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YouTube video by Orsi's Adventures the last 24 hours before my PhD defense | vlog

after all... why not? why shouldn't I post the silly video I made about last-minute preparations before my defense?
youtu.be/4Ls_84kNwgI

a smiling OP, wearing a black jacket, black blouse, and navy blue pants, holding up a copy of their dissertation and a glass of wine. you can see their advisor’s hand on the book, but he’s cropped from the image. one of OP’s friends is visible in the background, but his face has been blurred.

yesterday, I passed my PhD defense with summa cum laude (100%)! ✨ I’m grateful for all the help and support I’ve gotten in the past 7+ years from you all ❤️

Dear Author, I am Honglin Bao (www.hbao.info), a data science PhD student in Knowledge Lab (https://knowledgelab.org/) at the University of Chicago, working on a study about “The Capabilities and Potential of AI for Automating Scientific Idealization: A Large-Scale Human-in-the-Loop Study” (under UChicago IRB25-1372). As AI plays an increasingly significant role in scientific discovery, this project aims to evaluate how far AI helps scientists extend their work in new directions – or if it is not useful in this regard. This is a research project – it has no commercial purpose. I will share the final draft, technical details, and aggregate results from scientists once the study is complete. We came across your preprint "Principles of music perception" and applied custom AI models on it in accordance with the terms of the preprint license, which generated five new extensions (i.e., ideas proposed by AI based on the same context as your paper). Our pilot study of 400 scientists (excluding you) indicates that around 60% found at least one of the proposed extensions thought-provoking and actionable. However, the remaining reported that AI only generates seemingly plausible but vague sentences. We solicit your help in evaluating whether you think AI is useful or not, since we believe you are the best judge of new ideas proposed from your own paper. No matter where you stand regarding AI and science: From principally believing that AI is prone to producing fake and morally problematic science to finding it useful, or something in between, we hope to receive evaluations that reflect a spectrum of views. The AI-proposed extensions are included in the survey link below. If you consent to review them and participate in the survey, we would appreciate it if you could do so within the next 14 days (it will take you < 10mins). If you do not consent, we will not use your research in this study. If you find these ideas valuable, you are welcome to purs…

Please remove my data from your study. I want nothing to do with this — and I would also point out that if you had done appropriate background work in the selection of articles you fed to the plagiarism machine, you would have found that the preprint of mine you used is way out of date and has been updated substantially since it was first posted. ——— Samuel Mehr School of Psychology, University of Auckland and Child Study Center, Yale University Be a citizen scientist at themusiclab.org!

somebody at UChicago is feeding preprints to LLMs without authors' consent, in a research study

they have the gall to suggest to authors they've opted-in that they volunteer to evaluate the LLMs' suggestions regarding their own work.

lol, lmao even. here is the invite and my reply

a nap, amire mindannyian (?) vártunk, hamarosan elérkezik: sok szeretettel látok mindenkit a disszertációm nyilvános vitáján január 13-án (2026-ban, a hivatalos meghívóval ellentétben 🫠) 14 órakor az ELTE BTK A épületének -150-es termében!

I’ve been completely normal about Vivaldi this year. cropped info: I was in the top 0.006% of Vivaldi listeners on Spotify and his 1687th biggest fan worldwide, despite switching to Apple Music in September

Antonio Vivaldi: Laudate Dominum (RV 606)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKSP...

→ (final stage:) "NO WAR BUT CLASS WAR"
(don't even ask)

also, it's not *final* final yet, but it looks like I'll defend on January 13!

I still can't believe it's actually happening. I was stuck in limbo for so long that the submission & defense process started to feel like a distant, abstract possibility

OP standing in front of a 19th-century university building, holding a printed and bound copy of their dissertation

wow, I can't believe I didn't post this pic in September: the glorious moment of submitting the physical copy of my dissertation 🥹, "The Integration of the Monastery of Saint-Victor of Marseille into the Aristocracy of Eleventh-Century Provence"

stages of my response to the opponents:
"fair enough" → "I'm sorry you feel this way" → "well, yes, but actually no"

you too? I almost missed the final deadline of my dissertation tonight, and I can feel that I'm definitely getting too old for this...

2018–2025. unfinished, as always, but submitted

(open first pic for thematic easter egg!)

SOLVED!

thank you so much! it's been solved in the meantime. I'm so lucky to have you all!

I have already checked Z-Library and archive dot org; LibGen is down; the departmental library has a copy but the stock is currently being moved to the CEU Main Library and most of the books are still stuck in the other building...

could someone help me out, please? I need to cite "To Be the Neighbor of St. Peter" by Barbara Rosenwein, and I forgot to get a copy. the hard deadline for my dissertation is on Sunday... does any of you happen to have it in PDF format?

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

thank you!

I took the practical exam exactly 3 months after I was hospitalized for internal bleeding. I can’t believe I only missed one class and was able to attend all the weekend field trips starting in March

… and I’m an MTSZ-certified hiking guide!

btw, in the meantime I submitted something that looks like a dissertation, and my pre-defense is scheduled for next Wednesday ✨

> Barges into 'DISSZERTÁCIÓNAK LÁTSZÓ TÁRGY.docx'
> "Landed property is a legal person in 11th-c. secular political thought"
> Refuses to elaborate
> Submits dissertation

This is so cool and so needed!

now that the Twitter exodus has happened, Bluesky is the new platform of terror and dread. idk how long I'll last here

do you already have anything in mind for Hungary?

hullámos vagyok (mostanában kevésbé 🥲); annyit tudok, hogy szárazon kell vágni, hogy tartsa a természetes formáját / ne nézzen ki furcsán, mikor megszárad és összeugrik. (ha erre gondolsz)

Note: iOS 18 adds the ability to set a custom Siri wake word, which can be used to trigger an action more discreetly. Such customization is unfortunately not currently available with Google Assistant: www.asurion.com/connect/tech...

Small thing to do for your visa/green-card grads rn. Make sure they collect the numbers of several *trusted* senior faculty and family/friends. Then teach them how to set up an action button that texts everyone at once with one button/Siri. Share location enabled. www.google.com/search?clien...