New blog post -- I think academics should self publish textbooks. Can set the price, format as you want, and update as you please. Using AI to help with those steps makes it even easier.

IMO they should spend more time just ensuring the basic integrity of the work they publish, veruscite.com/blog/springer-…. This applies the same to a human or an AI robot.

I have updated my Crime De-Coder store (migrated off of WooCommerce to my own custom Stripe/Lulu print api solution) Check it out. Good coupons currently are TWOFOR1 ($30 off if you purchase two books). SIXPRINT, $20 off llm print book, XISMONTHSEPUB for $30 off LLM epub

Another example of the synth app in action.

Part of the difficulty in writing a book on LLM APIs is that they change so often. LLMs for Mortals is 6 months out, and I wrote a recap of updates needed so the book recompiles (mostly just newer model strings). But a few things probably by next year will need to be changed in the book. AWS uses a token now, should update with some of the newer open source models (and show calling from Databricks or Baseten US endpoints). And may need to take out sections on temperature and logprobs. See blog post for promo code for EPUB and print versions of the book.

Quick blog post based on some the recent @cremieuxrecueil posts on the prevalence of hallucinated citations (which are often around 1% of citations in recent preprint servers). I think these are likely underestimates, as those papers only check titles. I did a quick coding for some of the recent papers in my hall of hallucinations, and close to half would not have been caught just looking at the titles. Totally wrong authors are the most common example. So it might be twice as bad as people are estimating!

Newest blog post (I am lazy and just had AI write it from my notes full disclosure). If criminologists do not disclose data and code for synthetic control designs, they can easily fake the model fit to provide whatever results you want. Here are three fake results for Gascon's tenure in LA as a prosecutor on thefts.

In another one of this fellow's paper, he cites an article about pets and Hurricane Katrina. The rub is the article does not exist, and even if it did, was published in 2001.