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by avs733 4d ago
Can't and shouldn't are at odds here. Many people, see prior conversation on HN, have already decided that AI solved it. The standards of reasoning and rigor in academia are complex enough that we all argue over them and harumph a
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by avs733 7d ago
To me it’s telling that the screen shot he posted doesn’t really support any of what he says in the post and the screenshot doesn’t contradict the other sides claims
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by avs733 8d ago
If you believe the totality of the document, there was more shadiness in how OpenAI acted than just timing. Save other things they are accused of, the progression from rumors to replication would attract much less scrutiny. With those in m
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by avs733 8d ago
I’ll go back to the point about authorship. I’m Not a mathematician but I am in academia. if you are fucking around with authorship you are immediately suspect. That aspect alone would/should be unthinkable to any serious academic. Aut
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by avs733 8d ago
In the academic world it would still be deeply problematic…pick your preferred word. An analogy is akin to reviewing a paper. If I review a paper with some novel findings and then use my massive lab of graduate students to do the obvious ne
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by avs733 8d ago
>I get the vibe they're using ALPRs to identify drivers, and then going from there to find crime? This has gone on for a LONG time, but the change to empower it with AI tools that are presumed accurate is the new amplification.
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by avs733 14d ago
I have been wondering this as well. I cannot imagine having this be autoupdated without review from a centralized database is a good idea. This is a process that needs to be frangible and have some friction in it. In this day and age, GPS m
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by avs733 16d ago
A quick check says this contract has been in place since 2020. The internet security practices I experienced when working with the DOD in a prior life were…interesting? Outside of the classified realm, there seemed to be little to no on the
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by avs733 16d ago
That’s also when (poor) logic would dictate you should push a software update.
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by avs733 16d ago
The diet in Guam is already heavily dependent on shelf stable foods. I know this from personal experience but theres a surprising (to me) amount of research on it as well (c.v., https://www.guampedia.com/health-consequences
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by avs733 1mo ago
yeah but not in a US cops version of their place in the analogy
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by avs733 2mo ago
I've become convinced that AI models have no concept of 'white space' or cognitive load which is something technically minded folks have already seemed to underappreciate so it is amplified in situations like this. To call it
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by avs733 2mo ago
So with some searching… In the UK you can apply to upto five colleges. In the US the recommendation seems to be between 5-8
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by avs733 2mo ago
Looking at this without consideration for two factors (number of applicants and the number of applications per applicant) is borderline malpractice. I can’t pull older numbers on my phone at the moment but in the last 12 years the number of
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by avs733 2mo ago
Having dealt with this with a couple of family members, set it a similar system for my spouse and I, and also been tech support for numerous friends doing somethign similar I'll provide a couple notes * The biggest product market fit n
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by avs733 3mo ago
I think this is the larger point that is easy to miss. Thinking about this as slashing science or making it more efficient or short sighted or innovative is all a distraction. It’s just another opportunity to give money to the friends of th
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by avs733 3mo ago
Worth noting this is pretty standard university PR. It is written with author involvement so it’s likely technically correct but it is aimed at getting it picked up so it often makes it sound flowery and contains multiple descriptions of ge
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by avs733 3mo ago
I’m going to keep it vague beyond saying that I don’t have to worry about going bankrupt from healthcare.
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by avs733 3mo ago
Why assume that this is about finding a job? I happily had a job in academia in the US. Probably what most would call “successful” after exiting a startup and getting a PhD I was US engineering faculty for 8 years. We picked up our keys to
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by avs733 3mo ago
The aesthetic very much feels like the whole earth catalog revisited…
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by avs733 3mo ago
Except the housing market, especially the rental market, is still significantly driven by small rental property owners and is a significant source of generational wealth transfer. Starting with the assumption that all or even most investors
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by avs733 4mo ago
There is a nother factor worth mentioning in the admissions piece - the proababilistic accuracy in admissions alongside massive increases in the number of applications students send out. The first admissions criteria is basically the abilit
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by avs733 4mo ago
I'm with you and have said this a long time. We* are responsible for the government that acts in our name and we should bear the costs of its abuse. The Sheriff did not have the power of arrest that he abused here when we has a regular
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by avs733 4mo ago
It seems like some better basic metrics should be made front and center with PRs in this day and age. Yes AI is the driving force behind the current crop of problems but there are other issues. Yes it’s accessible if you go look but the poi
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by avs733 4mo ago
At least in my state the actually high risk portion of their job…dealing with traffic collisions on the highway…is being outsourced to non police “hero units” Tells me we can change what police are and aren’t responsible for, and it is tell
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by avs733 4mo ago
In a sense you aren’t wrong but those analogies fail at scale. It’s like saying you could replace all hr functions with a spreadsheet. They are large databases yes but they do a lot of small and large things that that analogy glosses over
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by avs733 4mo ago
Because faculty didn’t want to do it anymore. They want it handled by others but also they want oversight and veto power but also they don’t want to be bothered. But it better always work, and if they make a mistake the software is broken b
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by avs733 4mo ago
our instance went from [insert hacker leet text] to "down for scheduled maintenance" and myself and other faculty are just having the darkest humor about this.
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by avs733 4mo ago
It is absolute chaos at my institution. This is the last day of finals and grades are due Monday morning. Most faculty are spending today, tomorrow, and through the weekend finalizing grades. What we don't have access to includes: * Al
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by avs733 4mo ago
Its a blog post from the WalletWallet team about the upcoming changes that have only been reported by Bloomberg news

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