Lorena Barba @[email protected]

Engineering professor, computational scientist, jazz buff, techie, academic writer & font geek. Editor: @cisemag @OpenEngr @ReScienceEds @JOSE_TheOJ

[Lorena Barba @[email protected] @LorenaABarba]

The Handbook for Teaching and Learning with #Jupyter—first draft is out! #Jupyter4Edu https://t.co/Xa6YCA3rO7

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@kevinroose Good analysis, timely. I just watched it, and I would be glad yo watch more in the same format

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@stevenstrogatz Want!

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@DonaldClark At the same time, they forced their provost out because of AI, in a twist of paradoxical history!
https://t.co/z3G7cv0CiS
(The AI backlash seems to have turned political and I suspect misinformation and social-media BS is driving a lot of it.)

[Lorena Barba @[email protected] @LorenaABarba]

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GW joins fellow Project ProtoStar founding partners Carnegie Mellon University, Purdue University, Georgia Tech, @ASU and the Astera Institute—@huggingface is the infrastructure partner, and Open Research Community Accelerator is community partner…
https://t.co/6gaDwzgIro

[Lorena Barba @[email protected] @LorenaABarba]

The George Washington University (@GWtweets) is a founding partner of Project Protostar—aiming to make publicly funded datasets, models and code easier for people and AI systems to find, understand and reuse.

Led by the @gwospo in our mission to make open research the default 🔓

[Avijit Ghosh @evijit]

Announcing Project Protostar, the next initiative from the our open science efforts at @huggingface.

https://t.co/18URPBX7hk

[Lorena Barba @[email protected] @LorenaABarba]

@gdequeiroz @amazon @awscloud Congratulations on this new chapter!

[Lorena Barba @[email protected] @LorenaABarba]

It is most perplexing to me: how did the zigzag of history construct centuries-long patriarchy rule? And repeatedly in several cultural traditions. Not all, though—the matrilineal Native American cultures were an exception
https://t.co/2MTdgqE3XH

[Lorena Barba @[email protected] @LorenaABarba]

On this day, consider this: in many Native American tribes, women had power and were true equals—rape or abuse against women was a rare thing in these cultures.

[Lorena Barba @[email protected] @LorenaABarba]

The extensive coverage of the Cornell fraternity rape allegations has reminded me of a haunting conversation I had with a senior colleague from the dance department of my university. It was ten years ago…

[Lorena Barba @[email protected] @LorenaABarba]

What’s the top women’s issue of TODAY for YOU? —asked my friend the dance professor to her all-female class.

Their answer? Rape.

[Lorena Barba @[email protected] @LorenaABarba]

Ten years ago, on the run-up to a most consequential presidential election, my colleague found herself with an all-female class, and decided to lead a discussion asking abut their most pressing concern—it was rape.
https://t.co/lnfgrOFeWL

[Lorena Barba @[email protected] @LorenaABarba]

True story. A class of twenty or so ~20-year old female college students agreed that rape is the biggest issue for them today.

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@zarazhangrui Load-bearing tweet 🤭

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That is the opportunity I see: practices long justified by their future value now offer an immediate return in the day’s work.
https://t.co/mPHRc1Tq1W

[Lorena Barba @[email protected] @LorenaABarba]

New preprint:

"Reproducibility in the Age of Agentic AI: Context Engineering at the Timescale of a Codebase"

https://t.co/mPHRc1Tq1W

[Lorena Barba @[email protected] @LorenaABarba]

There is a condition: researchers remain the owners and verifiers of what an agent drafts. A test is useful only if we check that it tests the right thing. A decision record is trustworthy only if we stand behind its reasoning.

[Lorena Barba @[email protected] @LorenaABarba]

My motivating question for this new edition of "Practical Numerical Methods" is:

— How do we teach engineers to maintain technical responsibility while working with coding agents?

https://t.co/INhBUdmvyx
#numericalmooc

[Lorena Barba @[email protected] @LorenaABarba]

Twelve years later, I'm modernizing #numericalmooc for the agentic era. Module 1, featuring the phugoid model of glider flight, is completed, with an agent-driven activity in every lesson.
Check out the JupyterBook, being build incrementally in public!
https://t.co/INhBUdmvyx

[Lorena Barba @[email protected] @LorenaABarba]

New IPython Notebook: The full phugoid model of glider flight, with paper-airplane challenge! #numericalmooc #Python http://t.co/oo4q1Zo2Oj

[Lorena Barba @[email protected] @LorenaABarba]

• Audit the resulting code and test it against mathematical and physical evidence.
• Explain what the evidence supports, what remains uncertain, and whether the result is fit for purpose.