Tag: academia
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What is my dog’s religion: exposing Eurocentric biases in OpenAI models.
When I teach courses on anthropology of religion, I like to start by asking students if they have a dog. This is more fun than asking if they have a...
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Living yourself out of a corner
While I’m on the short, reflective posts: everyone (especially those who have ever actually painted a floor) is familiar with the concept of painting yourself into a corner. Once you’ve...
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My office smells
I walked in the door of my office this morning, having trod across the Old Aberdeen landscape. Rotting leaves, frozen ponds, barking dogs. Having heaved one sack each of papers...
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Subversion, Conversion and so forth:
I’m on the train home after an intense conference on using anthropological and design tools to thwart planned obsolescence. Another view of the conference used ThoughtMesh to build a picture...
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Ancient lunch
I just discovered this article on the foraging habits of early humans at Niah Cave in Sarawak. Modern humans there eat bats and even use them for wedding feasts –...