Jeffrey C. Erlich @jerlich@qoto.org

It's a simple experiment. Take some of the ChatGPT generated content, then cut and paste into a browser in quotes.

BAM.

Word for word lifting from some sources.

Zotero just informed me that a paper in my database has been retracted. What an excellent feature for a reference management system to have! As if I needed additional reasons to love Zotero even more than I already did 🤩

this looks good!
"Trial-history biases in evidence accumulation can give rise to apparent lapses"
from @dikshagupta
Diksha Gupta, Brian DePasquale, Charles D. Kopec, Carlos D. Brody
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.01.18.524599v2
#neuroscience #cognition

Scientists! Have you read Gopen and Swan's 1990 classic "The science of scientific writing"? If not, you are in for a treat.

It's here, albeit weirdly formatted: https://www.americanscientist.org/blog/the-long-view/the-science-of-scientific-writing.

And if you prefer good pagination, check out this scan of the pre-web version: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R9urPA7NWC5qdBqkCTim10tzwRYaLZC3/view?usp=share_link

Not bad at all, #chatGPT, not bad!
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RT @bardmital
Asked #ChatGPT to rewrite the lyrics of "Blowing in the wind" as if it is about a scientist applying for grants...
https://twitter.com/bardmital/status/1617980584558743552

My project right now is #BikeHopper, an open-source directions app for transit+bikes.

https://github.com/bikehopper/bikehopper-ui

It uses #OpenStreetMap and a modified version of GraphHopper.

Two main benefits over other trip planning apps:
1. Bike-on-bus, bike-on-train etc. options
2. Tries really hard to find low-stress routes, avoiding main roads

Yesterday at a staff meeting we discussed how we often signal that we work at unconventional hours (sending emails in the weekend) but we do not signal when we do not work in regular hours to compensate. So just logging in to say I am bouldering this whole morning with a childhood friend.

#CogSci #CognitiveScience #psychology #OpenScience

In the 2023/2024 academic year, we're launching a new Master's in Cognitive Science at the University of Rijeka. It's an interdisciplinary research-intensive course in English, pedagogically innovative, comparatively cheap (both for EU and non-EU students), accredited, and in beautiful Rijeka!

https://cogsci.uniri.hr/

A nine-month investigation undertaken by the Guardian, Die Zeit and SourceMaterial found that 90% of rainforest offsets from the world's biggest provider are worthless "phantom credits". Bought by the likes of Disney, Shell, easyJet and Gucci, it seems they may even do more harm to our environment than good.

Videos taken by residents in Peru showed forced evictions, and their homes cut down with chainsaws for an offset project.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/18/revealed-forest-carbon-offsets-biggest-provider-worthless-verra-aoe

@bwyble @kendmiller @strangetruther @achristensen56 @NicoleCRust @DrYohanJohn

I'm more of a splitter when it comes to the brain's infrastructure. But anatomy is like the road-and-highway system. It says where traffic *could* go, not where it flows from moment to moment.

Cortical function, IMHO, will be about emergent properties and highly interactive dynamics that have less respective for boundaries and splits.

That is not to say that infrastructure isn't important. It's foundational

"Can a large language model be conscious?
Can a #LLM think?"

Join us
Fri Jan 20, 4 PM ET
at the #LearningSalon
to listen to & discuss with prominent philosopher of mind
David Chalmers @davidchalmers42

John Krakauer, @melaniemitchell , Claire & I are excited to discuss with David!

https://crowdcast.io/e/learningsalon/58

* The #LearningSalon is an online interdisciplinary forum, with brief talks & 2-hour discussions on #neuroscience #AI #psychology #philosophy

THREAD: Falls are a major public health problem — a top-20 cause of death in the US. Wonder what scientists are doing about that? @yunluzhu & colleagues in my lab developed powerful new tech to understand balance & evaluate therapeutics.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.01.07.523102v1
Want to know more / watch neat movies? 1/9

#mastopiece #neuroscience #balance #drosophila #celegans #zebrafish

Thx for boosting (we’re trying to outdo that other place)!

Love this new (to me at least!) text at @biorxivpreprint , pointing to #preprint peer reviews where available!