Thursday, August 24, 2023

And today in one of the stranger uses of my work ... "130 Academic Words Ref from "Jonathan Eisen: Meet your microbes | TED Talk""

Well, this is certainly a bit wacky.

I was, well, Googling myself today and found this.

130 Academic Words Ref from "Jonathan Eisen: Meet your microbes | TED Talk"


It seems like they took my Ted talk
and got key words from it, and then use it to teach about those words in some sort of automated way. And, well, they got a few words wrong but actually the words they chose kind of capture a lot of what my talk was about. So here are a few screenshots of some of these key words


































































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