Off to Madagascar with us in a yellow submarine!

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.

Merkel's relationship and strategy with Russia/Putin was complex. I believe her goal was to maintain stability and prevent escalation to avoid conflicts or more serious conflicts. Hindsight is 20-20 and sheâ(TM)s been criticised by many people for how she handled Russia.

This sounds like some marketing bullshit. It's not remotely verifiable.I have a lot of doubts about everything reported on this story.

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.

Those things weren't exactly flying off the shelves at the old price and were frequently discounted. I don't know what Fox was thinking, but I guess there's some M&A lawyers out there that thought it was somehow going to be an addition to their earnings. I guess we'll soon find out.

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.

> But honestly, why do we have accounts at all? 99% of the crap we do on our phone doesn't actually need it.

I don't. I haven't signed into a Google account on my phone in years. I run Lineage without Gapps or even microG stubs and just use F-droid.

https://battlepenguin.com/tech...

..but I realize I'm an outlier. It use to not be that way. In the 90s/2000s every tech enthusiast would wipe a machine and reinstall Windows when they got it to get rid of the bloatware. Replacing a phone OS would not only be commonplace in that era, but be demanded by consumers. In the early days, I even knew non-technical people who jailbroke their eyePhones all the time. Hell even people with kids an "zero time" would still do this stuff for fun.

Consumer exploration and curiosity has been atrophied. People want stuff that "just works," ... even though none of it actually works and the Cloud Gods can wipe your entire account with thousands of dollars in purchases overnight if they want. It's all DRM and no physical floppy disks.

Most comms software is better handled by a service. Email, chat, phone, etc. Let someone else deal with the problems of maintaining it. Almost everything else is worth discussing.

Chrome is a better product than Firefox, but if I wasn't such a heavy Mac user, I would make the same choice as you. I can take a lot if it means no Google in my life.

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

You will own nothing AND be perpetually in debt while not owning it.