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Academic, technical, and nonfiction editor, specializing in computer science, ML, AI, economics, finance, and related fields. Member EFA, ACES Home: www.wordsbywes.ink Email: [email protected]
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One danger of embracing generative AI as a learning device and in language assistance is that you're letting the keepers of that AI have power over what you learn and how you write. It will be programmed with biases, unintentional but often *quite* intentional, that you will unknowingly adopt.

submitted 12 days ago • 32 comments

Very interesting thread on what makes some fonts more readable than others.

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

forgo = to go without forego = to go before That you'll choose the wrong one doesn't have to be a foregone conclusion — a conclusion that is reached before examination or argument even takes place. #amediting

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Last week, the U.S. Copyright office released the second part of its report on how generative AI and copyright law intersect. In short, nothing has really changed in their view: Work must be produced by humans to qualify for copyright. #LLMs #GenAI #Copyright www.wordsbywes.ink/a... 1/6

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

I was just reminded that Microsoft Word's change tracking can create gaps in footnote numbers. I knew that happens when footnotes are moved. I didn't know it also happens when punctuation before a note marker changes. Here's how to avoid that. #AmEditing #MicrosoftWord www.wordsbywes.ink/a...

submitted 36 days ago • 2 comments

Editing a health humanities essay this week I was reflecting on how my *confusion* has matured. It used to feel like a failure of comprehension; I've reframed it as a 🎁 to my writer by asking *why* I'm confused and what would change that. Be curious even about yourself! #amediting #academicediting

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Has anyone figured out how to turn off this stupid AI error assist that Overleaf added? On top of it breaking my client agreements if I accidently click it, it's a horrible waste of screen real estate. Half of the error log is now taken up by this. #TexLaTeX #Overleaf

submitted 38 days ago • 2 comments

Did you know you can limit search and replace in a Word document to specific parts of the document, like the footnotes or comments? I just found this out, and it was a huge timesaver for cleaning up a bunch of footnotes. www.wordsbywes.ink/a... #AmEditing

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

EFA members: Tell us what you edit or what editorial service you provide. Reply here to this post. #AmEditing #editors #editor #editorial

submitted 42 days ago • 39 comments

Bucking the trend of companies breaking our editing tools, the OED has (finally) increased their session timeout. I stayed logged in all day yesterday, but it didn't last overnight. Oddly, they made the longer sessions opt-in. #AmEditing

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

OKAY. Here is how to actually turn off Gemini AI for your google workspace! 1) contact google support from admin panel and keep asking for a supervisor/to speak to a person. 2) ask them to enable settings in "Gemini for google workspace" 3) turn it off. I just did this and it worked.

submitted 45 days ago • 85 comments

I just realized that, in an amazing feat of foresight, I never turned updates back on for Microsoft Office after their last fiasco.

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

We can argue about “data”, but “criteria” is fucking PLURAL and I will die on this hill. One criterion, two criteria, red criterion, blue criterion.

submitted 52 days ago • 16 comments

Really good thread from Dr Birhane. I also struggle to find actual, beneficial use cases for LLMs. There's always a "would be great for X except Y" and the Y is always someone being harmed.

submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment

Writing 100 times on the chalkboard: "I will not offer to format a Google Doc". #AmEditing

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

THREAD This Is The Story Of The The Pernicious Rise of AI-Generated Papers and their Online Impact An Incomplete History Told In The Voice of Documentarian Adam Curtis 1/31

submitted 74 days ago • 29 comments