Dominic Nyhuis
@donyhu.bsky.social
I find it so silly seeing so many articles that claim X percent of ChatGPT answers are wrong. I can create a test where it gets 100 percent of the questions wrong. To me, that's an irrelevant metric. It's on users to understand what good questions are to ask of AI, what good use cases are.
October 30, 2025 at 7:31 AM
I find it so silly seeing so many articles that claim X percent of ChatGPT answers are wrong. I can create a test where it gets 100 percent of the questions wrong. To me, that's an irrelevant metric. It's on users to understand what good questions are to ask of AI, what good use cases are.
So do we think Trump would bail out the banks?
October 14, 2025 at 7:05 PM
So do we think Trump would bail out the banks?
Reading term papers, it occurs to me that there is a massive disconnect between everyone being worried that all student submissions are written by AI and the quality of the papers that I get to read... If students are using AI, I wish they would use it better...
October 5, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Reading term papers, it occurs to me that there is a massive disconnect between everyone being worried that all student submissions are written by AI and the quality of the papers that I get to read... If students are using AI, I wish they would use it better...
So we're all in agreement that copy-editing is dead, right?
September 23, 2025 at 12:44 PM
So we're all in agreement that copy-editing is dead, right?
What a profound blessing it is if you can stay optimistic/positive these days
September 21, 2025 at 3:10 PM
What a profound blessing it is if you can stay optimistic/positive these days
It’s a profound tragedy of our time how many people are apparently angry all the time.
September 21, 2025 at 3:08 PM
It’s a profound tragedy of our time how many people are apparently angry all the time.
I just learned that pigeons can be trained to discriminate between good and bad children's paintings by pecking at the good ones. Brutal.
September 1, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I just learned that pigeons can be trained to discriminate between good and bad children's paintings by pecking at the good ones. Brutal.
I keep hearings that there is a lack of blood donors. Would it be unethical for blood donation organizations to advertise by saying that donating blood reduces PFAS levels in the blood? Seems more effective than advertising by appealing to citizenship.
July 26, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I keep hearings that there is a lack of blood donors. Would it be unethical for blood donation organizations to advertise by saying that donating blood reduces PFAS levels in the blood? Seems more effective than advertising by appealing to citizenship.
It occurs to me that an e-scooter is the vehicle equivalent of a vape in terms of sex appeal.
June 15, 2025 at 8:21 PM
It occurs to me that an e-scooter is the vehicle equivalent of a vape in terms of sex appeal.
Is there any other service like academic publishing where the brand name is all that matters and the quality of the service is absolutely irrelevant?
June 12, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Is there any other service like academic publishing where the brand name is all that matters and the quality of the service is absolutely irrelevant?
How is it possible that despite having ungodly amounts of money, no major journal publisher has been able to develop a decent eproofing platform?
June 11, 2025 at 12:48 PM
How is it possible that despite having ungodly amounts of money, no major journal publisher has been able to develop a decent eproofing platform?
I have a really interesting political science puzzle, to which I don't have a good answer at all. Can somebody please set up the Journal "Political Science Puzzles", so I can get that published?
May 18, 2025 at 9:41 AM
I have a really interesting political science puzzle, to which I don't have a good answer at all. Can somebody please set up the Journal "Political Science Puzzles", so I can get that published?
We gotta stop saying "this lack of political professionalism shouldn't happen in times of the AfD". It's setting an impossible standard for the messiness of real world politics and it strengthens the bizarre reading that somehow anything less than perfect is a validation of the AfD
May 6, 2025 at 1:13 PM
We gotta stop saying "this lack of political professionalism shouldn't happen in times of the AfD". It's setting an impossible standard for the messiness of real world politics and it strengthens the bizarre reading that somehow anything less than perfect is a validation of the AfD
Arrows are the most self-explanatory symbols that have no basis in the physical world
April 27, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Arrows are the most self-explanatory symbols that have no basis in the physical world
The contemporary political right makes a much greater effort to develop a coherent theory for their project, something that was historically true for the left.
April 21, 2025 at 1:06 PM
The contemporary political right makes a much greater effort to develop a coherent theory for their project, something that was historically true for the left.
Do we have a sense that popular TV shows have become more conservative in the last couple of years? No, right? Isn't there a surprising disconnect between culture and society/politics at the present moment? And should we expect TV to become more conservative now?
March 29, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Do we have a sense that popular TV shows have become more conservative in the last couple of years? No, right? Isn't there a surprising disconnect between culture and society/politics at the present moment? And should we expect TV to become more conservative now?
Why aren’t there any successful parties of (new) ethnic minorities in Europe? Shouldn’t there be a market?
March 29, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Why aren’t there any successful parties of (new) ethnic minorities in Europe? Shouldn’t there be a market?
Never stops being a joy to see your delivery truck on a map in real time. What a delightful and pointless feature.
March 21, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Never stops being a joy to see your delivery truck on a map in real time. What a delightful and pointless feature.
Companies printing their Facebook/Instagram/etc. links (along with the logos) on their products is such a huge marketing success for social media companies. I get my bread in a bag with a Facebook logo on it. Everybody sees the logo, even though nobody needs it or wants it.
March 19, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Companies printing their Facebook/Instagram/etc. links (along with the logos) on their products is such a huge marketing success for social media companies. I get my bread in a bag with a Facebook logo on it. Everybody sees the logo, even though nobody needs it or wants it.
I don't understand why so many parties go for a dual leadership. Doesn't that create a whole lot of unnecessary problems?
March 16, 2025 at 8:21 PM
I don't understand why so many parties go for a dual leadership. Doesn't that create a whole lot of unnecessary problems?
Reposted by Dominic Nyhuis
I have encountered the worst footnote.
March 16, 2025 at 8:12 AM
I have encountered the worst footnote.
The notion that science is populated by big egos is probably never more evident than when a reviewer says, you forgot to cite X, Y, Z papers (all by the same author)
March 15, 2025 at 2:08 PM
The notion that science is populated by big egos is probably never more evident than when a reviewer says, you forgot to cite X, Y, Z papers (all by the same author)
The other day I've heard e-mail being compared to a slot machine. I don't know whether that's a common metaphor but man does it ring true. Both the unpredictability of when something might come in and whether it's a winner or not. I suppose people would say the same about social media.
March 12, 2025 at 7:00 AM
The other day I've heard e-mail being compared to a slot machine. I don't know whether that's a common metaphor but man does it ring true. Both the unpredictability of when something might come in and whether it's a winner or not. I suppose people would say the same about social media.
Reposted by Dominic Nyhuis
How it started | How it's going
March 9, 2025 at 6:17 PM
How it started | How it's going
Hypothesis. Rearranging your furniture will generate a boost in creativity. Seeing things from a different perspective.
March 9, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Hypothesis. Rearranging your furniture will generate a boost in creativity. Seeing things from a different perspective.