Ken Masters

@the_grafixmedic This is why #AI is slow to catch on in #academia. When we run AI workshops and show academics how AI turns their 2-hour task into 20 minutes, a common response is: "Wow...., but, this feels like cheating." What?? No, it's called "working smarter." Give yourself a break!

Academic stress is so normalized that basic rest feels like laziness.

@Globalstats11 This needs to be broken into Hemispheres to take into account different months of the seasons.

Most & Least Common Birthdays Ranked

Absolutely! See this short blog article on the subject: mededpublish.org/blog/polite-la… x.com/RafHM/status/2…

Good idea, except I wonder why there was never this call before? It has been going on for many years, because some cited articles are copied-and-pasted from others' bibliographies. AI is not responsible for it; it's merely made it more blatant and obvious.

@DaddyWarpig You'd have to set the LLM's temperature to about 1,000 to get that sentence :-)

At no point did I know what the next word would be.

@MrBonMot Except when you're flying, and you look down, and you see a straight river, and next to it, you see... "hey, I know what that thing is called and how it was formed!" Very satisfying :-). Thank you, Mr. Gendall.

Geography lessons at school really overestimated the importance of correctly identifying an oxbow lake.

@LeannaRapier Simple answer: 19. (Player three has entered the game.....and stolen all the crayons :-)

That unexpected side character walking into the room and you have *no idea* who they are

@heavensbvnny I checked into a hotel, and was given Room 101. I said, "Oh, the worst room in the world!" Blank. "You know, 1984" "?" "It's ok" I spent the rest of my time in that hotel trying to convince them I wasn't just a jerk customer :-(.

I was in a meeting today where the room number was 404. I joked that I couldn't find the room and nobody understood. This is why I have a hard time making friends.

@Freelancer_Ib You need to teach your supervisor the difference between "Similarity" and "Plagiarism". Turnitin calls it a "SIMILARITY" index for a reason.

Plagiarism is not a research method 🤣🤣🤣 This supervisor no want wahala. Tell us any funny experience with your supervisor..

@sysxplore Most senior devs I know learnt to use computers long before the pull-down menu or the mouse even existed. Ctrl-S (and all the other hot keys) were the only way of giving commands, and they got hard-wired into us. Strange how this senior dev did not know that stuff.

I watched a senior dev move his hand from the keyboard to the mouse. He clicked "File," then "Save." The entire motion took 1.4 seconds. I tapped on his shoulder. I asked if he was allergic to efficiency or just enjoyed the scenic route. He looked confused and said he was just saving his code. I told him that 'Ctrl+S' takes 0.2 seconds. Over a year, his mouse usage costs the company three days of development time. He said it was muscle memory. I told him his muscles were bad at math. I unplugged his mouse and forced him to use Vim.

Want to live dangerously? Delete the first instance of the repeated word, not the second.

@kirsten_hesketh Yup, yesterday I completed a survey and had to lie about my age, because the categories did not go high enough :-(.

I'm 62, applying for a PhD .... and the drop down dates on one university's website do not go far enough back for me to enter my A levels ..... 🤣🤣🤣🤣😮😮🤣

@TheGracia_here Logo (1984 :-)

What was the first language you printed Hello, World in? Mine: C

@PhilipHensher Technically, yes, because you're quoting, and, if you put the full stop inside the quote, then you're saying that the original author put the full stop there. I still do that for my own writing, but I don't correct others on it, and, if editors change my work, I let it go.

I've just been overruled on a punctuation point. Apparently if you're quoting an incomplete sentence, it ends inverted comma full stop; if complete full stop inverted comma. Did everyone know this apart from me? He said it was 'quite mad'. He said 'It was quite mad.'

@ProofofMaro At the risk of being pedantic, where is the "Ph" in that "PhD"? I'm not demeaning the achievement, but it seems that it would make more sense to have a different designation.

In China you can get a PHD by creating a product instead of writing a 300 page thesis

I wonder how long before somebody does some "distillation prompting" on this system.

@davidjmadden Absolutely! I just love it when my paper has about 80 refs, and I'm using a numbered style, and then I insert a new citation between 4 and 5, and spend a few hours updating all the numbering, and then find a duplicate which has to be removed. /s [just in case]

Citation managers such as Zotero etc are more annoying than they are useful and instead of using them, it's better to just manually compile bibliographies

@kmcnam1 Spaces in names still cause problems for uploading - some old systems don't like them. I prefer Pascal Case for LongFileNames :-), but underscores are useful too.

Yup. doi.org/10.1080/014215… #HPE #MedEd

@DrBarbiOnc @NatureMedicine So, is one takeaway that the medical board exams (which have existed for a long time) are not actually reliable? A human can pass that exam, with 95%, and still be absolutely useless at basic triage? That probably does not fill patients with great confidence.

Everyone is talking about the new @NatureMedicine paper (rdcu.be/e4ADv), but I think the real story is being buried. Here is the cold reality: The AI passed the medical boards with flying colors (~95% accuracy). But when real humans actually used it for triage, their accuracy dropped to <35%. They performed worse than the control group who just used Google. Practically, this means benchmarks are not safety tests. We are validating tools in a vacuum (simulations) that collapse in the real world. As oncologists, we know this pattern: surrogate endpoints ≠ survival data. Passing the boards is just a surrogate. Safe patient interaction is the only outcome that matters. Right now, we are optimizing for the test and failing the patient. cc: @EricTopol @pranavrajpurkar #ClinicalValidation #AIhype #PatientSafety #EvidenceBasedMedicine