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misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu GPT-fabricated scientific papers on Google Scholar: Key features, spread, and implications for preempting evidence manipulation | HKS Misinformation Review

Academic journals, archives, and repositories are seeing an increasing number of questionable research papers clearly produced using generative AI. They are often created with widely available, general-purpose AI applications, most likely ChatGPT, and mimic scientific writing. Google Scholar easily ...

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  • I think it said it's deprecated or something? I'm not sure, I just know I had problems downloading packages before.

    I don't think it was setup.py . I think I tried to download it directly through pip install xx==0.4.0 or something (the version was required by the program) and it said the package doesn't exist.

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    Magical equation unites quantum physics, general relativity in a first
  • Planck units are the smallest packets of something, which is called quanta. Planck discovered he could get more accurate measurements if he separated the energy from radiation in small packages, which proved useful for other theories later.

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  • But do Appimages make the dependencies code available? They pack everything into one working program, but what about the packages?

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  • If prior versions were not support by pip anymore, so yes, if it were removed. There are cases of packages not being supported by the platforms, aren't there? I've run into cases where the package was fully deprecated and not useable or downloadable anymore.

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  • phys.org Plasmonic modulators could enable high-capacity space communication

    Researchers have achieved data rates as high as 424Gbit/s across a 53-km turbulent free-space optical link using plasmonic modulators—devices that use special light waves called surface plasmon polaritons to control and change optical signals. The new research lays the groundwork for high-speed opti...

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  • What do you mean?

    I just find that if pip did not support that version anymore, the software would be lost. As that is covered by making executables, as I mentioned them. But what if I wanted to have access to the libraries that were used in the program? That wouldn't be possible. Because all we get in the source code is the dependency fetching, not the dependencies themselves.

    It would be good to have an alternative where you get all that you need to compile the code again, not depending on fetching them from websites that might not even have them anymore.

    This mentality of ephemeral code just adheres to the way big tech would like to do things, with programmed obsolescence.

    An alternative to that way of doing things would be nice and would make sure we get access to the same working open source program in 30 or 40 years.

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  • Today I had to downgrade fastapi from 0.114.0 to 0.112.4 to make a software work. And it just hit me - what if pip didn't support 0.112.4 anymore? We would lose a good piece of software just because of that.

    Of course, we can "freeze" the packages into an executable that will run for as long as the OS supports it. Which is a lot longer. But the executable is closed source. We can't see the code that is run from an executable.

    Therefore, there is a need for an alternative to which we still have access to the packages even after the program is built. That would make it safely unnecessary for pip to store all versions of all packages forever more.

    Any ideas?

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    ‘Right to Repair for Your Body’: The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine
  • I don't know about where you live, but here the drug lords owns some territory. And within that territory, they take political actions like closing the nearby churches, for example. I think selling actual medication could serve their purpose very well. They already sell smartphones for a low price to the local people ($15).

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    Bluesky continues to soar
  • I don't want to make Mastodon propaganda, but Mastodon talks around technology are much better than Twitter ever was.

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    Bluesky continues to soar
  • I'm tired of people arguing that the sum of the people in the platform does not equal its culture. Facebook and other social networks clearly benefit from having influencers in their platform, and they make the platform orbit around it.

    People who use facebook are not responsible for old people posting what they want. But also, Facebook earns profit from that kind of behavior, so it makes its algorithms circle around it.

    It's like saying Instagram isn't responsible for all the influencers and the 'vibe' it has. It is responsible for it and you don't make the platform your own, especially not with the Big players.

    Even Mastodon, where you can set up your own instance, has its culture, even if it is richer (culturally) than Instagram or Facebook.

    No, each person does not make the platform their own or make out of it what they will. Only a masochist would stay on Facebook preaching their own culture while they have other options that fit better.

    Your argument fails.

    Also, on another note, I'm tired of Carl Sagan's atheists using Darwinism as basis for lack of a God, and I'm not a christian or muslim. That's just reason to silence people who don't want to take "scientific" argument at face value. True science is debatable and built upon healthy discussion. Not something you toss at other people to make them seem dumb or preach like a religion.

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  • To each its own, I like it here.

    What would you suppose it is ambition, to feed off influencers? What good would that bring to the platform?

    If the people who used it would benefit at least. But then again, that's cryptocurrency culture, so I don't know if both complete each other.

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  • You can see other instances at work in the app already. There is an @ symbol that says where the message comes from, and those differ from each other already.

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    ‘Right to Repair for Your Body’: The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine
  • I see drug lords getting into this if it is feasible and it isn't a good scenario. It would paint them as real saviors and make the situation more unstable.

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    ‘Right to Repair for Your Body’: The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine
  • There was a serious fight against this in the COVID years, saying it was fighting anti-science that was recommending fake medicine to people. How can this model possibly subvert what happened in those years?

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  • asp-eurasipjournals.springeropen.com Maximum radial pattern matching for minimum star map identification - EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing

    This paper proposes an all-sky star map identification algorithm that can simultaneously achieve high identification probability, low algorithm complexity, and small databases for well photometric and intrinsic parameters-calibrated star sensors. The proposed algorithm includes three main steps. Fir...

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    journals.aps.org Dynamical Magic Transitions in Monitored Clifford+$T$ Circuits

    Magic in monitored quantum circuits has an impact on classical simulability transitions that goes beyond entanglement; these transitions can be driven by the degree to which magic can spread within the system.

    Last week I posted about the magic qualities of quantum systems in Computer Science. Now I bring an example article that makes use of it.

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    journals.aps.org Measuring the Loschmidt Amplitude for Finite-Energy Properties of the Fermi-Hubbard Model on an Ion-Trap Quantum Computer

    A demonstration of the measurement of the Loschmidt amplitude in a Fermi-Hubbard simulator opens exciting perspectives for hybrid classical-quantum algorithms.

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    scienmag.com Turning bacteria into bioplastic factories

    In a world overrun by petroleum-based plastics, scientists are searching for alternatives that are more sustainable, more biodegradable and far less toxic to the environment.Credit: Joe Angeles /

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    www.dw.com India: Blast at pharmaceutical factory kills 17 – DW – 08/22/2024

    Officials said that the blast at the pharmaceutical plant in Andhra Pradesh was so intense that workers suffered severe skin burns. Officials suspect there was an explosion in the chemical reactor.

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    www.nature.com First biolab in South America for studying world’s deadliest viruses is set to open

    Construction is underway for the maximum-security Brazilian facility, which will face cost and regulatory hurdles.

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    www.ndtv.com Moon Was Once A Fiery Ball Of Molten Rock: ISRO Confirms In New Study

    The Moon we see today was once a hot and fiery ball of molten rock a big finding being confirmed by the science team of ISRO's Chandrayaan-3.

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    Why, instead of safely entering a BIOS setup, does the cell phone brick when installing the Custom ROM wrongly? Wouldn't this protection be better for users? I mean, this could be done through ADB.

    Also, do you think it's possible that this way of doing things will come to the computer, with ARM hoping to gain a good share of the market and all?

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    physicsworld.com Physicists reveal the role of ‘magic’ in quantum computational power – Physics World

    Entanglement and magic interact in ways that impact quantum algorithms and physical systems

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    www.i-programmer.info Puppeteer Library Improves Firefox Support

    Programming book reviews, programming tutorials,programming news, C#, Ruby, Python,C, C++, PHP, Visual Basic, Computer book reviews, computer history, programming history, joomla, theory, spreadsheets and more.

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    www.eurekalert.org Novel photoreceptor sheds light on how cyanobacteria see color

    Tokyo, Japan – Scientists from Tokyo Metropolitan University have identified a new photoreceptor in cyanobacteria with a modification in part of its structure which makes it sensitive to green/teal light. The photoreceptor belongs in a family usually sensitive to red/green light in the environ...

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    www.sci.news Researchers Sequence Genome of Ginseng | Sci.News

    A team of scientists in China has assembled a telomere-to-telomere reference genome for ginseng (Panax ginseng), a representative of Chinese traditional medicine.

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