alcidesfonseca

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Comment · 2 days ago
I post here my blog posts that I believe are interesting for the community, but I never repeat it. Let the algorithm take its course.I remember someone studied the best times to post, but if everyone does the same, it changes the best times.
Comment · 5 days ago
In your own response you mentioned GPT-6.1 Terra, but I've seen GPT Terra-6.1. I would start by the part that is the most powerful:

GPT 6.1 X > GPT 6.0 X GPT Y Astra > GPT Y Sol > GPT Y Terra > GPT Y Luna

This order is very important.

Comment · 1 month ago
I agree. Here at U. Lisbon, we are following the recommendation by the recent MIT report: Evaluate students by talking with them, making it a social interaction, which they are lacking.

We need students to work together and share their experiences. Then we need each one to achieve the learning goals (and we should not assess work they did far from our eyes. We should assess their understanding and skills in front of us).

Comment · 3 months ago
Professor here. Every single one of us that looks for it, finds plenty of examples of students “cheating”. Learning takes effort, and humans (some more than others) are designed to minimize effort.

We have designed education around exams and evaluation. If I design an exercise that does not contribute to their final grade, students don’t even look at it. If I design a 30min tutorial on a programming subject, students will not look at it and will spend 8 hours on the (graded) assignment that was designed for 1 hour on top of the 30 minute tutorial.

I am making some changes: evaluation will be as randomly as possible to minimize overfitting to our exercises. Draw from real world if possible.

I would also like to get rid of bologna’s modular structure and go to the UK’s one-exam-at-the-end-of-the-degree model.

But overall, we need more passionate students. Those don’t care about all this cheating and would appreciate that professors and future employers see their effort and success.

Comment · 6 months ago
Fixed both issues. Thanks!
Comment · 6 months ago
What popular desktop application is written in flutter?

Asking honestly, because none of the ones I use is.

Comment · 6 months ago
Is it possible that the [x Telemetry] [x Electron] and [x Subscription] means that the app does not have those things?
Comment · 7 months ago
The next neo might have the SSDs of the current pros, making swapping less problematic.

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