rastinza @rastinza@social.cleverlibre.org

@KellyKellyKelly@masto.ai Yes, you can go on and ask more specific questions even about very recent topics. The amount of mistakes grows with the specificity and novelty of the investigated topic.

Of course before doing this I used it on some topics I'm more adept of. Yesterday I asked it a series of more specific questions about a novel topic: machine learning based de novo molecular structure generation for drug design. This is a fairly new research field, with the first article published around 2017. It did give a broad overview of the topic, listing some of the methodologies that have been used and developed. Several errors were present, but with a bit of critical reading and validation you could quickly draft a list of most significant innovations in the field.
The last and most specific question I was able to ask was a list of the research groups working in the field and what they focus on. The list was very incomplete and contained research groups working on other related fields, but some of the groups listed were actually relevant; it was able to give me the names of some of the persons working in each group, the location and a brief overview of what they do.
I don't know if other groups are here on Mastodon, but I'll mention @aspuru since his group was correctly listed by chatgpt, as well as their involvement with SELFIES and PASITHEA.

I mean, 5 minutes ago I didn't know what an MTT assay was. It was what I had in mind and what I was more or less searching for, but had no specific idea of how it worked and what it was.
Now I know what it is and I know where to find specific information about the methodology if I need to.
And I even had the time to write this post...

Normally, I'd have to find a review about these methodologies and skim through it to find the one I was interested in.

I'd say it is quite useful to quickly get a birds eye view of a topic.
Do you trust anything written in there? Obviously not, but you can find a lot of useful keywords related to a topic you know nothing about and save yourself quite some time.

#chatgpt

@hasmis I frankly didn't understand what you meant. I have noticed American people often don't realize the world is vast and that many people are not adept to the social and political mechanisms that are normal over there. I have asked you to explain what you said, I don't see why you should insult me by implying I'm locked in my ideology and I'm not willing to listen to different opinions.
Now, I'm interested in this lawyer cartel. Would you explain what you mean?

@hasmis What do you mean?

I didn't know about all this thing, never seen anything about it on local newspapers.
Johnson and Johnson had been sued by several people because apparently some of the baby powder it sold contained asbestos, which led to several young people developing cancer.
Recently, the company opened a spin off and gave it ownership of that product, and with it the legal liability. That company filed bankruptcy, thus victims will not be compensated.

Quite disgusting story. Shame on the USA governments allowing companies to behave in such a way.
I found out the company is in one market index I own; I'm considering selling that and getting something else.
https://www.npr.org/2022/09/19/1123567606/johnson-baby-powder-bankruptcy-lawsuits

#Johnson #company #fraud

@Mcx83 @donatacolumbro I can clearly see that China is the big problem here.

@johncarlosbaez It is a highly interconnected network, this makes is much less dense than what it could be.
I have not worked in this field, but I do imagine there are materials which are much more packed than this.
I imagine nobody ever observed packings denser than that, but there may be different types of packing available or some materials might be designed specifically to increase the packing.

@johncarlosbaez Oh, damn. Could this packing problem be improved by experimental findings? I know we discuss packing a lot in chemistry, but that's mostly from the observation of crystal structures. And generally they use spherical models for the atoms. I know nothing about it, but I guess someone might be studying the packing of some compound forming tetrahedras like quartz, maybe a little bit less interconnected.

@johncarlosbaez Wow, extremely cool! Though I'll give it to Aristotle, with the things he might have had to pack, such a density does equate complete packing.

@xtaldave How did they even come up with the idea? Next time I'll add vim among the authors, after all its contribution was fundamental in the writing process and we could argue he even did 100% of it.

@Yaku Ma gli indirizzi mail supportano unicode? Perché ci piacerebbe un bel 🐗@yaku.com

@aljazeera Nice article, but I would not equate companies exploiting their workers and the internet being more and more controlled by commercial companies.
These are not the same thing, in some cases there is a correlation between the two but this doesn't mean they're the same thing.
Moreover, it feels a bit of a stretch to imply that chatgpt is being developed with the objective to commercially dominate the internet; especially when it is being developed by a non profit organization.

@hackernews@die-partei.social How this guy ruined the economy and made hundreds of people lose their job. I guess that's what they'd say if he was to come up with such an idea after they already started producing the more expensive alternative.