I need to do a slide deck and my laundry, so of course I’m choosing this moment to subscribe to Rosetta Stone and try out the app. (I ditched Duolingo after 10+ years because of the AI enshittification.) #ADHD #procrastination 🐿️

Procrastination looks a lot like research. You're preparing for the work. You're just preparing indefinitely.

#adhd #autism #audhd #neurodivergent #productivity #procrastination #actuallyautistic #executivedysfunction

A year has 365 days. πŸ“…βœ¨

And I still spend at least 300 of them saying: β€œI’ll start tomorrow” πŸ€‘πŸ’€

#Humor #Relatable #Life #Funny #Procrastination

Oh look, it's another riveting piece of academic literature desperately trying to measure the un-measurable: how much #AI is meddling with our precious words. Because nothing says "cutting-edge research" like a deep dive into the mysterious art of text editing by our robo-overlords. πŸ€–πŸ“š We eagerly await the next groundbreaking paper on quantifying the extent of #procrastination in #academia. πŸ™„βœ¨
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03154 #Research #TextEditing #RoboOverlords #HackerNews #ngated
EditLens: Quantifying the Extent of AI Editing in Text

A significant proportion of queries to large language models ask them to edit user-provided text, rather than generate new text from scratch. While previous work focuses on detecting fully AI-generated text, we demonstrate that AI-edited text is distinguishable from human-written and AI-generated text. First, we propose using lightweight similarity metrics to quantify the magnitude of AI editing present in a text given the original human-written text and validate these metrics with human annotators. Using these similarity metrics as intermediate supervision, we then train EditLens, a regression model that predicts the amount of AI editing present within a text. Our model achieves state-of-the-art performance on both binary (F1=94.7%) and ternary (F1=90.4%) classification tasks in distinguishing human, AI, and mixed writing. Not only do we show that AI-edited text can be detected, but also that the degree of change made by AI to human writing can be detected, which has implications for authorship attribution, education, and policy. Finally, as a case study, we use our model to analyze the effects of AI-edits applied by Grammarly, a popular writing assistance tool. To encourage further research, we commit to publicly releasing our models and dataset.

arXiv.org

We moved into this house on June 15, 2022. Today, three years and 331 days later, I finally got all the boxes unpacked in my office.

In unrelated news, we are having house guests this weekend.

#procrastination

When I first learnt SVG, it was for no useful reason. I did not really need it for the little web dev jobs that came my way, and it was a way to procrastinate on my studies. Now I find myself using it as a way to de-fog my brain (and also procrastinate to a degree).

#html #svg #procrastination

It took me 30 years of living in the same home to map out the 22 circuit breakers for electric lights, outlets, and appliances. Then I decided it was time for action.

#Procrastination #Electricity

The Trevisan Award and the Decimal Digits of Powers of 2

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9732

The Trevisan Award and the Decimal Digits of Powers of 2

WHOA … I’ve won the inaugural Luca Trevisan Award for Expository Work in Theoretical Computer Science! This has a particular meaning for me as someone who knew Luca Trevisan as well as I did …

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Anticrastination launches May 25th! The show is funny and heartfelt and full of podcasting satire (with an unexpected twist!) Please share this with everyone you know. You can get more information at https://anticrastination.fyi/.

#audiodrama #audiofiction #comedy #podcast #fiction #procrastination