Digital Archivist at Swarthmore College. Interested in Quaker history, the history of science, and linguistics.
Good at regular expressions; still working on irregular ones.
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The virus of fake science is spreading: LLMs are hallucinating references that scholars are citing, and editors of real scholarly journals are accepting in published articles.
Scholarly communication cannot function anymore without a reference authenticity check that determines whether works cited are authentic and actually support the claims they are cited for.
#publishing #reference #citation #integrity #fraud #LLM #AI #fakescience
During the pandemic, I dabbled in birding, and ever since, I’ve noticed more and more references to birds across cultural media—from literature to music. With the holiday season fully in swing, I’ve heard “The Twelve Days of Christmas” echoing through stores bedecked with evergreen garlands and festooned with sparkling ornaments. Until this year, though, I …
I've published my digital Celtic Knotwork Workshop Booklet, yay!
https://ko-fi.com/s/f1a74eaf4b
It's 'Pay what you want over £5', and it's 10 worksheets (four of them are re-usable printable template sheets) that guide you through the basics to more complex techniques.
Huge thanks to the few of you who helped me test this and provided awesome feedback on earlier versions <3
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