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Comment Re:Homework (Score 1) 192

That's all nice and well, kudos to your dad-in-law, but you didn't tell us *how* does he actually achieve such good results since it's not the homework? Maybe it's a combination of a lot of factors, including teaching talent, but maybe you have a couple of hints? Or point us to one of his "papers on education"? Honest question.

Comment Re:Weird (Score 1) 50

No conspiracy necessary. Norway is a dystopian nightmare in terms of surveilance. Most places don't take cash and everybody is used to pay with a card or their mobile phone. Using a lot of the main roads means paying for tolls, which means all cars have an electronic device for that in addition to the ubiquitous license plate reading cameras for catching the freeloaders. They have a digital ID system that is controlled by the banks (Bank-ID) that you can't take a shit without. The government knows where you are, what you eat, who you sleep with, where you drive to etc, etc. They could just legislate the use of Bank-ID for logging into a computer and nobody would bat an eye.

Comment Cool stuff! (Score 4, Interesting) 30

This looks very promising. Researchers have been complaining since a long time about the fact that publicly-funded, published research was behind paywalls and the alternatives were rather undewhelming when it came to cost for the authors (and their institutions) and peer review methodology. The new approach is quite interesting. In "how it works" it says that the publishing will be immediate after submission and the peer-review will be done *after* publishing, with all article versions being available and linked together. This will be for European Commission-funded researchers, but I hope they will widen the scope later on.

Comment Re:readers should consider using AI (Score 1) 46

You joke, but it's already this way! The prompt on one side would be something like: "write news article about ice carving festival, completed on 02.03.2026. Attached is the list of finalists, their scores and what they carved. The mayor and the sheriff attended. One man choked on their hot-dog in the evening, was rescued by first responders that were stationed on-site". The AI will add fluff to expand this into a two-page article. Then on the reader's side another AI will be used to take the fluff back out and give you the summary: "John Doe won the yesterday's ice carving competition by carving a life-size mermaid. Do you want more details?".

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