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Absolutely! So from the academic side we have to adjust and we have to be better, which is a lot of what is discussed in this article. Pretending this technology doesn't exist doesn't help anyone. Teaching students how to use AI properly while removing their ability to use AI to cheat on tests is going to be key for the education system.

The article does say that AI is important to learn and to use.

I have been in teaching/training roles for a long time and the fear is that you are not learning if you use a generated answer, even if you edit the answer afterwards. What we need to do is teach students the right way to use AI and still learn. For years our education system in the US focuses on completing the grade or class rather than learning. So we get engineers with impressive degrees that know very little about engineering. This also coincides with companies not training/mentoring new hires properly so they have to learn by doing and in many cases learn by failing. Without proper mentoring and oversight some of these failures reach the market.

AI highlights an existing issue that is not unique to the US. "Get that piece of paper by any means necessary." Even when I was in school and we walked uphill both ways in the snow people would pay English majors to write papers. Sometimes this was a simple edit and sometimes they wrote it entirely. AI is just a new tool that allows you to complete assignments designed to learn if you attained the appropriate knowledge without learning.

Wow, this is way longer than I intended, good on you if you held in this long in my semi-coherent ramblings...personally I think the fix is easy, and the same answer to all forms of cheating I have witnessed. Vital exams and checkpoints in education should be handwritten, proctored exams. Yes that is harder to grade, but this is really the only way to guarantee your students are learning.

TL;DR AI is a new and easy way to avoid learning, but that doesn't mean AI is inherently bad, hand written exams are the easy solution (as they have always been for various technologies)

I recently watched a show on Prime and it was unwatchable. Like watching those ad supported free internet channels where they jarringly cut to commercial mid sentence with a huge volume change that rips you out of the immersion. At least when it is a 20 year old show you can almost excuse that, but I really hate it on a paid subscription. Oh well, back to the unofficial sources.

Yo ho yo ho...

Have you destroyed the hole factory yet?

Also are you upgrading all belts or only upgrading them to deliver exactly the material amounts you need?

You are welcome.

I can definitely get on board with this strategy, although I usually try to buy hard copies of the authors who are still kicking and writing.

Check out annas-archive.org to get digital backups of books you already own that may be otherwise protected by drm. Definitely don't use it to pirate books. Piracy is bad.

Edit:

Also you can use calibre to manage your book library outside of various large book providers.

https://calibre-ebook.com/

It's been a minute since I've read the books, so feel free to correct me, but doesnt Gandalf ask Aragorn to find Gollum after Bilbo's birthday? Then they imprison him with the elves who feel pity for him and let him climb a tree. Then he won't come down or something and gets away.

I assumed this is what the hunt for Gollum is, but I haven't looked at anything to confirm this.

"Precious, it's been called that before..."

Just in case it was driving anyone else crazy:

"The Gang Runs for Office" S02 E08

https://youtu.be/MsbIExarPp4?si=3jMg_V9eWvVJ633Q

My most talented coworker was a contractor that was hired on full time. He has repeatedly said he would never have made it through the hiring process. I think about that a lot.

Dang, Denny can't catch a break.

I just had an involuntary flashback of a host at a restaurant asking if we would like smoking or non smoking. It didn't really matter since the whole place smelled like smoke...