Joseph P. @tonic@qoto.org

I’m at the AAPT Winter Meeting in Portland. If you are, too, I hope we will meet up! #ITeachPhysics

Lets leave it at complex emotions 😅

#academia #PhD #phdchat #phdlife #science #xp @OpenAcademics @AcademicChatter

First time for me: made a complaint to the BBC for giving air time to Aseem Malhotra and his deranged anti-vaxx conspiracies.

@tonic @edutooters LOL you are reminding me of my high school drafting class...most unpleasant memories.

if you use it and you like it, share it in your local community if you want 😅 i really think it turns out GPT3 "solved" the plant diagnosis much better than other solutions , so let's make history and of course "you heard it on #qoto first!"

去年可能是5月起，北京地铁只能刷绑定健康宝的公交卡过闸，否则要让站务看健康宝绿码，刷特殊的卡解锁后才能刷公交卡过闸——他们称之为「降级」。其实还有种说法听着更正式，才一个多月我就忘了，将来恐怕也记不起来。进站找站务降级很麻烦，闸机连续刷两张卡也很容易坏。这让我逃了几次票，在北京过上了巴黎的日子。
有时闸机不灵进站没刷上，出不了站。出站闸机一般旁边没人，想找站务补票都很麻烦，我就直接翻过去了。
在高峰期找站务降级要穿入穿出安检区等很久。有次我注意到那座闸机旁的栅栏门插销根本没锁，索性径直进入，安检人员背对着我也没察觉。
此前我没逃过票，这些经历让封控的日子多了点乐趣。省下的票钱就算习近平退给我的精神损失费。

I'm excited that we've put up a new #preprint on a project that I think of as the "thing explainer." The goal of this project was to, for a pair of biomedical entities, provide the simplest hypothesis for how they might be connected (after, of course, correcting for things like node degree, node type degree distribution, etc).

Conceptually this is simple. In reality (the parenthetical), it's pretty hard. Software & conceptual advances to make it possible.

Preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.01.05.522941v1.full

#introduction Librarian with background in medical/health librarianship. Changed field to knowledge management, history and genealogy. Part of the #twittermigration but mostly a lurker on twitter. Hope to engage more here.

We have to learn more about how these things work and make sure our patrons (librarian-speak for users, customers, etc) are equipped to approach them with a critical eye.

Thanks to everyone joining in the conversation about #ChatGPT. This is fascinating to me as a librarian and non-techy person. Since the tool is out there for the world to play and experiment with, we should prepare for unintended uses. While those in the AI/ML fields know the limitations, the people contacting librarians about responses ChatGPT has given them don't. The potential for people acting on misinformation and misunderstanding of the technology is very real.

Been seeing a lot about #ChatGPT lately and got my first question at the library this week from someone who was looking for a book that the bot had recommended. They couldn't find it in our catalog. Turns out that ALL the books that ChatGPT had recommended for their topic were non-existent. Just real authors and fake titles cobbled together. And apparently this is known behavior. 😮