I'm curious on your opinion, as a professor, how should universities (not individual professors) adapt to LLMs?
As an undergrad, I hope schools move to educating students to use LLMs in a more responsible way. You can't put the genie back in the bottle, and resisting progress is futile, might as well use the tool we now have to help students learn even faster and better (e.g., making feedback instant and not answers, helping digest or split up material, checking answers).
I know opinions about AI at (not only at) my faculty are very mixed, but I think the answer is going to be in the rational mean, just like how technorealism reacted to the internet[0].
In our last program board sitting, some teachers said that they think programming as a job will be completely irrelevant in two years, while other pushed for more adoption.
And meanwhile I know of some students that are basically only passing because of LLMs, and it's bad, like "leaving claude output in markdown files and finished source code on the faculty server in /tmp because opencode did so" bad.
And our first year classes completely prohibit even sharing tests or talking about the solutions, which in my opinion a) makes people extremely asocial and atomized b) doesn't prepare students for real life c) promotes dishonesty.
Still, I think our university's thinking is in a stalemate, not wanting pure AI output and useless students, while also wanting to move with the times, and I doubt it's the only one.
Oh yeah I've made some designs for a custom Eurorack style synth, but I quickly realized how expensive it would be to make a full rack.
A synth scales exponentially, to get even some usefulness requires getting a lot of modules. Maybe one day.
hell yeah, I have tailed my T-shirts before but nothing else, making my own sound like a nice challenge.
How do you source materials?
I'm usually very picky about the material, especially if it touches my skin, and usually the heavier the better.
The best T-shirts I ever owned was a military surplus made from organic cotton, and was more than twice the weight of my other T-shirts, but I couldn't find anything like it anywhere.
This sounds like a cool mix of genetics and gardening, I like that.
Maybe I should ask some local non profits whether they need help with IT infra, because I don't exactly think "google drive and onedrive folders" is going to be an outlier.
also I came back here after three days, how did this get 713 comments all of a sudden???
What you're doing is interesting but those are side-projects.
I have plenty of random side-projects, just now after reading Gibson's Burning Chrome, I'm making an OpenBSD server where you can only log in using SSH keys in my implant, and logging in makes you a completely new but very restricted user with 1GB of free storage. Kinda like Johnny Mnemonic.
But I feel very disorganized when most of my attention is on distinct one-off side projects, I want to work on something novel and big.
But thanks for your suggestions.
It is true that most industries begin when passion oriented people finally meet money oriented people, but most time they are separate.
This reminds me of [0], basically just inviting the most interesting people I know (also transitively the most interesting people they know), and just getting to meet people.
I would really like to do this, but half the most interesting people I know are PhD professors I rant with because I'm next to them in a lab. Maybe once my network gets bigger.
But I would still like to know more about how you do this, as other people doing this accidentally made me some good friendships, and I'd like to repay this favor to others
I do boxing as a form of cardio so I'm not weightlifting all the time.
So I've just invited a friend for a 1v1 and he accepted, time to start training both properly I guess.
I do want something related to computers because that's where I'm skilled the most, but it being mixed with something else is fine (i.e., biohacking).
But computers generally are becoming stale, considering how much money has been poured into everything digital, it's going to be hard to find something novel.
Maybe the next frontier is becoming an electrician?
No, but they are replacing bad ISPs.
I have a relative in Brussels, while there is 10gig fiber on a nearby street, he's stuck on 100/10 coax, and to add insult to injury, Starlink is cheaper.
I don't know how to put it into words, but this aesthetic of computers just looks sooo good.
Makes me want to try making my homelab/experimental hardware look like it.
Any ideas how to source parts that look similar in low quantities?
You can. GitHub is about to hit zero nines of uptime[0].
But feedback like that is far too late to be useful.
Maybe (principal or senior) engineers should be the ones to judge, and be trusted by management that their foresight is worth pushing the deadline?
> Git provides file versioning services only, whereas Fossil adds an integrated wiki, ticketing & bug tracking, embedded documentation, technical notes, a web forum, and a chat service [...]
I like the idea of having all of those within the actual VCS, mostly because with Git you need centralized services like GitHub to provide that.
But I have to ask: Is it really a good idea? Seems like feature creep motivated by the wants of a single project (SQLite).
All of those could be (albeit awkwardly) backed with a git repo and a cron job.
Wiki? Just make a repo with a bunch of Markdown or this-week's-favorate-markup-language files.
Ticketing & bug tracking? Again, just a Markdown file for every ticket.
Embedded documentation & technical notes? Those are just special wiki pages with different attributes.
Forum and chat service? Do you want your VCS to do that? I get being able to hyperlink between files and conversations, but still.
I really like the idea of making your company's office a publicly accessible coworking space.
It does fit Kagi's slogan of 'Humanize the web', imagine if you could go into Google and chat with Larry Page.
As an undergrad, I hope schools move to educating students to use LLMs in a more responsible way. You can't put the genie back in the bottle, and resisting progress is futile, might as well use the tool we now have to help students learn even faster and better (e.g., making feedback instant and not answers, helping digest or split up material, checking answers).
I know opinions about AI at (not only at) my faculty are very mixed, but I think the answer is going to be in the rational mean, just like how technorealism reacted to the internet[0].
In our last program board sitting, some teachers said that they think programming as a job will be completely irrelevant in two years, while other pushed for more adoption. And meanwhile I know of some students that are basically only passing because of LLMs, and it's bad, like "leaving claude output in markdown files and finished source code on the faculty server in /tmp because opencode did so" bad. And our first year classes completely prohibit even sharing tests or talking about the solutions, which in my opinion a) makes people extremely asocial and atomized b) doesn't prepare students for real life c) promotes dishonesty.
Still, I think our university's thinking is in a stalemate, not wanting pure AI output and useless students, while also wanting to move with the times, and I doubt it's the only one.
[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20081009111415/https://artefaktu... (absolutely amazing read, recommend it)