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Books, articles, papers, courses, videos, podcasts, and reports I have read, watched or listened to, with a note on each saying why I kept it.

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The first page of the paper Delving into LLM-assisted writing in biomedical publications through excess vocabulary, by Dmitry Kobak and 3 co-authors, with its abstract and introduction.

Paper

Delving into LLM-assisted writing in biomedical publications through excess vocabulary (opens elsewhere)

Dmitry Kobak, Rita González-Márquez, Emőke-Ágnes Horvát, and Jan Lause

“Delve” is on my list of words I don’t use, and this study shows why it belongs there. The researchers counted which words took off in medical abstracts after ChatGPT arrived, and “delves” jumped the most. By their count, at least 13.5% of 2024’s abstracts went through an LLM.

Also Science Advances (opens elsewhere)

The first page of the paper Dark Patterns at Scale: Findings from a Crawl of 11K Shopping Websites, by Arunesh Mathur and 6 co-authors, with its abstract.

Paper

Dark Patterns at Scale (opens elsewhere)

Arunesh Mathur and others

This paper gave my glossary the academic names for the tricks shopping sites play on you. The team crawled about 11,000 stores and found countdown timers that reset when you reload and low-stock alerts on a schedule. Many came from companies that sell them as add-ons, so if you build stores, check what your add-ons put on the page.