jarenmf

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I'm an atmospheric physicist
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Comment · 19 hours ago
Same for me, I have Claude and codex. And usage limits in codex are hit more often. what was keeping me from switching was only the chat was virtually not limited. I guess it's time to switch.
Comment · 1 month ago
I think problem with natural sciences is that it is not so easy to verify solutions to problems - there are always countless competing explanations for the data which is also often noisy - I find AI to lack the "common sense" when working with data from physical measurements .. it somehow has no touch with reality and doesn't have a feeling of the data like a domain scientist
Comment · 2 months ago
Science is self-correcting, but sometimes, the correction mechanism it is very slow and inconsequential enough that people are incentivized to just publish anything. Peer review is merely a quality check—and not a very good one. Just the other day, I ran into a paper in my field that claims to have solved a central problem that scientists have been working on for 50 years, single-authored, using some fancy mathematics. I was excited to read it, but it didn't take long for me to find out that it's complete BS-derivations that don't follow, made-up equation terms, and conflation of basic terms in the field. I was really surprised that this passed the editor and at least two peer reviewers. I dug deeper and found that the same author has published 11 research articles in top journals in 2026 alone — mostly physics and chemistry, and adjacent fields— and I'm talking about really top journals like Scientific Reports and Physics Letters B. Most of these have serious mathematical flaws that are unfixable. I wrote to a couple of editors, but only one took it seriously enough to initiate an investigation. I made a promise to myself that if no real action is taken, I will seriously consider changing careers.
Comment · 3 months ago
most needs for such water are for calibration of instruments - many labs run stable isotopes measurements which has many applications from tracing how plants use water to measuring your metabolic base rate .. so the main use case it to calibrate instruments because it's really difficult to have an absolute measurement of stable isotope ratios from first principles - and the ratios are so small you typically express them in relation to standards like VSMOW
Comment · 8 months ago
Gemini is really odd in particular (even with reasoning). Chatgpt still uses a similar religion-influenced language but it's not as weird.
Comment · 8 months ago
Talking with Gemini in Arabic is a strange experience; it cites Quran - says alhamdullea and inshallah, and at one time it even told me: this is what our religion tells us we should do. Ii sounds like an educated religious Arab speaking internet forum user from 2004. I wonder if this has to do with the quality of Arabic content it was trained on and can't help but think whether AI can push to radicalize susceptible individuals
Comment · 1 year ago
the technique itself is very interesting and not very well known to many people. also the writing was clear and to the point
Comment · 2 years ago
Damn, some people really don't want anyone to see this
Comment · 2 years ago
This goes both ways, good luck trying to convince chatGPT to generate an image of a middle eastern women without head cover.
Comment · 2 years ago
Yeah pretty disappointing, i asked it to summarize one of my papers and it hallucinated so many mistakes it was even worse than ChatGPT 3.5
Comment · 3 years ago
Why E-Ink isn't cheap yet? I see supermarkets using hundreds (maybe thousands) of panels with different sizes for displaying prices. I doubt they are paying 50$ for 7" display panel.
Comment · 3 years ago
Which graphics card would you recommend to run Llamma 2 locally? I'm about to buy a laptop and considering choosing a model with a good Nvidia GPU.
Comment · 3 years ago
My same experience, I have built fairly big projects with Python and I like it for general tasks but whenever I have something data analytics/visualization related I find myself reaching for R. There is so much functionality built into the language that just makes me so efficient.

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