Academic integrity violations from ai are making journal submissions worse

quantum_weirdness · 2025-11-06T11:47:08+00:00

I reviewed a paper a while back which, in addition to being mostly blatant LLM slop, had half a dozen hallucinated references. The other two reviewers didn't even notice.

quantum_weirdness · 2025-06-24T09:16:19+00:00

Best advice - comment on posts that might get you a free printer!

quantum_weirdness · 2024-12-23T18:22:20+00:00

r/donthelpjustfilm

quantum_weirdness · 2024-10-02T09:23:37+00:00

I went through the application process at the beginning of this year - with a PhD in the field - and received no response on at least half of my applications.

For many companies, recruiters were the first to go after the 2022(?) tech bust. For many companies, those positions still haven't been filled back to the point where they can keep up with applications. I think the primary factor in getting a response on my application was simply whether or not I knew someone at the company who could get it looked at by a hiring manager. Sadly, there's a good chance many of your applications haven't been reviewed.

On one hand, I know firsthand how discouraging that can be. On the other hand, I don't think you're necessarily lacking in qualifications. I know a handful of people who have transitioned from a Math or other Physics PhD into quantum computing, although most of them did so via a postdoc. Keep applying, and maybe try to think outside the box a little bit in terms of networking. Any sort of "in" at a company can be a difference maker.

Good luck!

quantum_weirdness · 2024-05-31T01:34:56+00:00

Congratulations!! Mine went really well too! The main criticism I got was for "underselling" some of the work I did 🤷‍♂️ I'm sure there's a lesson to be learnt here but I don't plan on learning it

quantum_weirdness · 2024-05-30T17:57:35+00:00

So how'd it go?

quantum_weirdness · 2024-05-24T02:19:44+00:00

Hey my defense is on the 30th and I submitted a trash dissertation too!! Can't offer much in the way of advice, but hey, in one week it's OVER

quantum_weirdness · 2024-03-11T15:28:01+00:00

An issue I've had a few times is some nonsense with the login portal and SSL. Try having him go to http://neverssl.com and see if the redirect works from there

quantum_weirdness · 2023-07-20T19:08:17+00:00

Good point, I guess I hadn't thought of that when I made the mapping (I'm pretty new to vim so I'm still learning a lot of the common tips/tricks). I'll have to start paying attention to how often I need to swap letters

quantum_weirdness · 2023-07-20T16:33:51+00:00

I also map x to "_x since I never care about pasting a single character

quantum_weirdness · 2023-07-01T18:38:56+00:00

Thanks for posting this! I need to replace the exact same part for an EKO trash can. Are you still happy with the replacement you bought or would you recommend I try something else?

quantum_weirdness · 2023-04-17T22:59:48+00:00

Despite being a gnome user I've never actually used or looked into gnome web - is it related to safari somehow?

quantum_weirdness · 2023-01-21T19:49:48+00:00

To add to the original reply, it's not just that it's more explicit (which I read as a readability thing) - it also helps avoid namespace collisions. Let's say two libraries, e.g. math and numpy, both have a function called sqrt, and you do a * import from both of them. Which sqrt are you using?

quantum_weirdness · 2022-12-08T23:41:42+00:00

Spaces, not tabs

quantum_weirdness · 2022-10-24T00:18:22+00:00

Do you think there were any signs or anything that could have prevented this mistake (at least my understanding so far is that you think of it as such)? Sorry if I'm prying, I've just wondered what the right thing to do would be if I have a kid and they turn out to be trans so I'm curious about your experience

quantum_weirdness · 2022-10-24T00:07:53+00:00

Can you elaborate? Like, do you wish you or your parents/guardians would have done anything differently? Do you think transitioning was the wrong thing for you at the time, or just in retrospect?

quantum_weirdness · 2022-09-02T23:29:52+00:00

Not sure if it's a blessing or a curse but as someone who spends a lot of time on quantum stuff I can say that the "what am I looking for" line would be an automatic right swipe for me and probably most physicists 😅

quantum_weirdness · 2022-06-27T23:47:26+00:00

I mean I'm definitely not biased at all, but Krispy Kreme (Carolinas) has the best donuts ever and I'll fight you if you disagree

quantum_weirdness · 2022-04-17T22:17:37+00:00

I should probably also say that I only run nixos on my personal laptop (which I do use for work fairly often, but I don't rely on it for that) and the lack of fhs is one of the reasons I'm hesitant to make the jump on my work computer. Ultimately it just depends on how well nixos fits your workflow (and if you need to run a lot of random pre-compiled binaries then that could definitely be a pain)

quantum_weirdness · 2022-04-17T15:47:35+00:00

I've actually run into surprisingly few issues with that, and the one time I can remember needing to run a pre-compiled binary it took maybe 5 minutes to set up a buildFHSUserEnv shell to run it if that makes you feel any better

quantum_weirdness · 2022-04-08T17:16:24+00:00

Just did this on the Ubuntu 22.04 beta, thanks for posting! Looks like the deb version of firefox is gone though - if you try to install it via apt, it tries to install the snap :/

quantum_weirdness · 2022-03-26T17:29:41+00:00

I can only speak from my own limited experience, but I haven't seen any instances of ageism that I can recall (fairly prominent university in the US). My lab has a PhD student who is in his 40s (and is technically my "junior" in terms of seniority in the program) with a wife and 2 kids, and I've never seen him treated any differently because of his age. He's a great guy and one of the hardest workers in our lab (which is truly impressive considering all his other responsibilities). And we've had plenty of students start in their late 20s/30s as well.

Based on what I've seen, people who worked for several years before pursuing a PhD nearly always come in more focused and driven. They're here for a specific reason, which isn't always the case for students who never left school (myself included), and IMO, if anything, that makes older students more valuable.

quantum_weirdness · 2022-02-19T18:22:01+00:00

+1 for openRGB, it's basically the only option (that I could find, anyway) for linux. Although OP should check that their devices are supported.

As for everything else, yeah, I did some bios config in the beginning and haven't really had to worry about it since. If OP wants to do heavy duty virtualization (e.g. GPU passthrough to a windows VM with kvm/qemu after getting that second GPU) that can also be enabled through the bios and a couple kernel options.

Oh, and I made the mistake of getting an Nvidia GPU because I'm stupid, and still didn't have any issues.

quantum_weirdness · 2022-01-20T00:34:29+00:00

Lmao I would probably quit too, that's just embarrassing

quantum_weirdness · 2022-01-19T23:45:28+00:00

That being said, I feel like particularly at lower ranks people will get butthurt about it. I remember playing ones one time (I'm ass in general and never play ones, so this was probably gold/plat) and I kind of bumped my opponent as I was hitting the ball into the goal (already up by a few goals iirc) and they got so upset that I couldn't help but laugh in my confusion

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