Björn Baumeier

@treeeggs.bsky.social

🏳️‍🌈 Associate Professor | Computational Quantum and Molecular Dynamics | Eindhoven University of Technology

I bought Emily Wilson’s translation of “The Odyssey”. I’d usually buy at my local bookstore but they had a two month delivery time, so I bought at Amazon for the first time in ages. Was also suspiciously cheap but now that it arrived I know why. What a crap quality. #booksky

Holding the book showing the bad print quality. Page of the book with bad paper quality.

The "AI" responses that Google gives about me and my work are consistently error-prone, which I know because I am me. If I know Google's "AI" responses give incorrect answers about things I know about, I can't trust it to give correct answers about things I don't know. So, no, I don't use it.

John Gordon (Faughnan) 🇨🇦🇩🇰@johngordon.bsky.social · 10mo ago

I’m surprised you don’t use ai answer engines in research you currently do with Google

A lovely day at which we sent off one revision of a manuscript, only to receive four hours later reports for another paper, where you wonder if the reviewer even read the paper 😒

My professional 2024 in review. - 5 published peer reviewed papers - 1 book chapter - 3 preprints - 1 PhD defended - 1 submitted PhD thesis - 2 submitted proposals (one fail, one pending) - 1 rejected workshop proposal 1/2

Here’s a Christmas present for y’all: a new physics post! I’ve done these things on “the other side”—let’s see how many people are interested on 🦋! I’ll be talking about a famous principle in classical mechanics: that of “least action.” And I’ll tell you why it’s a misnomer! Buckle up! 1/26

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