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Not a bot just a rather corpulent male fifty years of age; a very very slow ignoramus who reads occasionally.
Toots are #humanities, #science, #nonfiction, #book, #map, #chart and #graph related. Some toots containg #videos may also find their way into the #timeline.
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Why European Colonization Drove the Blue Antelope to Extinction
"The results of the study, which have now been published in "Current Biology", show that the species was probably adapted to a small population size and survived like this for thousands of years. However, this also made them susceptible to sudden impacts like hunting, which increased after European colonization of southern Africa."
#Science #Biology #Research #News #Press #Antelope #Evolution #Extinction #Genome #Analysis #Ancient #DNA #AncientDNA #Europe #Africa #Colonisation #Colonization #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @biology
Research aims to improve data quality in manufacturing, seeking 'golden data'
"Despite the advances in manufacturing AI methodologies over the past decade, including significant strides in deep learning and neural networks, Jin points out that data generation and quality have become the major roadblocks in modeling and decision-making performance."
https://news.vt.edu/articles/2024/03/ise-golden-data.html
#Research #News #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Data #Engineering #Manufacturing #Industry #Academia #Academic #Academics @engineering @ai
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Short answer is yes. You at least need institutional Scopus access, but it does not seem to currently be an additional cost/subscription.
What's kind of weird is that it doesn't always show up. If you go to Scopus, right above the default search bar there is *sometimes* a button for "Scopus Ai". It doesn't seem to be browser specific. I'm thinking they are doing a very slow rollout, but can't tell exactly what the conditions of access are.
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Would be interested to see how well Scopus's AI product does in comparison. I haven't spent a lot of time with it, but have not yet seen false citations.
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@bibliolater "Hallucinated" (I prefer the term non-anthropomorphic term BS-generated) citations are relatively benign. The real toxic sludge are the citations that in fact exists but have no substantive relation to the text they are supposed to back up. Impossible to spot without painstaking manual labor.
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@bibliolater @science @ai yes, this has been my experience with it. ChatGPT hallucinated an edited book using my name--the thing was, the title and topic were quite plausible.
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@bibliolater @science @ai I was reading that this morning - fascinating.
I've already caught it out several times - even to the point of connecting with authors via LinkedIn to see if the citations were real or not (they weren't). One to watch...
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#growth in the world’s #oil use is slowing, @IEA said on Friday, even as traders’ fears of a #supply shock have driven up prices by nearly a 5th this year, chart @FT https://www.ft.com/content/91bafe0c-cac5-4037-a623-d575132ee7ad
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How to spot five of the fossil fuel industry’s biggest disinformation tactics - The Guardian https://apple.news/AHI59d_pOQJOshncTUjpzCg #disinformation #fossilfuel #environment #climatechange
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@bibliolater The drawing of the border between #Tennessee and #Georgia was drawn incorrectly - either because of miscalculation or fear-based haste - and as a result #Atlanta is ‘parched in the peach state’. 👀 👉 http://www.sitnews.us/MacDougall/032208_macdougall.html
🇺🇸 The US Foreign Assistance Map
"The Foreign Assistance Trends map provides a really interesting overview of the changing geo-political priorities of the United States over time."
https://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-us-foreign-assistance-map.html
#Cartography #Map #Maps #Mapstodon #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Aid #Politics #History @politics
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@bibliolater @science @ai somehow I think Perplexity does a much better job at referencing sources.
Famous cartographic errors – mistakes on old antique maps and why they happened
"In earlier centuries, mistakes arose from inaccurate surveying, speculative hypothesis, or misinterpretation of the accounts of explorers."
A glossary of print & map makers’ terms. Terminology & abbreviations used in antique printmaking
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I really feel that shops read "
ChatGPT FALSIFIES fake but plausible scientific citations at a staggering rate"
I really hate the use of the words "hallucinate", "hallucination", etc for this. We should be calling these falsehoods. That is, after all, exactly what they are.
But the AI industry doesn't like the negative connotation of "falsehoods", aka lies. They prefer the more whimsical sounding "hallucinations".
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WW2 Japan's White Soldiers
"In World War II, the Germans used some Asian soldiers, but did the Japanese employ any Caucasians in its army? Find out the full story here."
#Video #History #Histodon #Histodons #WW2 #WWII #Japan #White #Caucasian #Asia #War @histodon @histodons
Hitler's Asians - The Turkestan Legion
"The Germans recruited widely, but one of the most exotic units they created was the Turkestan Legion, made up Turkic-speaking men from Central Asia."
#Video #History #Histodon #Histodons #WW2 #WWII #Germany #CentralAsia #Asia #Europe #War @histodon @histodons
ChatGPT hallucinates fake but plausible scientific citations at a staggering rate, study finds
"MacDonald found that a total of 32.3% of the 300 citations generated by ChatGPT were hallucinated. Despite being fabricated, these hallucinated citations were constructed with elements that appeared legitimate — such as real authors who are recognized in their respective fields, properly formatted DOIs, and references to legitimate peer-reviewed journals."
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ChatGPT #LLM #Science #Research #DOI #Fake #Citations #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @ai
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Not a bot just a rather corpulent male fifty years of age; a very very slow ignoramus who reads occasionally.
Toots are #humanities, #science, #nonfiction, #book, #map, #chart and #graph related. Some toots containg #videos may also find their way into the #timeline.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
Expect many typing errors and copious amounts of nonsensical commentary from my personal formulations.
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