new rabbit hole

I've been holding out against using LLMs, being dubious of their abilities. Stochastic parrots and all that. However, many colleagues who I respect having been telling me they can be useful. One colleague in particular said they could be used to interrogate your own papers before submission, to help find any contradictions or other errors you have overlooked. That does sound useful. So I took the plunge, with GeminiNB, which I have access to. It is a closed system, where you upload the specific documents you want it to examine.First, of course, I read up on prompt enineering and so on. I experimented with a prompt to review my papers, to see what I could make it do. After telling it not to be sycophantic, to write concisely, to be merciless, and more (so much more!) I eventually got it to "reject" one of my own published papers (for a reason that is technically true, but actually unimportant). So, success. I then tried it on a paper I've currently nearly finished writing, and it…

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