Albertata!
I think the question is "why do sites put up cookie banners when the only option is Accept?" Gdpr requires an option to opt out, so who are they try to appease here? I sometimes think they do it because people have come…
So true. I once saw a gardener removing weeds from a moss patch with tweezers. Very meticulous.
Yes, about half is skimmed off the top by the university, called 'overhead'. This is used to fund everything, from research-essential things like paying for heat and maintaining buildings, to less obvious but still…
I recently read an HN post where a LOT of people reported having the same rather specific dream that I have had many times (about being enrolled in a class they forgot about only to remember on the day of the final…
Or put a fake expiry date on it like car seats! Diabolical genius.
Publishing a record of rejections and reasons is a very interesting idea! I will be adding that to my "deserves more thought" pile!
The problem with the "supply and demand" argument in this case is that the demand for apartments is essentially infinite. People absolutely NEED a place live, so it's not just a normal, rational transaction. Companies…
I am quite surprized how few people are proposing to make art or music. Is this why artists/musicians can't make money, because so few people enjoy it? I always thought it was the digitization and easy access that…
Quarto FTW! I uses pandoc to translate between formats, is almost effortless to use, and seems to be growing very fast.
This is a really interesting idea! Wow. I love when I hear something that totally filps my worldview. Sensor fusion and enough AI could almost certainly do this.
For sure. I also find I have to update my rubric to give more/less part marks, which also requires going back. It takes about 10-15 papers grades before things settle down.
There is absolutely no way a dentist is going to apply a treatment that is essentially certain to put them out of business. This is a crazy as a software engineer developing a tool that writes code...oh wait.
This is exactly what an AI pretending to be human would say!
Another way to look at the problem of LLM-generated garbage papers is that it doesn't actually change anything, because serious researchers in a given field already didn't trust work coming from unknown labs in shady…
You just doxxed yourself as Dan Ariely :-)
I had a bit of a eureka on this subject this afternoon: when looking at scientific fraud and who to blame, we (as a society) tend to focus on who stands to gain if the fraud is successful, but instead we should look at…
> I was trying to be funny. You succeeded!
I think the discussions around this issue (in this thread and elsewhere) are missing a key point: The vast majority of academic research is conducted by graduate students working toward their PhD. For instance, the word…
From what I can tell, Quarto is essentially an installer for Knitr/R, that also comes with a bunch of goodies, like when working in VSC (or Rstudio) it auto-suggests cross-references to content in the document, like…
I also use Word for all my writing too, so wanted to defend you. People (tech people at least) have lost sight of the fact that writing should happen in "word processing software", and Word is the best-in-class. To…
I'm turning this concept into my new life motto, thank you! (Not that I needed it, I'm already so anti ads). Anyway, if you ever remember the source please post it back here.
Albertata!
I think the question is "why do sites put up cookie banners when the only option is Accept?" Gdpr requires an option to opt out, so who are they try to appease here? I sometimes think they do it because people have come…
So true. I once saw a gardener removing weeds from a moss patch with tweezers. Very meticulous.
Yes, about half is skimmed off the top by the university, called 'overhead'. This is used to fund everything, from research-essential things like paying for heat and maintaining buildings, to less obvious but still…
I recently read an HN post where a LOT of people reported having the same rather specific dream that I have had many times (about being enrolled in a class they forgot about only to remember on the day of the final…
Or put a fake expiry date on it like car seats! Diabolical genius.
Publishing a record of rejections and reasons is a very interesting idea! I will be adding that to my "deserves more thought" pile!
The problem with the "supply and demand" argument in this case is that the demand for apartments is essentially infinite. People absolutely NEED a place live, so it's not just a normal, rational transaction. Companies…
I am quite surprized how few people are proposing to make art or music. Is this why artists/musicians can't make money, because so few people enjoy it? I always thought it was the digitization and easy access that…
Quarto FTW! I uses pandoc to translate between formats, is almost effortless to use, and seems to be growing very fast.
This is a really interesting idea! Wow. I love when I hear something that totally filps my worldview. Sensor fusion and enough AI could almost certainly do this.
For sure. I also find I have to update my rubric to give more/less part marks, which also requires going back. It takes about 10-15 papers grades before things settle down.
There is absolutely no way a dentist is going to apply a treatment that is essentially certain to put them out of business. This is a crazy as a software engineer developing a tool that writes code...oh wait.
This is exactly what an AI pretending to be human would say!
Another way to look at the problem of LLM-generated garbage papers is that it doesn't actually change anything, because serious researchers in a given field already didn't trust work coming from unknown labs in shady…
You just doxxed yourself as Dan Ariely :-)
I had a bit of a eureka on this subject this afternoon: when looking at scientific fraud and who to blame, we (as a society) tend to focus on who stands to gain if the fraud is successful, but instead we should look at…
> I was trying to be funny. You succeeded!
I think the discussions around this issue (in this thread and elsewhere) are missing a key point: The vast majority of academic research is conducted by graduate students working toward their PhD. For instance, the word…
From what I can tell, Quarto is essentially an installer for Knitr/R, that also comes with a bunch of goodies, like when working in VSC (or Rstudio) it auto-suggests cross-references to content in the document, like…
I also use Word for all my writing too, so wanted to defend you. People (tech people at least) have lost sight of the fact that writing should happen in "word processing software", and Word is the best-in-class. To…
I'm turning this concept into my new life motto, thank you! (Not that I needed it, I'm already so anti ads). Anyway, if you ever remember the source please post it back here.