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I think it is easy to produce vague allegations of a lack of integrity, but I would really expect more substance to such a critique. > ... desires of the state. The dollars come fr…

The type of "career scientist" that the article portrays is part of the problem. In order to get ahead with a science career, one needs to pursue an extremely narrow specialisation…

First thing we did after moving to the UK was to buy a bread baking machine. Not quite bakery-level bread, but good enough for daily consumption, and it leaves a nice smell in the …

> but is still just a web page > doesn’t support pagination Isn’t that exactly the point? Please, no pagination on a screen. A web page will do just fine. In fact, that was what th…

Computer science, and academia in general, has always adapted to technical progress, although slowly. In the case of ChatGPT and similar LLMs, these should become part of the toolb…

The bottom line being, you don't need to hire engineers anymore, just ChatGPT operators?

> I think if layout mattered as much as you imply, scientists would have to use a too that offers more control like indesign. Yes, precisely that. As a scientist I don't even want …

> I don't think we need a website, but a js-free webpage with hyperlinks Wasn't this precisely the use case for HTML and the WWW as originally conceived by Berners-Lee and his fell…

Sure, one can write a thesis in MS Word. It has come a long way with support for large documents. But I still find its referencing clumsy, opaque and unstable. For example, automat…

To be fair, there is no better free tool than LaTeX to typeset PDFs. But it fails at non-paginated, free-flowing content.

It is possible to find Open Access articles with math on ieeexplore with little effort. Have a look here: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6767058 Does this live up to your mat…

Thanks for the pointer, that looks interesting. Especially because it is open source! I see it supports Jupyter notebook. Math support in those isn’t too bad at all, so it might ju…

Yet, by far the vast majority of content produced today, technical or prose, is read on screens. Responsive webdesign has been around for quite a while. I don’t see a reason, other…

O‘Reilly‘s online offer has not only O‘Reilly books, but ones from other publishers as well. Some of them have equations. However, they are often rendered as images. IEEE explore d…

> nobody is going to read a complex technical paper in practise on a phone I do, in fact. Or rather, I often would like to but with PDF? No chance. IEEE explore online reading some…

The real shocker is that it’s 2022 and LaTeX is still the best writing environment for a PhD thesis. It has so many downsides: the markup syntax is ugly, it really works best only …

Parsing ASCII simply takes time. What you describe sounds like a use case for SQLite. Parse once when building the database. When indexed properly, searching should be much faster.…

“Keep it simple”—something I keep repeating to everyone I work with. I myself have been bitten too often by the temptation to use the latest tech, even when a trusted but less “sex…

And upgrade to Duke Nukem.

Don't be so hard on him (and your fellow compatriotes). His english is perfectly fine. Wouldn't it be weirder if he had no perceptible accent whatsoever? I find it quite refreshing…

This is likely the result of an overworked and underpaid academic being asked to quickly draft a few questions for the online exam tomorrow. It is definitely a sign of insufficient…

Questions like this, where you must have attended the class to know the answer, are often introduced to penalise no-shows. It can also expose suspected contract cheating in online …

> The difficulty being, of course, that the world and its knowledge isn't as simple to represent as a go board. Humans suffer from the exact same limitation. The limit to correct i…

So one should use chatGPT as a frontend to Google v1!

My point is, there are frameworks and languages for reasoning which are mature. But they require formalised input (e.g. code) and deliver formalised output. As a language model, ch…