If everybody was sacked for making a bad prediction, nobody would ever have a job.

I'd like to believe that the search is limited to physical items you are bringing in that might be contraband(drugs as an example). On your phone the only thing I can think of that might be on there is ideas. Which I'd like to believe can't be contraband. I mean anything on the phone could easily zip into the US via the net. In microseconds these days.

You have pretty low standards if you think apple has a good gpu.

I fear you are correct. And just one example, the supreme's have let donnie continue with the ballroom, and they still have not decided if they will accept the Carol 85M civil case. They did surprisingly decline the 5M one. Maybe they figured it was chump change for the orangutan.

If you're a citizen or permanent resident, you can't be denied entry. Full stop. You can be detained for a short time, they can make you miss your flights, they can maybe impound your possessions, etc. But you can't be denied entry.

That is where they have him. He did not invoke his 5th amendment right and remain silent... he gave the federal investigators false information which he knew would result in the destruction of any potential evidence on his device.

If you refuse to give the CBP the password, they will hold you for questioning. They will tell you that you have no choice and that you must give them the password. This is a lie, but they are allowed to lie to you. They cannot refuse entry to a US citizen. They cannot hold you indefinitely (I think they are still bound by the 72 hour limit). They must return your device to you. They can hold it for a few days (and presumably make a clone or try to hack it), but they must return it to you. They will lie to you about all of this. Your attorney will tell you the truth. Demand an attorney, and remain silent until your attorney advises you to speak.

Buick sedans used to be solid, were go-to reliable transportation for teenagers, with low-mileage examples from estate sales being quite affordable. This was many, many years ago.

When you put all secondary controls and even instrument gauges on a screen, it is no longer non-essential.

Plus, the car cannot be driven until this screen is fixed. So this is not something you can live with on an "old" car.

That is not what they found. What they found is that if you spend 60 minutes doing the homework with AI, you learn approximately as much as someone who spends 60 minutes doing it without AI. If you spend 20 minutes doing it with AI, you learn as much as someone who spends 20 minutes doing it without AI. Etc. The only real difference is that the AI people get way better homework scores, and as a result, tend to stop spending as much time, and thus tend to learn less.

That's what this preprint study found.

100% this. Even a short 5-minute quiz with just a couple questions at the start of each day will do the trick. But you simply can't rely on homework scores to be a proxy of learning or time spent studying anymore. Brief daily quizzes on the previous day's material will force them to.

Also, It's not like students have the excuse of, "I couldn't study, I didn't have anyone to explain X to me" anymore. The very AI that they might otherwise use to cheat on their homework can also explain to them the things they missed in last year's algebra class that are blocking them from learning this year's calculus, or whatnot. Congrats - you now have an infinitely patient personal tutor who will spend hours dumbing things down for you until you get it. Now you have no excuse - learn the material. It becomes all about actually putting the time in.

Yeah. There's been widespread misrepresentation of this (preprint!) in the media. What they actually found: test scores correspond to how much time you spend doing homework, regardless of whether you use AI or not. Which should not be a surprising result! Of course, the AI people, esp. those who had been using AI for more than a few months, stopped spending much time on their homework, and then their test scores fell to match the non-AI users who didn't spend much time in their homework either.

The TL/DR is, in today's age, you cannot use test scores as a proxy of how much time a user is studying or knows the material.

There are of course some caveats, beyond the fact that it's just a preprint - notably that there's nothing to separate why the user started using AI to do their homework, so there's potential confounders in there. For example, if a student is in a poor family, maybe they had to get a job to help pay the bills. But working a job itself can lower test scores - for example, having to work late the night before an exam. So there are some confounder problems with the study. That said, I'm sure the general conclusion is correct: time spent doing the thing = amount of learning the thing (relatively independent of what tools you're using in the process).

Well, not that shocked.

Using an AI to do your homework gets the homework done without you learning the subject. Then you fail the exam.

Yeah, not shocked at all.

They've been increasing fuel efficiency and engine reliability a lot since they were first introduced in the early 80s, in addition to reducing emissions, because it turns out that computers are much better at timing than a serpentine belt. So yeah, I'd say it's a good idea. If you don't like them, I'm sure you can buy an old Pinto with a carburetor that doesn't rely on computers, and those are about as fuel efficient as you get from that era.

Otherwise, just how much smaller do you want them to be, exactly, and why? They're already pretty far out of view and out of sight given they're typically in the engine compartment.

I'm not sure I like the idea of Google, never mind Apple (or even worse, Samsung) skimming off the top of every single purchase I make. And in this case, even if they don't, even the cash purchases inevitably take a hit, effectively subsidizing these companies where they're not even involved.

We're literally adding yet another payment middle man in a place where we already have several. Anybody who has ever had a credit card merchant account will understand what I'm talking about.