Schools already gets some things wrong, why not make it worse?

Not a real argument

Abrasive? I think you’re extremely thin skinned. I called your reading comprehension ass and you already admitted it was ass, let’s move on.

The student would already know enough domain knowledge of the example topic to know the LLM output is wrong.

This would immediately fail for any factual question though, like, “what is the currency used in Japan?” If the chatbot responds “yuan”, the only domain knowledge that would allow you to see that as bullshit is the actual currency used in Japan, but in which case, why ask?

I can’t see that comment, I probably blocked them or something.

You’re certainly welcome to your own opinion

Why golly thanks

It would give the student a chance to see how rational sounding output can be factually wrong. It would teach students to evaluate the statements individually and tease out logical fallacies or even outright manufactured falsehoods.

How? By asking their chatbot to verify each statement? School is a place for facts and trusted sources; I don’t see any convincing reason to change that.

Your reading comprehension is ass. They piloted it for high school students for just a few weeks before realizing it was a bad idea for all ages. It doesn’t make sense to use chatbots in any learning environment, where you have no way to verify output.

Flaring here is a verb, not a noun, and it might be the wrong word to use but they probably mean it as the nose catching the air, the way a flaring skirt does.

Evangelizing llms is pretty much all you do on here, you have spent an enormous amount of time and effort on them. If you’re not even willing to accept that you have sunk costs relating to genai, your stating “I’m not insecure about this” is really not compelling.

They are really not that distinct, all the models cheat off each other just like they cheat copyrights.

The entire premise of chatbots is to have a simple natural-language interface instead of those scary GUIs and programming languages. The idea that maybe they didn’t know enough about how to interact with ai, and that’s why it failed to help them, is a little silly, and the more you explain how we’re all using ai wrong, the sillier you look.

You’ve obviously sunk a lot of costs into genai, both in time and money, and that is making you defensive. Somebody that isn’t impressed by Claude premium isn’t going to do any of what you suggest, let alone get any more value out of it, and that’s valid for them. You’re not seriously interested in helping them professionally, you are just insecure.

Your replying to someone as if they are the embodiment of this forum makes you look like a contrarian asshole. You are in the forum, forumizing. Stop acting like you’re better than anyone else here, or that this is a monolith you’re speaking to instead of a collection of individuals with diverse opinions.

Criticizing a renowned doctor who refused to publicly give a medical diagnosis about someone who isn’t a patient of theirs, and then making that judgement yourself based on youtube hot takes is not professional investigatory work, it’s sloppy and ill-timed.

“It’s not about x, it’s about y” is always suspect, there can be multiple reasons for anything, and in this case the former is racism and the latter is a disease you looked into a little online. Saying “he actually did a lot of harm” is dismissive toward ongoing debates in the academic and black and black academic communities, it’s saying ‘none of that harm was real, but look at this other community I’m also not a part of being harmed’.

To be clear, you are probably right, I mean, it was always an incredible story, I also assumed it was at least slightly bullshit, but I just think investigating whether people are as autistic as they say they are is a bad path to go down. You yourself said that autistic people sometimes feel a need to exaggerate their symptoms in order to get recognition of their disability, and with Arday you might think we have a prime example of that, yet without evidence or credentials, you say he was actually neurotypical, giving us a prime example of why autistic people sometimes do this.

OK, maybe, but I hate that. It’s fucking over the ability for journalists to benefit from scoops, from doing longer and deeper investigations. People who don’t understand the value of asking questions are not exactly on a path of self reflection.

Not really needed here though.

Where is it needed? Where do we need more covert racism and poor reasoning? Which part of the media ecosystem is running low on lies and clickbait?

If my friend sent me a long retelling of a wedding I missed and inside the message there was a weirdly placed hyperlink to a public post, by one of the bridesmaids or whatever, that had more info and pictures and a different interpretation of events, and then I find out my friend never went to the wedding, and actually never met the couple, I would be upset. Is all I’m saying. I don’t see a need for it.

We all say protect journalism, it’s dying… But, fuck these basement dwellers, if you want my respect as a journalist, do some journalism. I know Reason actually does have journalists, they might suck or not I’m not sure, but this here is not a piece of journalism.

It’s very common, not just in forums, but I don’t like when people share things with me without doing the bare minimum of clicking on the hyperlink to the original reporting, the primary source, the first version of history. It’s not that difficult, they obscure it a little sometimes, it might even require an internet search or two. But it puts more attention and focus on the people actually investigating those in power instead of those that just sit on the sidelines and produce hate porn to steal all the air in the room.

Calling him exonerated is a stretch. Choosing not to defend yourself is a bad look, and he resigned soon after the announcement of an investigation called for by dozens of his colleagues. The allegations came out 3 weeks ago, and he admitted at least making ‘mistakes’ in his PhD thesis. The loss of academic integrity is an existential threat to a university; the investigation should have played out, it might still even without him.

It’s easy to blame capitalism and greed, but I think that’s an insufficient explanation. This is genocidal behavior, from the bottom rung to the top. Profit is a cherry on top; these people want power, real physical power to prey on people without consequences.

Tom Kean’s story is believable. He was in the hospital for most of it and informed the speaker early of his exact condition. House members just aren’t as critical, individually, as well. The only thing I’m mad at is how much better healthcare he received than the vast majority of americans.

convert these Postman JSON collections to JMeter load tests

Just use jmeter! Jmeter and corpo-curl are two different tools, it’s really not that hard to design your own test plans.

I also don’t understand making the receptionist do it, e2e tests are actually important and should be designed by someone familiar with the system they are testing.

Convert the PDF to a fillable form

You mean ocr? The thing that we already had an ai boom/bust cycle about in the 60s?! The thing the USPS has used to read chickenscratch addresses on all envelopes since the 70s?

Here, this project has been filling your exact use case for more than a dozen years now: https://github.com/ocrmypdf

and make sure the fillable fields are properly located between the lines of the field names they correspond to" and then it just does it and now applicants can apply online and you didn’t have to pay an expensive human to do menial one-off work in applications they don’t really know.

There’s a ton of dumb, time-wasting shit you don’t have to do anymore because you can just make the robot do it. It’s not all just straight plagiarism and stealing artwork and dead Internet propaganda-bot garbage. You can use it for good or evil. The power generation and inefficiency are still unsolved problems, the super aggressive build-out arms race is pure idiocy and we absolutely need to slow this whole thing down, and I’ll never forgive these greedy fucks for ruining the PC components market every few years, first crypto now this, but there are use cases that allow people to do things they couldn’t otherwise do.

Properly used, AI is a force multiplier. Improperly used, it’s a resource-burning race to the bottom, but if you can’t think of legitimate uses for a general-purpose software robot you can tell to do tedious stuff in plain language and it’ll just do it with a bit of guidance, then I don’t know what to tell you.

Big wall of nothing, didn’t read.

I think you’re confusing an accounting tool, called double entry booking, for services offered by a bank. Every accounting software allows for tracking expenses and incomes in virtual ‘accounts’ that have little to do with the credit offered by banks. For example, ‘dry cleaning’ could be the name of an expense account, despite the dry cleaners not offering you an actual bank account.

Oh yeah, just like what happened in 2021-2025 right? Everyone should vote, it’s the least you could possibly fucking do for your neighbors, it’s literally free, there is no good reason not to fight back politically. From a historical perspective though, that really never works at this point. Trump is a symptom, not a cause. The underlying cause is a decaying empire which is no longer able to extract wealth from the third world to support the core.

Tax breaks, tariffs, stock buybacks, etc are being used to liquidate the economy rather than build anything. They make no sense from a nation building perspective because of the ‘opportunity cost’ associated with them: an equally sized investment rather than a debit would have increased in value over time. The infrastructure, schooling, the entire natural ecosystem, they are all being decimated because the US is being liquidated by billionaires on private islands. Natural disasters and rising unemployment, hunger and poverty will all increase until the us military is defeated.

I absolutely get your point though, and agree, that we shouldn’t just give up. I think understanding the long term outlook is important context though. Despite the larger trends, victories will be had, on the local level, on the state level, maybe even the national level, and those victories are meaningful, they are worth fighting for.

If anything, his death is going to mollify people. This is the height of public outrage, and nothing has happened yet. I don’t foresee any kind of armed resistance until things get way worse materially, maybe 5-10 years.

I’m at the point where it’s like, what does it matter? What would more evidence do? I don’t even see this as a mistake anymore. If the Trumps get the case to the supreme court, they will enrich themselves further, and there’s just no downside to losing, other than more evidence of crimes coming out. Why would they be worried about that though

Why would it matter if you did find a perfect system? Without democracy, you’re opinion on governance would be mute. It is impossible to simultaneously give up your political voice and create a better system.