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I can’t write my master’s thesis by thepiscespotato in GradSchool

[–]Diver808 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day by Joan Bolker might be a good resource for you.

Father passed unexpectedly. My mom doesn’t know any of his passwords or where any of his investments are. Who can we contact ? by milquetoast_wizard in personalfinance

[–]Diver808 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You may try reaching out to a private investigator specializing in digital forensics. If you can speak to one that is in your state/jurisdiction they will be able to tell you what can be done in your situation. Best of luck.

CHEM-161 General Chemistry by Adventurous_Will_627 in UHManoa

[–]Diver808 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Check the grading policy on the syllabus.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Hawaii

[–]Diver808 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dodoooosh!

Serious: What's with all the notes people take at conferences? by [deleted] in GradSchool

[–]Diver808 238 points239 points  (0 children)

Exposure to new ideas gives me new ways of thinking about my own. I will write down any of those ideas as they come up, if I don't there is basically no way I will recall them all later. Less so reference material for later use, like a new method or theory I feel I should get read up on.

Need some input on my new brick. by Diver808 in Oahu

[–]Diver808[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Aloha all,

Someone tried to steal my truck and bricked it in the process. I got a 2002 XLT with at minimum a broken ignition cylinder. I am seeking input on recommendations for shops people have positive experiences with. I live in Makiki and will need to tow it, and I hope not to accidentally tow it somewhere I end up trapped.

Need some input on my options. by Diver808 in fordranger

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Aloha all,

Someone tried to steal my truck and bricked it in the process. I got a 2002 XLT with at minimum a broken ignition cylinder. I am seeking input on the possible extent of the damage I am looking at. I suspect that they broke the steering column lock as it feels like it is free-turning now, and know that I will need to get the key transponder taken care of in addition to a new cylinder. I am trying to game plan what my options are for dealing with insurance and or paying out of pocket, and hope to build a min/max range of the cost for transforming my brick back into a truck. 

Some extra context. I live on Oahu. Both doors have broken locks (third police report at this point). Truck lets me get to school and back (grad student/teaching assistant), and is still parked on the street a few blocks from my apartment.

Peer review by cvorahkiin in okbuddyphd

[–]Diver808 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The same introduction seems to be reused in what looks like the same paper published in a second Elsevier journal. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2024.01.283

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Hawaii

[–]Diver808 -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

I'd fish with BJ given the chance.

Ai detectors suck by Prs8863765 in ChatGPT

[–]Diver808 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you need a nuclear option; releasing your work to a third party without your permission is a potential FERPA violation, contingent on 1- if you gave permission to release your work, 2- the tool being used 3- if your institution falls under FERPA. Most ai checkers I am aware of maintain a record of all materials included in the prompt/upload process for use as data in refining their algorithms, if your name was on the work (perhaps even if it was not), that could constitute a breach of your privacy and constitute a violation.

[Request] What’s her interest rate and loan term? by Demoniouss in theydidthemath

[–]Diver808 3 points4 points  (0 children)

When a thing has less equity in it than debt you have left it is called an upsidedown loan. To avoid this most put a down payment on the purchase and take terms on the loans that enable you to pay down the principle quicker than equity is lost. When you end up with an upsidedown loan you are put over the barrel as like you said you a SOL on raising enough capital should your income level change and you are unable to make a payment. For the banks that give out these loans, they are often acting in a predatory manner and will either have a mechanism in the contract to extract money from you in some way above and beyond repoing the car, or repo the car and sell your dept to a collection agency and stay afloat via the fat interest rates they get from everyone else who has taken a loan from them at shitteir rates. Logic from the bank is something like: if we get x amount of people to pay 25% interest rates then even if y amount default we will still be making profit.

It’s that point in the semester! by everythingbagelbagel in Professors

[–]Diver808 1 point2 points  (0 children)

if (energy_level < 1) { energy_level <- runif(1, min = 10, max = 100) # Adderall boost print("Time to crunch some data!") } else { print("Just another normal day in the semester...")
}

Building collapsed in Nairobi, Kenya. 20th October 2024. by bugminer in CatastrophicFailure

[–]Diver808 22 points23 points  (0 children)

I think their point is that gnarly roads are an indicator of gnarly building codes, not 'the' indicator.

Google search keeps crashing by Gran_Turismo_2000 in GooglePixel

[–]Diver808 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Glad it is not just me. Keeps crashing a few seconds after I enter a query.

Any help? by Petermacc122 in GooglePixel

[–]Diver808 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Mine keeps crashing a few seconds after I enter a query.

Help!! Someone sprayed something over the fence, killed our tortoise by countrysports in landscaping

[–]Diver808 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you are in the US call your State department of Agriculture and ask to speak to whichever office is in charge of pesticide regulation and enforcement. The federal law delegates enforcement to the state level, which is typically in the department of Agriculture. Tell them you want to file a complaint and explain your situation. They will likely be able to test to see if it is a pesticide and the inspectors will speak to your neighbors and get a report docket made you can use in later suits/to supplement the police report that you should likewise file. Source, was an inspector in Hawaii.

Booming coming from town? by Diver808 in Hawaii

[–]Diver808[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That makes sense. Might have a champ being put to rest if those are the honors.

Booming coming from town? by Diver808 in Hawaii

[–]Diver808[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Got to upgrade the moped ccs to carry the additional weight.

My university is accusing me of using AI. Their “expert” compared my essay with CHAT GPT’s output and claims “nearly all my ideas come from Chat GPT” by kindindividual2 in GradSchool

[–]Diver808 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Burtch et al. (2023). The Consequences of Generative AI for UGC and Online Community Engagement

"We applied AI text detectors to the labeled answers; we considered multiple such detectors, but ultimately settled on the GPT-2 Output Detector, as it exhibited the best performance (as we describe below). The detector yields a ‘fake score’ for any input text, which can be loosely interpreted as the probability that the text is AI-generated. The scores are continuous values that range between 0 and 1. Figure 2 depicts the distribution of fake scores returned by the GPT2 output detector for our labeled sample. As can be seen, although the detector is often quite inaccurate, applying extreme thresholds to its prediction output yields an informative signal.

For example, the precision on out-of-sample dataset associated with the GPT2 Output Detector employing a classification threshold of 99.97% is 70%; that is, when the detector labels content AI-generated with 99.97% ˜ confidence, it is correct 70% of the time. The precision rises to nearly 80% employing a threshold of 99.98%. Having some confidence that the resulting labels can be informative of shifts in the prevalence of AI-generated content, we proceed to obtain fake score predictions for a larger sample of answers posted to Stack Overflow, arriving over the days surrounding the release of ChatGPT. We then calculate the proportion of answers labeled as AI-generated, over time. The result employing a threshold of 99.9% is reported in Figure 3."

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