sbohacek

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by sbohacek 8mo ago
The lack of signing and/or checking the signature when updating is the real issue here. But the write up blames the attack on the hosting server. That doesn't bode well for future security.
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by sbohacek 8mo ago
International equities out performed US in 2025, e.g., see the chart near the bottom of the article in https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/04/investing/global-stock-market...
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by sbohacek 9mo ago
Elections is only one characteristic of a democracy. Other characteristics include freedom of the press, freedom of speech, minority rights, rule of law, accountability and transparency, and separation of powers.
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by sbohacek 9mo ago
Compensation is complicated. As far as I recall, in Guatemala, United Fruit had undervalued the worth of their land to reduce their taxes. So when they were compensated for the nationalization of their land based on their own valuation, the
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by sbohacek 11mo ago
This is an example of US not carrying "all the water." The second link shows that the EU+UK (countries + institutions) sent more food aid than the US. The UK has roughly 1/5 the population of the US and sent more than 1/
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by sbohacek 1y ago
The administration does not need to appeal to the supreme court. I don't think they would appeal it since it is being enforced as desired. Indeed, this is one of the concerns of the dissenting opinions.
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by sbohacek 1y ago
I tell my students to cheat all they want. Their managers will need to hit their URA targets. More seriously, students have been cheating for a long time. Chegg.com was used solely for cheating. It is easier to detect LLMs than Chegg. Chegg
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by sbohacek 2y ago
The relative humidity is 0.33 [1]. The previous lowest recorded relative humidity was 0.36 in Needles CA and Iran [2] [1] https://www.weather.gov/wrh/timeseries?site=KSMO [2] https://www.wunderground.com&#x2
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by sbohacek 2y ago
Crescent city live web cam. Currently showing boats going out to sea. https://www.iplivecams.com/live-cams/crescent-city-harbor-di...
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by sbohacek 2y ago
I don’t know the source of fatigue reported in the article. But I worked in this area a long time ago and observed rapid degradation in rats. Perhaps it was from the techniques we used, but I speculated that the electrodes only excited a fr
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by sbohacek 3y ago
The 2022 Calf Canyon/Hermits Peak Fire in New Mexico was caused by controlled burns that got out of control. One part of the fire was from a controlled burn that was completed in January and then "reignited" in April! In any
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by sbohacek 3y ago
I have not tried, but I assumed that API access to Anthropic's Claude is available through AWS Bedrock.
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by sbohacek 3y ago
I have not been able to get good results either, but I have not tried it in the past year. I also tried many of the architectures in Darts. I have found that fairly straightforward architectures work well. That is, I can iterate on my own d
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by sbohacek 3y ago
I don't think so. NSF Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) and NSF Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grants include getting products to market. But this is a regular research grant from NSF Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspac
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by sbohacek 3y ago
Be sure that you select GPT-4 from the drop down list of models. For each new chat, it reverts back to default GPT-3.5.
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by sbohacek 4y ago
I'm currently grading an open book test as you describe. It turns out that someone put their attempt at answers on chegg.com shortly after I posted the test. The temptation to use chegg is too great for students to resist. When chegg h
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by sbohacek 6y ago
The university I work for is unable to employ and pay students that are not in the country. As a result, training students online while they are outside of the country is not possible for graduate students that do not have families to suppo
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by sbohacek 6y ago
While this is anecdotal, it indicates that people with no symptoms can have lung damage (pneumonia), but not necessarily long-term damage: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/20/opinion/coronavirus-testi...
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by sbohacek 6y ago
Instead of using GPS, consider using the WiFi base stations. Specifically, each location can be characterized by the set of WiFi base stations a phone can detect. GPS is useful while outdoors, but virus transmission is somewhat difficult ou