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Publié in Front Matter

This week I updated the submission form for the Rogue Scholar science blog archive to clarify that participating blogs can't be journals (or books). Journals and journal articles have many similarities to blogs and blog posts, but they are something different, and out of scope for the Rogue Scholar science blog archive. One feature that can differentiate a journal from a blog is that journals often have volumes and issues.

I know this is hardly news any more, but here is a particularly spectacular example of a Large Language model (“artificial intelligence”) making mistake after mistake. My question: Who described Xenoposeidon, when and where?

Publié in The Ideophone
Auteur Mark Dingemanse

Writing is thinking. The writing process is the most neglected part of our job. We spend millions on fancy equipment and uncountable hours on training for using this or that toolkit. Yet we assume the BA-level academic writing course we once followed is sufficient; the rest we’ll just learn on the job and hopefully soon we’ll automate away with LLMs. It is all formulaic anyway.

I have a new paper out: Bas, A., Kay, K., Labovitz, J., and Wedel, M.J. 2024. New double and multiple variants of fibularis tertius. Extremitas 11: 111-118. This is a straight human anatomy paper, with a dual origin. But first let me tell you a little about the fibularis tertius muscle.

Publié in LIBREAS.Library Ideas
Auteur Karsten Schuldt

Wenn sich im Juni 2024 die Bibliotheksszene des DACH-Raums in Hamburg auf der BiblioCon treffen wird, ist auch die Redaktion der LIBREAS. Library Ideas dabei (zumindest zum Teil). Gerne treffen wir dort auf unsere Leser*innen und Autor*innen. Offenes Treffen (05.06.2024) Am Abend des Mittwoch trifft sich die Redaktion LIBREAS.

Auteur Aaron Tay

As academic search engines and databases incorporate the use of generative AI into their systems, an important concept that all librarian should grasp is that of retrieval augmented generation (RAG).   You see it in use in all sorts of "AI products" today from chatbots like Bing Copilot, to Adobe's Acrobat Ai assistant that allow you to chat with your PDF.