Kristian Lum

@KLdivergence

Responsible ML Researcher at Twitter META | Statistician at ♥️ | OG | Past CS Faculty & | she/her

Chicago, IL
Joined April 2009
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  1. Apr 5

    It’s a day of big announcements :)

    Congratulations to our 2022 Leadership Academy! Xi Chen Philip Ernst
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  2. Apr 4

    So, not sure if he's dead, but I once had a teacher call me "homely" and when I said that wasn't nice, he insisted it meant "down to earth". So I got out a dictionary to prove he was wrong. I got in trouble for talking back, and I am STILL MAD.

    Do you ever just get suddenly super-mad about something that happened like 30 years ago that you never let go, even though the people in authority who acted badly are all dead? I do.
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  3. Apr 4

    The number of Tweeps who just moved their slack DM conversations over to Signal has got to be massive.

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    Mar 31

    I will be highlighting the work of many scholars in this talk, including (but not limited to): To register:

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  5. Mar 29

    I kind of love it when I get to take my daughter to check out the airplane's cockpit, but I REALLY love it when the plane is captained by a woman pilot! And during no less! Thanks,

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  6. Mar 25

    The comments here are making me super self-conscious. I have brought my mom to conferences, conference dinners, and talks before because she wanted to see the city and the hotel was free. Were people judging me??!

    AITA for telling my daughter to get over herself? My husband said to post this here because he likes to read the sub and thinks people here give good opinions. I'm 50F, daughter is 26F. She is getting a PhD and is the first in our family to go to college let alone grad school. We were talking on Facetime and she mentioned she was meeting with an adviser to talk about submitting an application for a grant to go to Germany for two weeks in the summer. I said it sounded awesome especially since I am half German, making her part German as well and that I've always wanted to see Germany so maybe I could come out with her and make it a girls trip. She said that "it's not a vacation, if I go I'm going to be teaching and researching and networking the entire time I'm there." I said she can do that during the weekdays and we can go out to dinner in the evenings and then go sightseeing on the weekends. She said it's already a very cramped amount of time (two weeks in Europe cramped??) and that
    At this point I was feeling completely tossed aside, like I'm not good enough to be around her "academic" life and "academic" friends. Like she would be embarrassed to have me around. So I said "you need to get over yourself and quick, because all of these "academics" aren't going to be the only people you meet and not everyone loves her unconditionally to put up with such annoying and elitist talk." She just said "okay" and hung up. My husband was upset with me because now she's being short with us but I know he's also annoyed at her constantly going to all these research trips and conventions (a Hawaii trip, a Seattle trip, a DC trip) and whenever we say we want to come with her (and we're not even expecting to be paid for, we'd pay for it ourselves) she says she won't have time, completely blowing us off. So since my husband apparently now thinks I'm an A-Hole and my daughter clearly does, I figured I'd ask here.
    The academic twitter AITA crossover we didn't know we needed
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  7. Mar 24

    This. Given the randomness of the process, you'll pretty likely be asked to undo the changes you didn't want to do anyway when you get a new set of reviewers. Save yourself the headache.

    Counterpoint: don't feel the need to undertake big structural changes or extensions "responding" to referees after a rejection, unless that's clearly best for the paper. Think about their criticisms but also recognize they're (usually) not your referees anymore. 1/2
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  8. Mar 24

    The worst part about getting a new phone is having to retrain it to know that, really, I don't ever mean "ducking."

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    Mar 23

    I'm a doctor who does research. I've annoyed DOZENS of statisticians. Here are 5 proven ways to exasperate them.

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  10. Mar 16

    So, this is literally the only tweet I have ever been tempted to pay to promote. Please, if you are a FAccT reviewer, don't make me cry in 5 days. Do your reviews.

    Public health advisory: please prevent undue stress for yourself and reduce the risk of heart attacks for your friendly PC chairs by getting your reviews in on time. 12 days until reviews are due! Budget time accordingly!
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  11. Mar 16

    If you know me, you know I love public defenders. So, here's a really cool opportunity to use your data skills to support one of the absolutely critical (and often under-appreciated) parts of the criminal justice system.

    We are hiring a Chief Data Officer! The CDO will oversee our Data and Evaluation Division & lead the effort to facilitate data-driven decision making & innovation within the our office. Learn more & apply by March 29th:
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    Mar 15

    look at this gorgeous thing a friend sent me in the post — a book of metric conversions from 1933 sold to traders and merchants. It's a beautiful object but also a historical curio: look at all the metric units that fell out of favor, like myriagrammes and hectosteres

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  13. Mar 15

    Day of rest? More like day of fillings and orthotics. Can I get a do-over?

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    Mar 10

    for anyone that might need a smile today - call (707) 998-8410 and listen to pre-recorded words of encouragement from kindergartners. It’s a project from a school in the Bay Area ♥️🥰

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  15. Mar 10

    OK, so people's reproductive choices are their own and it's rude to talk about it, but also.... Is Elon Musk single-handedly trying to populate Mars with his own progeny or something? I genuinely wouldn't put it past him.

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  16. Mar 10

    I'll be speaking at a conference next month spanning multiple fields and, yeah, Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency in ML is cool, but have you heard about High Intensity Lasers? Because that session definitely takes the prize for coolest topic.

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  17. Mar 9

    Public health advisory: please prevent undue stress for yourself and reduce the risk of heart attacks for your friendly PC chairs by getting your reviews in on time. 12 days until reviews are due! Budget time accordingly!

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  18. Mar 8

    That feeling when you get the option to "Show additional replies, including those that may contain offensive content", and you click it and there's nothing there and you kinda actually want to see the mean things people had to say.

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    Feb 22

    WiDS Chicago 2022 on March 11th!!✨👩💻 (networking reception on 3/10) REGISTER: Our lineup: Panel on DS Equity + Accountability 🔥 Dope speakers feat. and others!!! 🗣️

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  20. Mar 7

    I haven't actually analyzed the data, but I bet I submit my materials about 150% faster for events that do not require I submit a headshot because I get to bypass the process of browsing through a bunch of pictures of myself and picking the one I hate the least.

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