Ryan Williams
Ryan Williams
@activationlayer.org
Democracy, Technology, and Other Stuff. PhD candidate @ the University of Texas. I am friends with a pug.
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I will be presenting "Data Annotation as Measurement" at #AIES2026 in Poster Session 3 (today @ 3:15PM CEST)! ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AI...
✨New Work✨ forthcoming at #AIES2026: 1️⃣ "Data Annotation as Measurement" by me, @allisonkoe.bsky.social, and @kizilcec.bsky.social explores how data annotation can go wrong, and how measurement theory can help improve it. 🔗: arxiv.org/pdf/2608.07297
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Awesome poster!
Attending #TADA2026 at UC Berkeley today! Catch me presenting our poster (#27) on counter-storytelling at 11:45 am in Krutch Auditorium! Our poster explores how people use personal stories on Reddit to challenge stereotypes. w @mariaa.bsky.social @maartensap.bsky.social @jiminmun.bsky.social
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#TADA2026 is now up on lea.ac! Full schedule, filterable by people you follow, a custom feed, and more! (This is not part of the official TADA organization, just an experiment. Try it out and let us know what you think! Also a nice way to follow along virtually if you can't attend in person!)
Looking forward to the Text as Data conference on Monday at UC Berkeley! I will be presenting our new paper "Multi-Perspective LLM Annotations for Valid Analyses in Subjective Tasks" which is a joint effort with Navya Mehrotra and @gligoric.bsky.social. 🧵
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New DNA publication 🚨: Susha, Iryna, Louis Knüpfling and Philip Leifeld (2026): Mandating Business-to-Government Data Sharing for Public Interest: Coalitions and their Policy Beliefs in the Shaping of the EU Data Act. Government Information Quarterly 43(4): 102188. doi.org/10.1016/j.gi...
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the first open source system-one model now must be named Jeff.
I think distillation is the right frame, but what's being distilled is the chain of actions that an llm goes through as it runs multiple sequence tool calls being compressed into a single tool. Call that embeds a decision tree with Jeff routing between various next actions?
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What do governments mean by “disinformation”—and what do they do about it? Today I’m launching the Global Disinformation Policy Database Explorer, a project I led at UT Austin. Explore: www.disinfo-policy.org
What do governments mean by “disinformation”—and what do they do about it? Today I’m launching the Global Disinformation Policy Database Explorer, a project I led at UT Austin. Explore: www.disinfo-policy.org
Other ways in: explore a country’s policies, find education and institutional-support approaches, or trace early responses to deepfakes. The underlying data are open for your own research: doi.org/10.7910/DVN/...
What do governments mean by “disinformation”—and what do they do about it? Today I’m launching the Global Disinformation Policy Database Explorer, a project I led at UT Austin. Explore: www.disinfo-policy.org
Ireland’s Electoral Reform Act distinguishes disinformation from misinformation partly through intent. Compare those definitions, examine the policy, and follow its sources to the original text. www.disinfo-policy.org/definitions
cool to discover the grandparents of all the obsidian.md influencers of a few years ago
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