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They would be in violation even if there were no copyright notice. You own the copyright to anything you create; no notice required.

Look at the list of contributors on the Github page, and you will see one of the popular plagiarism machines. It’s the third most prolific committer to the project.

Caution: partly authored by an LLM.

Unfortunately I’m not familiar with this case.

The problem is that Claudine Gay was not sacked, she was allowed to resign as president and is still, at this moment, a professor at Harvard. Here is her faculty web page:

https://aaas.fas.harvard.edu/people/claudine-gay

So Harvard employs, as a full professor, someone whose Ph.D. thesis contained loads of plagiarism (I’ve seen the evidence, it’s not contestable). A similar offense on the part of the students who sit in her classroom, according to Harvard’s own rules, could lead to expulsion.

EDIT: Also, as pointed out in a comment below, Prof. Gay’s Ph.D. is from Harvard. It was not revoked.

Scientists: better to stay away.

https://lwn.net/Articles/1023299/

Too bad Harvard doesn’t have similarly high standards.

Sounds like you would be interested in the article linked at the top of the page.

I don’t know what this means, but please don’t explain.

applicative’s comment is correct. Every one of your bullet points is wrong, except perhaps the one about treesitter highlighting, but what should one expect? Why should a Markdown parser know anything about arbitrary Markdown extensions?

“batch-mode typesetting seems an oddly low bar for what we can get from a computer.”

I don’t know what this is intended to mean.

“a live (WYSIWYG) typesetter”

I don’t like this mode of interaction. No, thanks.

Typst is fast enough to provide a live preview, and I can use Vim or any editor I want, along with my choice of PDF viewer.

“latex (required by pandoc)”

No.

`--pdf-engine=typst`

Typst math output looks nearly identical to TeX math output. I have a simple comparison at https://lwn.net/Articles/1037577/. This is to be expected, as they began with the same algorithm.

Excuse me for going meta, but your series of comments here have been extraordinarily informative, wise, and a pleasure to read. Thank you for taking the time (and for your work on TeX).

I disagree. Many people abhor WYSIWYG programs, myself included.

Having tried both TeXmacs and Typst¹, it’s easy for me to understand why Typst is rapidly gaining adoption and why, after — how long, over a decade? — essentially nobody uses TeXmacs.

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/1037577/

Yeah, I’m interested in the subject but didn’t read this because of that.

Joking or not, in fact neural networks as classifiers are obviously useful: detecting cancer in medical images, for example. And that approach would, I’m sure, work better here than my crude regex. But this use of AI is distinct from its use as a giant plagiariser and slop generator. What I and others are tired of seeing are endless stories about vibe coded games and whatnot.

Yes, there are still plenty of AI stories getting past my filter. It’s just a regex on the titles.

Of course it does. If it’s slop it should be flagged (I say this after reading the edited submission).

In the meantime you can avoid at least some of the slop by using https://hn-ai.org/ or one of the other anti-slop extensions or alternative sites.

Yes.

What a brilliant idea! Of course, of course, it’s not in the repository so I can’t apt-get install it. Debian...always so far behind.

I made some rules: https://lee-phillips.org/humanmade/

I think I draw the line at a place that makes sense. (And mine was first, but I don’t care, as long as the movement takes off.)

I check the NYT every day. There are occasional articles that are truly great examples of journalism. But I cannot stomach the idea of sending any money their way. Their political and cultural biases infect nearly everything they put out, and I find some of these biases repugnant. They are also underhanded at times. Here’s an example:

http://lee-phillips.org/nytIHRA

And the “[sic]” is followed by an incorrect attempt to form a conditional. Both problems arise from the same cause.

The article’s real title is “China is building launch pads near its nuclear missile silos” and doesn’t mention anything about Musk or his dome.

Yeah, I don’t get it either. The command is `git init` and you’re done.

I’ll take your word for it; I’m not familiar with satellite-speak.

But to me,

“In this case, the fuel required to conduct such a maneuver is ~105-106m/sec”

means that they’re talking about a quantity of fuel, but giving a velocity.

What are these units relating the rate of use of fuel: m/s? Is it the velocity of expelled reaction gas?

I share the admiration for the electric typewriters mentioned. This brought back memories.

Nabokov’s writerdeck was a literal deck of index cards, some wooden pencils, and a lectern. Yes, he used a standing desk before it was cool.

Not in NYC. Airbnb is effectively outlawed by regulation there.

I don’t think so. Just in Retraction Watch there have been several similar stories about citation manipulation, perversion of the review process, and so on, in medicine, biology, and other fields. I don’t know whether these ugly practices are becoming more common or whether they are detected more frequently. If the former, it’s another signal of the decay of modern science.