That click towards accepting the bibliography without checking it is absolutely mindboggling.
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Overleaf is a little curious to me. What's the point? Just install LaTeX. Claude is very good at manipulating LaTeX documents and I've found it effective at fixing up layouts for me.
collaboration is the killer feature tbh. overleaf is basically google docs meets latex.. you can have multiple coauthors editing simultaneously, leave comments, see revision history, etc. a lot of academics aren't super technical and don't want to deal with git workflows or syncing local environments. they just want to write their fuckin' paper (WTFP). overleaf lets the whole research team work together without anyon…
I am curious if Git + Local install can solve this collaboration issue with Pull Requests?
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#504Not a PR person myself, but why use as an example a parody topic for a paper? Couldn't someone have invented something realistic to show? Or, heck, just get permission to show a real paper?
The example just reinforces the whole concept of LLM slop overwhelming preprint archives. I found it off-putting.
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Sure. Like Goebbels. Because they gobble things up. Altso, nazism. But different context, years ago, so whatever I guess? Hell, let's just call it Hitler. Different context! Given what they do it is an insidious name. Words matter.
Comparing words with unique widespread notoriety with a simple, everyday one. Try again.
Prism in tech is very well-known to be a surveillance program.
Coming from a company involved with sharing data to intelligence services (it's the law you can't escape it) this is not wise at all. Unless nobody in OpenAI heard of it.
It was one of the biggest scandal in tech 10 years ago.
They could call it "Workspace". More clear, more useful, no need to use a code-word, that would have been fine for internal use.
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#506Ahhhh. It happily re-wrote the example paper to be from Google AI and added references that supported that falsehood.
Slop science papers is just what the world needs.
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#507"Science"
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#508So you build overleaf with bloat?
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#509They are really desperate now, right?
Really desperate now.
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>I'm dumbfounded they chose the name of the infamous NSA mass surveillance program revealed by Snowden in 2013. And even more so that there is just one other comment among 320 pointing this out I just think it's silly to obsess over words like that. There are many words that take on different meanings in different contexts and can be associated with different events, ideas, products, time periods, etc. Would you feel…
What the OP was talking about is the negative connotation that goes with the word; it's certainly a poor choice from a marketing point of view. You may say it's "silly to obsess", but it's like naming a product "Auschwitz" and saying "it's just a city name" -- it ignores the power of what Geffrey N. Leech called "associative meaning" in his taxonomy of "Seven Types of Meaning" (Semantics, 2nd. ed. 1989): speaking tha…
We had a local child day care provider call themselves ISIS. That was blast.