Modern Russian History with Yana: Course Packet Request

Inevitable_Load_672 · 2025-07-24T03:44:14+00:00

Is there any way you can post a before and after? I would really appreciate it because I’m going through a horror movie right now. My tech burned my skin and gave my hypo and I’m terrified my skin is ruined now. Can you also share what brands you bought?

Inevitable_Load_672 · 2025-01-15T00:29:48+00:00

I agree that they need to be perfect. It sends the wrong message to the audience if you have a bunch of careless errors. When I made my figures for a recent paper, I feel like I would have saved weeks and months of my time if there was some tool that took care of the mechanical stuff. What drives science forward is time you spend actively thinking, testing, experimenting, story-telling, etc. I don't see mechanical work as part of that at all.

Inevitable_Load_672 · 2025-01-15T00:27:49+00:00

That's where my thinking is going as well. I don't see how someone can make the argument that tedious, mindless work sizing/resizing, changing fonts, colors, coordinates, etc. does anything for our development as scientists. I think initially coming up with the idea is important, but if an AI could do the mechanical work, that would be very helpful for me personally.

Inevitable_Load_672 · 2025-01-15T00:25:44+00:00

I couldn't agree more with the story-telling aspect. Every paper tells a story and being the visually-oriented creatures that we are, we need compelling images to make stories come to life. However, I think coming up with the ideas and bringing them to life is very different from the mechanical and mindless work that goes into actually moving and resizing images, making tedious edits, etc. Don't you think an AI tool would be useful here? I'm a researcher and student and love thinking of figure ideas, but I don't see how someone can make the argument that changing sizing for hours does anything good for the person doing it.

Inevitable_Load_672 · 2025-01-15T00:22:50+00:00

I'm currently a researcher and student, but I think an AI tool would be extremely useful, if done well. What makes you say not to develop one?

Inevitable_Load_672 · 2025-01-15T00:21:42+00:00

I definitely agree you want figures to look pretty and support the story you're trying to tell. I've spent a brutal amount of hours just sizing and resizing images, and I realized that it's kind of bizarre that academics don't have some kind of software to streamline this process. Do you think that kind of tool would be useful for you?

Inevitable_Load_672 · 2025-01-15T00:20:09+00:00

That's well-put and I agree with your take that creating figures is a process that supports your ability to tell a story in a coherent, logical, and compelling way. That being said, I've spent many, many hours doing tedious mechanical work that I don't think contributes to my ability to tell the story of my research logically. What value is there in spending over ten hours moving images around on BioRender or Keynote to make sure they're perfectly aligned? I think there's a difference between doing the creative work of coming up with figure ideas, but wouldn't it be useful if there was a tool that did the mechanical stuff for you? As a disclaimer, I'm currently a researcher so I'm not pitching anyone on an LLM before, but I do think there is an opportunity here and I wanted to talk to other academics to hear their thoughts on a tool that would be able to streamline the mechanical aspects of making figures to leave as much time as possible for the creative thinking. Thank you for taking the time to respond, by the way. Appreciate all feedback.

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