A few years ago a student told me their hobby was "resin casting." I had to look it up. I was familiar with woodworkers filling holes in big wood slabs to make cool tables, and mesmerizing resin woodturning videos (www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Cu4...) but covering stuff in plastic for fun - new to me.

We didn't use this ad from 3 Systems for copyright reasons, but it shows the company playing with the tension between woodwork (natural, artisinal, virtuous!) and epoxy (artificial, industrial, maybe not something to be so proud of).

ChatGPT did find the error with further prompting, but then made other unrequested substitutions. There is no prompt-engineering out of this. LLMs cannot do basic things that researchers actually need (fast OCR and text clean-up that's more usable than the formatting mess Adobe typically produces)

Looks amazing! If there are any student favorites in the Edible Series, let us know!

(as a special treat for #luddites , the conference will be low-tech: no projectors or powerpoints unless you bring your own, or force the room to huddle around a laptop)