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Hendrik Erz

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Political Sociologist studying policymaking in US Congress | PhD-Student at the Institute for Analytical Sociology (IAS) | Formerly @ifshhamburg.bsky.social

Creator of @zettlr.com

Personal website: www.hendrik-erz.de

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Tatort, Team Berlin: Mord im BMBF 🍿

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A specific example could be to let a BERT predict sentences from States of the Union whether they’re from a Dem or Rep and let the students think about why it predicts some right and some wrong and let them improve that

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I could think of basic text classification — take a sentence, label it, see what a BERT does with it. Repeat with maybe a dozen sentences, then let the BERT loose on some more. It’s close to the data, a simple task and no chance of hallucinations.

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“[
] which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be [
]”? Are we now in the “threatening to shoot political enemies” phase of the presidential election? What year is it? 2024 or 1933? We really need a political miracle to avert whatever menace is coming to the U.S. gov't later this year 


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Don’t worry, there are no secret government documents that he could leak after visiting, it’ll be fine đŸ€—

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Good: We may soon know how people before the modern ages must've felt when thinking about their rulers. Bad: We may soon know how people before the modern ages must've felt when thinking about their rulers, and this time they have nukes.

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Further prove to my argument that the Democratic platform this year is unfortunately entirely focused on their opponent, and not on things that are actually happening.

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(I'm both sorry and not sorry for you that you have to look at tanks even longer, I can't fully decide on which one yet)

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I just had to look it up, the one I was thinking of is ~of course~ the more nerdy one of the two đŸ€“ de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wehrtec...

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Wait, THERE ARE MORE TANK MUSEUMS?! :o

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+++ NEW ARTICLE +++

My thoughts on the U.S. Presidential Debate last Thursday

www.hendrik-erz.de/post/panic-t...

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Why not use an alternative? I could think of some. (Disclaimer: I just edited the HTML of the page, none of this is official, and I'm also not a political adviser and these things are probably not what resonates with voters most 
 or does it?)

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I just visited the Biden's campaign website again, and oh boy, was it depressing. Fighting Donald Trump? That's not what brings you voters who are worried about their income, health care, or bodily autonomy. Yes, defeating Trump is paramount, but not a good platform to get elected on.

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So you're in Koblenz, hah! I guess that counts as 50:50 work and fun!

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Meet up for lunch in Cologne? 🧐 But, alas, that's work, not crazy đŸ„Č

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I did it! I finally created a data frame that consistently exhausts the 16 GB memory limit in R!

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Frau Stark-Watzinger muss zurĂŒcktreten.

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Namenslisten von unliebsamen Personen zu erstellen - hier geht der Liberalismus in den Autoritarismus ĂŒber.

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This certainly sounds like a problem.

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Der „Vorteil“ ist: An irgendeinem Punkt gibt es keine Köpfe mehr, die statt dem der Ministerin rollen können, falls sich an der desaströsen Wissenschaftspolitik im BMBF nichts Ă€ndert. Ich wĂŒrde immer noch gerne wieder nach Deutschland zurĂŒckkehren und Wissenschaft dort betreiben.

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This! Auch ich habe diese Stellungnahme zum Machtmissbrauch durch Ministerin #StarkWatzinger unterzeichnet. Wir als Wissenschaftscommunity mĂŒssen uns diesem autoritĂ€ren Vorgehen & dem Angriff auf Wissenschaftsfreiheit entschieden entgegenstellen!

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The magic of developing software: Suddenly you realize that YOU are the malware on other people's computers!

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Companies that demand credit card information for API access, without also offering purely prepaid based access are only greedy and want your money. They want you to completely overspend and get broke. Looking at you, #OpenAI.

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Lass mich erstmal die Diss fertig kriegen, dann komm ich wieder und schau mir das mal an ;)

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It was a blast! INAS is always a highlight of the academic year – thanks to Marc and the rest of the team for making it unforgettable!

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I just almost lost all my TOTP logins because I was so naĂŻve to “trust the process” and accidentally installed an update to Raivo that (a) deleted all my data and (b) wanted to extort me for money to re-import my backup. I was NEVER SO HAPPY IN MY LIFE THAT I ACTUALLY HAD A BACKUP đŸ˜±

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Just arrived in Leipzig, Germany, for this year's #INAS2024 conference. Looking forward to an unusually good assortment of presentations and seeing many friends!

INAS is always a highlight.

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4 hours of data curation in which I can't really do much, but yeah, forgot the most important auxiliary variable that I need, and now I have to run everything again lol It's not as if there's a deadline in less than a week đŸ« 

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I‘ve always been amazed by the deep sea internet cables, and The Verge has written a super interesting story on how these things are repaired. Recommended read!

www.theverge.com/c/24070570/i...

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„Die Hamas öffentlich zu unterstĂŒtzen, war frĂŒher undenkbar. Inzwischen werden die Terroristen im Netz als neue Che Guevaras gefeiert. [
] Es ist, als bekĂ€me gerade eine weitere Brandmauer tiefe Risse. Diesmal nicht die gegen rechts, sondern die gegen Islamisten.“

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It has already crossed me mid last year as a preprint, and I was so busy that I now have that paper in three versions in my library because I forgot (and obviously didn’t read it đŸ„Ž)

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It’s crazy to observe how polarized the public opinion is on Israel. On the one hand, there were 11.000 protesters in Malmö to protest against their act, on the other hand Israel just received 322 points from the #ESC audience.

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Sieht aus als hÀtte sie grade den sechsmomatigen 50% Postdoc Vertrag gelesen

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OpenAI has really developed toxic boyfriend energy: s*** on copyright by others, but DARE some random Reddit mods who don’t make money off of using theirs

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TL;DR: “The truth is that we are not polarized on this issue of abortion
 what we have is a vocal and powerful minority attempting to enshrine their beliefs into law, over the objections of nearly twice as many Americans who disagree with them.”

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- 50 PPT slides - re-running 1 analysis - running 1 new analysis - reading a lengthy paper & writing a memo on it - on a Saturday Welcome to academia! (In the end it was actually quite fun and relieving, so no worries ;)

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Daily reminder to use multiprocessing for IO-bound tasks (this entire shenanigans would've taken > 24hrs without)

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+++ NEW RELEASE +++

We are absolutely thrilled to announce the release of Zettlr 3.1.0!

Zettlr users receive the update soon via your preferred method. New users and those who don't want to wait, you can download it directly from GitHub here: github.com/Zettlr/Zettl....

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I do agree that there needs to be code quality checks on libraries. But it is absolutely not acceptable to pull a library lots of people depend on. I now have to basically rewrite my entire analysis code due to this. Or hack my way to download from source. CRAN seems to be a continuous left-pad.

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I'm quite happy that R is updated relatively infrequently, given that all packages have to be recompiled afterwards 🙈

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I think Katy is fine, she's had a Superbowl half-time show!

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Why should there be beef? Doesn't everybody know that Tay Tay >>> Katy Perry?

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In my free time, I develop software that solves many problems of knowledge production.

I also believe that tools for knowledge production must be free, so I exclusively develop Open Source software.

If my software helps you, you can now sponsor my work on GitHub!

github.com/sponsors/nat...

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