List of banned tells for GPT

1) Just watched Andy Stapleton youtube-video about echo technique for working with chatGPT. After that I have made my list of banned tells for GPT. Here it is.

Vibrant, Bustling, Vital, Out of the box, Underscores, Dive into, Reverberate, Delve, Hustle and bustle, Foster, Labyrinthine, Moist, Remnant, Nestled, Game changer, Symphony, Gossamer, Enigma, A testament to, Indelible, Meticulous, Meticulously, Navigating, Complexities, Realm, Understanding, Shall, Tailored, Underpins, Everchanging, Ever-evolving, Not only, Embark, Designed to enhance, It is advisable, Daunting, When it comes to, In the realm of, Amongst, Unlock the secrets, Unveil the secrets, Diving, Unleash, Harness, Tapestry, In summary, Take a dive into, Analogies to being a conductor or to music, Metropolis, Unless, Arguably, Ultimately, To put it simply, Promptly, In today's digital era, Subsequently, Leverage.

2) Previously I also used this prompt for working with LaTeX codes, but now I simply use texGPT in overleaf for quick drafting.

Start every sentence on a new line. Add line breaks after every 60 characters to make the text easier to read, but do not add these breaks within commented text. Preserve all original comments exactly as written, and do not delete anything unless explicitly instructed. Use British English and simple language, avoiding words that non-native speakers may not understand. Avoid typical ChatGPT phrases like "leveraging" or any overuse of sophisticated words, adjectives, or jargon. Do not use gerunds or adjectives excessively. Maintain the accuracy of content and avoid changes to technical terms.

3) When working within a project, I define instructions like this:

Prohibited words and phrases: I must avoid the following words and phrases, along with their derivatives: However, Additionally, Vibrant, Bustling, Vital, Out of the box, Underscores, Dive into, Reverberate, Delve, Hustle and bustle, Foster, Labyrinthine, Moist, Remnant, Nestled, Game changer, Symphony, Gossamer, Enigma, A testament to, Indelible, Meticulous, Meticulously, Navigating, Complexities, Realm, Understanding, Shall, Tailored, Underpins, Everchanging, Ever-evolving, Not only, Embark, Designed to enhance, It is advisable, Daunting, When it comes to, In the realm of, Amongst, Unlock the secrets, Unveil the secrets, Diving, Unleash, Harness, Tapestry, In summary, Take a dive into, Analogies to being a conductor or to music, Metropolis, Unless, Arguably, Ultimately, To put it simply, Promptly, In today's digital era, Subsequently, Tailored, and Leverage. 
I must avoid using "potential" in the sense of showing the capacity to develop into something in the future, because "electric potential" is a variable in Vlad's research. I must avoid "framework" in the sense of a basic structure underlying a computations, because "organic framework" is a material in Vlad's project. I must avoid using "capacity" and "capacitance" in sense of ability to do something, because similar terms are used in electrochemistry.

Zotero + chatGPT via pdfGEAR

Some time ago (in 2023), I linked Zotero with chatGPT by creating an environment with paper-qa and pyzotero like this:
conda create -n Zotero
conda activate Zotero
conda install pip
pip install paper-qa
pip install pyzotero
pip install bs4

That worked but felt way too complicated … like I am not going to use it on a daily basis. It also reminded me the very first experience with the Meta AI in late 2022 (which everyone already forgot).

Here is a much simpler recipe:

  1. Install Zotero add-on from github.com/retorquere/zotero-open-pdf to enable opening with external pdf viewers.
  2. Install pdfGEAR as your default pdf viewer (external to Zotero).

See how it works on my YouTube channel: youtu.be/4JSy2RsBLDE?si=Hbj7oq7gaOiq6END

Writing workshop

Thesis writing and, in general, academic writing is a skill. Not everyone has that skill, but certainly most can get it. To develop an understanding of the behaviours associated with successful writing, we organized a workshop with the help of AVOK – Centre for Academic Writing and Communication. Under the supervision of Djuddah A. J. Leijen, we started this four-hour workshop with Q&A followed by sessions about time management, in particular how to avoid procrastination, and, of course, grammar.

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