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by pks016 4d ago
We don't know for this particular case with certainty. But, here many people are okay with the concept of stealing other ideas, plagiarism, unethical aspects of collaboration in research. At least for me and many people I know, this is
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by pks016 4d ago
That's the thing. It might be. We won't know the impact until the next few years. The things that are changing now: culture of research, aspects of collaboration and sharing of knowledge.
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by pks016 4d ago
Academia is toxic for sure. But, also there are genuinely good people who work for greater good and whose training and teaching transcend across domains.
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by pks016 4d ago
I mean it is. Most of the time in graduate school, you're getting trained and learning to do reasearch. People rarely produce great work during graduate school. Only towards the end of their degree or start of new position (post doc, i
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by pks016 5d ago
Well, who watches the watcher?
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by pks016 5d ago
Sort of, yeah. We are seeing more people commenting who have anti-AI sentiments or in the fence on the topic of AI usage. On why some people are making emotionally charged claims, my guess: This affects the core belief of what is right or w
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by pks016 5d ago
I agree. I was wrong and I had a naive world view of morality and ethics in research and academia. I now realize many people have different tolerance level for this.
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by pks016 5d ago
That's the crux of it. In the current ecosystem of AI model usage, it's very hard to figure this out for research. If you set a wrong foot and start trusting the model outputs, you can waste years searching for nothing. How can so
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by pks016 5d ago
I never expected this many people (on this thread) arguing semantics and what not. I know that not everyone has morality and ethics, but I didn't realize it was this bad. I'm afraid of the ripple effect of the agenda pushed by AI
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by pks016 8d ago
> Ph.D. graduate in every field I have yet to see this in my field. Maybe like a PhD student who bullshits their way through. LLMs still can't make correct decisions, only as useful as the person who uses them. To me, LLMs are only
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by pks016 9d ago
Would I read it? No But, It would be helpful for beginners. I work with students and I know a lot (like a lot) of students (not math or stats major, other disciplines) are scared of statistics. They are always looking for resources to learn
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by pks016 10d ago
For Biology; the paper was retracted due to ethical issues.
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by pks016 1mo ago
So kind of similar to Open AI incident?
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by pks016 2mo ago
I had tried astro for my personal website when it was released. It was a mess for me. I couldn't keep with so many components. I keep breaking things, one way or the other. I might have to try again to see what things have changed.
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by pks016 2mo ago
Yes. Kind of. They showed that birds can do function/meaning of calls (e.g., contact call group) using the meaning not other cues (e.g. duration, acoustic similarity of calls etc.).
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by pks016 2mo ago
Generally, you test birds in a series of discrimination experiments. So for this example, the discrimination task would be distance calls vs contact calls. Let's say, birds learn to discriminate between 20 distance calls vs 20 contact
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by pks016 2mo ago
Yeah, the paper is indeed difficult to read (even for me). I read it a while back. I'll try to explain. So, there are few things to know before and see what we're trying to prove. main thing: Categorical perception: (in short) bra
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by pks016 2mo ago
I work in the field. The main takeaway is zebra finches (maybe other songbirds) can discriminate vocalizations based on function, even if they sound similar. Generally, birds can tell apart categories of sounds e.g. vocalizations from diffe
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by pks016 3mo ago
I get google scholar alerts according to authors.
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by pks016 3mo ago
Interesting. Btw I agree with some of the comments. The framing/language of the question is a bit weird.
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by pks016 3mo ago
I can relate. I remember my most used syntax, but I have to search once in a while.
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by pks016 3mo ago
I would be in minority. But, I don't like tidyverse ecosystem. I prefer data.table for most of my uses.
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by pks016 3mo ago
Another alternative is raincloud plot (depending on data).
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by pks016 4mo ago
There are story ads now.
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by pks016 5mo ago
If the Claude team care for feedback for the free model. I'm using the free model via chat from the beginning. This is the first time, I'm seriously considering moving away from Claude. Before last month, Claude's Sonnet mode
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by pks016 6mo ago
That would be something. Definitely more exciting. But, from I have seen so far, the models are not there yet. It's a tricky situation for people who might want to work on hard problems like this. Is it worth spending time and money fi
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by pks016 6mo ago
Relatable. Motivation is crucial for any task and most of time they are not motivated to do what you want.
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by pks016 6mo ago
I mean regarding the domains of intelligence and how to test them. With humans, performance in one cognitive test correlates with another and so on, generally. So, intelligence across domains. Researchers test the same with animals. The iss
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by pks016 6mo ago
I work on some aspects of intelligence in birds, primarily in songbirds. There have been some effort finding general intelligence ("g" cognitive factor) in birds since last 15-20 years. The results have been mixed as you would exp
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by pks016 6mo ago
That's true. I was much younger back then to notice about privacy. Yeah, it was pretty bad incorporating G+ account to everything. The way the G+ worked (at least in my friend circle), normal people had less business there. It was very

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