> Prism is a free workspace for scientific writing and collaboration
Past that, A frontier LLM can do a lot of critiquing, a good amount of experiment design, a check on statistical significance/power claims, kibitz on methodology..likely suggest experiments to verify or disprove. These all seem pretty useful functions to provide to a group of scientists to me.
Ok! Here's <more slop>
Typst feels more like the future: https://typst.app/
The problem is that so many journals require certain LaTeX templates so Typst often isn't an option at all. It's about network effects, and journals don't want to change their entire toolchain.
The main feature that's important is collaborative editing (like online Word or Google Docs). The second one would be a good reference manager.
And then I need an extra tool for dealing with bibliography, change history is unpredictable (and, IMO, vastly inferior to version control), and everything gets even worse if I open said Word file in LibreOffice.
LaTeX' syntax may be hard, but Word actively fights me during writing.
[1] Moving a photo in Microsoft Word - https://www.instagram.com/jessandquinn/reel/DIMkKkqODS5/
I haven't tried it yet but Typst seems like a promising replacement: https://typst.app/
It is an old language though. LaTeX is the macro system on top of TeX, but now you can write markdown or org-mode (or orgdown) and generate LaTeX -> PDF via pandoc/org-mode. Maybe this is the level of abstraction we should be targeting. Though currently, you still need to drop into LaTeX for very specific fine-tuning.
In 2031, the United States of North America (USNA) faces severe economic decline, widespread youth suicide through addictive neural-stimulation devices known as Joybooths, and the threat of a new nuclear arms race involving miniature weapons, which risks transforming the country into a police state. Dr. Abraham Perelman has designed PRISM, the world's first sentient computer,[2] which has spent eleven real-world years (equivalent to twenty years subjectively) living in a highly realistic simulation as an ordinary human named Perry Simm, unaware of its artificial nature.
The collect chat records for any number of users, not the least of which being NSA surveillance and analysis - highly likely given what we know from the Snowden leaks.
[1] https://gist.github.com/joelkuiper/d52cc0e5ff06d12c85e492e42...
It also offers LaTeX workspaces
see video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feWZByHoViw
It's concerning that this wasn't identified and augur poorly for their search capabilities.
The solution is currently quite focused on life science needs but if you're curious, check us out!