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In the same vein - the Roswell Museum and Research Center - the library portion is underrepresented in its ads. It is a library about the size of an elementary / middle school library filled with supposed accounts and testimony, academic-style papers and reports. One could spend days admiring this collection. (I’m not shilling for it, just pointing out the best part is not the latex cadavers in the other room.).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_UFO_Museum_and_R...

It depends on what vintage of Blackboard your IT team has installed. We moved from a circa 2011 BB instance to Canvas in 2022, and it was hands down superior. A different university is running the most recent BB and it’s similar to Canvas.

LLM’s: sometimes wrong but never in doubt.

Or, the first time a mistake is detected, a correction is automatically applied.

Okay, but what are the cybersecurity implications of this discovery? A new living-off-the-land approach? Resource exhaustion? Covert servers?

Sorry for the novice question, but how do you determine this is AI?

Not sure I understand the problem this is trying to solve. I can hash a 2Gb file with an empty hash placeholder, sign the hash and store it in the file. Then on decryption, zero out the placeholder, hash the whole file, and compare the result to the included signed hash placeholder without storing 2Gb in memory.

Hug of death via Tom’s Hardware

I must be the only one who thinks this, but this is the age of getting things done. I don’t have to worry about syntax or off by one errors, I tell it what to do and it generally does it, instantly!

Oh, and I’m 57 and was programming the Commodore Pet when I was 11. I’m relieved to be (mostly) free of syntactic shackles.

Vote me down, but also prove me wrong.

sedutil-cli —yesIwantToEraseALLmydata $PSID /dev/sda1 or something like that.

This. Most people defer the solving of hard problems to when they write the code. This is wrong, and too late to be effective. In one way, using agents to write code forces the thinking to occur closer to the right level - not at the code level - but in another way, if the thinking isn’t done or done correctly, the agent can’t help.

zOMG dying laughing here

> With four treatment sessions spaced fortnightly,

This is a clearer statement of “Every two weeks” than “bimonthly” or “semimonthly.”

Brilliant!

Mathematically speaking, “no child left behind” is equivalent to “no child out in front.”

Except what if you don’t really grok those ffmpeg flags and the LLM tells you something wrong - how will you know? Or more common, send you down a re-encode rabbit hole when you just needed a simple clipping off the end?

Ten years old laptop? Pretty sure it has a TPM 2.0 on it.

Practical question: when getting the AI to teach you something, eg how attention can be focused in LLMs, how do you know it’s teaching you correct theory? Can I use a metric of internal consistency, repeatedly querying it and other models with a summary of my understanding? What do you all do?

Conspicuously missing is a direct mention of AI tools. Is MIT, like others, side-stepping the use of AI by students to (help them) complete homework assignments and projects?

Link to the About page that clearly describes the effort and rationale.

https://missing.csail.mit.edu/about/

Back in the day, wustl.edu was seen as a leader in computer applications. Sad now that it cannot just create its own systems to handle its tasks, especially with AI’s around to offer coding help. Imagine spending a fraction of this money and vectoring it to students to develop said systems.

One trick I have tried is asking the LLM to output a specification of the thing we are in the middle of building. A commenter above said humans struggle with writing good requirements - LLMs have trouble following good requirements - ALL of them - often forgetting important things while scrambling to address your latest concern.

Getting it to output a spec lets me correct the spec, reload the browser tab to speed things up, or move to a different AI.

Damn … Crucial P3 plus and P5 plus support Opal 2.0 full disk encryption. This leaves Samsung standing nearly alone in the consumer market, except for some smaller names.

If it matters, many of their issues were apparently closed without comment. Here is an issue asking to resolve this. It also lists many of the commits.

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/work_items/182...

May be a repeat here, but best proof I saw was inscribe a square with sides of length c inside another square, but rotated such that the interior square’s corners intersect the outer square’s edges. The intersecting points divide the outer square’s edge making lengths a and b.

This produces an inner square’s edge with sides length c and four equal right triangles of sides a, b, and c.

Note that the area of the outer square equals the sum of the inner square plus the area of the four triangles. Solve this equality.

“Build me a fishing pole” instead of “catch me a fish” is the best advice this article has (sans my fishing metaphor).

Try the Developers remix. Total ear worm.

https://youtu.be/ug4c2mqlE_0?si=qtqu7tOC7Xpw67aN

Is this a DoS risk - code that sends your build chain into an infinite loop?

I use LLMs to help navigate FFmpeg. It hasn’t failed me yet.

Nowadays, do pass 1 (abstract, intro, headings, conclusions), upload the paper to your LLM, then ask questions interactively. LLMs can make step 3 a lot more efficient.

I get the impression that somehow an attacker is able to inject this prompt (maybe in front of the actual coder’s prompt) in such a way to produce actual production code. I’m waiting to hear how this can happen - cross site attacks on the developer’s browser?