V0ldek

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Dunno, the funniest thing about them to me is that they're still divided into 7-8 sections, each one-paragraph long. Just a guy who was never told he was wrong in his life and his idea of what research looks like.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

There's one classified as "SSRN Electronic Journal 2023 | Journal article", I thought this was something like a predatory journal, hence the "almost", but now that I clicked on it I think this is just an arxiv-like website that calls itself an "electronic journal"? No fucking idea.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

I am unfairly misrepresenting that for sneer purposes but if you want to see what happens when someone with typical cryptobro brainworms gets access to a paper-looking PDF template:

http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.17616.99845

http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.13443.99364

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (14 children)

Those "papers" are gold, they're mostly a few pages long, and they span such a wild range of topics as:

  • How to calculate a mean of numbers?
  • What is a number?
  • Atheism is actually a religion.
  • Ethereum is a store of energy.

I've never seen someone in such a dire need of a wedgie, come on man, you spend the hours of your life writing your farts into LaTeX and generating DOIs for them, this isn't healthy.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (25 children)

This thread is an unending source of amusement.

Someone there found his ORCID and... It's not great: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2835-3521

He has basically nothing published, but has like 40 different "preprints", read PDFs he uploaded to arxiv with no peer review.

I use these tools daily. I have also built software which utilizes genAI. I have also worked on fine-tuning GPTs. I have written extensive [sic!] on the topic. I also have formal training in mathematics, computer science, engineering, and anthropology^1^. [emph. mine]

🤡


^1^ No he doesn't? His Education lists A.S. in Engineering, A.S. in Computer Science, and B.S. in Mathematics, that anthropology claim seems completely made up.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I'm sorry, but you're wrong. You're also mansplaining to an expert. While I admit that I am not an expert on law and am listening when corrections related to LAW and the practice of LAW are concerned, you do not want to admit your lack of understanding of this technology.

My god DANIEL, no, people are not mansplaining to you, unless that's a mask for a Danielle.

EDIT: Down the thread he responds to Kathryn Tewson, an actual expert, with

Yeah I'm not obligated to answer every question by a horde of people. You should change your name to Karen, because you sure act like a fucking entitled white bitch.

This guy has such a punchable face, even though I've never seen him. I can just tell.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

..what... What would they use instead?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thank you for weilding the banhammer with grace and ruthlesness required to keep this community awesome.

We appreciate your sacrifice.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Before: searching in Internet Explorer "how to install Chrome"

Now:

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

My "executive class destruction" fantasy has a lot more literal executive action and large sharp instruments rather than financial instruments.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

breaking every R1 still in service

Total losses estimated at $7.13

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

It’s genuinely fascinating and mind blowing that coherent language emerges from it

No.

It's fascinating and mind-blowing that we made pieces of silicon do math with electrons, I can give you that as a baseline reason for awe, we needed quantum physics to get to that point. But once that is established, plausible word combinations (which we've had since fucking 1960s with ELIZA) are... rather low on the awesomeness spectrum?

A good analogy is the GPS. The fact that it works at all is an amazing feat, it's based on hunks of metal we sent to orbit and works correctly only because we understood relativity. What is not fascinating or mind-blowing is that you used it to draw a dick with a cycling app.

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