wow, that’s intense. i wonder how much actual cheating they must have caught to arrive at such a draconian model. it would be interesting if they published their statistics to make it clear whether all these things are truly necessary.
What stats would convince you? A woman was jailed in the UK last week for taking in person tests on behalf of others. She wore a variety of wigs to fool test centre staff. Where there's demand there's people who will try to supply it.
is it ok for students to submit images of hand-written solutions remotely?
seriously it reminds me of my high school days when a teacher told me i shouldn’t type up my essays because then they couldn’t be sure i actually wrote them.
maybe we will find our way back to live oral exams before long…
i flew delta out of ewr last week. the pilot announced over speaker that air traffic control was serializing take offs on one runway to avoid problems. we sat on the tarmac for two hours waiting our turn. that was on top of another hour delay for our flight arriving due to this policy.
delta doesn’t reimburse for missed connections claiming air traffic control policies are outside of their control.
it reminds me of a dev team i worked with once which used single threaded memcache as a way to serialize inbound requests to a server with improper locking logic inside.
> delta doesn’t reimburse for missed connections claiming air traffic control policies are outside of their control.
AFAIK if it's one booking on the same airline or a codeshare they are required to rebook you. If you planned a "connection" which is two single flights with different airlines you don't get any legal protections. This isn't just Delta, no airline will reimburse you for missing a flight you didn't book through them
they did book me on a flight the next day. i was scheduled to fly two legs on delta. but see my other replies below on lack of accommodation and rep behavior.
perhaps. what’s more my ticket to cross from east coast to western state cost more than my previous ticket to cross the atlantic into the country. maybe that’s a rational market outcome but it’s hard to fathom sometimes.
they still booked me on next day flight but refused any compensation for hotel or meals or ground transport for the overnight stay due to the missed connection.
>delta doesn’t reimburse for missed connections claiming air traffic control policies are outside of their control.
Reimburse? They'll put you on another connecting flight of your choice as any airline does. I did this on a Delta flight with a missed connection due to delay just last week. They also automatically upgraded me to Comfort+ at no extra charge for the inconvenience.
“The Federal Reserve Bank of New York released data on unemployment rates for recent college graduates (ages 22 to 27).
The bank found that philosophy had an unemployment rate of 3.2%, less than computer science’s 6.1%, though computer science was more highly compensated.”
CS has a 6.1% unemployment rate and a 16.5% underemployment rate.
Philosophy has is at 3.2% unemployment and a 41.2% underemployment rate.
The philosophy major doesn't have their sights set on a $150k new grad salary at a big tech company out of college. They're flipping burgers or working as a business person somewhere.
This can be seen on various reddit computer science related career advice spots where people are holding out for the perfect software development job for years rather than getting a job somewhere. They're sending out (poorly crafted) resumes by the hundreds to jobs that their resume gives no indication that they're qualified for (or even read the posting) and ignoring the "we want to hire someone with some work ethic - bagging groceries and having a supervisor who can say that 'yes, Pat shows up on time each day sober'" is something is useful.
They're refusing to consider help desk roles - and when they do apply for those roles, its with a resume that points out how they're skilled at JavaScript and have published a module to npm.
They're refusing to apply to the job at state government that lists $650,000 - $80,000 for entry level position because that's not the job they saw themselves getting.
The CS majors are holding out and not getting jobs that are "beneath" them. The philosophy majors are getting any job that pays the bills.
I generally agree with your comment though I'm not sure what underemployment in philosophy even looks like. (And I could probably say the same of a lot of liberal arts.) Yes, it's not working at McDonald's But it could mean not making a whole lot more working at a publishing house.
> The definition of underemployment is based on the kinds of jobs held by college graduates. A college graduate working in a job that typically does not require a college degree is considered underemployed. This analysis uses survey data from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Information Network (O*NET) Education and Training Questionnaire to help determine whether a bachelor’s degree is required to perform a job. The articles cited above describe the approach in detail.
> Some additional research that utilizes these data include “Working as a Barista After College Is Not as Common as You Might Think” (Liberty Street Economics).
>A college graduate working in a job that typically does not require a college degree is considered underemployed.
So, it's not just about philosophy majors working in a job that doesn't require a philosophy degree but about any college grad working in a job that doesn't require a degree--which according to this thread presumably includes developer jobs but that's a bit of a stretch :-) given that it often requires a degree.
My read on it is that it doesn't require that degree.
Working in a job that requires a college degree (but doesn't care what it is) would be underemployed for anyone with a degree... even though it requires a degree.
The "does it require a degree" is likely based on the BLS definition for the job... even if people say that you can get it without.
I expect there's some selection bias at play. If you're taking a philosophy major in college it's likely you already feel confident in your post-graduation career, so can study things that you like. Whereas if you're in a CS track it's because whether you get a job depends on getting a degree. The student studying philosophy is in school as an alternative to work. The STEM major is in school as a prerequisite to work.
Or Philosophy is usually a path to Law School on the professional path or a PhD on the research/academia path. In both cases, many/most of those 22-27 year olds are still in school and thus not counted as unemployed.
I don't know how true it still is with law being, to a fair degree, perhaps primarily a good career path for those who can land at white-shoe firms and federal court clerkships. But I've known a lot of people who drifted into law school from liberal arts and related because they just didn't have great job prospects. And quite a few didn't even end up practicing law.
i’ve see deepseek-coder local get into an infinite loop generating the same line over and over. which i assume without evidence is some sort of feedback from the generated line back into the generation process. so kind of getting lost in thought and going off topic from the simple .h api that my prompt asked for.
I had 20 something files I wanted it to check and change something. The first 5 or so it did, then the sixth it rightly said everything is correct moving on. It said that for the rest of the 20, the same text over and over.
I checked, and file 6 was the only correct one. It like, learned to just repeat itself after that and did nothing.
thank you for the context. It feels like in the last year or two the focus on Geo detection and Geo blocking has grown substantially. For example, many websites seem like they won’t take any traffic at all from certain countries. and they will go to some lengths to try to detect the source country of the connection even when a VPN is in the path. I don’t really know how they do this, but it’s evident from various language features in browsers that get triggered.
I don’t really know how they do this, but it’s evident from various language features in browsers that get triggered
One clue comes from accept-language. If a person sets the primary language to en-US or en-GB they might also have additional languages that were automatically set based on their OS preferences. Another clue comes from cookies. Many sites use CF so there will be session cookies from CF that were set by other sites but are shared by their insight domain and others and this is even before we talk about javascript. To use sites that use CF usually requires enabling javascript and that gives mountains of data away. There are others here that know much more about this than I.
thanks for the note. i don’t speak the local language so maybe it’s gotten enabled in some indirect way. and js there isn’t much anyone can do about it seems when interacting with a “modern” web page.
i have this day-dream that i’ll learn enough about linux networking to setup one of my boxes as a filter for all my traffic and properly encrypt and observe and properly filter out stray traffic that may be giving me away, but that’s probably a fool’s errand too on some level. also i suspect macos leaks info in various hard to secure ways.
the good news is that the book is very short and an easy weekend read and also recently in the public domain. which may be prompting a bunch of online content about it.
I wonder whether it also has something to do with the use of its phrase "careless people" as the title of a currently-famous book about how awful Meta's senior management is.
I know this is kinda tone deaf to ask in a section about books, but: how was the Leonardo DiCaprio modern adaption? I read the book and was well out of college when it premiered, but I never had much interest in seeing it at the time. Does it do the book justice, or at least the much much older adaptation?
i personally enjoyed both and felt they added color in their own way. the point of the story is that it touches on deep feelings ; i personally felt dicaprio did a really good job of exuding the dodgy side of gatsby superimposed on the vulnerable human within but then that’s probably mostly in the eye of the beholder.
judging from my teenage daughter’s reactions to film in general, i’d guess a younger audience would prefer the newer film because it would feel to be of higher production value with better fit and finish.
> For a DVI file to be printed or even properly previewed, the fonts it references must be already installed.
If you want alternatives, I'd choose DjVu. But it's too late now, everyone is converged on PDFs, and the alternatives are not good enough to warrant the switch.
DVI isn’t suitable as you’d still have to intuit where the paragraph- and even word-breaks are; what’s body text vs. headers/footers, sidebars, captions, etc; never mind what math expression a particular jumble of characters and rules came from.
i’ve been using google products for over twenty years and they touch almost all aspects of my life and communications. in the past couple of years I’ve been working to de-couple by going to apple and local vs cloud data. it’s an extremely lengthy and error prone process. apple is workable but not great.
i can see that for sure. do you have a reference by any chance? chatgpt hallucinates various references given the result. knuth’s “concrete mathematics” might have it.
(That page has a link to another beautiful theorem with a similar feel, Lucas's theorem: if p is prime, then (n choose r) mod p is the product of the (n_i choose r_i) where n_i and r_i are corresponding digits of n and r when written in base p.)
I checked: the result is in Concrete Mathematics, as exercise 5.36, but there is no attribution to Kummer there.
Incidentally, I found the name of the theorem (and the Wikipedia page about it) using a new kind of tool called a "search engine". It's a bit like asking ChatGPT except that it hardly ever hallucinates. You should try it! :-)
For what it's worth: Concrete Mathematics does have an attribution to Kummer — it's just that the credits are given separately in Appendix C, "Credits for Exercises", where on page 634, next to 5.36 (the exercise number you mentioned), you can find "Kummer [230, p. 116]" and [230] (on page 621, in Appendix B, "Bibliography") gives the full citation:
> E. E. Kummer, “Über die Ergänzungssätze zu den allgemeinen Reciprocitätsgesetzen,” Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik 44 (1852), 93–146. Reprinted in his Collected Papers, volume 1, 485–538.
Also, the answer to exercise 5.36 says “See [226] for extensions of this result
to generalized binomial coefficients” and [226] (on page 620) is:
> Donald E. Knuth and Herbert S. Wilf, “The power of a prime that divides a generalized binomial coefficient,” Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik 396 (1989), 212–219
