@rupt.bsky.social
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An abbreviation (ABB) in a journal article (JA) or Grant Application (GA) is rarely worth the words it saves. Every ABB requires cognitive resources (CR) and at my age by the time I'm halfway through a JA or GA I no longer have the CR to remember what your ABB stood for.
August 15, 2025 at 9:39 AM
An abbreviation (ABB) in a journal article (JA) or Grant Application (GA) is rarely worth the words it saves. Every ABB requires cognitive resources (CR) and at my age by the time I'm halfway through a JA or GA I no longer have the CR to remember what your ABB stood for.
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Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.
July 30, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.
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My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.
July 27, 2025 at 5:33 PM
My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
@timminchin.bsky.social Thank you for explaining the mole pun. Long gestation...
June 30, 2025 at 9:53 PM
@timminchin.bsky.social Thank you for explaining the mole pun. Long gestation...
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Elon Musk wanted to buy Wikipedia so that he could determine our society’s collective view of truth.
He couldn’t, so he created grok.
Do not let these machines be arbiters of truth. It is abundantly clear that they are being used to push absurd far-right conspiracies.
He couldn’t, so he created grok.
Do not let these machines be arbiters of truth. It is abundantly clear that they are being used to push absurd far-right conspiracies.
Musk’s AI bot Grok blames ‘programming error’ for its Holocaust denial
Grok doubted 6 million death toll, days after peddling conspiracy theory of ‘white genocide’ in South Africa
www.theguardian.com
May 18, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Elon Musk wanted to buy Wikipedia so that he could determine our society’s collective view of truth.
He couldn’t, so he created grok.
Do not let these machines be arbiters of truth. It is abundantly clear that they are being used to push absurd far-right conspiracies.
He couldn’t, so he created grok.
Do not let these machines be arbiters of truth. It is abundantly clear that they are being used to push absurd far-right conspiracies.