Sarah O'Connor (FT) warns students taking up AI to get them through their studies may be counter-productive;
Good careers depend on employees being able to demonstrate they add value & if they depend on AI to deliver what they claim to know, why would employers not just 'employ' artificial intelligence directly?
While clinging to AI might be understandable in a time of student stress & anxiety, educators (universities) should help them resist the siren call of AI!
I completely concur!
#AI
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This reminds me of how people say "your life flashes before your eyes when you die" and, somehow, never realize the implications of that being true. I can tell you from experience that your perception of time increases, to the effect that time is subjectively slowed to the point of absurdity when you get hit by a car, and I walked away from that one without any serious injury. I can imagine the very last exhale feeling as long as the entire lifetime of inhalation proceeding it. Again, everyone always says how your life flashes before your eyes when you die. I cannot rationally dismiss with complete certainty that ~31.5 years to date, as I remember it as of this exact moment, hasn't all just been my life flashing before my eyes. I cannot prove absolutely that I'm not remembering having typed this decades ago, that I'm not an old man having a heart attack, and that I won't be dead before I hit the floor.
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I have been near enough to death to have been resuscitated. I have never experienced my life flashing before my eyes. I do not know that it cannot happen though I am fairly certain this is a phenomena introduced in works of fiction rather than a science.
If anyone knows of any genuine research into this I would love to see citations to the work.
Hmm, if you are a fan of Japanese pickled veggies and shop at Tokyo Central or Marukai (Los Angeles), giant recall for botulism.
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AKT Trading Inc. Recalls Prepared Vegetable Products Because of Possible Health Risk
AKT Trading Inc. of Torrance, California, is recalling certain prepared vegetable products manufactured by Choshiya Honten Co., Ltd. due to a potential risk of Clostridium botulinum, a bacterium which can cause life-threatening illness or death.Office of Inspections and Investigations (FDA)
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A New Hampshire woman was arrested after several years of allegedly urinating on items at a food co-op and posting videos of it online. What do you think?The Onion Staff (The Onion)
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What To Know About ‘The Pitt’
The Pitt, a new medical drama series on Max, has received an outpouring of praise for its realistic, hour-by-hour portrayal of a shift in a busy Pittsburgh emergency room.The Onion Staff (The Onion)
Note, if you are landing your alien ship right now in Roswell, best to wait until better conditions.
National Weather Service: DUST STORM WARNING for this area until 6:00 PM MST. Be ready for sudden drop to zero visibility. Pull Aside, Stay Alive! When visibility drops, pull far off the road and put your vehicle in park. Turn the lights off and keep your foot off the brake. Infants, the elderly and those with respiratory issues urged to take precautions. Source: NWS Albuquerque NM
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Movie Theater Ceiling Collapses During ‘Captain America’ Screening
After a ceiling collapsed onto the audience during a screening of the latest Marvel film, a theater in Wenatchee, WA is working with local authorities to determine the cause of the disaster. What do you think?The Onion Staff (The Onion)
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Kylie Jenner Admits She’d Like To Go On One Date That Isn’t Awards Ceremony
LOS ANGELES—Growing frustrated by the lack of variety in the couple’s romantic outings, Kylie Jenner told reporters Monday that she would like to go on one date with Timothée Chalamet that wasn’t an awards ceremony.The Onion Staff (The Onion)
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Pete Hegseth Deploys 3,000 U.S. Troops On Beer Run
WASHINGTON—Declaring the utter lack of alcohol in the Pentagon kitchen to be a “national emergency,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly deployed 3,000 troops American on a beer run Monday.The Onion Staff (The Onion)
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Desensitized ‘Prairie Home Companion’ Fan Seeks Out Gentler And Gentler Material
BELMONT, MA—His tolerance pushed ever-higher from decades of listening to the folksy radio program, desensitized A Prairie Home Companion fan Ira Hawthorne told reporters Thursday that he had recently been forced to seek out gentler and gentler mater…The Onion Staff (The Onion)
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Best Picture Winner ‘Kissing The Martinet’ Faces Backlash After Fans Learn Movie Not Real
LOS ANGELES—In a development that cast a shadow over the 97th Academy Awards, the filmmakers behind Best Picture winner Kissing The Martinet reportedly faced backlash Monday after fans learned the movie did not exist.The Onion Staff (The Onion)
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Couple Forced To Sit Next To Dead Body On Plane For 4 Hours After Woman Dies Midflight
A married couple on a flight from Australia to Qatar said they were forced to sit next to a dead woman’s body for four hours after a fellow passenger exited the restroom, collapsed, and died in front of them. What do you think?The Onion Staff (The Onion)
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Tim Walz Calls On Fellow Democrats To Return His Tupperware
ST. PAUL, MN—Making an impassioned plea to his colleagues in an effort to inspire concrete action, Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota publicly called on his fellow Democrats Monday to return his Tupperware at once.The Onion Staff (The Onion)
#Mutualaid for March
Made 70% of last month's goal—thank you to everyone who helped make it happen.
If y'all contribute $162/day we'll be able to meet the goal this month!
18 of you are monthly patrons, which is a KEY way to help us get financially stable ♥️
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Having been housing insecure for a bit having a PO box is a tremendous safety net so I really appreciate the help maintaining that.
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Thanks so much for the support so far this month!
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URGENT #MutualAid
We're urgently needing to send in our rent check, but there's more.
With @nat's postpartum depletion, I'm falling behind on work, and we need childcare ASAP to start catching up.
We got to 70% of our Feb goal; this month we're only 15% of the way.
So right now we need a HUGE push. I have over 4k followers and 18 monthly subscribers. If even 1% of y'all made a monthly donation, that would double my monthly patrons.
PS Thanks so much for your boosts and support. Got some racist hate on my fundraising posts this week. I really appreciate y'all recognizing that it's fucking hard to ask for help and it means a lot when this community comes thru for us.
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The high-end 16 GB Pi 5 (plus accessories) is $208. A faster Tiny PC with an Intel N150 and 16 GB of RAM is $159.
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When did Raspberry Pis get so expensive?
Is a Raspberry Pi more expensive, slower, and less efficient than a mini PC?And here are links to products I mentioned in this video (as an Amazon Associate,...YouTube
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Local Birds Pissed Off Feeder Full Of Tourists
TEMPLETON, CA—Jostling for position amid a mass of confused sparrows and warblers, local birds in the backyard of resident George DiMaro expressed frustration Friday that his feeder was full of “goddamn tourists.The Onion Staff (The Onion)
In today's society The Bible is a book people can hold in their hands. So it is not as obvious to them that The Bible is not a book but is a collection of books. Revelation 22:18 is referring to the book of Revelation not the entire collection of books.
As to whether the Catholics added Apocrypha or it was removed by the Protestants is really of no concern to me. I am an Atheist, more specifically a Secular Buddhist and have no horse in the race. Though it is nice for people to practice tolerance and allow everyone to believe as they choose to believe.
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chat, and let's be very civil about this; Anyone not behaving will be blocked:
What debian flavor should I try out? Keep in mind my laptop is a 2-in-1 with touch and a fingerprint sensor
as much as i might be killed for this, Ubuntu
regular Ubuntu works just fine, and the annoyances can be removed with 5 minutes of your time
i personally daily drive Ubuntu and like… it’s fine
it’s nothing to write home about. but it isn’t broken or “bad” it just works ive had no real issues with it other than my own fuckups
The latest version of Debian will be just fine. Is there a reason you are limiting yourself to just Debian derivatives?
Congratulations to Gints Zilbalodis and the entire Flow film crew for the Academy Award win!
Flow is the manifestation of Blender’s mission, where a small independent team is able to create a story that moves audiences worldwide.
Thank you for the shout out! 🧡 #b3d
Who wants a fluffy house? 🙋
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Flow just won Best Animated Picture at the #Oscars. A film made in #Blender
They shouted out @Blender during the acceptance speech.
This is a great achievement for Open Source.
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'Flow' Wins Best Animated Feature Film | 97th Oscars Speech (2025)
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There's a real chance millions of women voters will be disenfranchised soon. That's certainly the goal.
It is true: The proposed nazi SAVE Act, now considered a priority for Republicans in the House, will make it harder, if not practically impossible, for millions of women to vote.
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The Christian Nationalist Plot to Disenfranchise Women Voters
The SAVE Act, which purports to fend off the phantasmal threat of voter fraud, would throw millions of women off the voting rolls.The New Republic
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This reminds me of a discussion I had with a supervisor I once had, and very much appreciated, were I explained that the internet is not an equalizer. He had made a correlation between a colt (firearm) being the great equalizer as advertised. I brought up the following point. The colt is not an equalizer. If one is not trained and disciplined with the weapon they have no advantage. The same is true for the internet. You can search for answers though with no prior knowledge in field you have no way to verify the quality of the knowledge you found. It is not vetted. The same issue comes to head with AI.
Those of us that work with AI know that it is not always right. Quite often it is very wrong. Just like any expert can be. The only way to know that you are getting quality feedback from your AI tool is if you know something about what it is producing. For example, if I work with Stable D
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This reminds me of a discussion I had with a supervisor I once had, and very much appreciated, were I explained that the internet is not an equalizer. He had made a correlation between a colt (firearm) being the great equalizer as advertised. I brought up the following point. The colt is not an equalizer. If one is not trained and disciplined with the weapon they have no advantage. The same is true for the internet. You can search for answers though with no prior knowledge in field you have no way to verify the quality of the knowledge you found. It is not vetted. The same issue comes to head with AI.
Those of us that work with AI know that it is not always right. Quite often it is very wrong. Just like any expert can be. The only way to know that you are getting quality feedback from your AI tool is if you know something about what it is producing. For example, if I work with Stable Diffusion but I know nothing of art or drawing then how do I know if the AI got the shadowing correct (I mention this as it typically will not unless you are very careful with your prompt). If you are using Generative AI for code then you will only know that the code produced is not inferior if you know how to code. The list goes on.
In conclusion, AI is a great tool for an expert that works in the field. It is not a substitute for learning and becoming an expert yourself.