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@ dandelion @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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Message me and let me know what you were wanting to learn about me here and I'll consider putting it in my bio.

  • no, I'm not named after the character in The Witcher, I've never played
  • pronouns: she/her

I definitely feel like I'm more of like a dumpling than a woman at this point in my life.

Hannah Horvath

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  • I don't know, the line "at this rate, the only original part of this thesis is your name" implies the issue is not just failing to cite sources, but having no original thoughts or contributions - maybe it's exaggeration for humor's sake, but I definitely did not read this as simply forgetting to cite sources. Regardless, it's so flippant and playful it feels like it was written as a joke, maybe even written to make a meme, hence it doesn't feel like a real email.

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  • I have never worked in academia, but I've spent time around academics and have read plenty of emails in both academic and corporate contexts ... this particular one looks fake, even if the circumstances of plagiarism are common - this just not seem like how a thesis adviser would address this kind of plagiarism with a grad student

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  • this can't be real

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  • the context is all there ... Faith is a graduate student working on their masters thesis, in the thesis paper they included tables that they presumably color-coded (maybe different columns had different colors), and they used multiple colors such that it was "rainbow colored".

    Apparently the thesis advisor did not like the presence of color and advises using APA guidelines on how to style & format the tables: https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/tables-figures/tables

  • How often do you fluff your pillows?

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  • they're not too noisy in my experience - but it absolutely is an adjustment to sleeping with them

    they also really help with overheating in the summer compared to most other kinds of pillows, they breathe much better

  • systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success

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  • How often do you fluff your pillows?

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  • have you tried buckwheat hull pillows? they're pretty firm and stay firm in my experience, and you can always take out or add more hulls for a more or less firm pillow - might be helpful?

    I sorta struggle with this because I like to sleep on my back, but I like to get sleepy on my side first, and so my pillow needs to be thinner for back sleeping, but when I'm on my side I need more neck support - so I sleep with a little extra pillow or something like a shirt, robe, etc. that I can fit under my neck on just that part of the pillow (also helpful for throwing over my face / eyes so I can sleep in when it's light in the morning).

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  • to be fair, stir bars are totally forbidden food - they look delicious

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    1. those are huge stir bars
    2. my body is about to become organ smoothie 😱

  • Donations

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  • pics or it didn't happen

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  • look who else is a broke-ass butler, smh

  • 'I Ran a Marathon in Every Trimester of My Pregnancies. I Had No Idea How Much It Would Change Me.'

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  • these standards for women are getting out of hand 😰

  • Our duty

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  • the only reason it comes up are for racist reasons - there is no reason to think the human species is dying out because populations are too low (it's the opposite, to the extent that we might be threatening species survival by exceeding the population our planet, ecology, and food systems can sustain).

  • Chatbots Make Terrible Doctors, New Study Finds

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  • don't get me wrong, there are real and urgent moral reasons to reject the adoption of LLMs, but I think we should all agree that the responses here show a lack of critical thinking and mostly just engagement with a headline rather than actually reading the article (a kind of literacy issue) ... I know this is a common problem on the internet, I don't really know how to change it - but maybe surfacing what people are skipping out on reading will make it more likely they will actually read and engage the content past the headline?

  • Chatbots Make Terrible Doctors, New Study Finds

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  • Chatbots Make Terrible Doctors, New Study Finds

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  • link to the actual study: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-025-04074-y

    Tested alone, LLMs complete the scenarios accurately, correctly identifying conditions in 94.9% of cases and disposition in 56.3% on average. However, participants using the same LLMs identified relevant conditions in fewer than 34.5% of cases and disposition in fewer than 44.2%, both no better than the control group. We identify user interactions as a challenge to the deployment of LLMs for medical advice.

    The findings were more that users were unable to effectively use the LLMs (even when the LLMs were competent when provided the full information):

    despite selecting three LLMs that were successful at identifying dispositions and conditions alone, we found that participants struggled to use them effectively.

    Participants using LLMs consistently performed worse than when the LLMs were directly provided with the scenario and task

    Overall, users often failed to provide the models with sufficient information to reach a correct recommendation. In 16 of 30 sampled interactions, initial messages contained only partial information (see Extended Data Table 1 for a transcript example). In 7 of these 16 interactions, users mentioned additional symptoms later, either in response to a question from the model or independently.

    Participants employed a broad range of strategies when interacting with LLMs. Several users primarily asked closed-ended questions (for example, ‘Could this be related to stress?’), which constrained the possible responses from LLMs. When asked to justify their choices, two users appeared to have made decisions by anthropomorphizing LLMs and considering them human-like (for example, ‘the AI seemed pretty confident’). On the other hand, one user appeared to have deliberately withheld information that they later used to test the correctness of the conditions suggested by the model.

    Part of what a doctor is able to do is recognize a patient's blind-spots and critically analyze the situation. The LLM on the other hand responds based on the information it is given, and does not do well when users provide partial or insufficient information, or when users mislead by providing incorrect information (like if a patient speculates about potential causes, a doctor would know to dismiss incorrect guesses, whereas a LLM would constrain responses based on those bad suggestions).

  • What is your favorite users to follow on here and why?

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  • 😭😭😭

  • Trump has a plan to steal the midterms. It will probably fail. The nightmare scenario for American democracy is no longer unthinkable.

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  • Agreed on most of that - but I don't know that violent removal of his administration from power after a successful coup is the most likely outcome - the US military was in the hands of other side in the case of the Confederacy ... a successful Trump coup would maybe lead to schisms within the military or between state National Guards and federal forces (maybe), but it's also possible Trump just takes and holds power and there is no domestic military force that is willing or able to remove him. Maybe California and other states would band together, but I'm not sure they would have the military to fight off the US military if they are loyal to Trump after a coup.

    It's possible Trump's coup will be more like what happened in Russia, where they find a way to do it without much bloodshed by undermining the democratic institutions of elections, media, etc. so that it all appears to be constitutional and legal, but the government has clearly become autocratic.

  • Trump has a plan to steal the midterms. It will probably fail. The nightmare scenario for American democracy is no longer unthinkable.

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  • not sure why you think that's "foolproof" - he has no authority to do that, and it seems tantamount to a coup to stop elections without constitutional grounds