Andrew @generalising@mastodon.flooey.org

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Interesting how this article gently avoids mentioning the denominator (it works out at about 1/1000 under investigation, and 1/3000/year dismissed). https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/15/home-office-staff-under-criminal-investigation-freedom-of-information

This turns out to be about the same order of magnitude as "adults first convicted of an indictable offence each year", ergo people working for the Home Office are approximately just as likely to do crimes as any random section of the population without prior criminal records. Guess there wasn't space to include that.

@researchbuzz great, thankyou!

my work on LLMs has made it to Nature! (Not a sentence I ever expected to write.) https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01051-2

#bibliometrics #scholcomm #chatgpt

The system interface the film used is natural language queries against a large database trained on reading published information, which all sounds familiar, but I'm not sure what they'd have thought on being told that it would take us 65 years to get there and even then the machine sometimes makes things up.

This evening's film: Desk Set (1957), a late Hepburn/Tracy comedy set against the looming spectre of computers coming & taking our jobs.

(Taking *her* job, anyway. He is the computer guy. You can guess how it goes.)

There were I think 52 in 2017-19 - the Brexit purges by the Conservatives - but the five Parliaments before that each only had 5-10 people suspended or resign the whip.

Have we got higher standards or shadier MPs? (Or possibly both)

back on the #wikidataMPs coalface today and backfilling the various people who've changed parties over the past term.

There are a lot more than I thought - I make it 38 distinct MPs who either resigned the whip or had it taken away? (One of those was for only a couple of hours - the party suspended him before he could announce his resignation)

More on LLMs and peer reviews: https://www.404media.co/chatgpt-looms-over-the-peer-review-crisis/

(Back to work tomorrow, & to revising the paper. I feel it's going to be a race to keep up.)

#bibliometrics #scholcomm #chatgpt

@Tom_Drummond came across this today which definitely echoed your comments - "I went through the reports line by line, word by word: there was nothing there" - https://www.404media.co/chatgpt-looms-over-the-peer-review-crisis/

@wesselvalk yes, there's definitely a lot of purely human papers out there that will be using these "normally"! (This one would score amazingly high, for one thing...)

@Tom_Drummond very curious to see how it develops! Also wonderingwhat stood out - was it phrasing, or just a general lack of engagement with the topic?

@edwinb I lived in a marginal most of my life but (due to timings) never actually voted there. Never in a gov't <> opposition contest.

Currently in Islington N which - well, at the very least it will be an *entertaining* election this time around...