Is the paper you’re reading even real?
Is the paper you’re reading even real?
Boris Gorelik
Founder of Loud Camel, a scholarly-visibility service for researchers. Data scientist, communicator, and lecturer.
Latest posts
Is the ‘world’s top 2% scientists’ list measuring merit or geography?
Is the ‘world’s top 2% scientists’ list measuring merit or geography?
The man who studied delayed recognition, and then suffered it
The man who studied delayed recognition, and then suffered it
Is your hot streak also your most disruptive streak?
Is your hot streak also your most disruptive streak?
Small teams disrupt? Maybe it was never about size
Small teams disrupt? Maybe it was never about size
Is science really running out of disruption?
Is science really running out of disruption?
“Israel’s security is a Palestinian interest”: an interview with Samer Sinijlawi
This autumn Israelis vote at the end of October, and Palestinians vote thirty-one days later. It will be the first Palestinian election in twenty years. So I invited Samer Sinijlawi back to the podcast for the third time.
The machine wasn’t in the room when we voted on “bullshit”
Eight years ago my team lead posted a photo of me giving a talk in Barcelona, and a colleague reacted to it with a pile of poo.
Sixty-five years of “no more programmers”
I use Claude Code every day, and I love it. Ever since the ChatGPT wave of 2022, we have been hearing that the work of programming is about to be automated away. I teach in a computer science department, so I watch it land from the front of the room: fewer students each year want to learn to program, and I hear the same prediction from colleagues who have written code their whole lives.
My Claude super tool is a folder of markdown files
The short version. You’ve paired with an AI coding assistant by now. You know the two faces of it. For ten minutes it’s the sharpest junior engineer you’ve ever worked with. Then it confidently does the wrong thing, because it guessed at something it should have asked you about, and you spend the next hour unwinding the guess. People assume the fix for that is a better model, or a cleverer prompt.…