Image description: tweet from the official Nobel Prize account. Text reads,
Congratulations to our 2024 medicine laureate Victor Ambros ✨
This morning he celebrated the news of his prize with his colleague and wife Rosalind Lee, who was also the first author on the 1993 'Cell' paper cited by the Nobel Committee.
#NobelPrize
Blake reaction description: sighing and muttering, "yep, assholes will asshole"
That sounds about right, yeah.
They're reeeaallly leaning into the fact that some of the math involved is also used in statistical physics. And, OK, we could have an academic debate about how the boundaries of fields are drawn and the extent to which the divisions between them are cultural conventions. But the more important thing is that the Nobel Prize is a bad institution.
I trained a neural network on all the ways I've said that I hate these people, and it screamed in eldritch spectra before collapsing into silence.
I haven't had to report malfeasance like that, but if that happened to me, I would be livid. I'd start by contacting the program officer; I'd also contact the division director above them and the NSF Office of Inspector General. I mean, that level of laziness can't just have affected one review! And, for good measure, I'd send a tip to 404media, as they have covered this sort of thing. That might well go nowhere, but it can't hurt to be in their contact list.
I need an early-2000's style web video where a cutout of that Musk picture moves up and down to a sproingy-sproingy sound.
I researched cool topics using ChatGPT, Claude, Google
That's not what research means, you embossed carbuncle.
I linked NotebookLM to the Wikipedia entry of each topic and generated the podcast audio
It's fucking James Somerton with extra steps!
I tried it with a bunch of stuff already and shared with friends.
I hope your friends find a better friend.
Found while poking around today: the Wikipedia club for cleaning up after AI.
Example: the article Leninist historiography was entirely written by AI and previously included a list of completely fake sources in Russian and Hungarian at the bottom of the page.
I'm just waiting for him to chime in about music theory.