Chan No

liquid handler and occasional artist at a table tennis, RSUs, not-a-cult startup

[Chan No @cocculin]

This children’s book throwing shade on UNSW 💀

[Chan No @cocculin]

Strangely pleasant office worker lunch area

[Chan No @cocculin]

My university tried something like this years ago. The winners were great resume optimisers but mediocre scientists, and it was a remarkable morale killer for everyone else

[日本経済新聞 電子版（日経電子版） @nikkei]

文科省、優秀な博士学生に年500万円　助教並み待遇で減少に歯止め
https://t.co/UfaF6fYPEB

[verlainne @cafeantinomie]

there are things happening on rednote that you can’t comprehend

[Chan No @cocculin]

It wasn't really good, but I respect the weirdness of making a children's cartoon-looking thing that's clearly taking inspiration from Permutation City

[Chan No @cocculin]

Went to see TADC in the theatre. Weird experience. Lot of teens loudly memeing in the first half, and then the second half was so sad that people were audibly crying.

[Chan No @cocculin]

That time the company let me go teach a course at the local uni for a week without using leave and it was 5 consecutive 15h days

[hope hopes hoping @hopes_revenge]

inventing the concept of a “reverse vacation” where you go somewhere worst than where you live to lock in .

[Chan No @cocculin]

4 years out of academia and the one thing I miss is that nobody cared if I didn’t look happy enough; everyone was struggling!

[ぽす毒☠️ @vetpostdoc]

「適度に」と言ったはずですよ？

[Chan No @cocculin]

imo if you’re a scientist and you’re not perceptive enough to see the mistakes in this figure, that’s a problem

[Ruslan Rust @rust_ruslan]

Can water intake prevent Alzheimer’s disease? No. This is fully AI-generated… but the data below could easily pass as real.

The new ChatGPT image model is truly impressive, but I think it poses a real risk for scientific integrity in future.

For example, I could just generate a dataset with a single prompt that appears to show something like water preventing Alzheimer’s disease. Ironically, we used to laugh at obvious “AI slop” (like those weird generated mice), but that’s changing pretty fast. If I were reviewing this fake figure today, I’m not sure I could reliably tell whether this figure is real or AI-generated?

The bigger issue is that the usual signals we rely on e.g., how realistic or plausible something looks are no longer enough.

I think we really need more comprehensive AI detection and, more importantly, stronger verification standards for scientific submissions going forward. We’ll probably also need better ways to digitize lab notebooks and ensure access to raw data, something closer to how code and version history are tracked...

[ダリク dariku @uedrk_yamato]

既出だったらあれだけど目の立体に迷ったらOKマーク👌作ればざっくりの参考になるかもという気づき

[nazzle dazzle (got headpats from chan) ⊹₊⟡⋆ @dramaticweasel]

i'm not joking my supervisor ASKED me to draw "the worm i always draw on my cells" because i didn't last week and all of them fucking died for NO REASON😭😭😭😭

[Chan No @cocculin]

Finally left my old 2020 phone and got a 16e expecting to hate it. Really impressed by the camera!

[Chan No @cocculin]

even putting aside honorifics Thai feels super inefficient to me. listening to native speakers is like reading 2023 LLM waffle

[Paul Graham @paulg]

I had just been noticing today that Thai speakers seem to spend longer talking about things than I'd expect.

[sir relaxacat 🐈 @sir_relaxacat]

What they took from you… ride the Sydney system patriots.

[Brendan Dolan-Gavitt @moyix]

Me after 4 hours of seep vs me after 8 hours of sleep

[Chan No @cocculin]

real pre-layoff reassuring all-hands vibes

[Chan No @cocculin]

Tried using the sandwich press to revive some youtiao I forgot in the fridge. works surprisingly well!

[Chan No @cocculin]

Just saw a white guy digging in my bins for recyclables, australia is so over

[Chan No @cocculin]

Many neuro labs have an ephys guy who’s getting scammed bc he’s too autistic to either notice or care. and for some reason he also can’t tell that his coworkers aren’t anywhere near as technically talented

[Chan No @cocculin]

Google Scholar-stalked this guy and his pay is tragic for the amount of experience he has