Watermarks for sure is a nonstarter, but statistical analysis of vocabulary, sentence structure, performance level etc can be used to generate something like a fingerprint, which then can be used to compare with known manual works by the same student.

Plagiarism has an element of copying someone's work. You could arguably say that they copied AI's work, but that's a stretch.

It clearly is cheating, but not plagiarism.

I predict that it will become more and more prevalent that AI output is accepted as a work product as a matter of efficiency, and organizations shying away from it will be at a handicap.

Use of analytical tools to detect AI generated prose will be an arms race easily thwarted by tools designed to trick the analytical tool. Either by making the AI engines more sophisticated to generate content with a more human flavor, or by simple post processing tools that will ruff it up.

This can even be seeded by the student's own prior work, so that any generated content will match the student's style, personality and vocabulary. Even level. A C student suddenly writing A+ essays would get caught pretty fast upon closer investigation.

It seems long tem the only reasonable and certain way to force students to complete work in person, is to do the work in person without electronic aides. More frequent tests. And allow assignments (ungraded) where AI assistance is allowed and encouraged.

Well, if you were familiwr with math and energy usage patterns. You would understand that 5% of daily consumption is less than the regular peak hours, if it was all done in an hour. However, throttled over an 8-10 hour window, the added load would be even less. So not sure what you think will break.

Well, we have the strategic oil reserve. Government is also the ideal vessel to identify which jobs will face labor shortages, and give incentives before the industry suddenly discover they need X people with this skill and must wait 4 years for them to finish their education. We slso have fiscal policy. Arguably keynes is superior to milton effing friedman. Compleyely unregilated markets just lead to boom and bust, exploitation and misery. And of course some wealthy robber barons.

While government can help smooth out supply chsin imbalances, this is probably one of the very few things the free market is good at. Price and demand. And of course gouging,soeculation, monopolies, and adter the crinch follows the glut, at which point these go bankrupt at taxpayers expense.

Before that, battery makers face the crunch. Same in every industriy now, a big backlog of pentup demand, causing supply chain gaps. If you are an investor, invest in commodities, such as lumber.

You misrepresent. They upheld the ban, but were not able to make it permanent. The only unclear part if the decision is that they were unable to uphold a permanent ban, since a permanent ban was not described as an enforcement action in facebook's rules. Facebook can easily remedy that shortcoming by defining an appeals process similar to a parole board. Or introduce permanent ban as an option. Of course, Trump is free to litigate, but then facebook is free to conduct full discovery, and the terrorust would be exposed as the terrorist he is, without being able to hide behind a sycophant party apparatus. The court would also probably have to review the limits on executive power. Executive power was never intended to grant the executive immunity from prosecution of heineous crimes.

No. Facebook is not a court of law. And you are probably not a lawyer. At least not a good one.

Calling a terrorist appeaser a terrorist appeaser does not make him one, either. But it does not oreclude him from being a terrorist appeaser either. Do you see the logical flaw on your "argument" ? What the OP said is not what made Trump a terrorist. Trump's actions earned him the label terrorist.

That the board found that facebook violated facebook's rules is a strawman argument. 1st amendment protection, does not apply to yelling fire in a movid theatre. Being banned from a platform indefinitely is not cruel and unusual punishment. It is akin to being banned from a pub indefinitely after starting brawls and killing other patrons. The only valid point here is that facebook had not defined rules for duration of penalties. If a party after having staged a coup detat feels he is unfairly treated for not being allowed in to play with the other kids, he is free to sue the company to force their hands. But I would think such a suit would not go well uf yhe aintuff has to plead the fifth in discovery, never mind if he is dumb enough to testify at trial. They do NOT want to hold the pateon accountable, so tery try to shoo him in the backdoor using strawman arguments.

If we should be paying according to bandwith, and none of the efficiency is to be passed to the customer, my broadnand bill should be some $10k now. The country is crisscrossed with millions if not billions of miles with unused fiber. The price per gb transmitted is a far cry from linear. The first byte across cost millions, after that,
not so much.

Unless there is real competition, and customers are sensitive to price. We have plenty of regional monopolies that charge whatever they think they can get away with. And the providers use a combination of bundling, teaser offers, confusing contract terms, long term contracts, and exorbitant termination fees to keep prices up. Price competition only can happen when there is regulation that enable such competition. Standardized contract terms, price control for monopolies, ability to get out of contracts for faulure to provide promised bandwidth and reliability. Getting 3 bucks off the monthly bill as compensation for missing a day of work, and service level agreements that promises nothing in terms of reliability and bandwidth. Proper regulation aimed and promoting competition on price and quality is what we need.

Don't forget the vost to the town. A dishwasher takes all the larger particles, and cut them up, so they end up in the sewer which must be processed. When handwashing the larger particles end up in the bottom of the sink and I throw them in my compost.

Yup. And hand washing has the benefit of using all 3 modes of cleaning action. Mechanical, chemical, and heat.

I wish someone could invent some kind of heat and water proof membrane that could protect your hands. Maybe even fitted around your fingers like hand in a glove.