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New comment by jimbokun in "Denmark Requires Oral Defenses for Students' Written Work to Counter AI Cheating"

jimbokun — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 19:59:17 +0000

More like a tired trope.

New comment by jimbokun in "Denmark Requires Oral Defenses for Students' Written Work to Counter AI Cheating"

jimbokun — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 19:57:51 +0000

Only as an honor system for students who want to learn the material.

But worthless for assessments and assigning grades.

New comment by jimbokun in "Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments"

jimbokun — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 19:56:42 +0000

You suddenly realize the foremost expert on the research in your dissertation…is you.

New comment by jimbokun in "Denmark Requires Oral Defenses for Students' Written Work to Counter AI Cheating"

jimbokun — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 19:54:49 +0000

You can be certain many instructors are having AI do a lot of their grading.

New comment by jimbokun in "Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments"

jimbokun — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 19:51:38 +0000

Complete bullshit.

Universities in the US charge fortunes and pay instructors a pittance while plowing ever more money into “administrators”. Fire half the administrators and hire more instructors to both proctor exams and give more personalized instruction.

New comment by jimbokun in "Mario Meets Pareto"

jimbokun — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 16:05:53 +0000

They’re just hypothetical examples, not meant to apply to everyone.

New comment by jimbokun in "Position: LLMs Can't Jump"

jimbokun — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 20:38:38 +0000

The experience of every famous place I've visited after watching extensive video before hand, has been very different from what I imagined from the video.

New comment by jimbokun in "Discovery Loop"

jimbokun — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 20:33:31 +0000

> Between us, we have pioneered massive scale computing and led the creation of critical infrastructure, products, and foundational AI advances that the world relies on, including multiple generations of Google Search, Google Ads, Google News, Google Translate, Google File System, MapReduce, BigTable, Spanner, TensorFlow, Pathways, TPUs, AlphaChip, AlphaStar, AlphaCode, AlphaFold, Gemini, model distillation, mixture-of-experts model architectures, word2vec, sequence-to-sequence models, chain of thought reasoning, neural architecture search, and multiple generations of Large Language Models (LLMs) among others.

Not a bad combined CV.

New comment by jimbokun in "Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest"

jimbokun — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 15:57:12 +0000

It seems to me an alternative to MCP would be a shell implemented to only allow access to white listed commands.

I also feel like a lot of knowledge about how to lock down a multi-user system has been lost. Back when many people shared a single computer through terminals, admins had a lot of responsibility to create a permissions structure such that one user couldn't access another's data or hog too many resources that would impact other users on the system. We are running computers with the similar permission models (Mac and Linux are Unix, Windows has similar controls) but we can't manage to lock down shell access to trust an LLM with it as if it were a human user we don't fully trust.

New comment by jimbokun in "Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest"

jimbokun — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 15:47:12 +0000

> was coming up with a loose standard for how to implement your RPC endpoints in a way that the AI was pre-trained to interact with.

Why not just pre-train the model to interact with JSONRPC endpoints?

New comment by jimbokun in "U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war"

jimbokun — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 19:13:49 +0000

And we still manage to spend more than the next six countries combined on our military!

New comment by jimbokun in "UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions"

jimbokun — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:51:19 +0000

There will be no cash for the poor nations without the European teams competing.

New comment by jimbokun in "UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions"

jimbokun — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:49:56 +0000

FIFA made ludicrous amounts of money as a non profit running the last World Cup and want to transition to a for profit corporation to make even more.

UEFA representing the European nations with the most competitive teams and many of the biggest stars, just told them good luck running a World Cup without us.

New comment by jimbokun in "UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions"

jimbokun — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:46:51 +0000

It was incredibly entertaining and I watched as many games as I could.

New comment by jimbokun in "UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions"

jimbokun — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:45:47 +0000

Good thing you don’t watch Premier League. The World Cup VAR was snappy in comparison.

New comment by jimbokun in "UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions"

jimbokun — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:44:58 +0000

There was extensive coverage and discussion of Trump getting the Balogun red card overturned.

New comment by jimbokun in "UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions"

jimbokun — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:43:47 +0000

I agree completely with your assessment of the water breaks, but the games were extremely entertaining and I watched as much as I could.

New comment by jimbokun in "UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions"

jimbokun — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:42:15 +0000

You can be against more than one thing.

New comment by jimbokun in "UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions"

jimbokun — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:38:47 +0000

But the USA men might finally do well!

Depending on whether the South American teams show up…

New comment by jimbokun in "UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions"

jimbokun — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:36:58 +0000

The new thing is trying to take the organization from a non-profit to a corporation. Mainly so the executives can increase their already large compensation apparently.

Interesting parallels to OpenAI.