#assessorize

[featheredadora]

Disabled people shouldn't have to jump through hoops!!

[carriesthewind]

"Reviewers told the report’s authors that AI summaries often missed emphasis, nuance and context; included incorrect information or missed relevant information; and sometimes focused on auxiliary points or introduced irrelevant information. Three of the five reviewers said they guessed that they were reviewing AI content.

The reviewers’ overall feedback was that they felt AI summaries may be counterproductive and create further work because of the need to fact-check and refer to original submissions which communicated the message better and more concisely."

Fascinating (the full report is linked in the article). I've seen this kind of summarization being touted as a potential use of LLMs that's given a lot more credibility than more generative prompts. But a major theme of the assessors was that the LLM summaries missed nuance and context that made them effectively useless as summaries. (ex: “The summary does not highlight [FIRM]’s central point…”)

The report emphasizes that better prompting can produce better results, and that new models are likely to improve the capabilities, but I must admit serious skepticism. To put it bluntly, I've seen enough law students try to summarize court rulings to say with confidence that in order to reliably summarize something, you must understand it. A clever reader who is good at pattern recognition can often put together a good-enough summary without really understanding the case, just by skimming the case and grabbing and repeating the bits that look important. And this will work...a lot of the time. Until it really, really doesn't. And those cases where the skim-and-grab method won't work aren't obvious from the outside. And I just don't see a path forward right now for the LLMs to do anything other than skim-and-grab.

Moreover, something that isn't even mentioned in the test is the absence of possibility of follow up. If a human has summarized a document for me and I don't understand something, I can go to the human and say, "hey, what's up with this?" It may be faster and easier than reading the original doc myself, or they can point me to the place in the doc that lead them to a conclusion, or I can even expand my understanding by seeing an interpretation that isn't intuitive to me. I can't do that with an LLM. And again, I can't really see a path forward no matter how advanced the programing is, because the LLM can't actually think.

[starleska]

as a person who, after tapping a texture with one hand, needs to tap another, similar texture with the other hand in order to feel 'balanced', watching Monk mix regular and decaf coffee in order to balance the amount of coffee in two pots and 'make it even'…i feel seen and called out 💀💀💀

[captainkirkk]

Quick question for all the medical staff out there: CPR is usually 30 compressions to 2 breaths, right? I've heard about singing Staying Alive to get the pace of compressions right, but how do you count AND keep the rhythm right?? I have my CPR renewal training tomorrow and I'm overthrowing it

[beaft]

hey it’s obviously not my business telling you how to live your life but i’m gonna suggest smth to u. as u mentioned BSL recently i’m gonna assume u live in the uk. i do too. i was on a two year wait list to get my autism diagnosis. i finally have it and it is a massive relief. i don’t know what the resources are like where you live, but if you can i would seriously recommend doing the preliminary screening thingies and getting put on a waitlist. being able to have actual medical justification for why i am Like This has made a big difference for me and i imagine it would be helpful for you too. sorry, im sure this stuff has like occurred to you before but yeah i just wanted to reach out

i actually did have a free autism assessment a while back, courtesy of my uni's support service, but it was... kind of a mess? everything was super rushed, they weren't clear on what was required, and the assessment mostly consisted of things like bringing out a picture of a cartoon smiley face and asking what emotion it was feeling, or getting me to read a kid's picture book and describe what was happening on each page. the assessor also spoke to me as if i was about four years old, which i didn't much appreciate as an adult human midway through a master's degree. in the end, she told me she thought it was more likely to be severe anxiety, and that i couldn't be autistic because i was "creative" and "found it easy to make friends". i found the whole thing very off-putting, which is partly why i have not tried to seek a diagnosis since.

nonetheless, thank you for the suggestion - i might look into it and see if i can get anywhere. i'm glad it helped you! i think it would help me too - i've just been put off by the long waitlists, not knowing exactly how to start the process, and the possibility that i might wait two years only to get the same result (not autistic, just weird).

[itspileofgoodthings]

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[frankmillerturnonyourlocation]

....anybody ever experience liking a story so much that you struggle to insert yourself into it? Like, it's already such a tight, well-constructed story that there's no room for another character. Like, I LOVE it, it's PERFECT, so like. how do i squeeze Me in there.

[cakesandfail]

"Everyone who's autistic also has inattentive ADHD" oh okay then please explain to me why I definitely DON'T have ADHD then, thanks

[pertinax--loculos]

hey

so

I passed all my exams.

Paperwork has to go through, then I'm ~*~qualified~*~.

(i get a $10 pay bump next week then a $20 pay bump after six months. that will put me on a $120k base rate. this job requires no degree. the qualification i have is a cert iv.)

It has been a long, long 57 weeks. I am lowkey terrified to go out by myself. But I am also so, so excited, and unbelievably proud of myself for making it this far.

[comicwaren]

“Have I ever let you down? Wait, don’t answer that!” -- Spider-Man

Cover art for Miles Morales: Spider-Man Vol. 2 #018, “Retribution: Part 2”

Art by Federico Vicentini and Richard Isanove

[theofficialpresidentofmars]

my drama teacher commented that my take on the Hamlet scene I’m doing was ‘refreshing’. we’re so back

[bichitosdecolores]

did i ever told you guys that my lab is very queer and i love them

[milimeters-morales]

waiter! waiter! more fork in the microwave moments with miles please!

[interruptingkau]

Does anyone know about fuckin. Informal hearings to appeal a house's reassessed value

[allbuthuman]

not this assessor recommending someone to ask chatgpt to title her paper lmao i hate him

[culturevulturette]

No probably about it.