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"A survey of knowledge organization systems of research fields: Resources and challenges"

This paper aims to present a comprehensive survey of the current knowledge organization systems (KOS) for academic disciplines.

semanticscholar.org/paper/A-Su

Reviewer comments on this paper:
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**Delving into LLM-assisted writing in biomedical publications through excess vocabulary**

"_We study vocabulary changes in more than 15 million biomedical abstracts from 2010 to 2024 indexed by PubMed and show how the appearance of LLMs led to an abrupt increase in the frequency of certain style words. This excess word analysis suggests that at least 13.5% of 2024 abstracts were processed with LLMs._"

Dmitry Kobak et al., Delving into LLM-assisted writing in biomedical publications through excess vocabulary. Sci. Adv.11, eadt3813 (2025). DOI: doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adt3813.

2025 Computer Science predictions Pt1.

“Hindsight may cloud our judgement, but, as with all skills, improvements are possible with determined practice.

By constraining ourselves to forward-thinking, falsifiable predictions, we can at least measure progress (or lack thereof).”

#ComputerScience #Predictions / #Thread / #LaurieWired <hypertextgarden.com/p/2025-pre> / <youtube.com/watch?v=3xcwoWF5H1>

Hypertext Garden · 2025 Predictions Thread (Part 1)By LaurieWired

Came across Seymour Papert's "Teaching Children Thinking" essay:

citejournal.org/volume-5/issue]

(thanks @ColinTheMathmo for the better link)

It captures almost exactly my philosophy of education, teaching, computing, and so on.

I want to quote so much of it! Here's just one:

"The purpose of this essay is to present a grander vision of an educational system in watch technology is used not in the form of
machines for processing children but as something the child himself will learn to manipulate, to extend, to apply to projects, thereby gaining a greater and more articulate mastery of the world, a sense of the power
of applied knowledge and a self-confidently realistic image of himself as an intellectual agent."

I'm surprised at how the article -- from 1971! -- describes so many of the programming-like things available today. So much of the play-oriented things we have now -- games like Robot Turtles, various robots that do path-following things -- are exactly what they were doing over half a century ago.

citejournal.orgTeaching Children Thinking – CITE Journal

I asked a Harvard postdoc a bunch of questions. These are the key takeaways:
:blobcoffee: The fundamentals still matters: math, statistics, coding & logic.
:blobcoffee: We need critical thinking & abstract reasoning.
:blobcoffee: Combining two disciplines leads to exciting projects and connections we couldn’t even imagine before.
:blobcoffee: A stay abroud is often an experience that changes more than our CV - they leave a mark in our mindset.
:blobcoffee: Two days in a postdoc's life rarely look exactly the same: Writing papers, training AI models, giving talks at conferences or running project meetings.
:blobcoffee: Success in research is more like a marathon with long phases without immediate feedback or visible success

-> Grab the full article: medium.com/ai-advances/ai-canc

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#career #careergrowth #careeradvice
#scientists #research #researcher #AI #ki #computerscience #KI #datascience #datascientist #python #harvard #student

AI Advances · AI, Cancer Cells & a Master’s Student’s Journey to a Harvard PostdocBy Sarah Lea