluting goon
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how

news.sky.com

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Tatyana Deryugina @tderyugina.bsky.social · 6d

This is your periodic reminder that Russia continues to terrorize Ukraine.

A few days ago, Russia destroyed this passenger train station in Sumy. I used to take these trains to visit my grandma in the summer and remember this station well.

www.youtube.com/shorts/63ial...

Залізничний вокзал у Сумах після атаки РФ #shorts #обстріли #суми #вокал #бпла #війна

YouTube video by Суспільне Суми

www.youtube.com

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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 7d

what if we had the hot dog for when you go vote instead of a sticker, like in australia

Maksym Polyakov 🇺🇦🌻 @maksympolyakov.bsky.social · 7d

they should reinstate the supermarket mechanism

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Erik Ansink @erikansink.bsky.social · 7d

The good news is that the editorial board continued after Elsevier ditched us; this week we launched the Journal of Water Economics:

www.journalofwatereconomics.com

Open access, no APC, and no Elsevier.

Journal of Water Economics

The Journal of Water Economics publishes theoretical and empirical research on the economics of water resources. Topics include allocation, governance, pricing, regulation, policy instruments, valuati...

www.journalofwatereconomics.com

Maksym Polyakov 🇺🇦🌻 @maksympolyakov.bsky.social · 7d

"Tonnes of pest fish taken out in bow hunting competition... The Koi is put to good use ... The fillets are turned into petfood, while the carp frames become fertiliser"

Seems a waste, though, it’s a perfectly good eating fish they used to sell it in the Pack'nSave

www.rnz.co.nz/news/sport/5...

Tonnes of pest fish taken out in bow hunting competition

Koi Carp are hard to eradicate, but more than four tonnes were removed from Waikato waterways in the latest hunting competition.

www.rnz.co.nz

Maksym Polyakov 🇺🇦🌻 @maksympolyakov.bsky.social · 8d

WOW, I'm there every morning but never paid attention - so this worked

Maksym Polyakov 🇺🇦🌻 @maksympolyakov.bsky.social · 8d

Scale vs ego of international sports competitons

Reposted by John Kane, William Myers, Maksym Polyakov

Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 8d

Wrote up a little intervention post/explanation for my class about why using LLMs for trying to learn programming (as first time learners!) is bad and detrimental datavizf25.classes.andrewheiss.com/news/2025-11...

In the first week of class, I had you read an article about how ChatGPT is philosophical “bullshit”, as well as this other post about AI and LLMs in this class.

I’ve seen a surprising increase in the amount of ChatGPT-based weekly check-ins and graph interpretations in the exercises. (In the past, I’ve even had students tell me they PDFs of the slides into ChatGPT to generate interesting and confusing things.) Don’t do this! LLMs cannot find three things that you personally found interesting from the readings. LLMs are not you.

It’s a huge waste of time for all of us to for me to spend time evaluating and grading output from ChatGPT. I want to read what you think and do, not what a computer invents.

NoteMy personal stance on AI and LLMs
Many of you have asked about how I think about and use LLMs in my own work (and in the class materials). Please check this short little page where I explain what I do with text, images, code, research, and learning.

In short, I do not use LLMs to create any of the materials for this class, and I do not use them to grade or evaluate any of your work.

I’ve even had several students submit completely made up stuff for mini projects and final projects. In your final project, your job is to take a dataset, make three different plots with it, and combine the plots into one graphic that tells some sort of story. I’ve (really truly) received projects like this:

(a ChatGPT-generated plot of completely made up data from gapminder)

At a very quick glance, that looks like a plausible image. But holy crap it falls apart fast, both comically and tragically. Comically because, like, look at the y-axis in the scatterplot; or the x-axis ticks in the population grown chart that are sometimes spaced every 20 years, sometimes every 10 years, and has 1980 there twice; or the weird blobs in the map.

Tragically—and most importantly—literally nothing in this image is real and none of the annotations make sense and none of the colors make sense and everything here is completely meaningless and devoid of any information. It’s pure philosophical bullshit—an image “produced without concern for its truth.”

That’s what I mean when I say that it’s a forgetful and unreliable resource. Lots of that code is helpful as an illustration of what’s going on. Lots of the explanation is good and fine. But it subtly changed its mind halfway through and didn’t realize it (because it can’t realize it! it’s just a chain of statistically likely text!)

Hopefully you can see where this is dangerous for learning. It can often “teach” you wrong, and you can only recognize that if you know stuff already.

It’s extra dangerous if you then take that example output, paste it into your exercise, and submit it.

I’m not even concerned about the plagiarism aspect of that—code is code and there are only a few ways to write {dplyr} code that will do this, and it’s easy to adapt from real human-based examples online, so I’m less worried about stealing other people’s work here.

I’m concerned that it’s not real data.

It made up values of 1, 2, 3, and 4 for some countries to illustrate grouping and summarizing. That’s good and normal.

None of that is real. Don’t treat it as real.

Maksym Polyakov 🇺🇦🌻 @maksympolyakov.bsky.social · 8d

Mission Bay Beach, the morning after the Auckland marathon

does it stand for:
- New York half-marathon?
- Half the world from NewYork?
- Half of a New York pizza?

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