@AxelPolleres Indeed, even grammar checkers can be a problem. I use grammar checkers, but I prefer not letting them fix my words with a click. Instead, I fix the text manually to learn the typos and grammar mistakes. I think we need to slow down when fixing grammar issues and research why […]

Dear students, and we're all students since we should constantly learn (it's what keeps us active, responsible, ... humans in a way) read this, think twice: https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872 ... "LLM users also struggled to accurately quote their own work." ... applies not only to your essays […]

Wer sein Kind nicht gegen Masern impft sollte Besuch vom Jugendamt bekommen. Wie kommen die armen Kinder dazu so zu leiden und wie kommen anderen dazu gefährdet zu werden?

the divided states - finally fully turned from a res *publica* to a res dictata 😞

Nachdem ich öfters gefragt werde was Künstliche Intelligenz ist, kann, und wie sie eigentlich funktioniert und wo die Risiken und Herausforderungen liegen.... hier der Versuch einer allgemein verständlichen Erklärung […]

The first two versions of Google's #alphafold software (to predict protein folding) were #opensource, including the one that earned its developers the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. There were no restrictions on commercial use. But the third and most recent version blocks free commercial use […]

#icenotsafe (nationally and internationally...) https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000303577/vater-und-sohn-bei-ueberquerungsversuch-der-neuen-donau-in-wien-eingebrochen

Als nächstes darf ich das Erdäpfelgulasch nimmer Erdäpfelgulasch nennen? Ich bin wirklich ein starker Befürworter und Unterstützer der europäischen Idee, der EU und europäischer Werte, aber das (neben den offensichtlichen Nationalismen) sind genau die Art von Diskussionen, die Europa schwächen […]

Undated find from my random picture folder, enjoy 😁 (might have been at University of Regensburg a bunch of years ago?)

#kontoimsoll has a new (minimalistic) #website https://kontoimsoll.net/ ... 🤘 🎸

Sorry, aber: wenn die "clicks" unserer kids ein wirtschaftlicher faktor sind, dann läuft etwas sehr, sehr falsch im "wirtschaftssektor" content creator ... (...und ja, das auf social media zu posten ist hochgradig paradox) […]

Elch #emil abgeschoben... https://ooe.orf.at/stories/3322679/ ... zu nahe an der Autobahn spazieren gehen? da kennen die oberösterreichischen Behörden kein Pardon!

#freespeech ... whatever that is/was.... ah, there's a Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech

https://oe1.orf.at/programm/20250917/807361/Mehr-Logik-fuer-die-KI "Mehr Logik für die KI" Thanks a lot to M. Unterluggauer for this nice episode of #oe1 #ö1 #Dimensionen on the recent "hybrid" developments of #artificialintelligence, which was recorded in interviews at #semantics2025 ... I […]

So "Vibe Code Cleanup Specialist" is now a job title? Not sure I should be excited or horrified. And the potential employers are ... the equivalent of software development superfund sites?

Exposure to "AI Assistance" lowers doctors' ability to diagnose cancer just after a few weeks. "AI"s main effect on people is skill decay. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langas/article/PIIS2468-1253(25)00133-5/abstract

Feeling a bit #nanobanana today: "Make Moazart look like worrying about climate change" ... from this original: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wolfgang-amadeus-mozart_1.jpg

The only thing ChatGPT ever does.

#iswc2025 paper accepted :) very happy... looking forward to Japan.

#oebb app feature request/bug report: when my mobile device breaks down there is no way to recover my bought ticket(s) on another device or as PDF... seriously?!? not ideal.

The original name for such facilities was cc, not aa, if i remember correctly from history lessons.

If you're in #vienna with kids this Friday: Checkout the "okidoki-kinderfreunde" stage at #donauinselfest: 16:30 #youngrepublic :) youngrepublic.at (i know one of the band members very well :))

#fwiw https://youtu.be/cD0Rf-N_FVE in too many ways, for instance US "politics": opposition politicians being detained or even shot is #fascism

Bin im Garten...

Happy to share another exciting #postdoctoral #academic #job #opportunity in #Vienna at WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business) within the Bilateral AI #ClusterOfExcellence in #Vienna […] [Original post on wien.rocks]

If you're at #ESWC2025 be sure to join tomorrow's Session 8 (16:00) with Robert David's talk on our joint work with Shqiponja Ahmetaj and Albin Ahmeti from Graphwise... Spoiler/crossing fingers: *nominated* as Best In-Use paper! 🤞🤞🤞 […] [Original post on wien.rocks]

Who's going be at #eswc conference next week in #portoroz? If you are interested to talk about #postdoctoral opportunities in our institute at WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business) come talk to me! We have several #openings!!! cc/ Bilateral AI […]

Join us at the #wikidata workshop at #iswc2025, https://wikidataworkshop.github.io/2025/ Deadline: still a while until ... (02 August 2025), but never to early to start thinking about your submissions :-)

https://youtu.be/XGhnE53PVzk #sunday #timeforvinyl #timelessmusic #joanbaez

Computer Science Conference Deadline = "crowdsourced" DDoS attack by OpenAI on overleaf.com ?

I think about this comic at least once a week

@osuosl has been around for 22 years. They kindly host our gitlab for 6 months now, and provide important services for more than 150 other free and open source software communities such as @alpinelinux, @chimera , @debian, @fdroidorg, @gentoo, @gnome, @LineageOS, #replicantos, @torproject. Now […]

#es universities not really reachable... wow. #blackout

Happy to share another exciting #postdoctoral #academic #job #opportunity in #Vienna at WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business) within the Bilateral AI #ClusterOfExcellence in #Vienna […] [Original post on wien.rocks]

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

Es war klar, das das nach Trumps Ankündigung, die meisten Zölle wieder auszusetzen, passieren würde. Wer von der Ankündigung vorab wusste, hätte ein Vermögen verdienen können. Aber das wäre Insider-Trading und ist natürlich undenkbar.

#IchForscheGernInWien #TopForschungWien #Wien Last week we launched a campaign to highlight research in Vienna by telling our own "research stories", which I gladly would like to highlight again - this time in English 🙂: As professor of Data and Knowledge […] [Original post on wien.rocks]

"Is Llama 4 available in Europe? It is not available to customers based in Europe, which includes not being available for research or personal use. Meta has not specified why; however, it halted the launch of previous Llama models in the EU due to regulatory concerns, as the data used to train […]

Als Professor für Data and Knowledge Engineering forsche ich an der Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien im Bereich Artificial Intelligence und intelligenter Datenintegration mit dem Ziel, die immer unüberschaubareren Mengen an Daten für Maschinen *und* Menschen besser […] [Original post on wien.rocks]

Btw, can you spot the irony? @EUCommission

We're #hiring! 2 full #professorships open in our department under two complementary focus topics: 1) #foundations of contemporary #informationsystems, where we look for candidates who complement and strengthen the existing research at our department in areas such as: · #artificialintelligence […]

"Prompt enginering"? "Emotional prompting"? ... doesn’t always work as intended either: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5165270

My campaign on Instagram and Facebook for a migration to the Fediverse. Funnily enough, it brought a lot of new friends from the Fediverse itself.

And since it's the weekend now for something completely different... time for #music ... I have to admit it seems that that my music taste might be increasingly influenced by my daughters, but: #ladygaga's new album is #epic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayhem_(Lady_Gaga_album)

Neues Video von @marcuwekling wo es explizit um #SaveSocial geht. Bin gespannt, ob man das in der Kurve sieht. Was jede:r jetzt tun kann: 1. Schaue das Video: https://cultur.social/@marcuwekling/114097846404773366 2. Schaue es nochmal auf youtube […] [Original post on social.tchncs.de]

The main question about the former self-declared "leaders of the free world" that remains unclear so far is: a) do we see simply a fascist regime at work here or b) a puppet regime orchestrated to incite chaos by "Mordor" or c) both? leaning towards c) for now.