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RanaldClouston

@RanaldClouston@fediscience.org

Lecturer in Computer Science at Australian National University.

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ct_bergstrom, to random
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Pamela Paul is weaponizing misunderstandings about peer review in the NY Times.

"The authors argue that science should instead be independent, evidence-based and focused on advancing knowledge. This sounds entirely reasonable. Yet the paper was rejected by several prominent mainstream journals..."

Even if that were an accurate description and there were no other problems with the paper the fact that something is rejected from several top journals is hardly evidence that science is broken.

RanaldClouston,
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@ct_bergstrom my paper that argues that scientists should not eat babies was rejected from every major science journal. The implications are obviously disturbing

ct_bergstrom, to random
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Remember that nonsense from Pamela Paul in the New York Times about how science must no longer be a meritocracy because PNAS rejected a (very poor) paper titled "In defense of merit in science"?

No? That's ok. It wasn't memorable.

In any case, my letter to editor at the Times about that nonsense was just published.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/27/opinion/letters/science-diversity-equity-inclusion.html?unlocked_article_code=pbg9OxKceqaZrtpOfrp3MZd6Fngb2cs7UHIR7eSkY3IKfSgpa7tqQj9_ie6bdNLtoG4v0tQZhratBmt_f6jJM0DbhCTikM0cmCGydjdLbnfTleGdBUScsO0gc4JbiDmcanMoDK-M7Z1-ig9S6NwiIcnG_b-Y_gvnH_5VefwnVjQSXsf3ZSTWUAS5Q2Jbe2ttiXAyraghGMJ4PPDIFvT1nGJsSK_JlWmZGkSaIQQW-q4lJy4lscfDSozxJVwlBabd86hx7u9Mp5PBie9cYJCO1Qm6qzjsF7ynPQfbHCWPReFB8OR6nszE7QUd-MfI1IYsVCxm3XB4Ldm01uPqleQUNrrBmnPBICs3JW91j-7mwlkHZeNR&smid=url-share

RanaldClouston,
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@ct_bergstrom amazing it needed to be said, but well said

buzz, to random

It’s almost as if these large language models are extremely unsuited to the primary application being imagined for them: knowledge retrieval.

RanaldClouston,
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@buzz I quite like the term hallucination to be honest. I mean, everyone makes errors, but would you accept information about the world from someone who admittedly frequently hallucinates?

RanaldClouston, to random
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As promised, a blog post on 'Normalization for Multimodal Type Theory' https://updatedscholar.blogspot.com/2023/04/discussing-normalization-for-multimodal.html by @danielgratzer . It appears I have much to learn to fully appreciate some recent developments in ...

RanaldClouston,
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Next week I'll retreat a little from the cutting edge to read over Martin-Löf's classic 'Intuitionistic ' (1984, but based on lectures given in 1980) https://archive-pml.github.io/martin-lof/pdfs/Bibliopolis-Book-retypeset-1984.pdf

RanaldClouston, to fantasy
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's magisterial prequel to Priory of the Orange Tree. It does retread a fair amount of ground from the previous book, but the writing and characters are so vivid I didn't much mind. @bookstodon

RanaldClouston,
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@adityadubey @bookstodon I read in an interview with Samantha Shannon that the two books are designed to be read in either order, so I think going straight to Fallen Night would be fine.

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