@Techmeme@techhub.socialAn MIT study of 54 ChatGPT users: using it for SAT essays led to the lowest brain engagement and poorer neural performance than using Google or writing unaided (Andrew R. Chow/Time)
https://time.com/7295195/ai-chatgpt-google-learning-school/
@fgraver@hcommons.socialAI copyediting: how Paperpal butchered my paper on AI-generated writing https://jilltxt.net/ai-copyediting-how-paperpal-butchered-my-paper-on-ai-generated-writing/
@al3x@hachyderm.io@… unsolicited wild thought: what if the per item front-matter would be within an HTML comment?
1. This would allow any Markdown processor to continue to work.
2. Implementation wise, achieving this won't be extremely extensive.
(Context: I implemented over time many Markdown extensions. Most of the time the main struggle was to find the balance between ease of using (as in writing) the new elements and ensuring that tools unware of the new elements won't choke on them.)
@saraislet@infosec.exchangeOne of the problems with vibe coding is that the hardest part of software engineering is not writing the code, rather it's *choosing* what to code, and designing the system (and, later on, maintaining the code/operations/etc)
The barriers and investment cost to writing code is itself a *desirable* aspect of software engineering because it forces you to make careful, good choices before you invest in building something
Because the majority of the time spent writing, say, curl,…
@arXiv_csHC_bot@mastoxiv.pageStorySage: Conversational Autobiography Writing Powered by a Multi-Agent Framework
Shayan Talaei, Meijin Li, Kanu Grover, James Kent Hippler, Diyi Yang, Amin Saberi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14159
@floheinstein@chaos.socialJust received a friend request on Facebook by someone named Peter Waldmeier.
https://www.facebook.com/peter.waldmeier.865
He seemed such a nice person, I think he is a model in a Scandinavian country.
When I asked him why he was sending me a friend request he go…
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotThere are now exactly 365 posts on my blog. So, considering I've been writing it for twenty years, I have a long term average of one post every twenty days, over all that time.
Some of them are good. I'd go further. Some of them are excellent.
https://www.journeyman.cc/blog/
@spamless@mastodon.social
@detondev@social.linux.pizzalearn 👇
@jredlund@social.linux.pizzaIs AI the end of the English Paper?
Recently I read an article in the New Yorker entitled, “What Happens After A.I. Destroys College Writing?” by Hua Hsu, who teaches at Bard College. The demise of the college essay, especially in its five-paragraph format, has been predicted or even advocated for years. However, this time around, the threat is not just to the essay, but to all First Year Writing courses, and perhaps all courses that assign reading and writing.
@deprogrammaticaipsum@mas.to"The overall life expectancy of a programming language has dwindled in the past 56 years. A COBOL developer in the 1960s most probably retired in the 2000s, still writing COBOL. As a former professional VBScript, then C#, then Objective-C, later Swift, and finally Go developer, I can only see this trend accelerating. We should expect our favorite programming language to be replaced and removed from the market in a relatively shorter time every decade."
@relcfp@mastodon.socialCrisis of Writing in the Time of the "Limit-Experience"
https://ift.tt/4ChpT7Z
updated: Thursday, July 17, 2025 - 10:44amfull name / name of organization: Nozomi Irei/Northeast…
via Input 4 RELCFP
@bourgwick@heads.socialtoday's distracting mindblow: samuel delany & karen dalton shared bills at cafe elysee, plus fred neil, tim hardin, & other notables. (can't find any other details/documentation of the west village venue of that name.) https://archive.org/details/motionofli…
@HeidiSeibold@fosstodon.orgHi friends of research software 👋
The @… is running a free workshop on test-driven development on Monday.
https://events.digital-research.academ
@arXiv_condmatmtrlsci_bot@mastoxiv.pageStudying all-optical magnetization switching of GdFe by double-pulse laser excitation
Rahil Hosseinifar, Felix Steinbach, Ivar Kumberg, Jos\'e Miguel Lend\'inez, Sangeeta Thakur, Sebastien E. Hadjadj, Jendrik G\"ordes, Chowdhury S. Awsaf, Mario Fix, Manfred Albrecht, Florian Kronast, Unai Atxitia, Clemens von Korff Schmising, Wolfgang Kuch
@captainborracho@metalhead.clubOh look, my band has a new single out today .. *nudge* *nudge* .. look at it, internet, look at it!
Slight change of pace with this one too, what started in our writing sessions as a prototypical melodeath track went somewhere very different by the time it reached the studio. Different influences were indulged, vocal style swapped, structure tweaked .. Cliché to say it but I'm proud of this one for being a true example of just throwing out the template, not rushing and letting th…
@stargazer@woof.tech#WritersCoffeeClub July 18: Talk about a time your own writing has surprised you.
July 19: What is the difference between a writer and a person who writes?
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1. Typically when I re-read something good I wrote years ago. Goes in the spirit of "Darnit, how comes I was so clever back then?"
2. Semantics.
art: Maud Pie by LilBoulder
@stefanlaser@social.tchncs.de
@arXiv_csSE_bot@mastoxiv.pagevariability.dev: Towards an Online Toolbox for Feature Modeling
Tobias He{\ss}, Lukas Ostheimer, Tobias Betz, Simon Karrer, Tim Jannik Schmidt, Pierre Coquet, Sean Semmler, Thomas Th\"um
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09845
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgSince migrating away from big tech platforms (including Google Drive) I have been using Libreoffice for my writing and presentations.
I often get asked why I do not use OnlyOffice since it looks so much better (especially the web client). Two answers:
- The presentation tools of OnlyOffice are too barebones
But more importantly:
OnlyOffice is a company that seems to be controlled by a Russian guy who invests a lot of time to hide the fact that OnlyOffice is Russian (see…
@nemorosa@mastodon.nu#WritersCoffeeClub 5/27. What is a ‘load-bearing’ part of your non-writerly life that makes writing possible for you?
I have a limited amount of energy and my family comes first, and then obligations that I have to take care of. Work is necessary, not optional.
The time I have left is my spare time. We all have that, an hour or two when we're free.
During that time,…
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.socialI wonder what people do with all that time they save by writing "UR" instead of "you are"?
@YaleDivinitySchool@mstdn.social"Out of pain and righteous anger I took apart the stained glass windows of my childhood faith. Over time I looked more closely at the glass shards at my feet and chose to reconstruct my faith life."
—Sandra L. Fischer ’12 M.Div. writing in the new issue of our journal, Reflections, which addresses whether Christianity is losing its religion.
@evemassacre@assemblag.esI have always been a copyright sceptic but I wouldn't have wished AI to be the force to crash it. Time to think for new models of how to keep writing and music alive. Maybe a society deciding to prioritize guaranteeing giving everyone the possibility of a safe basic income, food, housing and health care instead of forcing them into competition hell could help? Maybe?
@GroupNebula563@mastodon.social @groupnebula563@mastodon.social
@frankel@mastodon.topThis review is about Writing for Developers by Piotr Sarna and Cynthia Dunlop from Manning.
I started this blog as a hobby 17 years ago, in April 2008. At the time, I had no clue about technical writing.Since then, the landscape has changed a lot, to the point that companies hire for technical writer positions.
I was curious to compare what I learned by doing to the structured approach of a book. Here’s my review.
@gedankenstuecke@scholar.socialThe writing that Creative Commons is also "AI"-pilled has been on the wall for a while, and here we are are, wasting time and money on some useless signalling to "AI" scrapers that already don't care for any existing limitations…
https://creativecommons.org/2025/06/25/introducing-cc-signals-a-new-social-contract-for-the-age-of-ai/
@seeingwithsound@mas.toHow many peer-reviewed scientific papers exist about the Neuralink Blindsight brain implant for the blind? [Spoiler: 0 at the time of writing] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Neuralink Blindsight&sort=date vs The vOICe
@hippyjo@c.imFor those in San Jose: July 4th at Plaza de Cesar Chavez park:
#sanJose
@davidshq@hachyderm.io"I rejoice greatly that I find there is patience in my soul for quite a long time yet, that I desire no earthly possessions, and need nothing but books, the possibility of writing, and of being daily for a few hours alone."
- Fyodor Dostoevsky in Letters of Fyodor Dostoevsky (trans. Ethel Colburn Mayne)
Ohh, is that all?
#books #writing #reading #dostoevsky #solitude
@tgpo@social.linux.pizzaWife and I finished watching #PersonOfInterest for the 2nd time.
Fun series.
There are some goofy moments, but the middle stretch of episodes are solid. Great writing and pacing!
#tv #tvseries
@mapcar@mastodon.sdf.org“As is the case with reading and writing a language, code is one of those things where if you don’t use it, you lose it. Early studies indicate that humans who use A.I. could become less creative over time.”
Early studies link: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3706598.3714198
@arXiv_astrophSR_bot@mastoxiv.pageThe Sunspot Solar Observatory Data Archive: Continuing Operations at the Dunn Solar Telescope
Sean G. Sellers, Juie Shetye, Damian J. Christian, David B. Jess, Peter H. Keys, Gordon A. MacDonald, R. T. James McAteer, Jason Jackiewicz, Colin Hancock, Michael S. Thompson, Jamey E. Eriksen, Sara Jeffreys
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.…
@nemorosa@mastodon.nu#WritersCoffeeClub 5/27. What is a ‘load-bearing’ part of your non-writerly life that makes writing possible for you?
I have a limited amount of energy and my family comes first, and then obligations that I have to take care of. Work is necessary, not optional.
The time I have left is my spare time. We all have that, an hour or two when we're free.
During that time,…
@arXiv_csSE_bot@mastoxiv.pageACE: Automated Technical Debt Remediation with Validated Large Language Model Refactorings
Adam Tornhill, Markus Borg, Nadim Hagatulah, Emma S\"oderberg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03536
@shoppingtonz@mastodon.socialSo I spent a lot of time writing a post...which I think was kinda irrelevant but I wrote it due to me being excited with a Mastodon feature.
This can be seen in this screenshot I'm adding here:
Not a complaint comment: It would make more sense to me if the Fedi users showing up were mutual follows...just saying! No judgement!
#Mastodon
@davidshq@hachyderm.io"I rejoice greatly that I find there is patience in my soul for quite a long time yet, that I desire no earthly possessions, and need nothing but books, the possibility of writing, and of being daily for a few hours alone." - Fyodor #Dostoevsky, letter to N. D. Fonvisin, March 1854.
#books #solitude #writing #quotes
