Metamaterials for Analog Optical Computing
Novel metamaterial-based architectures offer a promising platform for building mass-producible, reprogrammable schemes that perform computing tasks with light.
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ChatGPT "contamination": estimating the prevalence of LLMs in the scholarly literature
The use of ChatGPT and similar Large Language Model (LLM) tools in scholarly communication and academic publishing has been widely discussed since they became easily accessible to a general audience in late 2022. This study uses keywords known to be disproportionately present in LLM-generated text to provide an overall estimate for the prevalence of LLM-assisted writing in the scholarly literature. For the publishing year 2023, it is found that several of those keywords show a distinctive and disproportionate increase in their prevalence, individually and in combination. It is estimated that at least 60,000 papers (slightly over 1% of all articles) were LLM-assisted, though this number could be extended and refined by analysis of other characteristics of the papers or by identification of further indicative keywords.
Robert P Crease and Gino Elia celebrate the centenary of the prediction of Bose–Einstein condensation
Andras Kornai Not long ago, it came to my attention that a 2016 paper by my students and me, “Measuring Semantic Similarity Of Words Using Concept Networks,” had been plagiarized,…
Might There Be No Quantum Gravity After All?
A proposed model unites quantum theory with classical gravity by assuming that states evolve in a probabilistic way, like a game of chance.
Pleading emails requesting papers are regular visitors to one’s inbox. These unsolicited and flattering requests promise rapid publication and tempt authors to part with their work. Even master’s a…
Since I retired, an increasing amount of my time has been taken up with investigating scientific fraud. In recent months, I've become co...
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023 to Bawendi, Brus and Ekimov for discovery and synthesis of quantum dots
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023 was awarded to Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Alexei I. Ekimov “for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots”
Researchers Capture Gravitational-Wave Background with Pulsar “Antennae”
Four independent collaborations have spotted a background of gravitational waves that passes through our Galaxy, opening a new window on the astrophysical and cosmological processes that could produce such waves.
Richard Wolin shows how Martin Heidegger’s literary executors manipulated his manuscripts to disguise and downplay the philosopher’s antisemitism....