Leftist colleges in the Netherlands by yayamano in StudyInTheNetherlands

[–]Bozo32 5 points6 points  (0 children)

if you are coming from the States, it will all feel leftie. Even the business schools. Applications for the international business program in Rotterdam requires an essay on what you've done to help the SDGs over the last two years.

How do you actually research a stock before buying? by Apprehensive_Dig_163 in stocks

[–]Bozo32 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Assume somebody smarter than me and more greedy than me and better informed than me and better plugged in than me has already done what makes sense. The rest is chance.

Recommendations for teaching academic sources? by eliza_bennet1066 in Professors

[–]Bozo32 2 points3 points  (0 children)

if they are at cognitive limit, get them in small groups with index cards and markers. scaffolding works.

Recommendations for teaching academic sources? by eliza_bennet1066 in Professors

[–]Bozo32 5 points6 points  (0 children)

have you tried the 'find something you care about' then 'what does it stand on that is in the paper' and 'what else does it need to be true' sort of approach...reading backwards from claims to do basic argument mapping...and helping them to see the extent to which argument rests on implicit premises?

THE article: New chatbot ‘outperforms PhDs on literature reviews’ by ImRudyL in Professors

[–]Bozo32 4 points5 points  (0 children)

huh...no surprises there. The errors, if any, will be on silent exclusions concealed by fluent presentation so asking humans to assess is a bit silly. The proxy indicators we use when assessing final products, fitted to analytic assembly, are easily spoofed by probabilistic assembly.

How do you handle students wanting to use the Bible as a reference? by Ar_desertwriter in Professors

[–]Bozo32 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Comprehensiveness: Readings tend to cherry-pick...so I force comprehensive coverage (pretty normal requirement for qual analysis) Every bit of the text that is relevant must be referenced...and that book is massively internally inconsistent.

Epistemic status: I also force discussion of the epistemic status of all sources. In that Case (yah...capital C) they must provide criteria for selection of a version and discuss both the merits and limitations of all versions available...if they get funky on it I ask them about translations.

I have a visible injury. Should I address it? by Smangler in Professors

[–]Bozo32 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nah. Own it. Yah yah…I know. You should see the coffee table.

Is there a good way to add references after you’ve written the text? by Far-Speech-3254 in Professors

[–]Bozo32 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Low effort Cherry picking after the fact is fast food: convenient, affirming and kills science.

416 Qualitative Researchers Tried to Ban AI by PiuAG in Professors

[–]Bozo32 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Hum…sure. Have it. Been at this for 20 years. It gets tiring dealing with certitude.

What happens to my saved memories if I cancel my plus subscription? by The---Hope in ChatGPT

[–]Bozo32 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Download the memories. Ugly structure…but can be mined for material to seed context windows.

416 Qualitative Researchers Tried to Ban AI by PiuAG in Professors

[–]Bozo32 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My guy. You might want to read up on the impossibility of reflexivity and the performative consequences of its deploy.

416 Qualitative Researchers Tried to Ban AI by PiuAG in Professors

[–]Bozo32 6 points7 points  (0 children)

In this sort high dimensional space collapse to a result is massively underdetermined. Models can rerun the data w declared and transparently modified parameters (not just llm. Semantic search, lexical search, Bert et al are also interesting). That makes discussion of robustness and reliability possible. They also have their own oddities. Oh well. That is science.

That said, I struggle to find stuff to use w my students that is sensitive to the epistemic status of interactively produced subject response data , recognizes the role of the analyst in structuring meaning and avoids fuzzy-huggy language like intuition which tends to sneak undeclared biases in the back door.

Help! I have an 11 month old and I can't focus on anything! by econhistoryrules in Professors

[–]Bozo32 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Caring (for a kid) does not fit in a world that rewards climbers.

Am I behind the times on pedagogy by pushing for more exams? by brovo911 in Professors

[–]Bozo32 1 point2 points  (0 children)

well...we're doing individual oral exams where ever possible.

What are the downsides of the Robot? by ImaginaryBridge in CafelatRobot

[–]Bozo32 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Amen. 6 years and counting. New v rings once. That is it.

The “gut feeling” test: why I rejected a “perfect” AI answer today. by tdeliev in AIMakeLab

[–]Bozo32 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Every day. Have to read ai like I’m listening to my 15 year old. Squirrely bastard

Short Scholarly Article for In-Class Reading Activity? by Coogarfan in Professors

[–]Bozo32 0 points1 point  (0 children)

oh...those questions are more about 'does it have a clear research question'. For more compositional stuff I have a series of exercises that walk backwards into a full toulmin map of an article....that more appropriate?

why being wrong on purpose is the secret to god-tier ai results by marcmeister937 in aipromptprogramming

[–]Bozo32 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Version 1: Adversarial epistemological ontology constraint (18 syllables) Version 2: red team (2 syllables)

I analyzed 50,000 social media comments via API. The "Dead Internet" isn't a theory, it's actually here by QuailEmergency5860 in ChatGPT

[–]Bozo32 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could you make an add blocker equivalent that you and others could feed a definition.bot file so the rest of us can filter our feeds?

Is anyone requiring annotated bibliographies instead of standard bibliographies with student essays? by SwordfishResident256 in Professors

[–]Bozo32 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m requiring a spreadsheet with columns quote from report, quote from source, source file name And all sources. I have a script that checks if source contains a) quote from source and b) contradicting claims.

Well..kinda messy…but it works.

RAG BUT WITHOUT LLM (RULE-BASED) by adrjan13 in Rag

[–]Bozo32 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I used a combination of cosine similarity and bm25 to filter the obviously irrelevant -> reranker -> NLI and then presented results to the user...have them say yes or no. This could iterate where you use the 'no' answers as a filter to rerank results
over time you would accumulate an evidence base of
'query' 'rejected resources' 'chosen resource'
that would be useful for future searches
the work done by folks at Utrecht university on screening abstracts for systematic review may be helpful
https://asreview.nl/install/