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ChatGPT in a Contract Drafting Class
Our presentation will discuss the impact of ChatGPT on contract drafting pedagogy. Specifically, we will examine ChatGPT’s basis of knowledge and whether it has sufficient theoretical foundation to be used as a pedagogical tool; whether ChatGPT’s practical application supports proven methods of instructional delivery; and ChatGPT’s functionality as an assessment tool.
1. ChatGPT’s basis of knowledge and whether it has sufficient theoretical foundation to be used as a pedagogical tool
Our presentation will compare the pretraining of ChatGPT and to the typical Contract Drafting pedagogy. We will start by showing the program on a screen and asking it how it was trained and what principles it follows to draft contracts. We will then compare this to the principles students are taught to apply in a typical contract drafting class. Our working hypotheses is that ChatGPT draws from internet resources and follows basic principles of clear writing. In contrast, transactional attorneys typically either draft from scratch following whatever conventions they were trained on, or they start with a form or sample document and then revise it for a specific transaction.
2. Whether ChatGPT’s practical application supports proven methods of instructional delivery
We will then show an example of how ChatGPT works by giving it a prompt that would be typical in any contract drafting class and asking it to draft the applicable contract from scratch. It takes less than a minute for the program to draft the type of contract students typically draft in class. We will examine the sufficiency of ChatGPT’s output. The next step will be to highlight errors and other issues with the document ChatGPT drafts. We will ask the program if it can draft the contract following certain conventions (since drafting courses are typically taught according to conventions) and see whether it can actually do what it says it can do (it can’t). Ultimately, we will look at techniques that can be used to improve the quality and completeness of the documents ChatGPT produces so that it aligns more with the way contract drafting classes are typically taught. The program works better, for example, if you ask more specific questions and provide feedback on the output
Extended Symbolic Dynamics in Bistable CML: Existence and Stability of Fronts
We consider a diffusive Coupled Map Lattice (CML) for which the local map is
piece-wise affine and has two stable fixed points. By introducing a
spatio-temporal coding, we prove the one-to-one correspondence between the set
of global orbits and the set of admissible codes. This relationship is applied
to the study of the (uniform) fronts' dynamics. It is shown that, for any given
velocity in , there is a parameter set for which the fronts with that
velocity exist and their shape is unique. The dependence of the velocity of the
fronts on the local map's discontinuity is proved to be a Devil's staircase.
Moreover, the linear stability of the global orbits which do not reach the
discontinuity follows directly from our simple map. For the fronts, this
statement is improved and as a consequence, the velocity of all the propagating
interfaces is computed for any parameter. The fronts are shown to be also
nonlinearly stable under some restrictions on the parameters. Actually, these
restrictions follow from the co-existence of uniform fronts and non-uniformly
travelling fronts for strong coupling. Finally, these results are extended to
some local maps.Comment: 27 pages, Latex, 2 figure
Unconventional superconductivity near a flat band in organic and organometallic materials
We study electron correlation driven superconductivity on a decorated
honeycomb lattice (DHL), which has a low-energy flat band. On doping, we find
singlet superconductivity with extended-s, extended-d and f-wave symmetry
mediated by magnetic exchange. f-wave singlet pairing is enabled by the lattice
decoration. The critical temperature is predicted to be significantly higher
than on similar lattices lacking flat bands. We discuss how high-temperature
superconductivity could be realized in the DHL materials such as Rb3TT. 2 H2O
and Mo3S7(dmit)3.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures + Supplemental materia
Survival probabilities in time-dependent random walks
We analyze the dynamics of random walks in which the jumping probabilities
are periodic {\it time-dependent} functions. In particular, we determine the
survival probability of biased walkers who are drifted towards an absorbing
boundary. The typical life-time of the walkers is found to decrease with an
increment of the oscillation amplitude of the jumping probabilities. We discuss
the applicability of the results in the context of complex adaptive systems.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
Survival Probabilities of History-Dependent Random Walks
We analyze the dynamics of random walks with long-term memory (binary chains
with long-range correlations) in the presence of an absorbing boundary. An
analytically solvable model is presented, in which a dynamical phase-transition
occurs when the correlation strength parameter \mu reaches a critical value
\mu_c. For strong positive correlations, \mu > \mu_c, the survival probability
is asymptotically finite, whereas for \mu < \mu_c it decays as a power-law in
time (chain length).Comment: 3 pages, 2 figure
Phase-Transition in Binary Sequences with Long-Range Correlations
Motivated by novel results in the theory of correlated sequences, we analyze
the dynamics of random walks with long-term memory (binary chains with
long-range correlations). In our model, the probability for a unit bit in a
binary string depends on the fraction of unities preceding it. We show that the
system undergoes a dynamical phase-transition from normal diffusion, in which
the variance D_L scales as the string's length L, into a super-diffusion phase
(D_L ~ L^{1+|alpha|}), when the correlation strength exceeds a critical value.
We demonstrate the generality of our results with respect to alternative
models, and discuss their applicability to various data, such as coarse-grained
DNA sequences, written texts, and financial data.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
Detecting Molecular Rotational Dynamics Complementing the Low-Frequency Terahertz Vibrations in a Zirconium-Based Metal-Organic Framework
We show clear experimental evidence of co-operative terahertz (THz) dynamics
observed below 3 THz (~100 cm-1), for a low-symmetry Zr-based metal-organic
framework (MOF) structure, termed MIL-140A [ZrO(O2C-C6H4-CO2)]. Utilizing a
combination of high-resolution inelastic neutron scattering and synchrotron
radiation far-infrared spectroscopy, we measured low-energy vibrations
originating from the hindered rotations of organic linkers, whose energy
barriers and detailed dynamics have been elucidated via ab initio density
functional theory (DFT) calculations. For completeness, we obtained Raman
spectra and characterized the alterations to the complex pore architecture
caused by the THz rotations. We discovered an array of soft modes with
trampoline-like motions, which could potentially be the source of anomalous
mechanical phenomena, such as negative linear compressibility and negative
thermal expansion. Our results also demonstrate coordinated shear dynamics
(~2.5 THz), a mechanism which we have shown to destabilize MOF crystals, in the
exact crystallographic direction of the minimum shear modulus (Gmin).Comment: 10 pages, 6 figure
Experimental verification of the usefulness of the nth power law MOSFET model under hot carrier wearout
4 pagesInternational audienceIn this paper the usefulness of the nth power law MOSFET model under Hot Carrier Injection (HCI) wearout has been experimentally demonstrated. In order to do that, three types of nFET transistors have been analyzed under different HCI conditions and the nth power law MOSFET model has been extracted for each sample. The results show that the model can reproduce the MOSFET behavior under HCI wearout mechanism. Therefore, the impact of HCI on circuits can be analyzed by using the nth power law MOSFET model
Metastable states, quasi-stationary distributions and soft measures
We establish metastability in the sense of Lebowitz and Penrose under
practical and simple hypothesis for (families of) Markov chains on finite
configuration space in some asymptotic regime, including the case of
configuration space size going to infinity. By comparing restricted ensemble
and quasi-stationary measures, we study point-wise convergence velocity of
Yaglom limits and prove asymptotic exponential exit law. We introduce soft
measures as interpolation between restricted ensemble and quasi-stationary
measure to prove an asymptotic exponential transition law on a generally
different time scale. By using potential theoretic tools, we prove a new
general Poincar\'e inequality and give sharp estimates via two-sided
variational principles on relaxation time as well as mean exit time and
transition time. We also establish local thermalization on a shorter time scale
and give mixing time asymptotics up to a constant factor through a two-sided
variational principal. All our asymptotics are given with explicit quantitative
bounds on the corrective terms.Comment: 41 page
Catalytic asymmetric conjugate addition of dialkylzinc reagents to alpha,beta-unsaturated sulfones
An efficient method is reported for the highly enantioselective copper-catalyzed conjugate addition of dialkylzinc reagents to α,β-unsaturated sulfones using a monodentate phosphoramidite ligand.
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