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[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 14 points 2 months ago (6 children)

They're reeeaallly leaning into the fact that some of the math involved is also used in statistical physics. And, OK, we could have an academic debate about how the boundaries of fields are drawn and the extent to which the divisions between them are cultural conventions. But the more important thing is that the Nobel Prize is a bad institution.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 14 points 2 months ago

I trained a neural network on all the ways I've said that I hate these people, and it screamed in eldritch spectra before collapsing into silence.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I haven't had to report malfeasance like that, but if that happened to me, I would be livid. I'd start by contacting the program officer; I'd also contact the division director above them and the NSF Office of Inspector General. I mean, that level of laziness can't just have affected one review! And, for good measure, I'd send a tip to 404media, as they have covered this sort of thing. That might well go nowhere, but it can't hurt to be in their contact list.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago

I need an early-2000's style web video where a cutout of that Musk picture moves up and down to a sproingy-sproingy sound.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 4 points 2 months ago

Scopus is just a citation database. So, yeah, about as "AI" as Excel.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I researched cool topics using ChatGPT, Claude, Google

That's not what research means, you embossed carbuncle.

I linked NotebookLM to the Wikipedia entry of each topic and generated the podcast audio

It's fucking James Somerton with extra steps!

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 13 points 2 months ago

I tried it with a bunch of stuff already and shared with friends.

I hope your friends find a better friend.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 19 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Found while poking around today: the Wikipedia club for cleaning up after AI.

Example: the article Leninist historiography was entirely written by AI and previously included a list of completely fake sources in Russian and Hungarian at the bottom of the page.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 10 points 2 months ago

"My name is Scroder Cher. I take care of the place while the Master is away."

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

"Space opera's the same, but they call it le space opera."

It's been a long time since I lived in France, so my sense of what is idiomatic has no doubt grown rusty, but "Théâtre D'opéra" doesn't sound right. The word "Théâtre" doesn't belong in a reference to the place where operas are performed. It's "L'opéra Garnier" and "L'opéra Bastille" in Paris and "L'opéra Nouvel" in Lyon, for example. I'd read "théâtre d'opéra" as more like "operatic theatre" in the sense of a genre (contrasted with, e.g., spoken-word theatre). I could be completely wrong here, but the title feels like a naive machine translation.

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 11 points 2 months ago

Masto reply guy: "is it not better to train LLM on proper academic papers rather than random rants on Twitter and Reddit?"

well, actually, it's better to train them not at all, and if anyone advocates their use, to kick them in the nads repeatedly

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The only use I've had for writing cursive in 30 years has been to copy out an anti-cheating pledge on a standardized test, because some fucker thought cursive magically makes a pledge 300% more honest.

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