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honksillet··on Fraud, so much fraud
Don’t worry. The next generation will use generative algorithms to make fake images that are indistinguishable from the real deal.
honksillet··on The Cheating Device (ChatGPT on a TI-84) [video]
I don’t think college profs really have any idea the degree of cheating going on right now. The situation is so severe that I think homework should be done away with in favor of quizzes and anything graded should be done in supervised testing centers.
honksillet··on Why wordfreq will not be updated
Twitter was a botnet long before LLMs and Musk got involved.
honksillet··on How America's universities became debt factories
- the government should not be guaranteeing these loans - they should be dischargeable in bankruptcy That’s it.
honksillet··on FTC Pushed to Crack Down on Companies That Ruin Hardware via Software Updates
I can’t help but this of my aging apple MacBook. I once had full functioning, non subscription versions of both windows office suite and Adobe photoshop and illustrator. Neither of those packages of software work now and the integral MacBook battery is swelling and a would be a total pain to replace.
honksillet··on The first 10k games at bgammon.org, an open source online backgammon service
It might be worth while looking at lichess and take some direction from their interface, which is quite nice.
honksillet··on Harvard's Largest Faculty Division Will No Longer Require Diversity Statements
Sounds like a good result.
honksillet··on Claude is now available in Europe
Even a 5 year old knows the difference between need and want.
honksillet··on Shell sold carbon credits for carbon that was never captured
The entire notion of a carbon market is a farce.
honksillet··on Colon Cancer Is Rising in Young People: What to Know About Causes and Symptoms
More libertine sexual habits. They are already causing an increase in pharyngeal cancer.
honksillet··on Polio is on the brink of eradication
Pakistani parents have good reason to not trust anything administered by a needle. 700 children recently contracted HIV. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/hundreds-o...
honksillet··on OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster
So the bad guys won. OpenAI gets further from it’s non commercial origins and further from responsible research in this field.
honksillet··on Sam Bankman-Fried is a feature, not a bug
The true feature was the political donations making their way back into the accounts of politicians.
honksillet··on Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation
I’m guessing this was done by using YouTube’s api to look at transcripts, which are time stamped. This is great. Anyone know if there is a Chinese equivalent video platform that has time stamped characters?
honksillet··on Halfsies
That’s a fun little web game. But isn’t brilliant supposed to be educational? This is not at all.
honksillet··on Ask HN: Best Tech Courses/Certifications Under $400 for a Back End Engineer?
https://learn.mongodb.com/learning-paths/introduction-to-mon... I liked this mongoDB course I took a few years ago. And it is free.
honksillet··on Visualizing American inflation across eight categories
These are official numbers which are a gross underreporting of actual inflation.
honksillet··on Stack Overflow announces 28% headcount reduction
Instead of just iterating on a solid business another case of promising infinite growth, which in reality is just a different form of pump and dump. Fire the executives.
honksillet··on Cancel Zoning If we want to fix the housing-affordability crisis zoning must go
Something rarely mentioned is how much land the federal government owns. Maybe the feds don’t need to own 50% of Oregon and 80% of Nevada.
honksillet··on Reddit Strike Has Started
Let’s hope Reddit consumes itself in this peer struggle.
honksillet··on Apollo will close down on June 30th
Reddit’s censorship of r/the_donald was a huge moment in the splintering of political discourse into disconnected silos. It used to be you could go to the front page of Reddit and see what each side of American politics was pushing that day. People on both the left and right would be confronted with news that otherwise they might not see in their personal echo chambers. That all died when spez and co first “quarantined” (ironic jargon choice) then ultimately killed T_D. Truly a sad chain of events. PS. T_D still lives at patriots.win fwiw.
honksillet··on It's time to reveal all recommendation algorithms – by law if necessary
Shadow banning should be illegal and all banning or throttling decisions should be explained publicly in real-time.
honksillet··on I fixed a parasitic drain on my car in 408 days
I’ve been wondering if my old HOUSE has parasitic electrical currents but I’m not sure where to start.
honksillet··on Roald Dahl: Original books to be kept in print following criticism
Besides being Orwellian, is this also a sneaky way to extend the copyrights?
honksillet··on ChatGPT Plus
While I have have your ear, please tell your team not to inject their political biases into this tool. Thanks
honksillet··on Activist glues his head to glass covering 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' painting
People should understand that when uninterested or marginally interested people hear about these destructive stunts it make them NOT want to support their cause, whatever it is.
honksillet··on An account was suspended
This is why most people think any management would be better than twitters current managers.
honksillet··on High-performance image generation using Stable Diffusion in KerasCV
Can this be used to train you own model? I have a moderately large medical image dataset that would like to try this with for data augmentation.
honksillet··on Censorship by big tech at the behest of the U.S. government?
Either way these requests should be PUBLIC
honksillet··on Hans Niemann says he is being unfairly attacked in chess scandal
Cheating is a huge issue in online chess. Sites like chess.com have teams that hunt it. That being said, chess.com should probably release the evidence.
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