Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex
@smutclyde
Hyperbolic Tangent Distributed Observer. Snark is my first language.
"The rest of the long first paragraph lists all the qualities Catherine Morland does not possess: she is declared to be not an orphan, not poor, not mistreated, not beleaguered by ill-health, not beautiful, not feminine (i.e., not physically weak), not sensitive, not exceptionally gifted,..."
My use of a pseudonym when sciencing is inviting lots of research questions already answered by my use of a pseudonym. journals.openedition.org/regardssocio...
TIL that drinking pearls has many health benefits. www.frontiersin.org/journals/pha... I grieve to report that the authors of this TCM fiddlefaddle failed to cite the Cleopatra case-study. penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/jou...)
In retrospect it was probably a mistake to train the Gen-AI slop machine on the Codex Seraphinianus.
The Common Copper (Lycaena salustius) features repeatedly in the works of Dorothy Sayers. No-one knows why.
Academic publishing Gen-AI slop of the day (courtesy of a colleague who finds them with Image Search. Hungry now.
"What should we call our ML architecture based on the Transformer model?" "I have an idea..."
Wiley join other publishers by enshittifying their previously-functioning website.
Pro-tip: edit out your prompts from the dialog with the LLM before copy-pasting it into the text.
"Inadequate" here means "insufficiently concealed from the electorate".
We replaced "children in emergency housing" with "children not in housing". Yay us!
Farooq Sher signed his name to this rapturous rhapsody of LLM rodomontade: pubpeer.com/publications... H/t Derek Lowe. www.science.org/content/blog...
TIL that the spore-spreading spike of a horsetail plant is a 'strobilus'. This is why no-one wants to play me at Scrabble. Don't start me on 'galbulus'. Here are some strobili from the Fisherman's Trail in Lower Seymour.
IIRC, Luján's paper with the demonic sheep was *withdrawn* rather than retracted: consigned to oblivion, sheep and all. pubpeer.com/publications... Then republished in one of Chris Exley's special antivax issues of J. Inorg. Biochem pubpeer.com/publications... With less demonic sheep, chiz.