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do they have any data? transfer students never needed SAT scores. if they can show that their freshmen admits are now actually doing worse than transfer students, then sure why not go back?
Jun 12
🔥Humanities professors unite w/ STEM faculty, demanding the University of California reinstate the SAT
“We call for the UC Academic Senate and the UC Regents to give up the failed experiment of the last 6 years & return to including both the math & the verbal reasoning components of SAT/ACT as part of undergraduate admissions”
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"The victim was able to use Eryilmaz’s phone to call her sister"
i find that amazing. if i lost my phone and didn't have access to my online accounts, i have literally no one whose phone number i would remember well enough to call.
Jun 5
A San Francisco jury found a 44-year-old man guilty of raping a woman who mistakenly got into his car instead of an Uber, District Attorney Brooke Jenkins announced Friday. STORY: kron4.com/news/bay-area/sf-m…
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the challenge was, it amounts to swapping tan theta for sin theta in most cases, ... which means small angle approximation basically makes them same (within the 1% or 3% relative tolerance used in most questions). so, i had to carve out an exception (applicable when a student answers with enough significant figures to tell them apart) to handle the "sin theta" answers *specifically* differently, even though it falls within the larger umbrella of correct answer - relative tolerance.
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i don't think i'm getting rid of ChatGPT subscription any time soon. Google's own tools are so ... so far behind. first is my interaction with Gemini trying to find a student name (if i knew how to spell it correctly, a direct email search would have surfaced it). the second is ChatGPT working with Gmail and Contacts connectors.
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is Uber trying to get back to autonomous driving game? what is there to code so extensively?
Dara (CEO of Uber) on their AI spend:
"We blew through our AI budget in a quarter, for the whole year. It is forcing us to adjust.
We are going to meter headcount increases because to the extent that my engineers are getting much more efficient, their throughput is increasing. There's a cost to that, and it's a significant cost.
AI adoption has been occurring in all parts of the business –– whether it's engineers and how they scope projects, how they build, debugging, platform migrations.
I'm pushing the teams to fundamentally use the power of AI to rebuild systems and processes from the bottoms up.
I do think it's a combination for us right now of encouraging adoption, but then driving efficiency.
We're using the more expensive models to explore. Once we scale some of these experiences, we'll look to bring in more efficient models that are more efficient on a token basis or are open source."
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eh. i think AI is going to be like ship's computer in Star Trek (TNG and on). no one worries about if it's conscious or not, despite being voiced by Nurse Chapel (TOS); it's just very intelligent and very useful.
Jun 3
If we confuse generative AI’s ability to produce text with consciousness, we risk assigning moral responsibility to chatbots—and not to their makers, Ted Chiang argues. theatlantic.com/philosophy/2…
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