Most people use laptops because in addition to your lap, every table and desk can be a computer desk: the cafe table, the kitchen table, work desks with docking stations, etc. Tables/desks also allow you far better posture.
I'm not arguing the utility of it as an augmented search engine, but that's partially because search engine results quality has fallen off a cliff. This is basically my main AI use as well.
I had to repeatedly sort some data in a high performance environment (3D rendering during rotation)
Where you doing transparency?
In modern times I created a prompt asking for an algorithm matching the data and to provide a sample in a particular programming language
That may work, but it certainly takes the fun out of it, if you have fun doing it.
Re your last paragraph - AI-assisted search, absolutely. Anything that improves search, it's great, to wade through all the noise. Although AI is responsible for a lot of that noise as well. Spelling/grammar, sure, but most tools have gone the genAI direction as extra functionality, so it's been a slippery slope there too. Overall, cat's out of the bag in education and assessments and opinions are very much divided on how to handle the situation.
Yeah of course it's a tool but I'm not convinced about its net societal value. But when students use it for assignments to gain advantage over others that are trying to learn, that's not ok though. Remember that universities assess knowledge, which is what they provide students with. Assessment is a way of validating the process. This is problematic. "change what you assess" is equivalent to "change what you measure", which of course creates a mismatch of what is being taught and what is being measured. You could go one step further and say "Change what you teach, so assessment with these modern tools are valid", but then you're steering towards a new direction where knowledge is not a priority, and that's a very unwise shift.
That's the crux of the article. The lame attempts at AI-integrated assessments are ineffectual, and that why we read "that's what we're trying now" rather than "we've tried this and *works* and *they learn*". It's just AI, hopes and prayers. Of course, no mention of how AI use negatively affects learning, as shown by multiple studies.
"We're sorry" https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Undoing accidental mod
Once upon a time
"Fighter" right? Sounds like a place to socialize and totally not a platform where rage baiting, partisanship and anger thrive.
There's no shortcut to experience. "Debugging is twice as hard as writing code" - why do people think this does not apply to reviewing? If you can't write the code, you can't review it effectively. The moment the code doesn't do 100% what you want, you have to debug it anyway. Students have to write shitty code, to understand why it's shitty, and then improve it. They need to hone their skills. There's no shortcut to that, as the premise is you spend time honing them, which includes failing as much as succeeding. So, yes, the students have to write code, knowing an AI can write it better 9 times out of 10, because that's their current level and they're learning and they're going to get better at it, if they do it themselves.
I feel dumber after having read TFS. Some extraordinary claim, and some word diarrhea by some influencer, with AI mentioned 7 times in the story, all of it thinly veiled as some "Year of the Linux Desktop" story to bait the folks here. Wow.
That's because you live in a place where corporate interests are put in front of consumer ones. EU directive
That's absolutely right, UK ftw! Ah how I miss EU regulations.
In my experience, cancellation for services is rarely on the website. So that you have to call them (fuss! Talking to humans! Waiting for robo-menus!), plus they can try to sell you something to keep you on their service
Maybe these days. Maybe (as I'm cynical) some companies intentionally cripple human support (e.g. pointing you to online resources) so that you might as well use AI support, and thus making an argument for cutting out human support. Like Google Search enshittifying itself to the benefit of Gemini
I mean I didn't make the connection, but the sales manager might have made that connection... It's extra humiliating, so, might have been on purpose.
I've heard of those and a friend has some like those, but custom-made for his ears, and he swears by them (he's a musician). I might try one of those next time I plan to go see an IMAX film, sad indeed
Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves. -- Lazarus Long
