Wesley Smith, PhD

PhD from @SHSUCJ • US Army Veteran • SAR K9 Handler • Adjunct Instructor • Researcher for a large U.S. Correctional Agency • Views are my own

[Wesley Smith, PhD @WesleyTSmith3]

@timgill924 True. If artists really cared about making money or contributing to society, they would get sociology degrees!

[Wesley Smith, PhD @WesleyTSmith3]

@ian_t_adams Set it up correctly and a dropdown is all that separates you from using different Claude and GPT models / versions

[Wesley Smith, PhD @WesleyTSmith3]

@ian_t_adams Honestly, if you want even better integration with agents and GitHub I would try VS. great coding flexibility for things like Python and R with direct integration and the agents can still be used to assist with niche languages like STATA, SAS, & SPSS

[Wesley Smith, PhD @WesleyTSmith3]

@kepadil @CrimFerret

[Wesley Smith, PhD @WesleyTSmith3]

@CrimFerret I’m going to be blunt here. If you don’t have tattoos, I probably won’t trust you & will have reservations about you having the appropriate life experience to be a researcher that you will have to overcome. Does that make me a dirtbag? Probably

[Wesley Smith, PhD @WesleyTSmith3]

@kepadil @CrimFerret Unfortunately there is a subset of criminologists who are married to other criminologists who don’t like neck tattoos….

[Mike Burnham @ML_Burn]

AI will free academics from the burden of research so we can focus on the work that matters: cyberbullying each other on social media.

[Wesley Smith, PhD @WesleyTSmith3]

All I know is that the discourse surrounding the em dash and AI make me feel personally attacked. First the em dash, next the ellipses, and then the Oxford comma. When will AI appropriation of neurodivergent writing styles stop?

#clankerappropriation
#chillitsjustajoke

[Tom Goodwin @tomfgoodwin]

Does anyone have a good explanation to why the em dash (—) is rendered out so much by LLMs

The explanation is always that it's in the training data a lot.

I don't think that's true at all.

And why is it so hard to get LLM's to stop using them?

[Wesley Smith, PhD @WesleyTSmith3]

@kepadil But also

[Wesley Smith, PhD @WesleyTSmith3]

@kepadil

[Wesley Smith, PhD @WesleyTSmith3]

@kbp14_ Such a great actor

[Wesley Smith, PhD @WesleyTSmith3]

@kepadil 😍

[Wesley Smith, PhD @WesleyTSmith3]

@ProfLauraHuey

[Wesley Smith, PhD @WesleyTSmith3]

@kbp14_

[Wesley Smith, PhD @WesleyTSmith3]

@kbp14_

[Wesley Smith, PhD @WesleyTSmith3]

@kbp14_

[Wesley Smith, PhD @WesleyTSmith3]

@kbp14_

[Wesley Smith, PhD @WesleyTSmith3]

Or are y’all just cool with helmet to helmet now?

[Wesley Smith, PhD @WesleyTSmith3]

@NFL you really need to hold referees accountable for bad calls, especially when they involve player injuries