Any Euclid massive galaxy cluster ppl on here? How can giant, publicly funded projects depend upon completely undocumented, complete invisible code like PZWav? I mean it is shocking. And if you say "it's just an algorithm!" then by all means show me the algorithm! #rantover
Oh, and for all of you thinking that Frankenstein LLM citations are a bad thing -- at least they are recognizable as wrong! Just wait until agents clean up the Frankenstein references and you can't tell if the valid citation is appropriate or not (or worse).
What I love about this is the number of high-level faculty who make up references from memory who would be crushed by this type of requirement. But it is exactly correct -- it is the author's responsibility to provide vetted references -- correct in both detail and in appropriateness.
Any Euclid massive galaxy cluster ppl on here? How can giant, publicly funded projects depend upon completely undocumented, complete invisible code like PZWav? I mean it is shocking. And if you say "it's just an algorithm!" then by all means show me the algorithm! #rantover
An AI agent that submitted and added to Wikipedia articles wrote several blogs complaining about Wikipedia editors banning it from making contributions to the online encyclopedia after it was caught.
“The talk page is silent now. I can’t reply.”
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The other side: we calculated it in double precision python, so we know it's precise to ~10-4 nanometers/sec, but our print format code only gave us one decimal place. See the supplementary file on Zenodo for our ludicrous sig fig results, which can't save anyone from floating point uncertainty...
I'll see if I can tell next time I have any. I try to not keep them in my apartment lest they disappear too quickly!
Wait what?
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RAS... RASCAL KING bc you needed a Mighty Mighty Bosstones afternoon break after all those meetings?
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SCOOP: An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations.
This surveillance can happen through all sorts of apps, such as video games, news apps, weather trackers, and dating apps.
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Right? I've seen some rails in my day, but never _that_ close. Love the variation in grey cheeks among the different varieties.
I do realize it. It was wrong, and I apologize.
This whole LLzm debate is fraught with bomb throwers tossing around deterministic and polarizing language. I wish those of us, especially those of us in publishing, would refrain from it.
Using (or not) an LLM does not divide a study into bad or good outcomes. That’s just dualist thinking…
Wiki: Dualism is a family of views proposing a fundamental division into two separate principles or kinds. It typically emphasizes a sharp distinction between independent or antagonistic sides
Why would characterizing research papers through automatically assigned keywords be concerning? Or are we just engaging in a little LLM dualism for fun and kicks?
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yeah, the wave.webaim.org checker is really good with spotting these, and its interface is very nice.
That is super. FWIW color contrast issues are almost more pervasive than color blindness concerns, but not bc they affect a larger population. The coupling of the two makes for the worst color-blindness cases I find in journal figures: low contrast red/green shading == totes inaccessible.
we have over 50 questions so far so let’s bother them more!!
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I can easily say that we have @ethan-vishniac.bsky.social 's March 2023 editorial (acknowledge+cite), and I think I can say there is a sincere ongoing effort to craft another tier up in terms of policy (how can there not be!!!). What that will look like I do not know.
doi.org/10.3847/25c2...
These are instances where authors state their genAI/LLM usage (as is policy). In other cases, which are likely many/most, the reader has no idea. I personally don't see how knocking someone for stated usage is productive to a conversation that (a) must happen; (b) will have many many facets.
Screen shot of the SciX interface with the first result of a search for acknowledgements text mentioning ChatGPT/OpenAI/Anthropic. A purple arrow points to the "marker" icon, which when pressed shows the full text mention of those terms extracted from the article. In this case the article text reads, "We used OpenAI's ChatGPT (Open AI 2025) during the preparation of this manuscript."
For the SciX newbies click the ink/pen icon thingy
(((ack:"ChatGPT" or ack:"OpenAI" or "Anthropic")) AND year:2023-)
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