N-gated Hacker News9h ago
🤔 Ah, the timeless debate: is it the thought or the word that comes first? Looks like Devarsh has cracked the code with his #groundbreaking #thesis that #LLMs are mere word puppets because, wait for it... their ideas don’t precede their words! 😂 Truly, a #revelation that will change how we ignore the obvious forever. 🤦‍♂️
https://ranpara.net/posts/words-are-a-byproduct-of-consciousness/ #thoughtVsWord #wordPuppets #debate #HackerNews #ngated
Words Are a Byproduct of Consciousness. For LLMs, It's Backwards.

Stop for one second and ask yourself a simple question. Where do your words come from? When you speak, what comes first, the idea or the word? Do you first feel a thought inside you, and only after that go searching for the right word to wrap around it? I think we all do. The word is never the start. The word is just the skin. The idea, the consciousness, is the thing sitting under it.

Devarsh Ranpara
Programming Languages Delft14h ago

Two master students working on different parts the Agda Core project are defending this week!

Termination Checking in Agda Core Arthur Jacques (https://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:4b1aa307-ba0b-4816-96c9-5e740581bc48)

Correct-by-Construction eta-conversion for Agda Core by Ate-Jan de Vries (https://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:47bc2732-f92b-4afa-adc9-60023849e9f5)

#Agda #AgdaCore #DependentTypes #CorrectByConstruction #master #thesis

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essayassistJun 23
A weak thesis: "Social media has pros and cons." A strong thesis: "Social media increases anxiety in teenagers by replacing face-to-face interaction with passive comparison." The difference: claim + reason + specific angle. #Thesis #EssayWriting #WritingTips
Dean Burnett (that brains guy)Jun 21

A thesis that nobody's read, narrated by someone who isn't there, for an audience that doesn't exist.

https://theneuroscienceofeverydaylife.substack.com/p/a-thesis-that-nobodys-read-narrated?r=24oxwv

Dean Burnett explores the bizarre experience of having his PhD thesis hijacked by an AI service that nobody asked for or needs.

#AIproblems #Thesis #Research #Podcast

A thesis that nobody's read, narrated by someone who isn't there, for an audience that doesn't exist.

An AI programme has apparently made a podcast out of my PhD thesis, in what seems to be a Guinness World Record attempt for 'most pointless endeavour ever'.

The Neuroscience of Everyday Life
Show threadWendyJun 19
many times , if you read our works , I gave a full #biography , the elements of my masters #thesis , many #cooking quickies , as a #Druid , #herbal treatments galore , etc. I just need operating capital — my subs — to give me the overhead to do it all. I can’t do it alone on my #devops engineering salary alone
Chris HallJun 18

Triple checking reference formatting in a 450 page document.

#PhD #thesis

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TKSST • seethis.tv 🌈🪐✨Jun 15

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🌵🔥 #Phoenix sidewalks can hit 66º C (~150° F) in direct #sun while shade stays below 38º C (~100° F) – a real problem for anyone walking to class.

#ASU researchers and #students built Cool Routes, an online #map that calculates sun exposure to suggest less-sweaty paths across campus. In tests the tool found cooler routes over 70% of the time, and the team is now building a mobile version through an undergraduate #thesis.

👉 https://www.popsci.com/technology/cool-routes-walking-app-arizona/

#asu #arizonastateuniversity #heat #navigation #urban #climate #arizona #computerscience #environment #science #weather #climatechange

Arizona students design app that calculates least-sweaty walking route

Cool Routes helps users find the coolest paths and reduce exposure to dangerous heat.

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Jennifer Lynn BartlettJun 15

#AAS248

It's 2026. Do you know where your dissertation is?
iPoster 102.10
Terminal 9 June 15 9-10 AM PDT

In support of #openscience best practices, @SciXCommunity, #AstroGen, and the Astronomy Thesis Collection want to ensure your pivotal work is findable and accessible.

#ExploreAstronomy # #planetaryscience #STEMed #scicom #heliophysics #astronomy #thesis #astrophysics #dissertation
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Show threadTommi 🤯 @ DWeb CampJun 10

For the record, here are the other impulsive, spontaneous, unhinged research questions I came up with in 10 minutes of rapid brainstorming, last Wednesday.

  • How can decentralised, peer-to-peer, and encrypted communication protocols favour the development of autonomous and localised yet federated communities?
  • What concrete communication technologies can already be adopted to prepare for a post-climate collapse world?
  • How can practices of networking and collaboration benefit the re-population of rural areas?
  • What role did the neoliberal progression of tech oligopolies play in the de-politicisation of technology?
  • How can community-maintained infrastructure serve the needs of all the World’s population?

#researchQuestion #XPUB #XPUBthesis #thesis #socialCapital #networking #netwerking #Web #surfing #Internet #p2p

Tommi 🤯 @ DWeb CampJun 10

Research question prophecy

I am far from actually beginning my research for the thesis I will be writing at @xpub next year. Still, together with my class we are already exploring interests, ideas, and PMOMMs. A pattern should be emerging out of them, outlining our research focus.

Yesterday, as I was chatting with @barbs, I somehow came up with a research question that feels particularly close to me. I am publishing it here for posterity, because I am super curious about how this will evolve over time.

What is the relationship between in-person networking and Web surfing in accruing social capital?

I want to investigate how life crossovers relate with clicking links and surfing the Web. Then, how do the two contribute to growing a person’s (or a community’s) social capital, in the interpretation of the word specific to Bourdieu’s philosophy?

#researchQuestion #XPUB #XPUBthesis #thesis #socialCapital #networking #netwerking #Web #surfing #Internet

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