Post #2283129
2026-04-30 07:38 UTC
@ceejbot I've been slowly reading https://nataliebhogg.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/find_the_stable_and_pull_out_the_bolt.pdf It ends with this, which reminded me of your/Jobs's bicycle metaphor:
As cosmologists, we have seen further by standing on the shoulders of giants. We have seen even further than that thanks to the incredible tool that is the telescope, which augments our human sight from peering around our own backyard to imaging the deepest reaches of space and the first syllable of recorded time. We did not shun that tool – we adopted it with open arms, hungry to see what it could do, and what it could tell us about our place in the Universe. Wielded judiciously, and honestly verified, LLMs have the chance to become the next tool to radically enhance our vision of the cosmos.
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@ceejbot@toot.cat 2026-05-01 04:57
@literatesavant@mastodon.au Reading... holding fire until I have read.
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@ceejbot@toot.cat 2026-05-01 05:00
@literatesavant@mastodon.au > To willingly subject oneself to a PhD, or a postdoc, is to have a burning desire to understand something, at the expense of financial stability, personal relationships, and often physical and mental health. Oof. This is a painful indictment of academia. Something is very wrong: it shouldn't have to be this way.