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While walking through the legendary 1973 black hole paper by Bardeen, Carter, and Hawking, I spent days convinced I had a sign error in my derivation, which is a very common occurrence for me. Minus signs and factors of two are the bane of my existence. But, this sign error was persistent. No matter how I looked at it, the math just didn’t work out. Checked it over and over. My physicist friend Nirmalya Kajuri also @Kaju_Nut independently verified my reasoning. Turns out the sign error is in the paper itself. Actually, there are two subtle errors which cancel each other out, leaving all the physics intact. That’s why it went unnoticed for fifty years. The moral of the story is that we all make sign errors sometimes, even the greats! But it’s the idea that really matters. arxiv.org/abs/2603.25171

When will "the research paper" disappear in economics? marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

ever been here? open overleaf → write a paragraph → "hmm...this needs a citation" → open 15 different tabs → skim 8 abstracts → find the 1 actually relevant paper → format bibtex → paste it back on overleaf if so, i built a plugin just for you. meet openleaf: → reads your paper paragraph by paragraph → searches major academic databases → filters out irrelevant papers using ai → one click to add BibTeX to your .bib you'll also find the 🤝 friendly and 🔥 fire reviewers there. i don't think i need to tell you what they do :) free. open source. no account. no data collection. works with ollama, openrouter, openai api and more. github.com/demfier/openle… dear algorithm, please show this to my fellow researchers in need 🙏 #overleaf #latex #opensource #academictwitter

Thanks also to @RefineInk for spotting some critical issues!

It's time for a big shoutout to @RefineInk. I've now used it for finalizing two papers, and it is phenomenal! For one paper, it caught a mathematical inconsistency that badly needed fixing, and it also forced us to think much harder about the narrative. Most certainly, it gave comments that many, many reviewers would make, and so I am very hoping that it saves us one round of reviews! Maybe the highest praise I can give: I got just as annoyed with refine's reviews as I would for any rejection reviews :-) So it totally works. Awesome job, @ben_golub, what a service to the research community!

It's time for a big shoutout to @RefineInk. I've now used it for finalizing two papers, and it is phenomenal! For one paper, it caught a mathematical inconsistency that badly needed fixing, and it also forced us to think much harder about the narrative. Most certainly, it gave comments that many, many reviewers would make, and so I am very hoping that it saves us one round of reviews! Maybe the highest praise I can give: I got just as annoyed with refine's reviews as I would for any rejection reviews :-) So it totally works. Awesome job, @ben_golub, what a service to the research community!

pretty incredible to receive this feedback on @RefineInk from the great @JohnHCochrane 1/

We're delighted to hear this! Thanks, @mattkahn1966