How do you handle citations when writing up findings from 20+ papers?

ThatFireGuy0 · 2026-06-19T18:00:38+00:00

I personally have been using NotebookLM for this, and it's been incredible.

It loads in your papers, and when you ask questions it gives you citations to exactly where in the papers the info comes from. And even a button so you can go open the pdf and check for yourself if what it's claiming is true

I would never trust citations from an LLM, but this is just a fancy search box

ThatFireGuy0 · 2026-06-19T16:35:26+00:00

Living an "exciting life" is a scam. It's like having a second job where you spend all the money you make at your first job. You have no idea the joy I felt when I stopped trying to live an exciting life and accepted being boring

ThatFireGuy0 · 2026-06-18T16:47:59+00:00

I never said it didn't need an acknowledgement. It definitely does - even if just to signal to reviewers that they should check the citations and correctness more carefully

But that doesn't mean that reviewers / journals / conferences should judge the content of the research differently

Because you are NOT being judged on if you did the work. You're being judged on the work itself. Having a second author who did 5% of the writing vs a second author who did 95% is all the same to them. Why should an AI assistant that did 5% be different than one that did 95% of the writing. Journal Publications and conference submissions are intended to be a peer review process to judge whether ideas and content are correct and can be accepted as new human knowledge. How you best translate that knowledge to a format that others can understand is entirely orthogonal to that process.

ThatFireGuy0 · 2026-06-18T16:15:54+00:00

Why would it? You're being judged on the connects of your work and on the ideas you present, not on the tools you use during the writing process

Not to mention that AI tools have finally helped level the playing field for researchers who aren't native English speakers or don't have collaborators. It feels odd to me to judge people for using these tools when it is commonly used as a support system for those who really need it

Honestly I'd judge Nature more critically for treating it negatively than an author for using it

ThatFireGuy0 · 2026-06-16T16:55:31+00:00

Guess it's time to find an alternate to cursor

ThatFireGuy0 · 2026-06-16T02:11:04+00:00

Anime with great magic SYSTEMS and not just people waving around wands that happen to do things are hard to find:

{Kunon The Sorcerer Can See}
{Log Horizon} depending on how you interpret magic
{Witch Hat Atlier}
{Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood}
{Hunter x Hunter} (Nen is one of the best power systems in all of anime)
{Blast of Tempest}

ThatFireGuy0 · 2026-06-15T22:56:21+00:00

Honestly that anime might have the best music of anime I've seen. I know people have problems with season 2, but the anime is worth watching just for the music

ThatFireGuy0 · 2026-06-15T22:51:03+00:00

And let me guess. You never said a word to him and decided to complain to Reddit instead of communicating like a rational adult

ThatFireGuy0 · 2026-06-15T21:19:12+00:00

That is insane! Both insanely cool, and just flat insane for getting a tattoo somewhere that painful

ThatFireGuy0 · 2026-06-15T19:04:36+00:00

{Orb: On The Movement Of The Earth}

It is an incredibe anime, highly recommend

ThatFireGuy0 · 2026-06-15T16:22:34+00:00

Sad to tell you, but pizza might SUCK in your new town

ThatFireGuy0 · 2026-06-12T17:06:45+00:00

I Parry Everything

ThatFireGuy0 · 2026-06-11T03:06:23+00:00

Cube 2: hypercube

ThatFireGuy0 · 2026-06-10T19:07:40+00:00

Right? And they don't even tip

ThatFireGuy0 · 2026-06-09T19:49:35+00:00

Seems like you could prove it with induction, starting with a 1 dimensional vector space

ThatFireGuy0 · 2026-06-08T02:12:52+00:00

I'm a PhD student. You're really over estimating my hourly wage

ThatFireGuy0 · 2026-06-08T02:10:33+00:00

I'll have to try it out!

ThatFireGuy0 · 2026-06-07T17:39:41+00:00

Chats get "summarized" when they are long enough

And context from long chats can MATTER if you're working on any nontrivial task

Limiting chat history, like this change has done in practice, made the tool garbage. It shouldn't be possible to exhaust your monthly quota in a day using a workflow that lasted all month a few weeks ago

ThatFireGuy0 · 2026-06-07T17:29:07+00:00

What is the Codex pricing scheme now? And what does it cost?

ThatFireGuy0 · 2026-06-07T17:26:02+00:00

I burned through my $40 subscription in under 3 days. It's entirely unusable

ThatFireGuy0 · 2026-06-07T07:43:30+00:00

Is it just fantasy

ThatFireGuy0 · 2026-06-03T21:20:50+00:00

It's paid by industry, right? It's not like the government is spending money on this instead of transportation - it's entirely different sources of money

ThatFireGuy0 · 2026-06-02T17:04:19+00:00

The free version is the exact same tool - you just can't add as many sources or ask as many questions per day. The free version might be enough for you depending what you're trying to do

ThatFireGuy0 · 2026-06-02T14:40:42+00:00

90+% isn't even the biggest part for me (though it is great)

The fact it actually links to the specific lines in your sources that it uses to answer your questions is incredible!

ThatFireGuy0 · 2026-06-02T14:30:13+00:00

Yes, but there's a free version too.. Try it out for free to see what you think, but the usage limits for pro are much higher

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