Weixu Lu
weixulu.bsky.social
Weixu Lu
@weixulu.bsky.social
Asst. Prof@UW La Crosse; Digital Media, Communication Studies, Pedagogy, and stuff.
Free paper idea: Why is the movie trailer voice parody still a thing? It's been 17 years since Hollywood abandoned this format.
January 2, 2026 at 3:40 PM
This is really where LLM shines.
August 17, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I installed Gemini on my almost-9yo's phone, because she loved chatting with ChatGPT. After just a day, she begged me with tears to switch back to Google Assistant... #TheresAPaperInThat
July 17, 2025 at 1:27 AM
New textbook is thinner and lighter 🙌 -- The fonts are smaller 😥
June 4, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I learned to speak and write UK English between age 7 and 26. I thought my English has now been completely Americanized. Then, the whole ChatGPT em-dash debate made me realize -- at the age of 42 -- that I have always been using [space en-dash space] in my writings...
May 8, 2025 at 6:43 AM
I created an AI course and slapped on some 200/300 pre-reqs so we can prioritize our majors. It's currently being filled much more slowly than I thought. I now wonder if I would even get full enrollment for an AI course😂
April 16, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Whenever I include "All of the above" as an option on a multiple-choice question, it usually is not the correct answer. Often, I just couldn't think of a plausible fifth option...
February 15, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Fascinating discovery: GPT-4o struggles with Burkean dramatic pentad analysis, it keeps fixating on the speech act itself -- a classic rookie mistake among undergrads. Shouldn't a language model be good at analyzing language? Will experiment with other models later.
February 12, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Do I agree with the reviewer that more experimental conditions would've been better? Yes.
Do the two PIs work at a 4-4 teaching load institution and had no RA to help us? Also yes.
Can we say that in the manuscript? Of course not!
January 22, 2025 at 4:30 AM
I'm going to keep 1/4 of my Emerging Media and Communication Technology syllabus "TBD", as I really can't predict what social media and AI related topics we should cover in March and April...
January 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
I mean... It's not ideal but at least I can use it now. (Web version)
January 19, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Fuck! I deleted TikTok for productivity last week, and I'm missing out on this drama.
January 19, 2025 at 8:04 PM
It won't be long before the Chinese government openly acknowledges the existence of Great Firewall, because "the U.S. is doing it, too"
January 19, 2025 at 6:40 AM
I really want to see how most American "TikTok refugees" would react when they finally discover the transphobic, homophobic, white-supremacist, Islamophobic, anti-Sematic content on REDnote.
January 18, 2025 at 5:08 PM
It is 2025 and RStudio still cannot update itself... Why?
January 9, 2025 at 10:41 PM
PSA: If you train on a roller... please don't listen to 90 bpm music. Use 160 - 180 bpm music instead! Don't ask me why I learned that... 🤕
January 5, 2025 at 4:29 PM
When you have to process a large amount of data on a USB drive and your IT couldn't figure out how to prevent the USB drive from idling...
January 4, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I think I just broke FB's algorithm. It showed me this ad literally after my shopping at a clothing-for-short-guys website.
December 31, 2024 at 8:22 PM
I have the biggest smile on my face when I saw this.
December 3, 2024 at 3:20 AM
Game devs in the 2020s: Trying very hard to make 3D game characters photorealistic.
Cosplayers in the 2020s: Trying very hard to make themselves look like Unreal Engine 5 demos.
December 2, 2024 at 4:03 PM
Reposted by Weixu Lu
types of network science papers
November 19, 2024 at 11:51 PM
Please note that I only follow relevant researchers and professional organizations on Twitter-like platforms. I don't follow politicians, celebrities, news outlets, or personal friends. If I didn't follow you back, this is why.
November 14, 2024 at 6:48 PM
I haven't been using the app for months. Came back and see this thing is actually usable now!
November 14, 2024 at 2:44 PM