Y. Luft

PhD candidate at KTH, currently looking into how algorithms are used when designing for intimate touch. Founded conference, he/him/הוא

[Y. Luft @Luftyoav]

I am happy to announce our workshop in #DIS2024 "Towards Robot and Technologies that Touch Well", the first workshop in DIS for over a decade that addresses touch. You can read more about the workshop and how to register here: https://t.co/gJ9LlHDxyZ See you!

[Y. Luft @Luftyoav]

@Eurohaptics2024 Hi! The website certificate had expired so responsible browser are blocking it.

[Y. Luft @Luftyoav]

For #ttrpg #gamedesign purpose: what icon would you use for "effort" and "favour"? Both are game resources, effort improves skill checks, favour is meta currency. Theme is middle-eastern & india inspired fantasy.

[Y. Luft @Luftyoav]

Citation alert from Google Scholar for the first citation on a paper as first author: A run-away entry in the bibliography, not actually mentioned in the text :'(

[Dr Angelika Strohmayer ✊🇪🇺 @tripsandflips_]

Please don’t hesitate to get in touch if you want to apply for this to work in a feminist design research group working on complex topics, in from the margins!

[Y. Luft @Luftyoav]

Happy to share that Whisper's large-v2 did surprisingly accurate transcription of Hebrew, in only 1.5 the time it would take to do entirely manually!

[Y. Luft @Luftyoav]

Hebrew speaking researchers, can you recommend any *offline* transcription tool that supports Hebrew? I tried "Whisper Transcriptions" from Apple Store but it's editing interface is terrible...

[Y. Luft @Luftyoav]

Hebrew speaking researchers, can you recommend any *offline* transcription tool that supports Hebrew? I tried "Whisper Transcriptions" from Apple Store but it's editing interface is terrible...

[Y. Luft @Luftyoav]

Very suspicious!

[Y. Luft @Luftyoav]

There was one low-hanging improvement that could have been done by publishing the zoom call link for each room online. All speakers were asked to join the call anyway for auto-transcription, the link might have well been available online.

[Barry Brown @barbro66]

Been reading a few #chi2023 folk tweeting disapproval with the online experience. Clearly it was minimal-ish but it’s easy to underestimate the insane amount of work (and cost) needed to do hybrid well. Personally, I don’t think the technology is there yet.

[Rachael Garrett @_rachaelgarrett]

I've decided to jump on the post-CHI bandwagon. Here comes my #CHI2023 appreciation thread 🧵:

[Y. Luft @Luftyoav]

My untested #CHI advice for future self is: if you are planning to meet a lot of people you never met before, dye your hair in some crazy colour

[Amnon Shashua @AmnonShashua]

Can one create a "safety net" around LLMs (the likes of Jurassic-2 or GPT-4) to make sure that LLMs are "aligned" with human values? there has been a lot of chatter around "jailbreaking" ChatGPT and the question is whether through further training one could "tame" the machine?

[Noam Wies @noamwies]

New paper! Does alignment of LLMS trained on massive corpuses that inevitably contain undesirable behavior is feasible? We proved that the answer is not 🛑,
and that the popular RLHF alignment technique can make the situation worse! More details in https://t.co/i0f2Kngc3C

[Y. Luft @Luftyoav]

Welcome to the CHI marathon! #chi23

[Y. Luft @Luftyoav]

It does make changing diapers a bit easier!

[Y. Luft @Luftyoav]

Well what do you know, turns out that most of my cold symptoms are gone, but so is my sense of smell 🤷‍♂️

[Andrew Kadel @[email protected] @FrKadel]

My daughter, who's had a degree in computer science for 25 years, posted this about ChatGPT on Facebook. It's the best description I've seen.

[Derrick @heyderrbear]

Anyone hiring folks who write Elm, Haskell, or functional TypeScript (fp-ts)?

Layoffs got me 🙄

[Y. Luft @Luftyoav]

don't be confused, I think it is a great idea. Although sometimes I would like to imagine that my program works even if it is leaking some memory here and there.

[Y. Luft @Luftyoav]

@rustlang or: let's make all the gritty details of systems programming explicit!