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How big is gaming in linux?

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My path to Linux was similar to yours, except I dealt with Windows 11 for about 6 months before I finally formatted it and replaced it with Pop!_OS in a 1am rage after it completely fucked up for the 87th time that day.

I was shocked to discover that it was even easier to deal with than Windows 11. The last time I used Linux was a decade ago and it was nowhere near as plug-and-play as it is now. Games worked seamlessly. It completely blew me away.

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ChatGPT generates fake data set to support scientific hypothesis

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I think the issue with this is that peer reviewers at academic journals are just regular researchers at regular institutions who are volunteers/voluntold to review things. They don't do forensic examinations of the raw datasets that come across their desk because they're not getting paid to review in the first place, and forensic data examination is a specialized skill anyway. So if the bullshit engines known as LLMs are just convincing enough and can generate supporting data that's just good enough to pass a peer reviewer's smell test, that's going to be a big problem for the whole publishing process worldwide.

I would say that academic journals are going to have to hire data scientists to verify that datasets are genuine before they're sent to reviewers, but that would require them actually spending money to do any work instead of just doing nothing while extorting researchers for billions of dollars in free money, so that's never going to happen.

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