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Pro-AI in the sense that the AI can assess millions of chemical compounds predicted properties to give a handful of strong candidates to actually test saving enormous amounts of chemical waste

Against AI in the sense that writing scientific papers in ChatGPT rare produces meaningful conclusions

pro-AI in the sense of "they taught a bread scanning computer to recognize cancer cells" etc etc

against AI in the sense of "we stole artwork from hundreds to thousands of artists, didn't credit them and didn't financially compensate them"

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If you're currently an undergraduate, let me suggest a start-of-year resolution for you. Go to the office hours for your class, at least once.

Students often labour under the misapprehension that professors will be annoyed if they show up to office hours without a sufficiently good reason. That could not be further from the truth. Your professor hauled their ass out of bed, after another late night of work, got nicely dressed, and traveled through the rain and snow to be in their office for the hours they promised they'd be there... for you. Those hours are explicitly set aside for your use. Little questions, tangents, help brainstorming paper ideas, just chatting about course material - those are the precise reason that office hours exist. They're for whatever you need them to be.

Your professor won't be annoyed if you show up, they'll be annoyed if you don't show up.

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The going PhD to PhD thing is called being a post-doc aka some one who is not a professor but has a PhD already working on advanced graduate level projects

bruce banner has 7 phds? thats so excessive.. if i met someone with 7 phds i would honestly just be like wtf is wrong with you? its not even the fact that it would take so much time and effort to get them its that there is literally no situation where 7 phds is necessary. thats never gonna happen. hes honestly gotta be so stupid to think for some reason he needs 7 phds.

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@astronomazed This is the flier. :)

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Bro I'm like, totally getting lost in your eyes dude

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Had a student plagiarize almost all semester (it's on me for not catching him sooner) finally really looked at my plagiarism tool (I expect ~30 to 70% plagiarism per paper due to the nature of my assignments) realized the kid was just copying and pasting from one paper

Opened the highest matched source: student from my previous semester

The first kid was a bad writer and apparently saved none of my feedback because kid number 2's reports were practically identical. I terrorized that kid for the rest of the semester with the plagiarism percentage.

With the hbomberguy plagiarism video on fire right now I want to share my favorite example of egregious plagiarism.

I’m a marine biologist. Currently getting my PhD. I’ve done a lot of scholarly writing. Many classes I took as an undergraduate had big writing components. I took limnology at one point as an elective. This course had one such big writing assignment.

The professor told us a story. He said he once got a student paper that absolutely blew him away. It was way beyond what he’d expected from the class. This was before we had online tools to check for plagiarism. The paper impressed him so much that he brought it home to show it to his wife. She began reading it and then set it down, looked at him, and said, “Dan, you wrote this.”

This student was dumb enough to not only copy a published paper verbatim, but to copy a paper published by the professor of the class.

AND HE NEARLY GOT AWAY WITH IT.

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Boss is asleep, cannot stop me from frogposting

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University Research Survey on Architecture in Video Games

Hello there!

My name is Nick, an architecture student working on academic research for architecture in video games. For my research paper, I am working on exploring the cultural significance of architecture and environmental design in video games.

The purpose of this survey is to collect data to be discussed for a University course. Data will be discussed in the form of statistics with the exception of quotes from the open-response questions, which will be quoted anonymously if used. This survey will not take more than five minutes to complete. Reblogs would be highly appreciated, this topic means a great deal to me an any help would be also be appreciated! Thank you!

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On busy weeks when I have a thousand tasks I intentionally pull out a blanket and require that I lay and listen to the entirety of my sleep podcast. I have almost never have fallen asleep in these breaks but I drift and that does a lot for me emotionally and mentally

thank god for the mythbusters though because it used to be that whenever i knew i had insomnia i’d just kind of accept it and stay up doing whatever until my morning classes and spend the day feeling like shit

but then they did an episode where they established that even just fucking laying there for a half hour, not even sleeping just laying there and not even for an hour, makes a significant difference and you’ll feel way better

it has made a huge difference in my life to know that it’s okay if i can’t fall asleep, it takes a lot of the pressure off and ironically helps me fall asleep better

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Advisor tells me to email them if the experiment fails

Experiment fails. I send email.

Get email back "come get me from my office at 2:50". Check clock. Hour and change, time to study for the quiz tonight.

Got to advisor office at 2:50. Empty. Walk back to desk. Find advisor walking with other grad. Bring advisor back to lab.

Described the issue. Advisor confirms I know how to set up a basic instrument system and that I followed initial instructions.

Advisor walks around glovebox and out the door. Starts to walk down the hall one way turns around and heads back towards their office.

No acknowledgement, no answers, no goodbye.

Does not come back.

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PJO is, at its core, so intensely funny because the premise itself dunks on greek heroes so ruthlessly. the idea that modern demigods have all these powers that ancient demigods demonstrably didn't is so monumentally hilarious. perseus (original flavor) didn't need to decapitate medusa, he could've just turned around, closed his eyes, and guessed. if thalia can fry percy for losing capture the flag, perseus (original flavor) can summon lightning and blast medusa to smithereens, but, no. percy can make hurricanes at will, but theseus? theseus fucking sucks, man. he sucks. theseus is a bitch and he can't even explode a sink on accident. should've respected women more, theseus, you dumb bitch. bellerophon didn't need athena's stupid golden bridle to tame pegasus, bellerophon was a son of poseidon, all he needed to do was talk to the damn horse. the option is either ancient demigods didn't have these powers, or they did and just didn't use them, and i honestly don't know which one is funnier. either way it's a bunch of grownass heroes revered by history getting shown up by teenagers. i think heroes of olympus should've kept the, "the doors of death are open," plot but exclusively to resurrect dead greek heroes and dunk on them, can you imagine being theseus and your modern half-brother can blow up volcanoes and you can't. the crippling shame

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"okay...this is some intense math"

- Graduate Chem Teacher at 8:07 pm with 8 minutes left in the 3 hour class

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I'm a chemist and here's the thing. The other three would make me depressed and severely lower my quality of life. Lack of smell might drop my life span but there's ways to test for volatile compounds in the air.

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