With more and more content being generated by AI, it is getting harder to work out how pieces of text have been generated.

This guide on Wikipedia aims to help people by highlighting common catchphrases and other content that can be attributed to Ai.

An interesting article on the BBC ChatGPT: Can students pass using AI tools at university? Examine similar issues further, but it is important for students to understand AI generated text. As they may need to cite research and this research has to be of a certain standard or their own essays are reduced in worth (not monetary) and student / institution reputation can also be impacted. While this is my own opinion, it is based on what I understand about this topic.

In another example, back in the late 80s there was a paper written on cold fusion that was so bad, it was ridiculed by the community and didn't reflect well on the authors.

AI is not going away, so we are going to have to live with it and understand the implications of it being used and apply better methods to ensure what is written is of high academic standard.

On a sort of related note, Critical Thinking Web has some excellent resources on developing these essential skills.

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Tex Live is due for release today, 8th March 2025. Please see their website for updates.

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As I have signed up in the Overleaf beta testing programme, I am able to access new features early. The latest is testing their AI tool to help fix any errors to the LaTeX code.

This is going well so far, and seems a useful feature, especially as LaTeX can throw up problems that are harder to identify at times

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TeX Live 2024 is now available. This is the latest release of the popular LaTeX typesetting system, software, related software, packages, documentation and other related materials and components.

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I have been reading Write an Impactful Research Paper by Martins Zaumanis. This is a fascinating book, while I am not a graduate or even doing post grad work, this book is really informative.

The author is sharing lots of really useful hints and tips from personal experience of publishing, There is a link to both the publisher and the book below.

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I would recommend this book as part of your collection as there are also links to cheat sheets which when taken within the context of the book could be really useful. I say this as cheat sheets are a summary of what is in the book, so reading associated chapters does make sense.

As you are trying to get your research reviewed and published, then it is not worth cutting corners. You can print off the cheat sheets and display for reference.

If anyone is interested, then I can bring my copy to the STEM group, but if you want one, you need to buy your own.;

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I have nearly finished the course, however I seem to have gone past the deadline so my audit period has expired. I just need to complete the section on referencing, indexing and cross-referencing.

To be fair, I can do the above anyway, I do get a little mixed up on cross-referencing, so this section would have been useful for that.

I will get in touch to see if this can be extended for a week or so, so that I can complete.l

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I am still undertaking the EdX LaTeX Course, however one of the useful takeaways so far for me is to use the pdflscape package rather than the lscape package.

I have made a video which illustrates the difference between the two.

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This is just basic usage but it should be enough to get started.

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I have signed up to the LaTeX course IITBombayX: LaTeX for Students, Engineers, and Scientists [1] on the EdX website [2]. I have provided a link to university of Bombay for reference [3]

Looking at the course learning outcomes, I seem to know quite a lot already, however I need to improve how I organise and layout documents.

A while back I undertook an experiment on Acidity of Seawater and how this can be changed with eggshells. I want to go back to the write-up and make it look a much more professional, which I should be able to do with the help of this course.

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TeX Live 2023 is should now be available. This is the latest release of the popular LaTeX typesetting system, software, related software, packages, documentation and other related materials and components.

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