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Comment Re:asking for screwups (Score 5, Interesting) 118

Chemists here. Outside of Alpha-fold, which is an astounding success based on a large but limited and curated data set, AI hasn't shown much use in replacing chemist. It's very difficult to capture the chemical literature in an accurate and meaningful way. And with the explosion in the volume of scientific publishing, you can bet a lot of the newer stuff isn't high quality. LLM's don't know how to capture structures. My forays into asking for structural information turn up nonsense. Unfortunately, if you're doing anything these days, you're gonna have to say you're using AI to be considered serious, regardless of whether it works or not.

Comment Re:The jokes should write themselves on this one (Score 1) 52

Be careful there. I started talking like this on Reddit one time and I was subjected to a sustained and blistering attack. It was down voted so far that you could probably never find it again. Then someone copied my comment from an economics subreddit and reposted it on the cryptocurrency subreddit and they were even more viscous.

Comment Help me here! (Score 2) 42

I get what the article is saying in a general way. But how am I supposed to know whether this "0.060 standard deviation improvement " is significant? It's bigger than 0.041, so Facebook is worse than instagram. Where is /. on this scale? TikTok? The Bible? Should I have to take a stats course to understand this synopsis? Help me here.

Comment No (Score 1) 128

If a college wants to use an essay to assess a student for whatever it is they're assessing him/her/they for, them let them do it. Why would you think it's even reasonable to ban such a thing? Are they useless or maybe misleading? Maybe. Are they unfair? Maybe. Should they be dropped? Maybe. Should they be banned? No. And who is it that decides such stuff? Is this some sort of like back-door affirmative action.

Maybe essays suck, but we don't need a new rule.

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