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i_am_proteus
·9 दिन पहले·discuss
Why not write him and ask? He stopped teaching because of a drop in demand. He clearly loves teaching. If you have a team to educate and a budget to pay him for his time and expertise, he might be willing to run a class for your team.
i_am_proteus
·9 दिन पहले·discuss
In practice, one would use energy recovery ventilation to exchange air with outside rather than a CO2 scrubber (not clear if you actually meant a scrubber).

The place to look is existing codes for ventilation. Exempli gratia: https://dos.ny.gov/system/files/documents/2020/09/2020-mcnys... (see PDF page 46). Regulations to enforce outside air being brought into human spaces already exist.

I have been in some office buildings in United States which had CO2 monitors in each meeting room, and the ventilation would engage to control CO2 below a set level. We would entertain ourselves by exhausting our lungs onto the sensors to trigger the ventilation system.
i_am_proteus
·11 दिन पहले·discuss
>Can't have an antenna of any form in it.

All wires are antennas...
i_am_proteus
·24 दिन पहले·discuss
This is the most important point: it seems like AI tool use undermines one's ability to use the AI tool.
i_am_proteus
·पिछला माह·discuss
Once upon a time. The modern cheating student does the following:

- Quick cell phone photograph of the page, phone placed in lap

- OCR + AI = answer

- Glance down, copy

- Repeat

For a more surreptitious variant, use the front-facing camera against the bottom of the page, then flip the page. Cell phone can remain in lap.
i_am_proteus
·2 माह पहले·discuss
The technical ability for the student to cheat in the present day is unprecedented.

For exams in most subjects, the cellular phone is held in the lap. The student needs only briefly expose the exam page to the camera of the phone: immediate photograph of the page, ingestion of the page by an artificial intelligence, and then: the student flips the page to view the side exposed to the camera, and glances down to see the answer on the telephone.
i_am_proteus
·2 माह पहले·discuss
This is an advertisement: the author of the blog post is selling his own translations of Kiselev's Textbooks.
i_am_proteus
·3 माह पहले·discuss
Reminder that no end-to-end encryption arrangement can do anything before encryption, or after decryption, at the endpoints.
i_am_proteus
·3 माह पहले·discuss
Living now in Germany :)

I ring a very nice bell and can "mute" the bell (touching it with my hand to stop the ring just after thumbing the striker), so when ringing for information rather than hazard, it's a short quick ring, rather than a long loud ring.

Signs here alert cyclists to warn when passing, so certainly this etiquette is considered normal, but also I imagine it is not universal to all regions.
i_am_proteus
·3 माह पहले·discuss
Bicycle bells are mostly for warning pedestrians when approaching from behind and passing on shared-use trails. I ride on shared infrastructure and cannot afford to build new infrastructure when my town will not. Not warning a pedestrian when approaching from behind introduces the possibility of collision if the pedestrian makes a sudden change in his walking course. I typically use this etiquette:

Passing a single pedestrian or runner on a quiet day: no bell, coasting for a short bit with a loud free hub (the rotating ratchet element on the rear wheel) alerts the pedestrian to my presence.

Passing a runner: normal ring from a distance so they have knowledge that the bicycle is passing

Passing a cyclist: one loud ring from a distance

Passing a pedestrian walking a dog: two loud rings, one far, one close, so that the pedestrian is aware of the approaching bicycle and he can prevent his dog from running at me/colliding. Many dogs do seem to enjoy a bicycle chase.

Antisocial pedestrians (i.e., walking side-by-side such as to be blocking the path in both directions, preventing the bicyclist from passing): several loud rings of the bell until the antisocial activity has abated. Announcements in my local tongue (not English) that they impede the flow of traffic.
i_am_proteus
·4 माह पहले·discuss
Another very fine online reference for someone new to C is Beej's Guide to C Programming: https://beej.us/guide/bgc/

(Here is a reference to K&R, the standard first reference to C, because I am obligated to make such a reference.)
i_am_proteus
·5 माह पहले·discuss
Understanding that it's not a perfect metaphor... plenty of vim users seem happy to switch to helix.

Took me about two weeks and I'm not looking back :)
i_am_proteus
·5 माह पहले·discuss
A source control tool such as git or mercurial will solve this. Any collaborator who uses vi should have no issues with a git/hg workflow for managing changes.
i_am_proteus
·5 माह पहले·discuss
I am not convinced of the wonderfulness, because the study implies that AI does not improve task completion time but does reduce programmer's comprehension when using a new library.
i_am_proteus
·5 माह पहले·discuss
TLDR from the paper (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.20245)

>We find that AI use impairs conceptual understanding, code reading, and debugging abilities, without delivering significant efficiency gains on average.
i_am_proteus
·6 माह पहले·discuss
It is indeed the explanation: https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules/pull/1014
i_am_proteus
·6 माह पहले·discuss
>this error does make me pause to wonder how much of the rest of the paper used AI assistance

And this is what's operative here. The error spotted, the entire class of error spotted, is easily checked/verified by a non-domain expert. These are the errors we can confirm readily, with obvious and unmistakable signature of hallucination.

If these are the only errors, we are not troubled. However: we do not know if these are the only errors, they are merely a signature that the paper was submitted without being thoroughly checked for hallucinations. They are a signature that some LLM was used to generate parts of the paper and the responsible authors used this LLM without care.

Checking the rest of the paper requires domain expertise, perhaps requires an attempt at reproducing the authors' results. That the rest of the paper is now in doubt, and that this problem is so widespread, threatens the validity of the fundamental activity these papers represent: research.
i_am_proteus
·6 माह पहले·discuss
Agree about the possibility of infra nightmare, especially in the "SVN era" -- but in 2026, it's pretty straightforward to run a gitlab instance (takes about an hour to set up, most of which is DNS and TLS stuff, ime) for a course and set up actions, or use other submission infra like CMU autolab. I do this.

Agree with your comment about probability, motivation, and skill.
i_am_proteus
·6 माह पहले·discuss
This is a very important point. Jolla's pre-order site (https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-phone-preorder) states:

>User configurable physical Privacy Switch - turn off your microphone, bluetooth, Android apps, or whatever you wish

Unless that user configuration is via internal jumper or DIP switch, then this cannot be a hardware privacy switch.
i_am_proteus
·7 माह पहले·discuss
Agreed: information-dense isn't bad at all. It's a reason for peer review, though: people other than peers in the field have a much harder time reviewing an article for legitimacy, because they lack the context.

I also don't think the categories are exclusive.