(M) Chris Lott 2023-01-24 12:37:33
Every time I'm away from using a #wiki for a while, I return to nostalgic feelings of old, lost, simpler dreams. I miss that excitement.
Every time I'm away from using a #wiki for a while, I return to nostalgic feelings of old, lost, simpler dreams. I miss that excitement.
The #CNET #plagiarism #chatgpt scandal is hilarious, not least because they were essentially trying to pass off the work of a toddler as journalism. Too soon, folks, too soon.
> Anti-Plagiarism Service Turnitin Is Building a Tool To Detect ChatGPT-Written Essays
This is the the ChatGPT-adjacent garbage educators should be worried about.
https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/01/23/2325221/anti-plagiarism-service-turnitin-is-building-a-tool-to-detect-chatgpt-written-essays
> OpenAI has spent literally billions of dollars developing tech that undermines the very foundation of our education system
The only education #ChatGPT undermines is the kind of education that should have been eradicated long ago.
Reading Montaigne 1.01 - By diverse means we arrive at the same end → https://fncll.org/reading-montaigne-1-01-by-diverse-means-we-arrive-at-the-same-end/
Montaigne begins the main body of the essays with a brief meditation on the nature of mercy as seen in the dynamic interplay between vengeance and pity. Starting with a thought on the contradictory manner by which we might seek mercy from who seeks vengeance, or how we might “move them to commiseration and pity,” Montaigne notes the contradiction that “submission” sometimes has the desired effect, but so do the “contrary means” of “audacity and steadfastness.”
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The #Arc browser looks extremely promising (if you need an invite, let me know). #Vivaldi has some great features. But I just don't have time to give a new browser much of a run, much less contemplate the horror of changing over and (re)customizing my primary web experience. My move from Chrome to #Firefox was traumatic enough. Kind of like how I've yet to really move to my now two-year old mac because of the time it will take to get everything back to my normal.
In no particular order, but for two.
There are plenty of problems in the world I can, and do, obsess about and lose sleep over. But few with the frequency with which I lament that it's 2023 and no company can yet manufacture a toaster that toasts evenly.