Joachim Vandekerckhove 🏖️
@joachim.cidlab.com
Professor of #CogSci and #Stats @UCIrvine; Pursuer of Lofty Undertakings; Purveyor of Articles Odd and Quaint; and Protector of the Realm. #blm #trahr he/him
Whatever strategy you’re about to suggest, we’ve thought about it. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
ChatGPT Harm Reduction for Writing Assignments
ChatGPT Harm Reduction for Writing Assignments Because this document has escaped containment, a couple points of explanation. I wrote this for myself and a few colleagues as we work out how to handle...
docs.google.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Eureka had a "scary hot" tater tots that give the Anthill's stoner tots a race for their money, tell you hwat
November 9, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Eureka had a "scary hot" tater tots that give the Anthill's stoner tots a race for their money, tell you hwat
and rightly so
November 8, 2025 at 11:42 PM
and rightly so
Fleming's paper on penicillin has only about 5000 citations
November 7, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Fleming's paper on penicillin has only about 5000 citations
It was this one -- I assume a human reviewer got fooled by my pretty in-house latex template
osf.io/preprints/ps...
osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
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November 6, 2025 at 8:00 PM
It was this one -- I assume a human reviewer got fooled by my pretty in-house latex template
osf.io/preprints/ps...
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Getting worked up just remembering it lol
November 6, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Getting worked up just remembering it lol
I got incredibly pissed when just one of my psyarxiv preprints was retroactively flagged as copyright infringement and moved all my work to AWS the next day. And that flag at least left a tombstone page. I can't imagine what this was like for you.
November 6, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I got incredibly pissed when just one of my psyarxiv preprints was retroactively flagged as copyright infringement and moved all my work to AWS the next day. And that flag at least left a tombstone page. I can't imagine what this was like for you.
Great write-up. I agree this is a concerning episode. Makes one wonder how many dead contributors were filtered from the academic record.
November 6, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Great write-up. I agree this is a concerning episode. Makes one wonder how many dead contributors were filtered from the academic record.
Yeah, proportion of maximum might be interesting to make you feel a little better but it's at best a diagnosis I think
November 5, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Yeah, proportion of maximum might be interesting to make you feel a little better but it's at best a diagnosis I think
A related concept that's probably occurred to you is Spearman's attenuation limit
November 5, 2025 at 4:34 PM
A related concept that's probably occurred to you is Spearman's attenuation limit
If only Cheney had been alive to see this 🥲
November 5, 2025 at 3:31 AM
If only Cheney had been alive to see this 🥲
![XKCD 793
[Cueball stands at a blackboard covered in diagrams, an open laptop and scattered paper at his feet. His fists are balled in anger and there is a little angry squiggle over his head. A Cueball-like physicist stands behind him, arms out in a shrug.]
Physicist: You're trying to predict the behavior of <complicated system>? Just model it as a <simple object>, and then add some secondary terms to account for <complications I just thought of>.
Physicist: Easy, right?
Physicist: So, why does <your field> need a whole journal, anyway?
[Caption below the panel:]
Liberal-arts majors may be annoying sometimes, but there's nothing more obnoxious than a physicist first encountering a new subject.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2ndqg2pxeb45bjhjgtc3z7m4/bafkreieyhofytsyv2lkctn6oh74orkzvgc2toae3vleebdog3avbb7heee@jpeg)