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Comment Re:Why not OpenDocument Format? (Score 1) 146

Overall I agree. I am an American. The US people still have an outsized notion of US strengths. But you undersell a few of US strengths. I propose that the US is still a world leader in the following fields: Software; Food production; Naval warfare; Entertainment.

On the other hand, I don't agree the US is the world leader in chips (microelectronics). The world leader seems to be TSMC.

Comment Re:The traditional purpose (Score 1) 128

Hi Gweihir, I totally agree. Your approach of no in-class internet (like the old days, one page of notes) scales pretty well and seems the best way for larger classes. How do you eliminate people putting their cell phones in their lap and looking things up? Here we do oral exam for the post-graduates. That format does scale. For our senior undergraduate courses, we do a class project. Also does not scale. Thank you for your insightful response. Maybe in education we got this but it is fluid.

Comment Re:The traditional purpose (Score 1) 128

The problem (and unfairness) is the modus. Instead have people come to a room, have them stay in there for 4-6h without Internet and use only provided computers and materials and produce that essay. Or do what some universtities in Europe do: Talk to the prospective applicants for an hour each. Yes, that takes a lot of time and effort. But teaching peopel that do not belong there costs more time and effort.

Agree. Before COVID, we had in-room closed book tests. During COVID, we moved to oral exams. We still do oral exams. It takes more time, but it is more effective.

Comment Re:The best pope yet. (Score 1) 181

I can't say I agreed with the man on every topic but he was clearly someone that spoke for human rights. We need people like him. While he didn't command a large military the office of the Pope carries weight in the world.

+1

Amen

Comment Useless, Slashdot please do better (Score 0) 42

This entry is not news that matters, nor is it news for nerds. But it does qualify as stuff. TFS is useless. TFA, at first glance MoffettNathanson is a firm that advises VCs on where to (invest|lose|launder) their money and this is their press release. Please lets avoid.

Comment Re:The 29% (Score 1) 100

It's like wikipedia. In a mission-critical sense it's not 100% reliable. However for 99.8% of real world use cases, it's totally fine.

That is vastly overestimating the reliability of chatGPT, and Gemeni is even worse.

IME, both statements are true. The real world use case is proofreading English language for non-native English speakers.

Comment Re:The 29% (Score 1) 100

Thus far, the one use-case I've seen that they're actually good at is "executive summary" reports.

I'm in the 50% that have never tried an LLM. Many of my colleagues use them regularly for proofreading.

I'm tempted by automated meeting summary/minutes. But until the security and privacy issues are addressed, no thank you.

Comment Re:Why did this take them 10 years to figure out? (Score 1) 83

> No company I've ever seen would run anything on a second hand server. The cost in maintaining that, in downtime, and in finding parts even needed, would be far higher than buying a new server.

Agree @1s44c.

A used server could work well for small businesses, non-profits or organizations do not need much IT support. The original poster could clarify.

Suppose you have 20k servers in two data centers. You need and have real-time disaster recovery. Those servers are mission critical. Would you not be interested how to migrate data from one server to the other? My organization requires new server hardware every 3 years. The vendor guarantees spare parts. Bill, Shooter of Bul mentioned power consumption. It is important on the spreadsheet, and we consider. But the survival of our organization is the priority.

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