Meh forum posts in last 60 days

I can feel the watch buzzing during an alpha, is the buzzing telling me something useful, or just offering encouragement?

Carantoc said..

Hey MSN,

Just a quick note to check in and see if you are OK with getting the deep analysis of the theories and realities of tonight's federal budget from Seabreeze's sole resident economics expert, FormulaNova, or do you want to search the world for better skilled individuals and add it to the list ?

More importantly, how about Tipping Point tonight? Would you have gone two for forty thousand? That would have paid for an adult literacy course. www.tafensw.edu.au/course-areas/foundation-skills-english-language-and-auslan/literacy-and-numeracy-foundation-skills

Its pretty sad what the internet has become. The benefits of free information exchange, that included people in remote locations, has been destroyed by an explosion of social media misinformation, and now AI.

I'm conflicted when I consider AI. I really like how it will synthesize and answer from hundreds/thousands of webpages, instead of me having to read a dozen or so and try and summarize in my head. The other day someone showed me how they used NotebookLM to summarize a complex document and to read it out loud as a podcast. It had a male and female chatting animatedly about the content of the document, which made it really easy to absorb while driving. A pretty useful tool for students.

Where I see it going wrong is when students and researchers use generative AI and nobody notices. So the bogus material ends up being published and archived. Along comes AI who then loads the information that was generated by AI in the first place. This has a sort of oozlum bird feel about it to me. Sort of poisoning its own well. Look at what happened when they fed cows to cows . Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy!

I've heard academics complain that courses are being written with AI, students are writing assignments using AI, the academics are grading the assignments with AI and students are cheating with AI during online exams. Nobody is going to learn nothing.

Worse AI is being used to fool AI detectors. There is even an AI tool that will write an assignment over a few days, inserting a few spelling errors and then going back and correcting them. Some schools have had enough and are going back to in-classroom exams with invigilators, which will disadvantage neuro-diverse students who have trouble with old school exams.

Jetlag said..
In this video from Lake George you'll see how I beach start my 45 wide 60L speed board in shallow water (I'm 95kg). I call it a "Le Mans Start" and as others have said, three quick steps and then jump quite far forward, bearing probably 120 off the breeze. It helps having a weed fin as it's more forgiving dragging through the sand without catching.

Nicely done.

I met Fangman quite a few times. he always made me laugh. Very sad.