Andrew Mitchell

Urban sound and smart city science | Lecturer in AI and Machine Learning for Sustainable Construction @UCL_BSSC | Host of @JustNoisePod

[Andrew Mitchell @AcousticsMan]

Our latest article and the capstone paper from @soundscape_SSID!

We've spent 6 years working towards creating useful single-value indices of soundscape quality. Here we present SPI, our method for defining perception-focussed, context dependent Soundscape Perception Indices!

[JASA @ASA_JASA]

SPECIAL ISSUE: ADVANCES IN SOUNDSCAPE

This work shares a single value indices to compare soundscape quality which incorporate context, aural diversity, and specific design goals for a given application. https://t.co/NtB8rujPIt

@AcousticsMan @F_aletta @TheBartlettUCL

[Psyho @FakePsyho]

Radar graphs are among the worst ideas in data visualization. The whole point of them is to show the area and you can usually reorder the labels freely in order to create a desired dramatic effect.

Two versions of the same graph:
- left one tells the story that AI is rapidly replacing whole industries
- right one shows the "jaggedness" and reinforces the idea that humans will always have something that AI won't be able to replicate

[Andrew Mitchell @AcousticsMan]

@TMoldwin @burkov And before that it was expert systems and automation. All of these were forms of AI and we just progressively restrict and redefine the current zeitgeist of what people mean when they say AI.

[Andrew Mitchell @AcousticsMan]

@TMoldwin @burkov But that doesn't mean it wasn't AI. The problem is we associate AI with whatever the current method or hype is. Right now that's LLMs. A decade ago it meant computer vision, before that it was network analysis and recommenders, before that handwriting recognition and chess.

[Andrew Mitchell @AcousticsMan]

@SPathak1851881 @phreespeech @LotusEater29 @CarrieT12235597 @TurningPointOU Apparently this is the article they're responding to https://t.co/51dZS98aIL

Yeah, for sure a 0 for that section of the rubric. There's absolutely no evidence the student read beyond the 1st sentence of the abstract.

[Andrew Mitchell @AcousticsMan]

@SPathak1851881 @phreespeech @LotusEater29 @CarrieT12235597 @TurningPointOU Depends what kind of article, I think. If they're responding to an academic article, then no it's a 0. There's absolutely no reaction to the content, results, or arguments of the article. If it was like a news or opinion piece, then maybe 1/5.

[Andrew Mitchell @AcousticsMan]

@JeremiahRabitor @ms_frazzled Autocorrecting "engineers" to "assholes" is a crazy bug, you should report that.

[Andrew Mitchell @AcousticsMan]

@MagnesNitratr @nikicaga I'm literally saying to put their skin in the game. Their value is not fully compensated if the company is that profitable and their income does not give them the ability to buy in. That shortfall should be addressed with shares of the company commensurate with the value they add

[Andrew Mitchell @AcousticsMan]

@MagnesNitratr @nikicaga And I was just responding to your statement that they are compensated according to the surplus value of their labour. Is that irrelevant now?

https://t.co/g7DuxE29EI

[MagnesiumNitrate @MagnesNitratr]

@AcousticsMan @nikicaga When I hire someone they exchange the surplus value of their labor for a stable, reliable, *no risk* income.

They aren’t entitled to or deserving of anything else.

[Andrew Mitchell @AcousticsMan]

@MagnesNitratr @nikicaga In practice they are able to get what they can negotiate and what the person with the power is willing to part with. In principle, their value is what they contribute to the growth of the company, regardless of their success in salary negotiations. These are often not equivalent.

[Andrew Mitchell @AcousticsMan]

@MagnesNitratr @nikicaga If the company is making that much profit, I'd argue the value they're creating is more than the income they've been allotted, within the context of that company. They deserve a share of it.

[Andrew Mitchell @AcousticsMan]

@markdanehy @nikicaga Honest question, isn't there such a thing as non voting shares? The expectation could be that the other people involved in making the company successful have a right to the capital, without necessarily ceding control.

[Andrew Mitchell @AcousticsMan]

@MagnesNitratr @nikicaga You didn't build that company alone. Once other people got involved, they should share in the wealth generated by the success of their company. Altogether the company might be 10-20 mil but it should be owned in part by all the people making it successful, not just a few.

[Alec Stapp @AlecStapp]

We need a new Marshall Plan for shipping air conditioning units to Europe

[Andrew Mitchell @AcousticsMan]

@BritDaddySays Not entirely sure, they're both Bachelor of Science. In some cases it's just different traditions for the same thing - even within the UK, you get most unis referring to them as PhD whereas Cambridge awards a DPhil. Still the same degree, just a different acronym.

[Andrew Mitchell @AcousticsMan]

The UK's system already is an effective lifelong grad tax for many. But only the ones who go into low to mid paid fields (as they should and this includes engineers, drs, etc) pay and never catch up to the interest. Make it fair across the board - every grad pays the same tax.

[Andrew Mitchell @AcousticsMan]

I really think the UK should realise its loan system is already a graduate tax. Only, it's a grad tax only for people w/o rich parents or who don't go into finance.

[Andrew Mitchell @AcousticsMan]

All of society benefits when barriers to education are lowered and grads benefit with better jobs and higher pay. So remove the "can I afford it, will I ever pay off my loans" question and also make sure it's not only poorer students who have to pay the rest of their lives.