
Joseph Z.
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@jefflijun 别说孩子了,我自己都不适应。ChatGPT连接不顺畅,还有一些AI工具直接禁用,访问国际互联网还要挂VPN,在海外久了,电脑里面早就不再有VPN了,还要去重新弄。工作,社交,娱乐全面崩溃,太累了
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笑死了,还能再假一点吗?加拿大的孩子,你让他去个不能上油管不能用Google不能登录Instagram,他会觉得你这个老登有病吧。100个美加长大的孩子99个连跟着父母回国度假都觉得是负担
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加拿大华人:孩子回一次中国,观念发生巨变,信仰崩塌了,父子发生激烈争吵。 因为他儿子发现加拿大被珠三角全面吊打。然后父亲还在用以前价值观那一套,因为硬件比不过了,结果儿子更生气了。 两代人信息差太大,看到的世界完全不一样,吵起来太正常了。
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@jaycheninfo 看了一下CS240,是Programming in C,那就是学生的问题。本科C语言用AI完全没必要,用了以后学不到什么。AI写代码是很厉害,但是一个合格的programmer至少要有debug的能力。但凡这课是proof-based或者heavy-coding orient的,动不动几个projects,我都会觉得学生应该用AI
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普渡大學電腦系最近有些騷動,CS240這門必修課,通常是幾百個人的大班,學期快結束的時候,教授Jefff Turkstra突然宣佈有近一半的學生涉嫌作弊,在作業上用AI。他用他自己開發出的系統偵測學生作弊,然後給學生兩條路,一是承認作弊,所有作業零分計算,二是不承認作弊,他直接把你當掉。這麼嚴格的舉措,讓普渡電腦系翻了過去,群情激憤下,系主任要在下週一與學生座談,討論解決方案。
這個事件有很多觀察的角度,我是不站在Turkstra這邊的。在AI的巨浪面前,要怎麼樣教電腦程式,甚至是還適不適合讓這麼多的學子,走這條路,有很多的看法,但最糟的看法就是反對到底,以學生應該會「基本功」為理由,全面反對AI的使用。這種古板的作法,違反新世代AI native的訓練方式,並不適合時代最前沿的學校教導學生,反而會讓學生在職場處於不利的情況。但這是所有電腦系都得面臨的抉擇,和這個普渡的單一事件,關連較小。
Turkstra的作法,有法律上的問題。如果他的抓弊系統,沒有百分之百的把握,他的指控站不住腳。現代法治國家的一個重要法理原則是指控者必需提出證據,被指控的涉嫌人,沒有自證清白的必要性。所以如果Turkstra不顧一切要硬幹到底,很可能會被告上法庭,而且會輸。而且不用上法庭,他的方式,可能在校規上,就失去著力點。
但Turkstra最大的問題是「不教而殺」。他有一整個學期,在學生初次「犯規」使用AI的情況下,提出警告,甚至立刻處罰,但他不這麼做。他累積到學期末,一次重錘下來,沒有任何教導學生使其反省的空間,擺明要對付學生,那就是孔子說的「虐」。我教書二十餘年,看過有些老師十分嚴格,嫉惡如仇,抓起作弊來毫不留情,在其它的規定上,也沒有讓學生犯錯的空間,說一就是一。但我總認為,為人師表,或是為人父母,多一點的包容,多一點的同理心,路可以走遠一點。人生有許多的不如意,甚至有許多不幸的意外,為了去懲罰少數作惡的人,而傷害了無心犯錯的學生,何苦呢?所以我的學生每一個人都拿A,XD。
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Joseph Ratzinger was elected as pope on 19th April 2005
A day before his election, he delivered one of his most famous and prophetic speeches
Coining the phrase 'Dictatorship of Relativism', he predicted how the West would see relativists imposing their will on those who had traditional beliefs
It is a compelling and very powerful read, especially in light of recent events in the West:
'How many winds of doctrine have we known in recent decades, how many ideological currents, how many ways of thinking. The small boat of the thought of many Christians has often been tossed about by these waves - flung from one extreme to another: from Marxism to liberalism, even to libertinism; from collectivism to radical individualism; from atheism to a vague religious mysticism; from agnosticism to syncretism and so forth. Every day new sects spring up, and what St Paul says about human deception and the trickery that strives to entice people into error (cf. Eph 4: 14) comes true.
Today, having a clear faith based on the Creed of the Church is often labeled as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, that is, letting oneself be "tossed here and there, carried about by every wind of doctrine", seems the only attitude that can cope with modern times. We are building a dictatorship of relativism that does not recognize anything as definitive and whose ultimate goal consists solely of one's own ego and desires.
We, however, have a different goal: the Son of God, the true man. He is the measure of true humanism. An "adult" faith is not a faith that follows the trends of fashion and the latest novelty; a mature adult faith is deeply rooted in friendship with Christ. It is this friendship that opens us up to all that is good and gives us a criterion by which to distinguish the true from the false, and deceit from truth.
We must develop this adult faith; we must guide the flock of Christ to this faith. And it is this faith - only faith - that creates unity and is fulfilled in love.
On this theme, St Paul offers us as a fundamental formula for Christian existence some beautiful words, in contrast to the continual vicissitudes of those who, like children, are tossed about by the waves: make truth in love. Truth and love coincide in Christ. To the extent that we draw close to Christ, in our own lives too, truth and love are blended. Love without truth would be blind; truth without love would be like "a clanging cymbal" (I Cor 13: 1).
Let us now look at the Gospel, from whose riches I would like to draw only two small observations. The Lord addresses these wonderful words to us: "I no longer speak of you as slaves.... Instead, I call you friends" (Jn 15: 15). We so often feel, and it is true, that we are only useless servants (cf. Lk 17: 10).
Yet, in spite of this, the Lord calls us friends, he makes us his friends, he gives us his friendship. The Lord gives friendship a dual definition. There are no secrets between friends: Christ tells us all that he hears from the Father; he gives us his full trust and with trust, also knowledge. He reveals his face and his heart to us. He shows us the tenderness he feels for us, his passionate love that goes even as far as the folly of the Cross. He entrusts himself to us, he gives us the power to speak in his name: "this is my body...", "I forgive you...". He entrusts his Body, the Church, to us'

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@lidangzzz 而且反过来说,TCS/algorithm/MLtheory方向多的是math/stat/ieor背景的学生,甚至某些细分领域几乎都是这些背景(纯CS的背景应该不超过1/5)。那这些方向,或者这些人在cs领域就有明显优势嘛?好像不一定吧。
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@lidangzzz 我觉得这是个误区,不要和general cs students去比,要去和对应方向的学生去比。如果一个方向平均数学水平一般,那可能说明这个方向并不强依赖数学能力,数学好不代表“优势”。和TCS/algorithm/MLtheory这种数学高度依赖的方向去比,不同方向依赖的数学还不一样,那比的是专精+经验,那就不一定是优势了
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Chicago, Illinois in 1940
The past is a foreign country

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Pennsylvania Railroad Station in New York City, 1942 The past is a foreign country
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@Nohomework0 这很正常啊。我记得很早以前就有个段子,说是某校某届TCS PhD毕业生平均论文数量和CV方向新录取PhD平均论文数量相同。
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