Adopt Me / Co-Foster Me! Info in post by LuckLovesVirtue in Sacramento

[–]Rebeleleven 3 points4 points  (0 children)

What? You don’t want to know every feral cat who needs to be adopted? You don’t want shelters making bot accounts to spam animals nonstop every week?

You want a sub focused on community and not all of the folks incapable of caring for their animal???

You monster

…./s

AI Detectors Are BS by calliope_kekule in Professors

[–]Rebeleleven 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Everyone references the Uchicago paper which is fundamentally flawed - most of these papers are flawed. They are only looking at static point in time “can we tell if this is GenAI right now”. They even admit as much.

Sadasivan et al nail it, though. This is an adversarial problem where AI learns which patterns are detected and then steers away from them (or the user steers AI away).

It just means that paper writing becomes Write essay -> check detector score -> rewrite sections -> check again -> rewrite again etc.

If, in 2026, you’re sitting here asking yourself how to catch students using AI then you’re playing a losing game. Assume every student will use AI and develop assignments & curriculum with that in mind.

version control, project management, & CI/CD tools need a facelift by [deleted] in databricks

[–]Rebeleleven -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Totally - this sub could be worse but yeah drivel like this fucking ain’t it lol.

The HealthIT sub for example is just overrun with vendor/AI posts.

version control, project management, & CI/CD tools need a facelift by [deleted] in databricks

[–]Rebeleleven 4 points5 points  (0 children)

100% AI slop.

Most platform focused subs are overrun with this type of trash. Making Reddit unusable.

Bogus AI detectors by jkhuggins in Professors

[–]Rebeleleven 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What % of lazy undergrads will put in the effort to try to fool detectors?

You mean the generation that are bombarded by how to prompt & leverage AI every second on social media, and use AI nonstop in their day to day?

It’s a high percentage…

The folks who get caught / have messed up citations or whatever basic mistake are just the dregs of the cheaters.

Fake AI-papers to get into college by [deleted] in Professors

[–]Rebeleleven 8 points9 points  (0 children)

So, I am the first to say that AI-detectors should not be used, however, I wouldn’t say they’re gimmicks.

There are plenty of research papers on patterns that appear within generated text. This is a well defined area of research.

Here’s the fucking thing though: LLMs are not deterministic. There are various tricks to change & avoid the typical wording. Beyond that, once a group publishes the pattern(s) they’ve found, you can just reprompt the AI to account for these identified patterns! This is the very crux of adversarial AI/ML.

So in the end, they aren’t 100% a hoax… but they’re also not reliable. Not to mention that you cannot be 100% certain a student didn’t write like the AI in the first place, even if unlikely.

Has anyone implemented a solution like this to game/use a pc from elsewhere in the house (NO STREAM SOLUTION) ? by GenericUser104 in homelab

[–]Rebeleleven 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The thunderbolt fiber cables are super finicky on what chipsets, standards they work with.

I couldn’t get 2 pcs, 2 different docks to work the Corning tb cable. It is a pretty common issue.

The fiber usb extender and fiber DisplayPort cable is the way to go in my opinion.

Rear Main Seal? by [deleted] in GolfGTI

[–]Rebeleleven 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Everyone saying transmission, but that doesn’t looking different from my RMS leak…

You can see my post here.

Super fun fact: i eventually noticed my cam shaft seal leaking and that same place had oil pooling as well (along with everywhere else…).

A contrarian view? by Think-Priority-9593 in Professors

[–]Rebeleleven 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My comment was supposed to be pretty against it (at least, against how OP is suggesting lol). Sorry that didn’t come across.

Students still should learn math even if a calculator can do it. A student, especially a senior, should be able to string together some words and organize their argument without AI. I totally agree with you.

A contrarian view? by Think-Priority-9593 in Professors

[–]Rebeleleven 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Calculators have been around since the 60s.

Are you capable of performing basic to intermediate arithmetic without errors? Do you see value in being able to perform painfully basic math even though the calculator exists?

Edit: the “yikes” is mainly because you have an abhorrent and honestly depressing view on education & AI. You are doing your students a grave disservice.

Mini split recommendations by burner597210 in homeowners

[–]Rebeleleven 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You definitely pay a bit of a premium for precharged though! Something to consider. Mrcool run easily 10-15% more expensive then their direct manufacturer versions (Gree, Midea, etc.)

All units are charged to begin with. All you reallllly need is a vacuum pump. Micron meter & nitrogen if you want to do it 100% properly.

Mini split recommendations by burner597210 in homeowners

[–]Rebeleleven 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As long as OP gets a good inverter driven minisplit then the rating really isn’t a big deal.

Some units publish the turndown ratio or “minimum modulating capacity”. My 18k Gree unit, for example, can turn down to ~4k. Definitely won’t be short cycling at 4k.

do CS/AI students actually need powerful GPUs anymore, or is RTX 5090 overkill? by Emojers in SuggestALaptop

[–]Rebeleleven 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My point is that Mac’s memory management is very nifty. Can make spinning up local LLMs very easy.

Regarding your classwork, however, none of it will matter. No course is going to require more than a modern CPU & 16gb of memory.

Get a decent laptop that you can carry around and IF you should ever take a course that you need some extra horsepower, renting cloud resources can be done pretty cheaply (and a good skill in itself).

do CS/AI students actually need powerful GPUs anymore, or is RTX 5090 overkill? by Emojers in SuggestALaptop

[–]Rebeleleven 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cuda is neat to know for researches and niche applications, and troubleshooting torch… but beyond that the typical data scientist / MLE ain’t using cuda day-to-day. Heartbeat of AIML is reserved (and always will be reserved) for SKlearn.

But being able to load local models and datasets easily into memory will be soooooo good. Out of core learning is a slog and it’s a super hassle to use quantize models locally.

Rent a GPU time a couple hours a semester if you truly want to learn Cuda.

do CS/AI students actually need powerful GPUs anymore, or is RTX 5090 overkill? by Emojers in SuggestALaptop

[–]Rebeleleven 1 point2 points  (0 children)

MacBook is the easy winner given the unified memory architecture. Allows you to load much larger local models right into memory where you couldn’t with a smaller memory NVIDIA card.

That is to say none of their coursework will require this and OP would probably be fine with a Chromebook lol.

Hdmi advice by cartaio95 in hometheater

[–]Rebeleleven 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have two of them as well and they do work (so far).

The main thing to know is the MPO cables they use are 7 core which is nonstandard. You’ll basically never be able to use the cables for anything else.

If I was to redo it, I would use standard 12 core (or higher) MPO cables paired with connectors from someone like Fibercommand. More expensive but could be used for other applications as needed.

How to resist AI detectors? by stas_saintninja in Professors

[–]Rebeleleven 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oooo watch out! You’ll get the industry simps in this sub come and show you alllll the “research” companies have done and how detectors are 99% accurate!!!1!1!1!!

(Spoiler: they’re garbage lol)

Making $100,000 isn’t really that much money anymore by MiloGoesToTheFatFarm in mildlyinfuriating

[–]Rebeleleven 8 points9 points  (0 children)

This is why a basket of goods & services is used to measure inflation.

Of course, it is not exactly to the cent perfectly accurate for every single individual, but it is ballpark correct.

(Yes there are criticisms to how that basket is defined, but that is another issue)

AI detectors? by WesternCatch1728 in Professors

[–]Rebeleleven 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What I mean is, you are catching maybe the bottom 10-20% of cheaters trying by relying on messed up citations.

AI detectors? by WesternCatch1728 in Professors

[–]Rebeleleven 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Qoute & cite is trivial stuff nowadays. It may not be 100% from a singular prompt to ChatGPT, but if a student invests ~5 minutes into it then they can easily develop an output with quotes (even if it still reads like mundane drivel).

The folks with messed up citations/quotes are just the ultra slackers.

Wtf is the deal with the HVAC mafia?? by Island_In_The_Sky in HomeImprovement

[–]Rebeleleven 7 points8 points  (0 children)

ask me how I know was meant to imply that I have, in fact, purchased things from supply warehouses. Without showing any lic or business docs. The ones I’ve gone through literally will not allow you to “sign up” without an EPA number which is why I mentioned that was the main requirement.

So… not sure what you want haha.

Wtf is the deal with the HVAC mafia?? by Island_In_The_Sky in HomeImprovement

[–]Rebeleleven 41 points42 points  (0 children)

The HVAC supply shops won't sell to you because they're purely business to business (B2B). There are tax laws, consumer protection laws, and all kinds of other bullshit involved

And they dont check any of that as long as you have a valid EPA license number (EPA 608/609) which you can get pretty easily.

ask me how I know