• DagwoodIII@piefed.social
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    2 days ago

    [off topic]

    Isaac Asimov was a professional writer long before he entered his doctorate program. When he was writing his thesis he was advised to try to make it sound like it had been written by a chemist and not an author.

    To practice ‘scientific’ style writing he wrote a comic piece.

    The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated
    Thiotimoline

    https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/ezgranet/mywebsite/docs/thiotim-latex.pdf

    When he went for his orals, the last question was to explain the exact nature of Thiotimoline.

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      2 days ago

      I disagree with this comment only because it is building and bolstering the precedent that everyone is using these models all the time and every written thing is generated from an LLM, even when there is no evidence to support it.

      The various grammar errors and random capitalizations push toward “human” and the only support for it being LLMgen’d is the fact that it is poetic.

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        2 days ago

        I’m skeptical just because their email signature changes - I haven’t touched mine in years, so why does Prof. Kutaywa go from being first supervisor to just supervisor?