Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things

Parts of the Mediterranean Sea reached 30C this week, much earlier than usual, raising fears for marine life.

For some areas, this is 6 or 7C warmer than usual at this time of year.

Our story with more maps by @markpoynting.bsky.social and me here:
www.bbc.com/news/article...

From the DSLC.io aRchives:

🔵 Introduction to Probability: Introduction youtu.be/0lzp6vZHTzA

🔵 Outstanding User Interfaces with Shiny: Web application concepts youtu.be/dB1zRW9r_Bw

Visit dslc.video for hours of new #DataScience videos every week!

#dataBS #RStats #rshiny

Across Europe, billions vanish each year into the grey economy — income from legal but undeclared work that escapes taxation. It can include everything from off-the-books construction jobs to cash-in-hand childcare, side gigs, and small business deals that never make it onto the books.

My latest piece for @puddingviz.bsky.social: 30 minutes with a stranger

Soy yo o Bluesky en español parece ser casi inexistente?

I chatbot di sostegno psicologico sono sempre più diffusi. Ma la loro efficacia è tutta da dimostrare. E c’è il rischio che i sistemi sanitari li sfruttino per tagliare le spese. Illustrazione di copertina di Joey Guidone. Leggi il sommario del nuovo numero di Internazionale: intern.az/1Ltk

Question: is there any way or platform where I can publish texts of my authorship (like a blog) without feeding any AI?

I would like to know how to completely disable Microsoft Copilot from my software suite.

No, actually, I would really like to know how I can scrape every ounce of it out and burn it all to ashes.

But, if I can't do that, than at least some way to keep it out of my sight. I don't want it.

About Musk's desperation to look “cool”:
"Watching his Nigel-no-friends attempts to be popular, his endless pathetic tweets that read as though they come from the brain of an 11-year-old poser, has made me start to believe we should bring back bullying".
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Some more #LIDAR #maps in and around Paris !