jventura

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by jventura 16d ago
Couldn’t we, the rest of the world, continue to see Lake Ontario, as it was before? It’s a very stupid thing to do and I guess most of us, if asked, would be on team Canada..
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by jventura 2mo ago
What you call azulejos is basically tilings, which are mostly tiles with geometric patterns (or just a color) covering an area. Azulejo, in the "strict" portuguese (of Portugal) sense are usually a painting in the tiles (not on ea
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by jventura 3mo ago
It's probably a scam. For instance there's this book published today about Fable ( https://leanpub.com/claudefable5thedefinitiveguidetoprompten... ). And Fable was only released to a wider audience today. Do you thi
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by jventura 3mo ago
I'm not a native EN speaker (I'm Portuguese), therefore a lot is lost in my attempt to find the right words. I'm writing these words without any use of AI or even a sentence-checker (only the spell-checker in Firefox). Of cou
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by jventura 3mo ago
How could I realistically enforce it? These are projects students do at home..
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by jventura 3mo ago
Not in the same level, see my other comments..
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by jventura 3mo ago
Everything that provides students with a workflow to think and to try to find solutions to a problem is much better than giving the answer directly! Unfortunately there will always be students that prefer to take the shortcut.. How could we
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by jventura 3mo ago
This is all so new, and caught us completely unprepared that there's no official university-level policies. Most of us are still navigating the waters and seeing what works and what doesn't work anymore. I have colleagues that are
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by jventura 4mo ago
> Would you have accepted them cooy-pasting code from libraries together to build their project? Yes, if they are "responsible" for the code delivered, where responsible means they understand the code, the architecture, the dec
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by jventura 4mo ago
CS Professor here: just yesterday I did the discussion of a course projects' (Parallel Computing), and one of the three groups that I did yesterday have clearly gone the ChatGPT way. They couldn't even understand the choices the L
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by jventura 5mo ago
It seems a bus to me, just look at the size of the windows. Airplanes don't have windows like that..
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by jventura 6mo ago
It were not astrologers, it was a company that creates astrology software.. Don't mix people with companies, they are different things! One is there definitely for the money, the other may or may not..
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by jventura 8mo ago
> Cant even be authentic in the internet anymore without being flagged as advertisement or an AI bot, jeez The sad state we got ourselves into..
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by jventura 8mo ago
As someone born and living in a country that uses the metric system, I do not understand a bit of what inches and feets mean. Tell me something has 10-15 cm, and I know what it means. I measure 173cm, I know what one meter is about. 5'
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by jventura 1y ago
A word of caution: sometimes the best wife is not the perfect girlfriend.. Hope you find yours..
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by jventura 1y ago
If you're still working on this, you can add a "Pedantry mode" ou "Really faithful" switch that turns some of the suggestions on. It could work as a way to show that you're really aware of the shortcomings of t
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by jventura 1y ago
I've been working in the intersection of LLMs and Traditional Astrology, for personal knowledge, professional and personal decision-making, and mostly for fun. I'm not a professional astrologer (I'm a CS PhD Professor), but I
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by jventura 1y ago
Everyday I have to prepare dinner and put the plates, glasses, forks and knifes in the table, and, I don't know why, get that feeling that I'd rather do anything else (or, most times, nothing at all). So I always start everything
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by jventura 1y ago
Experience from Portugal, near Lisbon: fake news and made-up stories traveled fast! My wife called me (before phones went out) saying someone heard on the radio that Portugal was on red alert, it was WW3 (world war 3) and I think she even m
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by jventura 2y ago
> When I went to school at least, they used extra cheap labour of whatever minimum skill level was required to catch cheating.. Not here where I leave (not USA).. > If that means no more coursework, fine, scrap the coursework or requi
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by jventura 2y ago
> What's the difficulty with just having assessments be done in a controlled invigilated exam room? Not all assessments are exams, eg: projects, and students cheat even in exams with professors present, eg: the OOP exam I mentioned
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by jventura 2y ago
Fellow professor here, I don't think your approach would work where I teach. I teach in a Polytechnic school (Portugal), which is almost free for the students, so the incentive that they are paying good money does not work. This semest
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by jventura 2y ago
Almost 80 years has passed, some details get lost, but it is important to keep things like that alive in our consciousnesses. Even if you didn't to justice to those stories, I still read them with attention. Thanks for them!
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by jventura 2y ago
> And half-assing something feels like not being true to myself. Been there many times, but I found that it’s best to aim for good enough, given the resources and constraints, than 100% all the time. I’m a recovering perfectionist, so it
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by jventura 2y ago
I always interpreted it as the pig liking getting dirty, not necessarily the fight.. And before reading your comment I never thought there could be another way of interpreting it..
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by jventura 2y ago
Why don’t you replace the battery? Third party batteries are usually quite affordable and good enough! Even yesterday I’ve replaced a worned out battery on a very old iPhone 5S (2013) for my son to watch things on youtube kids..
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by jventura 2y ago
I think the parent poster means that tech companies such as Apple, Nvidia and others are traded in US stock exchanges..
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by jventura 2y ago
Also agree, and would also include paid apps as well! I had a paid app which was a one time payment and was not doing anything special regarding permissions (no internet, nothing like that), but since it wasn't was bringing much revenu
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by jventura 2y ago
> I also was founder of Ayvri (3d mapping sports tech for paragliders) - I don't put this in the same category as the others, though it was the most lucrative for me, because though paragliders loved it, as did a few ultramarathoner
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by jventura 2y ago
> I just dream of spending a life of slow breakfasts, hiking on Monday mornings to celebrate a new week, reading books, slow traveling, and spending more time close to my aging parents. What is really stopping you from leaving the US and

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