I have retired from the University of Memphis!
I'm looking forward to doing new things and being completely bad at them.
I'm looking forward to doing new things and being completely bad at them.
September 2, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I have retired from the University of Memphis!
I'm looking forward to doing new things and being completely bad at them.
I'm looking forward to doing new things and being completely bad at them.
Great example of the importance of biodiversity
www.cuimc.columbia.edu/news/one-uni...
www.cuimc.columbia.edu/news/one-uni...
One Universal Antiviral to Rule Them All?
Taking inspiration from a rare mutation that makes people impervious to viral diseases, a Columbia researcher is developing a therapy that could bestow this superpower on the rest of us.
www.cuimc.columbia.edu
August 19, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Great example of the importance of biodiversity
www.cuimc.columbia.edu/news/one-uni...
www.cuimc.columbia.edu/news/one-uni...
Hope this becomes a movie
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/t...
If you want to understand LLMs, this explains them quite well
youtu.be/6vgoEhsJORU?...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/t...
If you want to understand LLMs, this explains them quite well
youtu.be/6vgoEhsJORU?...
Chatbots Can Go Into a Delusional Spiral. Here’s How It Happens.
www.nytimes.com
August 13, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Hope this becomes a movie
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/t...
If you want to understand LLMs, this explains them quite well
youtu.be/6vgoEhsJORU?...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/t...
If you want to understand LLMs, this explains them quite well
youtu.be/6vgoEhsJORU?...
7 year itch - really nice question and dataset for teaching statistics/data science:
flowingdata.com/projects/202...
flowingdata.com/projects/202...
Multi-Year Itch
Is the seven-year itch, made popular by a movie from 1955, a real thing?
flowingdata.com
August 12, 2025 at 12:45 PM
7 year itch - really nice question and dataset for teaching statistics/data science:
flowingdata.com/projects/202...
flowingdata.com/projects/202...
Want to learn data science? We made a no prereq course where you can connect blocks instead of coding. Python or R. Also a version for kids. All free, courtesy of the National Science Foundation (#1918751):
youtu.be/Bmd60BQP0Qk?...
youtu.be/Bmd60BQP0Qk?...
DataWhys Course Materials and Blockly (2025 version)
YouTube video by Andrew Olney
youtu.be
August 9, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Want to learn data science? We made a no prereq course where you can connect blocks instead of coding. Python or R. Also a version for kids. All free, courtesy of the National Science Foundation (#1918751):
youtu.be/Bmd60BQP0Qk?...
youtu.be/Bmd60BQP0Qk?...
Half of teens think social media has a negative effect on their peers
April 22, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Half of teens think social media has a negative effect on their peers
Fun intro to phonology, maybe even for middle school: pudding.cool/2025/03/lang...
How do animals sound across languages?
Analyzing animal onomatopoeia across languages can demystify how we shape sound into meaning.
pudding.cool
March 19, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Fun intro to phonology, maybe even for middle school: pudding.cool/2025/03/lang...
Everyone should build a robot like this: www.chrisfenton.com/meet-grasso-...
Meet Grasso the Yard Robot – chrisfenton.com
www.chrisfenton.com
November 21, 2024 at 1:54 PM
Everyone should build a robot like this: www.chrisfenton.com/meet-grasso-...
www.brookings.edu/articles/the...
"At most points in time over the past four decades, if consumers lived under an identical macroeconomy as they have now, their feelings about the economy would have been largely positive. But now this is no longer true"
"At most points in time over the past four decades, if consumers lived under an identical macroeconomy as they have now, their feelings about the economy would have been largely positive. But now this is no longer true"
At 100 days, where does President Biden stand with the public?
In the short term, Biden's outlook is positive, but America's divides could make things rocky.
www.brookings.edu
October 30, 2024 at 5:12 PM
www.brookings.edu/articles/the...
"At most points in time over the past four decades, if consumers lived under an identical macroeconomy as they have now, their feelings about the economy would have been largely positive. But now this is no longer true"
"At most points in time over the past four decades, if consumers lived under an identical macroeconomy as they have now, their feelings about the economy would have been largely positive. But now this is no longer true"
Nice interview with Fedorenko on language and thought:
www.scientificamerican.com/article/you-...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/you-...
You Don’t Need Words to Think
Brain studies show that language is not essential for the cognitive processes that underlie thought
www.scientificamerican.com
October 22, 2024 at 1:23 PM
Nice interview with Fedorenko on language and thought:
www.scientificamerican.com/article/you-...
www.scientificamerican.com/article/you-...
From NPR Life Kit!
October 16, 2024 at 5:08 PM
From NPR Life Kit!
First power, then water
www.cnn.com/2024/09/20/e...
www.cnn.com/2024/09/20/e...
Three Mile Island is reopening and selling its power to Microsoft | CNN Business
Three Mile Island, the site of worst nuclear disaster in the United States, is reopening and will sell the power to Microsoft for its AI efforts.
www.cnn.com
September 21, 2024 at 1:22 PM
First power, then water
www.cnn.com/2024/09/20/e...
www.cnn.com/2024/09/20/e...
Yet another example of why transparency, explainability, and auditability are essential any time an automated system makes high stakes decisions
gizmodo.com/judge-rules-...
gizmodo.com/judge-rules-...
Judge Rules $400 Million Algorithmic System Illegally Denied Thousands of People’s Medicaid Benefits
Thousands of children and adults were automatically terminated from Medicaid and disability benefits programs by a computer system that was supposed to make applying for and receiving health coverage ...
gizmodo.com
August 31, 2024 at 12:17 AM
Yet another example of why transparency, explainability, and auditability are essential any time an automated system makes high stakes decisions
gizmodo.com/judge-rules-...
gizmodo.com/judge-rules-...
A first take on exploring the roles of symbolic and embodied processing of verbs with vertical directionality
olney.ai/category/202...
olney.ai/category/202...
{ Andrew M. Olney } | Raising the Roof - Situating Verbs in Symbolic and Embodied Language Processing
Blog and website of Andrew M. Olney
olney.ai
May 29, 2024 at 1:17 PM
A first take on exploring the roles of symbolic and embodied processing of verbs with vertical directionality
olney.ai/category/202...
olney.ai/category/202...
Feels like a stable diffusion moment for AI generated music: prompt "sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License"
twitter.com/goodside/sta...
twitter.com/goodside/sta...
April 9, 2024 at 12:26 PM
Feels like a stable diffusion moment for AI generated music: prompt "sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License"
twitter.com/goodside/sta...
twitter.com/goodside/sta...
www.cell.com/current-biol...
We've known dogs understand object names for a long time, but having an N400 response suggests their understanding is more like ours
We've known dogs understand object names for a long time, but having an N400 response suggests their understanding is more like ours
March 25, 2024 at 2:10 PM
www.cell.com/current-biol...
We've known dogs understand object names for a long time, but having an N400 response suggests their understanding is more like ours
We've known dogs understand object names for a long time, but having an N400 response suggests their understanding is more like ours
A shout out for this year's conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education in Brazil
aied2024.cesar.school
There is still time to submit late breaking work and to workshops
#AIED #AIED2024
aied2024.cesar.school
There is still time to submit late breaking work and to workshops
#AIED #AIED2024
March 14, 2024 at 9:48 PM
A shout out for this year's conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education in Brazil
aied2024.cesar.school
There is still time to submit late breaking work and to workshops
#AIED #AIED2024
aied2024.cesar.school
There is still time to submit late breaking work and to workshops
#AIED #AIED2024
February 17, 2024 at 3:51 PM
Just brought over all my old twitter posts using github.com/ianklatzco/t...
Nice!
Nice!
February 13, 2024 at 3:49 PM
Just brought over all my old twitter posts using github.com/ianklatzco/t...
Nice!
Nice!
You can find me here: @aolney.bsky.social
February 10, 2024 at 6:38 PM
You can find me here: @aolney.bsky.social
I guess we're born grits
https://t.co/ViS4E1QGMs
https://t.co/ViS4E1QGMs
December 5, 2023 at 8:03 PM
I guess we're born grits
https://t.co/ViS4E1QGMs
https://t.co/ViS4E1QGMs
Shwack, forgot to tweet my book:
Computational Thinking through Modular Sound Synthesis
Overview: https://t.co/uSMPpnrucu
Read it: https://t.co/JBUnOlY43t
(Simulations won't really work on your phone, sorry/not sorry)
Computational Thinking through Modular Sound Synthesis
Overview: https://t.co/uSMPpnrucu
Read it: https://t.co/JBUnOlY43t
(Simulations won't really work on your phone, sorry/not sorry)
August 1, 2023 at 7:48 PM
Shwack, forgot to tweet my book:
Computational Thinking through Modular Sound Synthesis
Overview: https://t.co/uSMPpnrucu
Read it: https://t.co/JBUnOlY43t
(Simulations won't really work on your phone, sorry/not sorry)
Computational Thinking through Modular Sound Synthesis
Overview: https://t.co/uSMPpnrucu
Read it: https://t.co/JBUnOlY43t
(Simulations won't really work on your phone, sorry/not sorry)