At the end of the day it all comes down to employers. If everyone - or at least practically everyone - is getting AI to do all their college work for them then the college degree basically becomes worthless because it is no longer any measure of knowledge or ability in whatever subject it is supposed to represent. If employers wish to identify capably potential employees for any job other than operating AI then they need to test the candidates themselves. Further more they need to physically do this in person by bringing candidates in and testing them face to face with no phones allowed.

Presumably this will lead to an "In the land of the blind the one eyed man is King" scenario where most candidates know practically nothing about their professed subject and any student who has done even a modicum of actual real study will appear to shine!

If colleges want to retain any real purpose at all in education then they need to adopt the same approach and only award degrees to students who can sit in a real physical room with their lecturers and provide cogent answers to questions asked!

Actually, this isn't entirely true. Whilst it is the case in the UK that you have to submit a tax return if you earn over a certain threshold (currently about $66,000 equivalent) there are other reasons why you might need to. The most common ones are: none-salary income such as rent from a lodger and being self-employed. I believe that about 30% of UK adults fall into one or more of these categories whilst the rest of us simply have it all worked out by our employers and the government and get the tax deducted directly from our pay. All of the figures are available for us to check if we think that there might have been an error.

I am nearing retirement age and I have never had to submit tax return but my wife has to submit one each year as she is self employed. She can do this entirely online via a gov.uk website and it typically takes her about half an hour once a year - although her submission is very simple and she is able to leave most of the boxes blank. I suspect that for someone with a more complex business it might take a couple of hours once they have gathered the required information from their accounts.

I will admit that I find all of this American fretting about the costs and complexity of filing your tax returns very funny!

It's annoying that you have to change your mac address every 20 minutes, but yeah. Free wifi (after hoop jumping) has been available for quite a while on many airlines.

MCP may very well stand for "Model Context Protocol", but in the 1980's it stood for the villain of the Tron series, Master Control Program. Will tying AI together be a good thing or will we see the rise of another kind of MCP?

Did I miss it, or does the article give no indication at all of how big this contrivance would have to be in order to produce useful amounts of electricity?

What nightmare?? My daughter is 21 and in her final year at University and she still needs some help from Mum and Dad and that is just fine. When I look back over the last 21 years, I can agree that there were a few times where my daughter was rather annoying, but they are a tiny minority. The great majority of the time my wife and I spent raising her was the most enormous and infinitely rewarding fun!

Now, we are comfortably middle class and can afford a nice house with a big garden (yard) so perhaps I shouldn't judge the situation of other people who might find things more difficult, but here is what I wonder. If you go to an old people's home and ask the residents whether they have any regrets about having their children, what will most of them say? "Gosh, I wish I'd skipped the whole nightmare!"? Perhaps not. What will it be like in old people's homes in places like Korea and Japan in 50 years time? Will some residents have children and grand-children to visit them whilst the majority don't have anyone? How will the childless group feel? Will they have regrets?

It's clear the brute force approach works and is sometimes the best way to advance. Once you see the path to getting the job done, take it. I see projects like ITER and ChatGPT4 in this category. Can you learn to do these things more efficiently given a few extra years of R&D? Obviously. But you are also a few years behind, and you have probably spent a lot of effort prematurely optimizing.

Bwahaha. Meta didn't even invent their headset, they bought it. They didn't even remotely innovate on it, and they canceled their plans for an improved headset. The only major plan they had for it now can only be found in their fucking name. You are so far up Zuck's ass, you should be able to see Trump's.

With falsified records, anything is possible.

I think you're probably correct here. Reading the article again it looks like it is all about accurate time-keeping rather than navigation as such.

Well, that article is as clear as mud. Nowhere does it explain how a more precise clock can eliminate the need for satellite navigation which, it correctly points out, is vulnerable to jamming. If I put an extremely accurate clock inside a box and then move it to the other end of the street, how would it figure out (without external jammable signals) that I have done so?

Perhaps more accurate clocks on the satellites would help, but I get the impression that current GNSS inaccuracy is dominated by atmospheric propagation errors rather than clock accuracy. However, the article seems to imply that these wonder clocks will be deployed on the thing which needs to do the navigating (tank, ship etc). Some of the other points are also rather suspect, for example:

Enhance the accuracy of advanced weapon systems, like guided missiles, which rely on accurate timing to calculate trajectories and coordinate attacks.

Just how well damn coordinated do these attacks need to be? Surely, current clocks can organise for your missiles to arrive at the target sufficiently close together?

...especially in areas like cyber warfare, where milliseconds can make a difference.
Surely we already have clocks that can remain accurate to milliseconds over the duration of a typical war?

Here in the UK, my daughter has a student loan from the government. Any remaining debt will be automatically written off 30 years after she took out the loan. The government has recently extended this for new students to 40 years. If someone dies then their loan is automatically cancelled.

Calculations by people who look into these things suggest that most students won't repay the loan in time (repayment rates are fixed and depend on income) so most loans will eventually be written off.

Gas tube signs have a very unique spectral emissions that makes them appear the way they do. Very little effort has been put into LED lighting to properly mimic the appealing spectral emission of incandescent filtered or gas tube colored lighting.

Almost exclusively phosphor coatings have been tuned to cause blue and near UV leds to emit (sort of) broad spectrum white light and nothing more, though it would certainly be possible to develop a phosphor that could more closely approxmiate neon, for instance.

As for direct emission, red green and blue LEDs are mostly now only available at certain wavelengths for tricolor mixing applications. Due to economies of scale, LEDs at other visible wavelengths are extremely underdeveloped technology.