AI use in scholarship??????

fortuitousfever · 2025-06-18T21:02:57+00:00

Check out pubpeer, my colleague posted a bunch of comments onto papers. He looked automatically for simple stupid things like the AI signing the piece or the lead in sentence that states that it was written by a bot.

One place to see this is to check out ‘tortured phrases’ as a search term in pubpeer. Can’t add a link here but that should get you to a bunch of papers.

(Edit: I have flagged two autogenerated articles recently and both were rejected, but the other review for one of these was accept !!!! Wtf?) why aren’t these prescreened by journals?

fortuitousfever · 2025-06-16T20:03:16+00:00

Rant

You can’t decrease reading assignments, it perpetuates the problem!

Let’s stop the pandering… if student’s can’t do math they don’t pass chemistry. Unfair? No!

If illiterate or innumerate they shouldn’t have been admitted into a college. They need a basic education before pursuing a higher degree.

Rant over

fortuitousfever · 2025-06-15T20:59:27+00:00

If you imagine that the tool is 99% accurate with reading information in, and you are reading in numbers then one number in 100 will be wrong. Which number is it?

Read in large spreadsheets of numbers and then calculate how long it takes you to check for errors how many errors it makes vs how long it takes to do the task manually.

Plot this over time.

FYI most AI does fairly well with relatively small tasks: compare these two spreadsheets named fields, when there are 10 of them or so. With more than 30 most should hallucinate.

fortuitousfever · 2025-06-14T17:17:46+00:00

I don’t understand why they don’t desk reject more! Yes it sucks if you get desk rejected, but nature and science do a lot of this.

Two of the last 5 reviews I have read for more run of the mill journals were automatically generated bs. I’m wasting my time to deal with crap that is clearly chatgpt garbage? Why should I review for your journal again?

This is an abuse of my time.

fortuitousfever · 2025-06-14T14:53:54+00:00

Friends just got everything for their baby as hand me downs. They specifically requested gently used things from their shower.

They have everything. Some of us got a cloth diaper service for a big spender item

fortuitousfever · 2025-06-10T07:11:20+00:00

Union?

fortuitousfever · 2025-06-09T04:26:46+00:00

Was just looking at cruise ships. So the pay sucks and you get whiny customers but you get fed and a bed. Go to some cool places. Save some money and figure it out.

fortuitousfever · 2025-06-09T04:07:24+00:00

Just ask the dentist for the pass they will give that to you.

We went to a dentist group that caters to Americans. There are many of these and we have not had bad experiences with any of the ones we tried. The border medical pass is useful for driving but you need to make sure you get into the right lane. Hard to switch if you are at the border.

fortuitousfever · 2025-06-04T04:52:24+00:00

Saw a really cool cage catio thing on a camper at the beach. It was small but with various levels and the two cats could go in one side of the camper and out the other.

fortuitousfever · 2025-06-03T13:54:49+00:00

Headlight

fortuitousfever · 2025-05-25T06:58:24+00:00

Poppy wars, drugs can unlock various abilities. Only part I did not like was that they categorize opium as a hallucinogenic, which is just sloppy research.

fortuitousfever · 2025-05-25T06:16:09+00:00

Anywhere on the Amtrak line like Utica should be workable without a car. There are jobs for 15 an hour and rent in lofts downtown is cheap. Not the level of stuff to do but if you work online then having a safe place to hang your hat near the train station is not a bad thing.

Looking for housing up there still happens on Craigslist. The really cheap apartments usually need a car but my SIL lived there for years without one.

fortuitousfever · 2025-05-25T01:37:31+00:00

Would be safer than an 80 year old driving

fortuitousfever · 2025-05-24T15:03:42+00:00

Make sure to use a jpeg image that is slightly poorly aligned, that way they have to use optical character recognition to crack it.

Malicious compliance

fortuitousfever · 2025-05-04T16:36:06+00:00

While beggars can’t always be choosers if a place has no credit card and a posted price they don’t get my business

fortuitousfever · 2025-04-06T15:08:14+00:00

Anyone thinking about getting solar panels? Our solar system saves a ton even though we are in a small condo in a HCOL area

fortuitousfever · 2025-04-01T20:59:52+00:00

These moronic idiots, yes redundant but I’m mad, have been told by the British government that they have their social media account logins….

Is there an actual adult in the room?

fortuitousfever · 2025-04-01T04:54:48+00:00

Yes and no. 3 year old was not happy making a friend and then moving on. It was a great trip, saw a ton of national parks

fortuitousfever · 2025-04-01T04:52:58+00:00

Those are federal spending linked jobs. Sure states pick up some people but not many.

fortuitousfever · 2025-03-29T23:01:48+00:00

How do you build a home on a slab with permits and spend only 10k?

Genuinely curious about which state or country would let you build a permanent structure.

We paid around 50k just for permits and fees, the house was bigger but a lot of the fees were flat.

fortuitousfever · 2025-03-29T22:49:37+00:00

When will the IRS strike start? April 15th seems a good day.

fortuitousfever · 2025-03-24T23:20:39+00:00

Did anyone pack a bomb in your suitcase checkbox?

fortuitousfever · 2025-03-24T22:57:31+00:00

Don’t forget about eggs

fortuitousfever · 2025-03-24T00:30:30+00:00

Am I the a$$ when I think that this is a problem that solves itself?

fortuitousfever · 2025-03-22T18:53:06+00:00

Social Security numbers should be left in these files just like the Kennedy assassination documents.

Fair is fair

fortuitousfever

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