I teach math to unprepared college students at an inner city university. I would never show a college freshman a temperature plot with time on the x axis and expect them to understand it. Incoming freshmen have something like a traditional 4th grade mathematical background. And these are college students.

There may be cognitive biases that explain why the ice/no ice imagery works better. But another factor is that anything mathematical that doesn't make sense to a fourth grader doesn't make sense to a vast swath of the population.

Hmm it used to send him to official sites without advertisements, but now it's sending him to 3rd party knock on sites, probably with lots of ad services. I wonder what's happening. Must be model collapse.

Losing access to the garbage on the web is the best thing that can happen to kids, provided they have books.
I only wish there were a way to eliminate access to the internet for more children.

The digital divide has now completely reversed -- the more internet access a child has, the bigger the detriment.

I wonder, in a counterfactual universe, how far the American public and political system would tolerate Trump's genuflections before Putin. If he lie down on television and let Putin walk across his body, would Lindsay Graham soon be telling us that this was appropriate behavior, while Tucker Carlson nods on approvingly? Or would they not? What if Putin spit on his face while he had to keep smiling? Smacked down to the ground after which he has to crawl to Putin's shoes? At what point would the population cross some kind of threshold by which everyone agrees Trump's behavior is unacceptable? I hope this remains a theoretical question, but it seems like we are headed toward a breaking point about as fast as we can go.

Students using Chegg used to be the bane of my life as a CS prof circa 2018-2021. My assignments were immediately posted there and "solved" often with kooky solutions that many students would hand in as if they were the first people to discover the cheating site. It galls me to see Chegg described as a site that "helps with homework." The way forward in CS education is very unclear to me, but Chegg is not something that should be mourned in any way.

This has the ring of EV FUD. The reasoning is that heavier EVs will make more brake dust and thus be environmentally less sound than fossil fuel cars. Libtards: owned.

But I have an EV and use one pedal driving. The car is slowed when your foot moves away from the accelerator by electromagnetic resistance that recharges the battery. This will bring the car to a complete stop. I literally never touch the brake.

So therefore shouldn't the headline be: EVs Doublegood, stop CO2 and brake dust?

He does realize that downloading the model means that China gets no visibility into its use, right?

Furthermore exploiting something they are giving away for free does not put a single dollar into the hands of the CCP.

This seems like a very confused idea.

Prohibiting the API and the web app makes total sense though.

"This shows that they can actually take action when they realize that somebody has a different perspective from their own," says Krupenye

Uh, no it doesn't. It shows that they can learn to point faster when the window is closed.

We need to differentiate between what is likely to happen and what we want to happen here.

Establishing a US bitcoin reserve is crazy, dumb, irresponsible and corrupt. But it is not unlikely. It is more probable than not. The president elect has already said that he is going to do it. Bitcoin is a plank of the Republican party and they control all branches of government. Key members of the administration and congress will buy bitcoin (many or most already have) and then use their authority to create the reserve. Then they will make multiples of their investment. See the logic? You might find that disgusting and rightly so, but don't call it improbable.

I hope he can keep his socks on when he finds out why he gets to use gmail for free.

As a CS prof I have graded quite a few essays in the last year, many of them AI influenced. It's true that generic ChatGPT has a recognizable writing style, but judging human from machine can be quite hard. This is because of two reasons.

1) Sophisticated prompts on the part of cheaters
2) Off-brand AI

Just as you can recognize generic ChatGPT verbiage, smart students can as well. They tell the machine to remove the adverbs, bullet points, ornamental language, and to put things more plainly, etc. But I think I've actually had more trouble with issue (2). There was one student in particular who set off my alarms only on his 3rd exam. When I looked at his 1st and 2nd it was obvious that he had cheated on those as well. But the problem was that his AI was an idiot, and so what it said sounded very plausibly student-ish. There were awkward unworkable metaphors and circumlocutions of just the sort that bullsh*tting students use when they don't know an answer, but it was still allowing him a definite edge. Anecdotally I've heard that this might have been the Snapchat AI, but I'll never know for sure.

Incidentally one side effect of AI cheating is that when you have 30 students and you've busted 10 of them for cheating, morale declines and the social atmosphere becomes toxic. I do let students use AI quite a bit, just not on everything. About 1/3 of people try to find a way to use it anyway.

Go surveilled monetary system, go! I want my dollar to be just like the Chevy Bolt that tells GM how often I brake and how hard I accelerate. We need a financial system directed by experts, such as Gensler and Jared Bernstein.

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Presumably the buyer would get the code to the app.

There are probably so many surveillance, propaganda, and disinformation features embedded in the source that it can never be exposed to outsiders.
There would be no way to safely modify the code in the time allowed to remove the unseemly functionality.

This is more likely than the alternative, namely that ByteDance just doesn't care about the $6 Billion that the app would probably sell for.

Hmm let me see.

Google gets exclusive content to reddit data for 60 million per year.
Google directs huge amounts of internet traffic to reddit.
Then... Google gets huge amounts of data in its exclusive data stream.
Meanwhile it impoverishes its competitors by denying them said data.

Funny that Google searches are now directing users to Google.

I wonder what exactly "dog fight" means. From what I understand modern fighters fire from beyond visual range. This article seems to suggest that some kind of tooth and nail machine gun battle is taking place. My expertise on modern military aircraft is fairly nil, but I imagine that a real modern "dog fight" is just pushing a button indicating which entity within range you want to destroy.