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  • Actual text of Samantha Fulnecky's assignment, paper, and professors' comments

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  • you are confusing the assignment and the grading.

    they are two separate things.

    the assignment was:

    1. A discussion of why you feel the topic is important and worthy of study (or not)
    2. An application of the study or results to your own experiences

    the submission failed on both these points, and thus it is automatically disqualified, no grading is even applied.

    there was no discussion in the submission.

    "discussion" in an academic context is a technical term that means "examining a topic based on evidence from some point of view". you may have encountered something similar in school as a pro/contra essay. in academia this gets expanded on by requiring evidence in the form of citations in order to support one's positions and conclusions (or lack thereof).

    since the student did not provide sources, this point of the assignment is not fulfilled.

    the same goes for the second point, for the same reasons: insufficient evidence was provided.

    the teachers explain this in their response.

    since neither part of the assignment is fulfilled no grading is applied: it's an automatic failure.

    this is also explained in the response.

    you may want to carefully read the responses again, and keep in mind that all of this is happening in an academic context. providing evidence is expected by default.

    "i believe", "i feel", 'the bible says", etc., are NOT evidence in a scientific context....

  • Ukraine deal: EU leaders agree €90bn loan, but without use of frozen Russian assets

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  • if they weren't serious, there wouldn't be a deal.

    they, the EU, are/is serious.

    the Belgians are just being greedy little cunts.

    ...so business as usual ¯(ツ)/¯

  • Paramount+ Set to Raise Prices, Phase Out Free Trials In the New Year

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  • the high seas encompass all!

  • The show I was watching went from "Free" to "Paid" while I was watching it

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  • use or don't; who cares?

    just don't spread lies...

  • The show I was watching went from "Free" to "Paid" while I was watching it

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  • not true, it does sort of the opposite:

    debrid services cache torrents in order to provide them at high speed to clients (that's why they aren't free: they need data storage).

    this is a good thing, because it means the swarm is only taxed once per file, instead of constantly by potentially hundreds of streamers.

    from stremio's FAQs:

    How Debrid Services Work with Stremio

    Stremio itself is a media center application that aggregates content from various sources through add-ons. Debrid services enhance this experience by:

    1. Converting limited or slow hosting links into high-speed premium links
    2. Providing access to higher quality sources that might otherwise be unavailable
    3. Bypassing throttling and download limitations imposed by file hosts
    4. Offering cached torrents for instant streaming without waiting for peers

  • Who can relate?

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  • that's got nothing to do with being autistic; that's just insanely rude!

    yelling is absolutely warranted in that situation.

    seriously fuck those people.

    you're already in a state of stress due to having major surgery ahead of you. unnecessarily withholding information, for absolutely no reason, would stress out anyone, regardless of wether they're neurotypical or not.

    fuck that bullshit.

  • owner rule

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  • This is myth and legend.

    Mostly it was equipment being destroyed if they destroyed everything.

    ahhhmm...no? at least, that wasn't the point being made by the workers.

    sabotaging factory equipment was a show of intent: "we are serious about causing damage. this time it's equipment, next time it's you!"

    the factory vandalism was a threat.

    if the threat was understood as being serious, and working conditions improved as a result, no further escalation was necessary. that's why relatively few escalations happened.

    however, A) escalations DID go further on quite a few occasions, and B) the threat preventing the necessity of further escalation was the entire point.

    so, no, it wasn't "myth and legend". it worked exactly as intended.

    and it worked, because of the couple of times the threat was not taken seriously. those times made it clear that the threat is real.

  • Oracle made a $300 billion bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price.

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  • sure, and that works at small scales and as long as no change is required.

    when either of those two change (large projects where interdependent components become inevitable and frequent updates are necessary) it becomes impossible to use AI for basically anything.

    any change you make then has to be carefully considered and weighed against it's consequences, which AIs can't do, because they can't absorb the context of the entire project.

    look, I'm not saying you can't use AI, or that AI is entirely useless.

    I'm saying that using AI is the same as any other tool; use it deliberately and for the right job at the right time.

    the big problem, especially in commercial contexts, is people using AI without realizing these limitations, thinking it's some magical genie that can everything.

  • Oracle made a $300 billion bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price.

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  • yes, that's exactly the point of everything I've said:

    to an inexperienced user/developer/admin the output LLMs produce look perfectly valid, and for relatively trivial tasks they might even work out...but when it gets more specialized it fails spectacularly and it gets extremely obvious just how limited of a system it really is.

    which is why there is so much pushback from professionals. actually that's pretty much all professionals, not just in IT.

  • Oracle made a $300 billion bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price.

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  • yeah, no... that's not at all what i said.

    i didn't say "AI doesn't work", i said it works exactly as expected: producing bullshit.

    i understand perfectly well how to get it to spit out useful information, because i know what i can and cannot ask it about.

    I'd much rather not use it, but it's pretty much unavoidable now, because of how trash search results have become, specifically for technical subjects.

    what absolutely doesn't work is asking AI to perform highly specific, production critical configurations on live systems.

    you CAN use it to get general answers to general questions.

    "what's a common way to do this configuration?" works well enough.

    "fix this config file for me!" doesn't work, because it has no concept of what that means in your specific context. and no amount of increasingly specific prompts will ever get you there. ...unless "there" is an utter clusterfuck, see the OP top of chain (should have been more specific here....) for proof...

  • Oracle made a $300 billion bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price.

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  • no, AI just sucks ass with any highly customized environment, like network infrastructure, because it has exactly ZERO capacity for on-the-fly learning.

    it can somewhat pretend to remember something, but most of the time it doesn't work, and then people are so, so surprised when it spits out the most ridiculous config for a router, because all it did was string together the top answers on stack overflow from a decade ago, stripping out any and all context that makes it make sense, and presents it as a solution that seems plausible, but absolutely isn't.

    LLMs are literally design to trick people into thinking what they write makes sense.

    they have no concept of actually making sense.

    this is not an exception, or an improper use of the tech.

    it's an inherent, fundamental flaw.

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  • When you reach my age

    12?

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  • First time hearing about it

    not surprising, given the incredibly stupid name...

  • Leaked Pam Bondi memo targets 'anyone who isn’t a Trump supporter': investigator

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  • yeah, ahm...those receipts support the previous posters point:

    they said that way more libs or leftists are armed than people assume.

    20-30% gun ownership is an absurd amount of armed leftists, thus exactly proving the point made.

    yes, rightoids have even more guns. that doesn't invalidate the statement that a LOT of the left/libs are also armed.

    y'all are just armed to an insane degree in general...

  • Notepad++ updater installed malware

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  • ublock has the same function; it's the thunderbolt icon, which let's you just zap away whatever html element offends you!

    ...no fancy animation tho...is there a plugin that animates the ublock zapper? that would be very fun!

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  • sponsorblock solves that problem as well ;)

  • Trains cancelled over fake bridge collapse image

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  • exactly!

    using a "detector" is how (not all, but a lot of) AIs (LLMs, GenAI) are trained:

    have one AI that's a "student", and one that's a "teacher" and pit them against one another until the student fools the teacher nearly 100% of the time. this is what's usually called "training" an AI.

    one can do very funny things with this tech!

    for anyone that wants to see this process in action, here's a great example:

    Benn Jorda: Breaking The Creepy AI in Police Cameras

  • Trains cancelled over fake bridge collapse image

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  • afaik, there actually aren't any reliable tools for this.

    the highest accuracy rate I've seen reported for "AI detectors" is somewhere around 60%; barely better than a random guess...

    edit: i think that way for text/LLM, to be fair.

    kinda doubt images are much better though...happy to hear otherwise, if there are better ones!

  • I'm making a FOSS all-in-one file converter app - looking for opinions!

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  • oh, i am VERY interested in this!

    seems like it'd be a very handy tool for modding, since file conversions are usually either done through gimp, if it supports the format, or some random ass tool/website that does only one thing...

    having a swiss army knife type solution would be excellent!

    one point of feedback about the interface:

    anytime there's a slider, there should also be a direct input field to type into.

    this is to prevent things like UI scaling, or mouse sensitivity preventing proper input...ask me how i know...

    might also be an accessibility thing; for example people with tremors, or generally low dexterity.

    text input is never the wrong choice, but sliders can be!