pcouy
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- Comment on 1 week ago:
As someone who teaches CS and grades assignments, the last few years have been really rough. Academic dishonesty has skyrocketed with models becoming smarter and students becoming more dependent on them. Any assignment that’s above average will make me suspicious, and when it appears to be 100% AI generated, the feeling that I spend more time grading than the student spent working on it is awful. Even when I’m almost sure a work is AI generated, unless there are some dumb leftovers such as “As an AI assistant […]”, I can never be 100% sure. This causes me a lot of headaches because the only thing worse than rewarding dishonesty would be not appropriately rewarding an outstanding assignment.
As much as I’d love to have à software tell me with 100% certainty which parts (if any) of an assignment are AI written, AI detectors are all snake oil, no exception. They exploit teachers’ helplessness to make false promises that we really want to believe in.
Moreover, I don’t think fully banning AI use is a sensible thing to do. LLMs are a thing, whether we like them or not, and using them in a sensible way is a useful skill to learn. There’s one big issue though : on one hand, assignments are made so that the problems students have to solve all have well-known solutions. This is required to make sure the assignment is doable in the first place, and that teachers will be able to help. On the other hand, LLMs are disproportionately good at classic assignment problems since there are so many published solutions online (which then end up in training datasets). Moreover, assignements are usually made to guide students through a larger problem by breaking it down into smaller problems, which is basically the perfect prompt for a LLM. This means students can get away with the laziest uses of LLMs (which usually won’t work with real world problems). In the worst cases, the only “skill” some students learn is to throw a PDF at whatever AI they paid for, ask it to solve the assignment, and copy paste the output without thoroughly reading it first.
Teachers clearly need to adapt. There will always be a few students who fail to learn in every class, but when so many students don’t learn, it’s the teacher who is failing to teach.
- Comment on Utah tells porn sites to take the P out of VPNs, and it's their fault that they can't 4 weeks ago:
My point was never about the cost anyway. It was about VPNs (commercial or hosted on a cheap VPS) still needing you to trust a third party, and also that the P in VPN does not mean “privacy”
- Comment on Utah tells porn sites to take the P out of VPNs, and it's their fault that they can't 4 weeks ago:
When I said I host my own, I mean on cheap VPS that cost me way less than 6$/month.
But yeah, mullvad is pretty much the only commercial VPN provider I’d trust more than my ISP
- Comment on Utah tells porn sites to take the P out of VPNs, and it's their fault that they can't 4 weeks ago:
There’s absolutely no reason my ISP needs my browsing history.
Don’t know what ISP you have or what VPN you’re using, but it’s just a transfer of trust. Whoever your VPN provider is, they now see everything your ISP previously saw. I host my own VPN servers when I need one, and even then I still have to trust the datacenter operators to not snoop on my DNS requests (almost everything else tends to be encrypted with SSL/TLS by default nowadays)
Also, the “Private” in VPN is about it being for private use, not about privacy
- Comment on At this point, should I trick Reddit into thinking that they’ve wrongfully banned my account “r/DylanMc6” in my ban appeal? 5 months ago:
MAC addresses are only visible on a LAN
- Comment on Why doesn't the Trump administration simply edit the Epstein files and release them? 11 months ago:
There is no such reliably working software. I’d love to be proven wrong, but I’ve looked into it enough that I’m quite confident it does not exist
- Comment on I Believe That It's Important For All of Us to Understand What 'Decentralization' Truly Means. Please, Let's Talk About That 1 year ago:
Self hosting emails is a pain, but I’ve been doing it for almost 2 years and I do not have any of these issues. I’m not an expert either, I just thoroughly followed a tutorial to properly configure dmarc, dkim and everything else and everything just works (I just hope I’m not jinxing it by writing this :D )
- Comment on I Believe That It's Important For All of Us to Understand What 'Decentralization' Truly Means. Please, Let's Talk About That 1 year ago:
There are a few things I don’t like about this scoring system :
- Why is there a “Top Provider Content Share” metric if its gonna score the same as the “Top Provider User Share” every time ?
- Why is the Top Provider Content Share not higher than the user share ? For instance, emails usually have at least one sender and one recipient, making it twice as likely that at least one of them is using gmail. If an email has 10 recipients across 10 different providers, each provider has a copy of the data
- Why is ease of hosting a mail server rated so well ? How is “leveraging email hosting services” decentralized in any way ?
- Why are we using a random repo created a few hours ago by a random github user as a reference ?
- Comment on If we're living in a simulation, why would the simulation creators allow the sims to ponder and speculate whether or not they live in a simulation? 1 year ago:
You’ve probably read about language model AIs basically being uncontrollable black boxes even to the very people who invented them.
When OpenAI wants to restrict ChatGPT from saying some stuff, they can fine tune the model to reduce the likelihood that it will output forbidden words or sentences, but this does not offer any guarantee that the model will actually stop saying forbidden things.
The only way of actually preventing such an agent from saying something is to check the output after it is generated, and not send it to the user if it triggers a content filter.
My point is that AI researchers found a way to simulate some kind of artificial brains, from which some “intelligence” emerges in a way that these same researchers are far from deeply understanding.
If we live in a simulation, my guess is that life was not manually designed by the simulation’s creators, but rather that it emerged from the simulation’s rules (what we Sims call physics), just like people studying the origins of life mostly hypothesize. If this is the case, the creators are probably as clueless about the inner details of our consciousness as we are about the inner details of LLMs
- Comment on No NAT November: My Month Without IPv4 1 year ago:
Migrating all my IPv4 stuff (firewalls, VPN, routing tables, etc) to IPv6 is probably the one thing I’ve procrastinated for the most time in my life :/
- Comment on Starlink with self hosted? 1 year ago:
I wish people would stop recommending cloudflare in self-hosting communities
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- Comment on Bethesda Game Studios has unionized! 1 year ago:
Thé closing parenthesis got caught into the link (at least with my client), turning it into a 404. You should add a space
- Comment on Let's discuss: Kirby 2 years ago:
This was the first (and one of the few) game I completed to 100%. It took me so long to find the masr warp zone!