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singingtoday··on Denmark Requires Oral Defenses for Students' Written Work to Counter AI Cheating
I should add, this was for CS. I don't know about the other programs.
singingtoday··on Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments
Only the dumb ones are obvious. In my school (SFU/BC) most of the students in almost all of my classes cheated. VERY FEW got caught.

I heard instructors say all too often that it was obvious when somebody was cheating, but somehow they missed the guy paying his cousin to write the final.

singingtoday··on Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face
Gemini still gives up too easily
singingtoday··on Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face
You can get near this point with scaffolding. Keep in mind, LLMs are next word predictors at their root. More abstractly, they capture and replay likely human intelligence by way of written language. Tokens.

With that concept in mind, it's clear how they can be made to "give up".

singingtoday··on AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon
Yeah. I have 3 max20 plans.
singingtoday··on AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon
Interesting. I've yet to find a model I consider sufficiently intelligent.

Fable is nice, but still requires a lot of guidance for large scope tasks.

singingtoday··on AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon
We still run GPT 4.1 for some of our use cases. We want to replace it but are having trouble finding models that are as fast with similar or better intelligence.
singingtoday··on Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo
Incipient better? Or are we in progress?
singingtoday··on The Silicon Valley Founder Meat Grinder
I've met a few people like that, through what appears to be pure determination, they force success to give up what it has. Very impressive.
singingtoday··on Google has abandoned Google News?
98se, 2000, 7, 10

XP wasn't bad, it was basically 2000 with extra stuff.

singingtoday··on Google News is just Forrest Gump's shrimp boat now
I still never gave it a try. I assume it works in a VM? Maybe it's time to try Holy C.
singingtoday··on DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis
What an odd thing to say
singingtoday··on DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis
I have one of my projects on DeepSeek and it blows my mind how I can use tens of millions of tokens for pennies.

I don't find it suitable for everything, but there's some tasks it crushes for what feels like almost free.

singingtoday··on The lost civic life of movie rental stores
That was my experience, and in the 90s as well.
singingtoday··on The lost civic life of movie rental stores
How did we exclude ourselves? I went to the store, I got cassettes, discussed it with the people I came with.

We do the exact same thing now except use a phone or tablet.

singingtoday··on The coolest use for the Vision Pro
That's awesome! How was shipping it? How was the product market fit?
singingtoday··on Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise
Not yet anyways. Not all of them.
singingtoday··on Open-weight AI is having its Kubernetes moment
Ah, a true scholar!
singingtoday··on Open-weight AI is having its Kubernetes moment
Fantastic, thank you for the explanation!
singingtoday··on Open-weight AI is having its Kubernetes moment
I ported my company over to k8s to solve a concurrency and scaling issues.

What 15 concepts? You're making me worry that I missed something. It was straight forward: pods, nodes, hw type, lifecycle, deployment. They run almost the same docker as the old ec2s used.

What did I miss? Is there something important I need to read?

singingtoday··on Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude
I mean, you can mostly. That's apparent all over. Money buys freedom.
singingtoday··on Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA
This is very interesting to me because I find sol to be inferior at code generation, but superior at conversation and code review.
singingtoday··on Gemini 3.6 Flash
The kids and adults. That's what my mom calls it.
singingtoday··on Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber
I'm more excited for 3.5 pro. Gemini has fallen behind in some areas, but is still one of the best multimodal models.

Has anybody found any models better at image or audio analysis?

singingtoday··on Do we just want slaves?
Is the ai hate a global or western thing? A friend of mine in Japan says people don't hate it there. Maybe she's just in a bubble?
singingtoday··on Young adults are poor despite every metric which suggests otherwise
I don't buy that because China has very high home ownership rates.

So it can be done. Even today.

singingtoday··on First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant star
That's phenomenal. This would bring us so much fascinating information.
singingtoday··on The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway
Depends how you use the tokens. It's not 10k, but I have an agent do an investigation automatically when I get paged, so by the time I get to the computer I have a nice summary. But that's costing me like $5/mo at most.

But you could use tons of autonomous agents for all kinds of things. Probably shouldn't, but you can.

singingtoday··on The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway
I have 3 max20 subscriptions and usually max at least two of them out.

I'm doing lots.

I'm building a social media site that nobody will ever use. I'm printing an ancient game to Linux and expanding the features (such as adding hw acceleration where it isn't needed). I'm troubleshooting crash logs for an Xbox game that has maybe 50 active players. Im building a distributed customer service system that provides LLMs, RAG, tool calls for lots of integrations (Gmail, calendar, sheets) (this one actually has several paying users). I'm building games, and releasing them on the Google marketplace (play store?)

But what used the most tokens was a kind of agent swarm I experimented with to implement a complex desktop application for very specific data manipulation. That.. half worked.. but it's buggy.

I made several internal tools at my company that are actually getting used by pretty much everybody. That's my most successful work I think. Oh, and I created a backup deployment in Azure for my companies product because .. we had the azure credits, so why not?

singingtoday··on The human-in-the-loop is tired
It got a lot of clicks here. Clicks equal money.
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