Ergo
Concordantly
Vis-à-vis
Comprehensive…
Real-world applications…
Promising…
Sometime I feel that research is just a bunch of guys trying to sell useless stuff (myself included).
A bit of a more serious comment on that: knowledge is never useless. Many, maybe most, researchers agree with that. It’s why we do what we do. Publishers and sources of funding (be they third party or governmental), however, disagree. So we have to sell them on the importance of our research this way.
“Knowledge is never useless”
Going on a tangent here: While I fully agree with the above, there is an amount of knowledge after which fact checking becomes bothersome, and some people just skip fact checking overall. One could argue that, while knowledge is never useless, unchecked knowledge might become bothersome or dangerous.
See flatearthers, scientology, etc. for extreme examples.
Depends. What’s your field?
This one comment of 4 words triggers me so hard that it momentarily stumped me
How about this one: ‘Useless doesn’t mean valueless’
Thoughts?
Condensed matter - basic research. No actual real world applications, independently of what the abstracts/introductions may claim.
I get a full on boner whenever someone uses “thusly” in a sentence. Such a great word.
what are your thoughts on “whence”?
It’s a big w for hence
If you suffix it with “forth” I’m in, you son of a bitch
I misread that as prefix and, honestly, forthwhence doesn’t sound half bad.
I fucking love “thereto” and “therein”, alwo “which” and “whence” and things like that, such simple words that make sentences less awkward
Does it have to be used correctly? If not, i could thusly use it incorrectly, possibly?
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Me: Polish my abstract:
“The development of …”
ChatGPT: "Wypoleruj moje streszczenie…”
#shittyskynet
Hitherto!
a stunning %0.1 improvement in prediction accuracy
Perchance?
you can’t just say perchance
I have a visceral reaction to words like elucidate, and other fluff. My writing has to be very to the point, and technically accurate. Because of this, I carve up drafts from juniors like a Thanksgiving turkey.
Most “professional” writing is just a bunch of phrases interspersed with a few chunks of information.
I’m involved with bidding and grant proposal stuff for software and it’s 90% empty words. I draw two diagrams and a page of text, sales deletes 60% of the text, misinterprets the rest and then puffs it up to 30 pages.
It doesn’t have to be like that. Sure, context is important, but parroting phrases or other crap that the client has in the RFP is bullshit. They don’t want you blowing smoke up their ass, they want a technically sound product that addresses the exact issues they asked you to address. They also want you to show them how you’re going to get there, and achieve the objectives they set out.
I realize you’re on the tech side; I’m just venting my frustrations with the corporate/PM spheres.
I thankfully don’t have to deal with RFPs anymore, but when I did, I’d either go line-by-line or ignore the prospect’s text entirely. There is an in-between, but it’s wishy-washy crowd-pleasing nonsense, and even the people entrenched in those bureaucracies see straight through it.
That, and parroting makes it sound like you don’t know what they want, or that you’re stupid, and the best that you could come up with is their own text with slight variation
Doing the Lord’s work. The longer I work in academia, the more radical I become about keeping it simple.
It’s heartening to see comments like this. Busybody buzzwords and marketing maneuvering infiltrating real scientific study has been a hallmark of the de-intellectualisation of society for a long time, in my mind.
Your writing could use a little polishing.
I’d like to see someone hand an LLM as many abstract sections as they can possibly find, and then have it generate the most generic, meaningless, fluff piece abstract/grant proposal/possibly silicon valley startup loan application, the world has ever seen.
