What I meant was for example, if someone is weak in, let’s say, english, but understands their shit, then they conduct their research however they do, and then have some llm translate it. that is a valid use case to me.

Most research papers are written in English, if you need international cites, collaboration or accolades. A person may even speak english but it is not good enough, or they spell bad. But then the llm is purely a translator/grammar checker.

But there are people who use it to do the latter, use it to generate stuff, and that is bad imo

I am no body to stop you. If you feel that is the way you can get a leg up, feel free to do so, I do not want to do moral policing here if this helps

you would find more and more of it these days. people who are not good in the language, or not in subject both would use it.

others have given pretty good picture of what you have to do, but you can also do this in some other language, for example in binary, or ascii, and then reduce the font size to something close to 1 pixel. the actual text of pdf is stored in seperate xml tags. Plus you can also write it simply in plain text anywhere near margin of page (no need to do color or size shenanigans) and simply crop pdf out. Cropping of pdf does not remove the stuff, just hides it. Unless you rasterise pdf afterwards and then submit, the stuff is simply there with no special amount of work required.

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that someone else in the chain of custody of my work decided to do the same, and suddenly this is attached to my name permanently.

sadly, that is the case.

The only useful application for me currently is some amount of translation work, or using it to check my grammar or check if I am appropriately coming across (formal, or informal)

that could be the case. but what I have seen my younger peers do is use these llms to “read” the papers, and only use it’s summaries as the source. In that case, it is definitely not good.

you can do that if you do not have integrity. but i can kinda get their perspective - you want people to cite you, or read your papers, so you can be better funded. The system is almost set to be gamed

my bad. i did not look at url bar (in my browser, it is at bottom), and could only recognise the copilot logo at the top right, so I assumed it was bing. Sorry

the image shows bing though

often this stuff is added as white text (as in, blends with backround), and also possibly placed behind another container, such that manual selection is hard/not possible. So even if someone reads the paper, they will not read this.

I recently did that and my account was banned. It was not expensive (~$1), but still felt bad

yes and no. You would like to do it in relatively cheap and less populated area, and where cracks are a bit closer to surface (you do not want to drill a lot, as that would not be economically beneficial)

I know this is a meme, but in case someone is interested, we usually do not want to use strong acids/bases to maintain buffers, instead, weaker acids (for eg, acetic acid), weaker bases (nh4oh), or their correponding weak-strong salt pair, or if it is really close to 7, then weak-weak, weakly dissociating salts (likr (nh4)2 co3).

I am probably forgetting the proper names for this, but idea is that waker acids/bases do not dissociate completely. for example, iirc, nh4oh is something close to 9-10, so if you want a basic buffer, then you use nh4oh in bulk to get close to required absolute amount of oh- ion concentration (maybe, because you want some reaction to happen in proper stoichiometric ratios), and for fine tuning, use very low concentration of stronger acid/base (depending on the fact that your target is above or below the value of bulk). stronger acids/bases almost immediately completely ionise. for example, i want to make something like 8.5, then i start with nh40h with 9, and slowly add hcl to reduce ph. with this, you make nh40h + hcl -> nh4cl + h2o. this nh4cl, is now acting as weakely dissociating. this reaction is also reversible. around the equillibrium ph, if you add more h+, then reaction goes forward. but simply by adding more water (or diluting), you can reverse this. with salt like nacl(nacl + h2o -> na+ + cl-) , they will practically never recombine, and you can not use this to your advantage.

the actual salt/acid/base to be used will also depend on solubility of present ions, miscibility, organic or non organic (in this context, organic means carbon related molecules)

this is regardless of that. The meme explains it a bit wierdly, but we start with 17 squares, and try to find most efficient packing, and outer square’s size is determined by this packing.

I have a script which fetches bib entries for pdfs, and then renames it to my prefered format (names of author (no more than 2) - name of paper).

in case you are interested

#!/usr/bin/env sh

newnamefn(){
	bib="$(pdf2bib "$1")"
	name="$(echo "$bib" | grep "title = " | cut -d'{' -f 2 | cut -d'{' -f 1 )"
	authors=$(echo "$bib" | grep "author = " | cut -d'{' -f 2 | cut -d'{' -f 1  | sed -z 's/\ and\ /\n/g' | head -n 2 | tr '\n' ' ')
	echo "$authors-$name" | detox --inline
}

for i in "$@" ; do 
	newname="$(newnamefn "$i")" 
	mv "$i" "${i%/*}/$newname".pdf
done

detox --inline is just a utility which makes the file names shell friendly (removes special characters and spaces), but that is optional. Also, technically the newnamefn is what does all of the job, and below is just a loop to iterate on all files that are given as input like script file1 "file2" file3, where file2 had some special characters, so enclosed in "" quotes. you can also translate it to python, then you would not even require sed and grep (you can just get output in json-esque format). I have a small keybinding in my file manager, which renames all selected files, so I do not have to spend any amount of my mind

you can make it work in any os (maybe use some llm for it), you just have to install pdf2bib

It happens. I have seen it on my comments, I have seen it on others. This is largely human behaviour - this person has said something so wrong, I must correct them, times 10 billion

might as well take a safety factor of 2, so I can use τ, which requires less tie to write than π (I am a engineer)

yes, there are “characters” from linux universe (like bsd puffer fish, or krita female something, goat (fsf) and more))

I’d be curious to know what your native tongue is

I would not give you a specific language, but country is India

Orientation refers to the same thing as attraction

this is new to me. In my post I used orientation for what I assumed to be gender, but I had no idea it was also related to attraction.

I do understand both points of finding similar folks or possibly finding partners