Submitted a peer review the other day, editor emails back with their final decision. It's pretty obvious the other reviewer just used an LLM to provide the review.
I've been told by other editors this is remarkably common.
I find that quite offensive.
can this be a solution?
I was going through some old code, and found this game I made a while back. Now it's a shinyapp.
"Chromoku". It's like Sudoku with hidden logic and bright colours.
Play here: stormdreamer.shinyapps.io/chromoku/
More info: stormdreamergames.itch.io/chromoku
Oh, but according to the blog I shouldn't have been moving my head around.
What's My JND? 0.0038
The wajigger says this is pretty good. I'm not a vision dude. Is it?
www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...
Exciting news! The @yorkpsychology.bsky.social are recruiting 3 new ART (research and teaching) lecturers! One role will be prioritised for cognitive, affective and/or social neuroscience.
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See? Colours!
I was going through some old code, and found this game I made a while back. Now it's a shinyapp.
"Chromoku". It's like Sudoku with hidden logic and bright colours.
Play here: stormdreamer.shinyapps.io/chromoku/
More info: stormdreamergames.itch.io/chromoku
It's almost like it's very difficult to find any reliable differences between people with aphantasia and intact visual imagery, other than their subjective reports of imagery..............
Life-long skin-on guy, here. It's not just palatable, it improves the taste!
The engineer who made ctrl+f in outlook default to 'reply' and not 'search' should be fired for incompetence or fired for malice.
My cat has taken to hanging out here. For some reason.
It's not clear to me that this is a sensible way to estimate 'replacement'.
The sky is not falling; high-quality platforms (Prolific, Verasight, CR Connect) have low rates of apparent bots. osf.io/preprints/ps... But also not zero; vigilance is very much needed!
It's paperclips all the way down. If only someone had thought about this before.
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Last class in a specific course today. Only afterwards did I realize I could have used this ever-insightful SMBC strip:
Yeah, I'd agree it's not academic specific. But it changed how I wrote overnight when I read it in grad school
And yeah, Pinker has problems, but this one can stay on the shelf a while longer...
What book on academic writing, easily digested by grads, would you recommend?
I've been recommending Pinker's for years, but it's been a long time since I read (or re-read it).
For our recent paper - on naive humans reinventing how to shape early stone tools - we did sth unusual and sth (hopefully) useful:
We included an FAQ section in the supplementary material
New methods may benefit from such FAQ's being included.
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Oh, he deleted that, but not the original!? Weird
I missed this due to time zones. What was deleted? I had otherwise been following this little drama
For sure, "prompts per hour per user" is a metric they're hacking, anticipating that if that lines goes up, the money line will go up in the future
ahh, but have you ever purchased a knock-off knife-missile from the pound store? That's also morally bad!
I mean, ChatGPT has won, right? They've got a government contract with a war-mongering fascist regime. They money spigot is on until the regime is out.
Boycotting ChatGPT is like boycotting Raytheon. I agree not to buy weapons of war from the war-weapon company!
Also:
Linux may strike fear into the hearts of many, but Ubuntu works out of the box and the tiny learning curve is offset by the absence of bloatware and AI.
You can even partition your hard-drive and dual boot if you need windows. It's very easy to do.
This actually makes sense. My brother (in Australia) regularly posts racist shite from these rags, long before I've even caught a whisper of the narrative. As far as he's concerned, London has fallen.
People who "write" (prompt) this stuff fall further in my esteem than if they accidentally posted the search terms they use for porn.
Also, look at who he is citing. lol. I have no doubt that LLMs are doing better social science than *some* of us.
