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ALS Research: I may have asked the right questions today and I would like feedback

A developer using Google's Flash Lite 3.1 free tier via API built PathMap, a human-in-the-loop app that generates hypotheses from literature, and is seeking feedback on its context length and veridicality issues. The developer, inspired by Eric Dane's ALS story, spent all day researching targets and proposes false claims that the app redirects to literature while still making discoveries.

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@John6666 Also, this was made using Flash Lite 3.1 free tier over api, using my 4gb metropcs cell phone and took a few minutes to build, but I spent all day in bed researching and looking for the right targets…

PathMap did not form the hypotheses, which is why it is difficult to see how it went from seed to seed. It is a human in the loop app. You can propose a false claim and it will redirect to what literature says and still make discoveries.

My main issues are context length and getting false negatives on veridicality (eg the context supports the claim but was cut off this enforcement flags it as unsupported by text) and also the acronyms issue (eg S-GEVs ginger/ginseng collision)

If you want the full application I can post it. I mean, I just have to strip out my api post url i hard coded in. I have it free online (secret) too but it is a bring your own ai key model and since people dont know me its easier to say just download it and see for yourself.

I started this when I was inspired by Eric Dane’s ALS story. He died about 7 months after I started and so it is quite serious for me to do this the best I can, ehich is admittedly lacking.

I can patch ot this weekend. As.for the Zenodo trace file (dataset) or like Download dataset #120 would it be better if it included the prompt_log?

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