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Comment Hardly noteworthy speculation (Score 2) 120

As noted or hinted upon by others, the concepts challenged in this paper (i.e. general relativity) are very well established and tested experimentally, e.g., in the context of GPS. Conversely, the question of what negative masses or mass densities would imply is obvious, so that probably every single physics student or professor has thought about it. Still, nobody seems to have found any traces of negative masses.

Thus, the authors suggestions should be viewed as (potentially) somewhat interesting speculation or an empirical approach for fitting cosmological data.

I dont think there is anything new that the general public could/should learn from this news or the article.

Comment This is a revolution (Score 1) 56

The implementation of the powers of ChaptGPT and assoicated technologies into the Microsoft office suite will be a complete game changer. Nobody (in his right mind) will manually organize emails when an AI can perfectly sort emails, alert you of important infos and deadlines and suggest answers or actions.

This has no more similarity to Clippy than a Tesla has to a toy car.

Comment Re:ASICs drive out CPUs and GPUs ... (Score 1) 267

There's been consideration of self-mutating algorithms where the hash of the previous block determines the problem to be solved for the next, functionally making CPU/GPU hardware the most efficient way of solving it (because you have to be generic). That's a damned difficult research question, though, not something we have a ready to go answer for.

Comment Re:Just test! (Score 1) 348

Well, if they're doing this properly, it shouldn't be about whether the student learnt the material, but how.

It should be used to show:

Students who aren't engaging with the material, and may require early intervention
Levels of interest in the material (would different material suit the learners better?)
Problems with the material (are there particular parts many learners highlight and/or comment on? Could indicate confusion, for example)

Comment Disconcerting? (Score 2) 348

Why is it disconcerting?

I mean... yes, it can be mis-used. The data should be used to flag up pupils who may be struggling, but will also flag those who may already know the material, but just because data could be incorrectly used doesn't make it inherently worrying.

Does it?

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