Jack Bandy

@jackbandy.com

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* Computer Science faculty @ University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) * PhD in Computer Science & Communication Studies * 📕 ALGORITHMIC MEDIA book! https://bookshop.org/a/122922/9783032194374 * Tech ethics, media, HCI, data science, algorithm auditing, etc.

An index entry for a book; under the entry for letter B, it says "Bean. See Cloud Gate"
A portion of a book index; under the index section for the letter X, there is one entry that says "X. See Twitter"
A survey that says "Do you like this personality?" with a thumbs up or thumbs down as options.
Obi Wan Kenobi saying “oh I don’t think so”
Hand-drawn clouds own a blue sky, with plants on the ground. Overlayed text says "you can detect ai easily if you have love in your heart." The dot on each "i" is a heart, except in "ai," where the dot is a broken heart. Image via sweetfellasofficial on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/DPjcBpLAj74/
Bugs Bunny speaking a clear and dramatic "no"
Buildings in Copenhagen, reflecting over calm water at sunset
A screenshot from the Instagram music selector. Under the title “moods” is a menu with four options: bright, dreamy, groovy, and sentimental
A GitHub screenshot showing a pull request by user jackbandy was merged into the Macrodata-Refinement repository, owned by Lumon Industries
An email beginning "Dear J. Bandy, Hope everything is all right."
A google doc that says "Let's talk about the future" with the autocomplete suggesting "future of work"
A Drafts menu from Microsoft outlook, showing that a draft has been saved with no recipient, no subject, and no message.
A flowchart showing ten repeated queries to a large language model asking if a research paper exists. After the first query, another query is repeated three times asking who wrote the paper. The figure is based on the research paper, "Do Language Models Know When They’re Hallucinating References?" https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2305.18248
Top read article on English Wikipedia: Anthropology
A network of six connected nodes, including Teaching, Research, Writing, About, and More, all connected to a central "JB" node.
Star Wars screenshot from episode II: “There’s no war here, unless you brought it with you.” The word “war” has been replaced with “discourse.”
An email from Kentucky American Water that says, “is your service line made of lead?”