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Comment Topical context - deeper problem (Score 1) 121

I have to wonder: how much of this is due to how college is designed? You take maybe 1-2 classes a semester related to your field of study, until 3rd or 4th year. History is not a common major, especially after 1-2 year.

I would think that someone bothering to major in a particular field would at least take the time to proofread their own papers.

At 32 out of 35, with only 3 not cheating, that makes me wonder a couple things (besides whether there are fewer history majors now that college is so expensive, and job outcomes in academia are increasingly uncertain): Is this a 100-200 level class? His video seems to suggest so - only part of the midterm was on the Industrial Revolution, and these answers suggest broad 100-level "required" class.

This isn't a story about AI cheating and ruining education. It's about a much deeper, systemic problem with both higher education as an institution, how it's financed, why it's even required, and our cultural valuation (or lack thereof) of the value of a holistic education.

Comment Re:Does this end them sooner, or is it irrelevant? (Score 2) 38

Customer token cost is one side of the coin.

The other side is inference cost: what's it take to run?

The Chinese models are all significantly smaller than what Opus/Mythos are, supposedly. That's a big factor in their cost efficiency, and why they're cheaper.

If they've managed to make long strides in improving the efficiency/overhead of their models, it would go just as far as dropping price.

Comment Ford, too. (Score 2) 158

I bought a Ford F-150 XLT (the full-hybrid pickup) and was very disappointed to find that several of the features (Including Blue Cruise and navigation) were subscription-based with an initial free period of a year or so.

Other than that the vehicle is fantastic - but was very pricey when I bought it, so having to pay over and over for the features was a very annoying surprise. (They quit working rather than quit updating when the subscriptions run out.)

Comment Maybe not to individual people, but ... (Score 2) 14

... a bunch of cancer progression theories based on cell culture progression had to be thrown out when it was discovered that the cultures were being contaminated by a particularly robust and aggressive cancer cell culture, HeLa, which had contaminated lab equipment like environmental chambers or survived equipment sterilization and eventually took over culture lines in labs.

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