Wes Cowley

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Academic, technical, and nonfiction editor, specializing in computer science, ML, AI (policy, legal, and technical), economics, finance, math, statistics, and related fields. Member EFA, ACES Home: www.wordsbywes.ink Email: wes@wordsbywes.ink

Graph from Adam's post that shows CoPilot's fabricated breakdown of job fields by country. An example row shows for the US 48% in Tech, 31% in Public Sector, 44% in Healthcare, 42% in Business, and 12% in Arts.
Quote from NPR article saying, incorrectly, "Changing the Constitution requires a two-thirds vote in Congress or a constitutional convention — which 34 states need to request. Given the congressional deadlock — not to mention how the country is divided politically — the prospect of this appears slim." The issue is it's also takes 3/4 of states to ratify an amendment that 2/3 of Congress vote to propose.
A screenshot of Overleaf's AI feature toggle on the account settings page. The "Error Assist" and "Writefull" features are controlled by a single "Enable AI features" button.
A screenshot from Overleaf showing a typical LaTeX warning with an equal amount of screen space taken up by their new AI error assist button and the text "You have 1 free suggestion left."
A screenshot of Microsoft Word's advanced find dialog box. The Find In option is selected, showing the four portions that search can be limited to: the main document, the headers and footers, the footnotes, and the comments. On the screenshot, red arrows point to the Find In menu and the Footnotes option.
A screenshot of the login dialog for Oxford English Dictionary, showing a new checkbox with the prompt "Stay signed in for longer (personal devices only)"
Citations 35-47 from https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2024.10.197 where the authors say were added at the strong request of the reviewers despite not being relevant to the paper.
When a long variable like ScaledIncome is written directly in math, poor kerning results. The first line of the image shows extra space between the capital I and the lowercase n. This space is removed when the variable is placed in a mathit command, as is shown in the second line of the image.