Adventures in using AI to write papers

Until recently I had only used the AI tools pay-as-you-go, but lately I have been experimenting with the $20 monthly subscription. So I ended up with extra credits to burn. I would periodically just set the AI tools on writing papers I have wanted to write for quite some time. Here are some of those experiments. Of these, the Crime Decomposition paper is the only one I spent more than a day on. (And that was mostly because it was running models that originally took 10+ hours and then would fail, until I had it switch the model to one that was much faster.) Optimal Search Paths – this is a project around drawing optimal search paths when you have a smooth surface where an object is likely to be found. It was motivated by a paper from Kim Rossmo on likely locations of a lost hiker based on cell tower pings and hypothetically using a drone to search Joshua Tree for that hiker. CrimeDecomp – so this is an update of my monitoring volatile homicide paper, just extended to all major UCR…