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I did very much appreciate your appreciation. Mostly though I was just a bit more thorough than others would be. If I was clever at all, it was only in identify
by reaperman 3y ago
I did very much appreciate your appreciation. Mostly though I was just a bit more thorough than others would be. If I was clever at all, it was only in identifying what exactly would be best to copy/paste. I keyed in on 'Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English' and 'Michigan Corpus of Upper-Level Student Papers' on this page[0] and the simplest copy/paste google searches led me directly to the UMich page for the datasets which share that exact name[1].
I did notice the rest of the details were identical, but honestly had already lost good-faith and stopped 'evaluating' once I saw the perfectly matching dataset names. I have very little faith in the tech / SaaS industry, and generally I am quick to assume people are grifters. Particularly for sites with no social proof established by reputation from a wide userbase and a convincing 'about us' with actual people's bios and real contact information.
I get irrationally angry about for-profit license violations of 'free-ish' intellectual property, because of how hard capitalists come down on people like Aaron Swartz, Kim Dotcom, and scores of teenagers using Napster or Bittorrent when I was young. So I plunge a bit deeper into them than is rational. I strongly identify with superficially irrational efforts like Naomi Wu's[2].
0: https://archive.is/QLqZT https://archive.is/QLqZT / https://llm-academic-speech-data.catalystresearch.io/ https://llm-academic-speech-data.catalystresearch.io/
1: https://lsa.umich.edu/eli/language-resources/micase-micusp.html https://lsa.umich.edu/eli/language-resources/micase-micusp.h...
2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj04MKykmnQ&vl=en https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj04MKykmnQ&vl=en