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lindsay popowski
@lindsaypopowski
πŸ‰phd-ing @stanford - these days, I’m thinking a lot about feed algorithms (& books! always books!) prev @harveymudd πŸ’–πŸ’œπŸ’™
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    Jan 29
    Is the only way we can create algorithms that people understand to make them trivially simple? We argue, no. People can predict the behavior of algorithms that are arbitrarily complex, if and only if they are available, compact and aligned. arxiv.org/abs/2601.18966
    A search for factors for algorithm understanding results in multiple terms displayed as documents, including available, compact, and aligned. These are shown to be necessary and sufficient. Other, similar terms are shown in the background faded, like intuitive, rule-based, grounded, modular, linear, decomposable, accurate, symbolic, causal, and personalized.
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    lindsay popowski
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    Apr 11, 2021
    Excited to say that I’ll be pursuing my PhD in CS this fall at Stanford! Looking forward to the opportunity and so so thankful to all of the people who have helped and supported me along the way- it truly does take a village! I’ll try to pay it forward :)
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    lindsay popowski
    @lindsaypopowski
    Nov 16, 2024
    feeling very honored/grateful/proud. I’ve got a lot of good people in my corner in the day-to-day, but a little external validation doesn’t hurt!
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    Michael Bernstein
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    Nov 15, 2024
    Congratulations to @lindsaypopowski on winning the Google PhD Fellowship!
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    lindsay popowski
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    Nov 1, 2024
    Have you ever worried that no one would respond to your message? Our #CSCW2024 paper proposes a commitment-based design in online groups to address this: arxiv.org/abs/2410.23267 (with @zhangyt0704 and @msbernst )
    Three texts from the same person. The first reads "Do you have advice on what I should put I the thread promoting commit on twitter?" The second reads "I could use some help." After those texts is the read receipt. A third, unread, message follows "Guys????"
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    lindsay popowski
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    Jul 24, 2024
    Excited to share our @ACM_CSCW 2024 in-person workshop on envisioning new futures of positive social technology! We'll explore CSCW research outside of the existing platforms/paradigms for social tech: current research, promising directions, and how to support each other's work.
    Envisioning New Futures of Positive Social Technology: Beyond Paradigms of Fixing, Protecting, and Preventing
Sunday, November 10th, 2024, 9am-5pm
Overview: Social technology research today largely focuses on mitigating the negative impacts of technology and, therefore, often misses the potential of technology to enhance human connections and well-being. However, we see a potential to shift towards a holistic view of social technology's impact on human flourishing. We introduce Positech, a shift toward leveraging social technologies to support and augment human flourishing.
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    lindsay popowski
    @lindsaypopowski
    Mar 15, 2021
    Pretty thrilled that my summer research at @isrcmu REUSE on semantic embeddings of GUI screens with @TobyJLi @bradamyers @tommmitchell has received an Honorable Mention award at #CHI2021 - thanks to everyone who supported me on this! πŸ˜„
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    lindsay popowski
    @lindsaypopowski
    May 1, 2022
    Jokes aside, I’ll be flying out to NOLA for #chi2022 tomorrow! Looking forward to seeing old and new faces!! My keywords (πŸ˜‰): social computing systems, online communities, digital self-representation; happy to chat about those & more or commiserate about the first year!
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    lindsay popowski
    @lindsaypopowski
    May 15, 2021
    if my biggest legacy at mudd is ensuring the the HEATlab robots have bows on them, then So. Be. It.
    A conference table covered in robots with a stuffed panda seated in a chair at the head
    A jibo robot on a table with a royal blue bow taped on
    A red and white humanoid robot seated on a table with a name tagged labeled β€œNao” and a light blue bow taped on its head
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    lindsay popowski
    @lindsaypopowski
    Nov 9, 2023
    there’s something so screwed up about starting and ending every day by bearing witness to human suffering until I cry, but switching over to β€œwork as usual” from 9-5. I’m not trying to be glib about this, I just feel insane
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    #StopCopCity
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    Nov 9, 2023
    Anyone else struggling to manage β€œWork-Genocide Balance” lately?
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    lindsay popowski
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    Jun 16, 2023
    Had such a genuinely lovely time at #HCIC this last week! Getting to not just meet so many cool people, but have long, in-depth, and thoughtful conversations with them about research, life, and academia was a treat!
    a group of around 90 people in front of a lake on a grassy lawn while posing for the β€œfunny” take
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    lindsay popowski
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    Apr 3, 2022
    favorite takeaway from today- thank you thank you @safiyanoble for the words, spoken and written!
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    lindsay popowski
    @lindsaypopowski
    Jun 5, 2024
    return of the baking content πŸ‘©πŸ»β€πŸ³πŸ§
    ten cupcakes, arranged into a heart shape on a table. each cupcake is decorated with buttercream rosettes in pink, purple, and blue.
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    lindsay popowski
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    May 1, 2022
    time to write a paper about self-branding on academic twitter via the case study of #chi2022 tweets
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    lindsay popowski
    @lindsaypopowski
    Oct 19, 2021
    I cannot overstate how helpful this was to me when I was applying!!!
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    Andrew Kuznetsov
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    Oct 19, 2021
    Considering a CS/HCI PhD this year? Once again, I've made a list of open research positions to browse by subject area! πŸ‘‡ andrewkuz.net/hci-opportunit… If you/peers are hiring students, I'd love to add your recruitment tweet and make sure students can discover your lab in time!
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