never enter the US. Works great

Works great for all of us indeed.

Do be sure to take your phone to China with you, though. It just might heal your delusions about "multipolar world" and all that.

So any interaction with the Brownshirts of Fatherland Security?

That was true even before Germany's surplus WWI uniforms were distributed to adherents of a certain party...

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.

Fair point.

I also don't see them paying hundreds+ if not thousands of dollars for unique books, per book.

You realize they banned the founder of Wikipedia, from Wikipedia, for having badthink ideas - right?

That's one model. There are many.

better to not have that data on you when you cross certain borders

How about any border? Even more generally, at any situation, when the ordinary rights do not obtain...

IOW I need to now run local (or cloud) Chinese models to make sure Claude isn't designing back doors into my software.

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.

If even a quarter of what I've heard about Oracle's offerings being over-budget, never-on-time, never-on-spec shitshows is actually true,

In general this is NOT for Oracle services...this is site wide (for all of DOW) for enterprise database and other software licensing....

There are contractors for each branch and project that use and maintain databases and most of them are Oracle....lots of legacy systems and always something new on the horizon....but Oracle generally is NOT doing any work.

I wonder, what the long term consequences of obtaining — and using — this skill are, if any... Does it make one smarter? Or faster? Does it reduce — or increase — the risk of developing Altzheimer? Does it affect personality in any way?

Also, can the skill be lost — if not regularly used — or is it more like bicycle-riding?

'79 928 says "Hello."

Ah...that sounds nice.

Do you still have it?

I lost my 930 in Katrina.....at one point on Google Maps I saw the black monster floating in my back yard....

:(

Reminds me of swapping out the radio in cars. Maybe people could bring that back? I did that on nearly every car I've owned.

Indeed I remember doing that...and used to LOVE to custom configure my cars audio system.

I research and save and save and get a new head unit, then save...get the amp, new speakers...etc.

I dunno...I guess today's youth isn't as interested in audio fidelity...but I sure miss it.

OnStar systems detect that a collision has occurred and dial 911 for you. The phone can't do this as well, though it could perhaps do it.

I believe iPhones do this too...?

I believe they call it Crash Detection.

Both of my vehicles are still stick shifts, a 5spd WRX and a 6spd Tacoma. You'll take them from my cold dead hands!

In my rather long life to date..I have never owned anything but 2 seater sports cars with manual transmissions.

Ok, the '86 911 Turbo Porsche "technically" had rear seats, but you couldn't fit more than a couple bags of groceries back there, so I don't really count that.