pasharayan

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by pasharayan 21d ago
I think this is one of the most awkward parts of essay writing that AI does help with .. which is filling in the words to fill the word count.
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by pasharayan 21d ago
NGL i also suspect the particular brand of Anthropic safety filters cut out passionate/fun personality traits
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by pasharayan 22d ago
Thankfully, college essay writing isn't in that 'serious' category!
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by pasharayan 22d ago
Kind of a 'at what stage did this article use AI or written by a human'?
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by pasharayan 22d ago
I do find Grok also makes some crude jokes - but gemini's seem more intellgent x funny
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by pasharayan 22d ago
TBH :') that one was an AI slip through. In other comments i've flagged the things that were hard rewritten - but even on me that's bad.
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by pasharayan 22d ago
You'll find some paragraphs are half written by Ai and some written totally by me. It's heavily edited from its original form (as it was a data report by codex on our db) - but some paragraphs which were good enough stayed. E.g. C
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by pasharayan 22d ago
Students do have different incentives in writing than SWE's. There's the habit of reaching word counts for assignments, some social signalling of how intellgent you are with essay length etc. The data we have is just there to comp
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by pasharayan 22d ago
As in they should make their own foundation models for essays?
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by pasharayan 22d ago
Most students can write an essay - but most are also smart enough to try to save time too haha
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by pasharayan 22d ago
Will give this a shot - we're going to try to work with students and schools better on normalizing this stuff out
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by pasharayan 22d ago
I think it's less about curricula and more about how professors should eval their students. In previous era's essays are a proxy of the students ability to reason, remember and argue certain points - but its clear they fall short
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by pasharayan 22d ago
I wonder how much is due to their investment in notebook LLM + gmail work
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by pasharayan 22d ago
Codex - at least initially haha! I wrote lots of insights and findings and pushed out a lot of false logic it picked up. Personally I hate claude writing cause it feels bureaucratic. But definitely wrote a ton more with my bare hands and br
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by pasharayan 22d ago
Interestingly, the smartest students I've worked with do use AI - but more in the sense that AI is a good comparison tool and a good bottom ceiling of the quality of work they should bring in. Lots of research shows being able to see
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by pasharayan 22d ago
You know.. might try to see what we can do here
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by pasharayan 22d ago
Yeah it's hard to get good data on what's best . We did read the a good sample amount of essays. Lots of arguments about what made them better , but its uncontroversial that longer ones were more preferred. Interestingly we trai
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by pasharayan 22d ago
TBH i did a bit of both - we used AI to get us insights in the db, we then wrote and rewrote the article to be readable. It's really hard because usually when i write reports they're so terse its not fun to read
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Analyzing student votes across AI models for college essay help(studyarena.com)
43 points by pasharayan 22d ago|86 comments
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by pasharayan 1y ago
This is so useful as so many of the best things to learn in the world aren't locked up in universities!
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by pasharayan 3y ago
The teddy bear was named after Theodore Roosevelt (The president of the USA), after saving a baby bear during a hunting expedition ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teddy_bear )
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InsideSherpa Virtual Work Experiences (YC W19) Is Hiring Engineers in Sydney(jobs.ashbyhq.com)
1 points by pasharayan 6y ago
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by pasharayan 7y ago
We're working on a way to focus programs by geography! Currently we have 25+ programs live; I've just listed some of our ones with a direct UK alignment here: JPMorgan Chase [Software] [We talk to their UK team]: https:/&#x2
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by pasharayan 7y ago
Oh wow that's so cool! I didn't know anyone was doing the model end-to-end like that in India - there's alot of improvements to employment to be had with this mindset I think.
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by pasharayan 7y ago
Wow we didn't even know this happened! That's great to hear! If you ever do want to switch careers and trade code for contracts you should give it a go haha! If anything working on these programs gave me a better appreciation of t
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by pasharayan 7y ago
That's a great question! Feedback from employers about graduates have always been around new graduates and hires not being 'work ready' - and we've found many colleges aren't flexible enough to solve this problem qu
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by pasharayan 7y ago
Thanks for that feedback! One of the reasons we settled on an online course system is because they allow anyone, including international students on visas or students from other countries, to have a chance to upskill with these big firms. W
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by pasharayan 7y ago
We had started InsideSherpa wanting to build something we wished we had in college!
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by pasharayan 7y ago
Hey johnpowell thanks for the feedback! Are you referring to the student testimonials on the bottom of the homepage? We'll look into this.
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by pasharayan 7y ago
Thanks for the kind words abhinuvpitale! Yes, this is exactly what we found - there's an irrelevance to some hiring processes because they tend to ask obsolete or academic questions. One problem with asking pragmatic questions is that

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