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TEG

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Interested in psychology, AI, philosophy of science, methodology, religion (Matthew 23 /heart), other random things. #psychology #science #cognitive #ai

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melissaryan, to random
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Claudine Gay pens an essay about her resignation. Everyone should read and absorb this paragraph. Because it encapsulates everything that the next year is going to be. From the election to culture, education, culture, you name it. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/03/opinion/claudine-gay-harvard-president.html

TEG,
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@thetechtutor @melissaryan I was curious about the plagiarism issues - e.g., from the BBC (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-67868280),

"Harvard's board investigated the allegations last month, and found two published papers that required additional citation.

The board, however, said that she did not violate standards for research misconduct."

So, just on that part, it does indeed sound like the kind of non-misconduct errors that could be abused to target any academic for.

bespacific, to generativeAI
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Fake studies have flooded publishers of top leading to thousands of , M of $ in lost revenue. Biggest hit has come to 217-year-old based in Hoboken NJ which announced it is closing 19 journals, some of which were infected by large-scale research . Wiley has reportedly had to retract more than 11,300 papers recently โ€œthat appeared compromisedโ€ as makes it easier for paper mills to peddle fake research. https://www.wsj.com/science/academic-studies-research-paper-mills-journals-publishing-f5a3d4bc

TEG,
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@bespacific I've always had a special hatred for a particular kind of review request/paper, where you can feel so clearly there's something wrong with it, but it's very hard to put your finger on what exactly. It's just slightly rotten everywhere. I found them hard to reject in a review becasue they're slippery in that way, "it's stinky" probably won't cut it.

Had one of those review requests a day or so ago and I strongly suspect AI was used from the Abstract, but how do you nail it down?

TEG, (edited ) to random
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Getting old hobby/research scripts online as web apps is nice, versus things being pretty inaccessible even if they're available in principle. Flask is really handy for it, if you have stuff in Python.

Currently got one app running (https://www.tegladwin.com/apps.php) that produces a best-guess at the emotional content per paragraph of a text, and another one that quantifies the relationship between a list of words and sets of attributes.

Can at least have the illusion of things being useful this way :D

TEG, to random
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Interesting science-related defamation case - "Passion is not misconduct", https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ado6275.

"University of Pennsylvania climate scientist Michael Mann was awarded more than $1 million in a lawsuit against bloggers who accused him of scientific misconduct in inflammatory terms, likening his treatment of data to what a noted child molester did to children. The verdict suggests that there are limits to which scientists working on politically sensitive topics can be falsely attacked."

MahmutRuzi, to academia
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Did anyone receive this kind of review invitation? Perhaps you @j_bertolotti ?

Apparently, they started paying 20 $ for reviewing! It seems that finally, someone paid attention to all the complaints and the quality of the existing peer review process. The fee may seem too low, but here in Turkey ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ท it equals 650 Turkish lira, which is about one week's groceries.
@academicsunite #academia #research #publishing #journals #peerreview

TEG,
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@MahmutRuzi @j_bertolotti @academicsunite I wasn't familiar with peerx-press (it seems to be a service used by some journals rather than a publisher? It's not my field though), but just wanted to mention in case it matters - as I read the email it's only a chance of getting $20, via some random draw.

TEG, to random
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Positive AI use news:

AI Just Cleared A Big Hurdle On The Road To Nuclear Fusion Energy

https://www.iflscience.com/ai-just-cleared-a-big-hurdle-on-the-road-to-nuclear-fusion-energy-73107

"โ€œPrevious studies have generally focused on either suppressing or mitigating the effects of these tearing instabilities after they occur in the plasma [...] But our approach allows us to predict and avoid those instabilities before they ever appear.โ€

Their answer: an artificial intelligence (AI) trained on previous experiments at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility in San Diego."

Alexlee, to Palestine
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In an era of post-truth, the strategy of rigidly defending your version of truth and attacking other people's view of the truth is a largely self-destructive excercise that just creates a never ending argument

Understanding the logics and rationales of those people we disagree with is a far better way but requires humility and nuance

Naomi Klein in Doppelganger and Bรผscher in The Truth About Nature show us how this can be done with , and

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TEG,
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@Alexlee @GhostOnTheHalfShell @samohTmaS @academicchatter

"Theories should be accurate in their predictions, consistent, broad in scope, present phenomena in an orderly and coherent way, and be fruitful in suggesting new phenomena or relationships between phenomena. Kuhn subscribes to all five values, which he shares with the entire community of scientists (not to mention historians). That is part of what (scientific) rationality is all about, and Kuhn in this respect is a 'rationalist.'"

TEG,
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@Alexlee @GhostOnTheHalfShell @samohTmaS @academicchatter I coincidentally read a foreword by Ian Hacking to Kuhn's Structure, which you might find interesting. Part of it specifically denies this interpretation of Kuhn (leaving aside whether it'd be convincing).

"And so Kuhn was accused, in some quarters, of denying the very rationality of science. In other quarters he was hailed as the prophet of the new relativism. Both thoughts are absurd. Kuhn addresses these issues directly." (cont)

gnumanth, to ai
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Not even 12 hours on Colab Pro....๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ

TEG,
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@gnumanth I like that they have pre-paid though! Could've been a nastier surprise otherwise I think?

TEG, to random
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Been playing Signalis - good psycho-horror with at least one nice meta-screw-with-the-player moment so far, action + puzzles, dystopian aesthetic. The thing I don't like is having too little idea about how available ammunition will be so I'm stockpiling too much and Benny Hill-running around enemies too much - I think only with hindsight I get what the design was going for. Stagnated a bit yesterday and not sure I have the emotional resilience to go back and finish it though...

sideshow_jim, to mastodon
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Probably idiot question.
If I were to make a bot* in as a learning project, do I need a machine running constantly to run it, or should I do it on a cloud service?
I got a sitting around, would that do?

(*One that regularly posts a Josephine Baker photo, if you're interested)

TEG,
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@sideshow_jim I'm not an expert in the slightest, but FWIW I hacked together a Twitterbot (years ago) that I had running on PythonAnywhere.

TEG, to random
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Argument: "Do an animated X-Men movie instead of a live action one". That makes total sense to me. It feels weird to have the cartoon's style in a cinema but why not, it's the story... I don't know that it has to be a the level of Into the Spiderverse to be good.

https://www.vox.com/culture/24125852/x-men-97-review-marvel-live-action

TEG, to random
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Paywalled (and possibly blocked?) but looks very interesting... https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/world/europe/new-yorker-story-murder-letby-britain.html?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-gb

I don't know whether Letby is innocent or not of course but everything I happened to see about the evidence seemed very iffy and Lucia de B.-reminiscent.

TEG, to random
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Someone stole a, fortunately not too valuable, package today - either the delivery person themself after taking the "proof of delivery" picture or someone in the short period before I got to the porch. Upside: It reminded me of the existence of Amazon Lockers of which I've got one a few minutes walk away, so that's the new plan going forward.

TEG,
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The mystery continues, yesterday's package got delivered - again! - this morning :O But now by Royal Mail instead of Evri.

TEG, to random
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Oh this was a new one for me - someone on a show did a "Hey Google" joke and it activated my phone.

TEG, to random
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Sapolski has a lecture on transsexuality I didn't know about: https://youtu.be/8QScpDGqwsQ?si=UYtRB700ybBB8hha. I'm not up-to-date at all but I remember reading about some of the sexed/gendered (parts of) brains as a student and it seeming almost common-sensical to see things that way.

solalnathan, to academia
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Isn't it weird that acceptance rate is a thing we look for in a conference/journal?

Publishing a paper should not be competitive like "we take the top 20% paper", it should be "we take all papers that are good enough according to our standards". Sometimes it can be a very low or very high number depending on the quality of the paper submitted.

@academicchatter @phdstudents

TEG, (edited )
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@solalnathan @academicchatter @phdstudents I wonder if it's all due to a lack of substantive understanding and expertise (or concern), at the level of decision-makers. "Top x% is excellent!", whether it's accepted papers or grants provided, is a totally substance-free metric. Any monkey can apply it and claim they're measuring exceptionality (just not what kind exactly).

To publish a paper if and only if it's "(a bit/very/extremely) valuable to a scientific field" requires much more judgment.

TEG, to random
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Visited some local museums this week, both well worth it:

  • The Museum of the Mind at Bethlem - small but very well done section on its history, a really coherent story with good details (like the binder of asking-to-be-released letters); plus interesting exhibitions, one of Alison Lapper about her late son, and one of patient artwork.

  • The Design Museum, with an Enzo Mari exhibition for maximum inspiration. I'd heard the name spoken with a kind of worship and I kind of get it now.

TEG, to random
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Got my Covid booster last week, finally, now we're allowed to buy them privately at least. Over two years since the last one I was eligible for, which was pre-omicron, so was really happy to get this in me (not even considering the 5G upgrade and telepathic access to Microsoft Word).

I'm not getting the impression that many people in my neighbourhood will bother getting it, are aware it's worth doing, or even know it's an option. But maybe the messaging will change now.

TEG, to random
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Put together a page with a list of references about the ongoing health risks of (long) COVID: https://www.tegladwin.com/files/misc/COVID.php.

A few quite recent ones - I wonder if there's a bit of a shift away from minimizing/herd immunity is fine/just wash your hands etc happening.

TEG, to random
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Just saw Dune part 2 - it was good and everything but I'm not sure it was worth the hearing loss...

TEG,
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@Mulderc I am more of a Timothee Chalamet fan than I was before!

kellogh, to random
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this is in reference to super-alignment & safety, but my cousin also had her DEI team disbanded and โ€œdistributedโ€ in the same way

on the surface, i think safety, DEI, and similar topics should be embedded in the culture and not centralized into a specific team. centralization would cause people to say, โ€œoh thatโ€™s not my jobโ€.

then again, any time a centralized team is disbanded, my immediate thought is, โ€œapparently safety/DEI/etc. doesnโ€™t matter to this companyโ€. itโ€™s a paradox, i suppose

TEG,
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@kellogh I always feel a little conflicted about reports like this. Like, it's 100% a good and important thing in general, but that doesn't mean a specific person or team or culture engaged with AI safety automatically inherits that value regardless of what they're actually contributing.

That said, I do think it might need a dedicated if small team to ensure that things are widely embedded.

TEG, to random
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Postal-voted for the London elections. It's so convenient!

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