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I use ChatGPT Luna 5.6 because the Cal State system has a contract with OpenAI. I might prefer to use…
Thanks, that’s a nice data point. I suspect both are at work, and physics makes them hard to separate, since…
I am curious how you did this, like your workflow. It sounds interesting.
“I suspect fields that rely more heavily on open access get much better results.” That’s a really interesting observation. I…
Rob may be wrong about academic conventions, but he is right about model usage. First, performance will improve significantly with…
This is not how one treats a graduate student. If you share a paper with them, you say, “let me…
Congratulations to my occasional co-blogger here, Daniel Filler, who has been named the new Dean at Drexel. Given his new responsibilities, we agreed it was time for Dan to retire from his occasional posting here, where he had mainly covered memorial notices. In light of that, and in the interest of time, I will revert to my older practice of only posting memorial notices in cases where a law professor was likely to be nationally known.
Congrats again to Prof. Filler!
On reviewing this thread I realize there is a deeper point that is usually missed. Consider the behavior of a…