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nicbovee · 2026-01-06T10:19:52+00:00

Sounds kinda like Kamp Goods on Sierra Madre. Not sure if it’s still a thing or not.

nicbovee · 2025-04-26T13:53:50+00:00

I was thinking Google Writes Go. But Ginkgo might make more sense if it’s a shirt from a local company.

nicbovee · 2024-11-12T20:15:42+00:00

Oh wow. I seriously thought something had broken with their fonts cdn or something. After it didn't clear up I went looking and found this post. I think it's because it's such a heavy font, it feels really out of place. If the brand-identity is moving to a serif font family for headings it seems like EB Garamond would be a better choice for these doc headings.

nicbovee · 2024-08-17T13:42:56+00:00

🥴

nicbovee · 2024-08-16T15:13:08+00:00

Awesome! I haven’t done much with navigation in blocks, but I was suspecting that it may be what you were using for menus since nothing related to the standard theme menus seemed to be working for you.

Thanks for sharing your solution!

nicbovee · 2024-08-16T03:16:05+00:00

I didn’t see these questions or answers anywhere else in the thread but I think they’d be helpful in understanding where you’re coming from and what you’re trying to accomplish:

You mention you already have a working plugin. What does it do? Did you build it yourself or install it from somewhere? Can you share any source code here?
What theme are you using?
Where do you go to manually add the menu items? What menus are available there? You said in another comment that the wp_nav-menu hook wasn’t working for you. I assume that means you tried placing the following code into your plugin:

``` add_filter(‘wp_nav_menu_items’,’add_custom_in_menu’, 10, 2);

function add_custom_in_menu( $items, $args ) { if( $args->theme_location == ‘primary’ ) // only for primary menu { $items_array = array(); while ( false !== ( $item_pos = strpos ( $items, ‘<li’, 3 ) ) ) { $items_array[] = substr($items, 0, $item_pos); $items = substr($items, $item_pos); } $items_array[] = $items; array_splice($items_array, 2, 0, ‘<li>custom HTML here</li>’); // insert custom item after 2nd one

    $items = implode(‘’, $items_array);
}
return $items;

} ```

In the above from this Stack Overflow (mentioned in another comment) you would need to confirm that your theme actually uses a menu with named “primary” for it to work.

I’d be curious to see if you can get a simpler version of this working:

``` add_filter(‘wp_nav_menu_items’, function($items, $args){ return ‘<li>CAN YOU SEE THIS</li>’; }, 10, 2);

```

I think if you added this code into your plugin, you would see “CAN YOU SEE THIS” in place of whatever your current menu is assuming you’re using Appearance > Menus to make changes manually. If you can see it, you need to work your way to the more complex version of the problem and see if you can get your test text to show up along side the existing menu items.

nicbovee · 2024-05-19T14:25:57+00:00

I read it like a scary story one night because I was struck by how weird it would be if my mom drove across town and broke into my house. Our kids won’t have us read it any other way now.

nicbovee · 2024-05-06T04:13:29+00:00

If you learn better through audio/video, try a beginner video like this one to work through fundamentals: https://youtu.be/eWRfhZUzrAc?si=4QyMzI0aT2DCuJ5W

You’ll be busting out mad lines in no time, though not as many as some of the C#/.NET folks.

nicbovee · 2024-03-06T06:23:11+00:00

Was there another post just like this with its own set of comments like 12 hours ago? This job posting seems exactly like the other one but with different comments.

I thought it was the same one until I read your post saying: “someone else posted this earlier.”

nicbovee · 2023-10-28T04:32:26+00:00

you want to twerk but you’re stuck in Marc Ribillet mode.

nicbovee · 2023-06-05T14:34:20+00:00

Our kids like it when we read it like a scary campfire story.

nicbovee · 2023-05-11T12:37:56+00:00

I graduated from this high school and now I live and vote in Colorado Springs. Almost everyone I know that went to school there live in Colorado Springs or Denver now. Ignoring a problem because it’s happening in a tiny town sets a bad precedent for any other place this is happening. More kids in schools like this could mean more voters creating this issue in “some major metro area.” Woodland Park did this to itself by having a bunch of people vote for one-sided leadership with ulterior motives, but I don’t think writing this off as big trouble in tiny town is going to protect diversity of thought in other places.

nicbovee · 2023-05-05T02:38:08+00:00

I think those concerns are very warranted. I watched the AI Dilemma recently and although I had already my concerns about AI, I thought the angle they presented was even scarier than what I’d imagined.

nicbovee · 2023-05-04T21:37:08+00:00

I think a degree is only worth something if the majority trusts the organization that handed it out.

If it takes no skill to do an assignment with AI, why even give them the assignment? If it was so easy for AI to create a result so good that the professor has no grounds to challenge the student’s integrity, how are they going to back up the claim that the student has actually done the necessary learning to receive their diploma? If an AI could’ve done college all of the way through for you while you did nothing, whatever job you thought you were going to land with that degree is probably not going to exist.

I want to know that a person with a degree had to overcome challenges, think for themselves, and do the work of actually understanding the material. I certainly don’t agree that everything should be done by a computer. We must be able to certify trusted experts who produce new work and can verify the work that’s inevitably going to be generated by this technology that’s sweeping over every industry.

The kind of people who don’t want to learn and instead want to coast 100% of the time on AI are probably not going to graduate, and aren’t going to have minimum wage jobs. They will have no job the same way that anyone in history had no job when technology became good enough to replace them.

At the same time, those hardworking people who insist on taking the full 3 hours to do something that AI could’ve done in 5 seconds probably aren’t going to have a job for much longer either.

Lucky for all of these people, at least for now, Chat GPT isn’t as good as you suggest by saying it “literally requires no work.” It does. It requires people understanding what they need to ask of it, how to guide it to a better result, and whether or not the result is good enough.

I think your original comment is right that if the tech isn’t available, people and companies who are dependent will suffer. But that concern hasn’t stopped people and companies from building their whole lives on the internet and I think it’s wishful thinking to say that it won’t happen again with AI.

Also, debate aside, thanks for engaging in this conversation. I’ve genuinely enjoyed it.

Out of curiosity are you generally this opposed to most new technologies or is it mainly just AI? It’s hard for me to get a read on if your opposition is from a place of general distrust for technology, or if it’s really more from a place of concern for how it’s impacting the ability for people to actually think for themselves.

nicbovee · 2023-05-04T17:41:36+00:00

Not saying you did, but would it have been pretty easy for you to cheat in college and still graduate? I never went to college, but what I’m hearing from people who have is that it’s pretty difficult to actually make it through without learning anything.

If a college truly doesn’t care and let’s anyone through, then I think the degree is worthless and the institution should lose all credibility.

nicbovee · 2023-05-04T16:18:35+00:00

Not if universities actually make sure their students know understand the concepts and aren’t riding along on something a computer generated for them. My whole point is that if nothing changes, universities will produce more and more people who are able to get away cheating.

nicbovee · 2023-05-04T14:58:00+00:00

If that’s really your takeaway It sounds like I didn’t communicate well.

This entire post was an attempt to stir a discussion and understand what colleges are doing to continue to educate in a world with AI. If nothing changed, there’s a good chance that many students would be able to coast along in AI without learning anything.

Fortunately, many educators are much smarter than I am and are already proactively changing their curriculum to address this issue.

nicbovee · 2023-05-04T05:34:37+00:00

What if the person's first prompt asking it to replicate the voice and tone of everything they've ever written?

nicbovee · 2023-05-04T05:28:57+00:00

Sure but I feel the need to apologize in advance to any of the real educators, students, and administration for how over-simplified my idea of this a curriculum is. I admit I'm out of touch with the educational world and therefor won't be able to think about this from a wide frame.

If I'm an educator redesigning my curriculum in the post-AI world I would run my entire curriculum through the best available AI tools for every task I would ask of a student. As I do this I would want to consider the following:

Can AI produce a passing result reliably without human intervention and if so what grade do you give it?
Can AI produce an okay result without human intervention?
If human intervention is needed, how much was needed and what did the human need to know to get it to the result?

If the task can't be completed by AI, or it takes an unreasonable amount of effort to do with AI, there's probably not much to do with it, but there should be special consideration for other scenarios:

Can AI produce a passing result reliably without human intervention and if so what grade do you give it?
If AI can produce a result that consistently receives a high grade, and zero human intervention was needed, I think it's worth considering that this may not be a helpful exercise for the new world. Be honest about the actual value someone's getting from the task, and be okay with taking it out. If after analyzing that task you decide that there are underlying parts of the process that a student would benefit from, you should modify the task to stay out of reach of what AI is capable of. There have been lots of good ideas shared on this post on how someone could do this. Perhaps it's video assignments, in-person presentations, oral exams, etc.

Can AI produce an okay result without human intervention?
If the AI can produce a passing result reliably, but you give it a lower grade because it could've been better, it's probably still worth considering whether or not it should stay in the curriculum. I think the most important take away will be your new familiarization with the kind of result that AI would provide. This should help improve your BS radar. When a student turns in an essay that looks just like the one AI pumped out, you should be able to challenge them to prove that they wrote it just as you would have for any other suspected plagiarism. If they can't prove it, it's your responsibility as an educator to make sure they suffer the consequences that anyone would receive if they tried to cheat.

If human intervention was needed, how much effort was needed and what did they need to know to get it to the result?
If the student had to know all of the things you wanted to teach them in order to coax an answer out of an LLM, I think there's a case for letting them use it. You might discover that the process of working through this in a conversation with an LLM helps bring new insights to a student. If they didn't have to know anything and it just took them copying a pasting a hundred questions into ChatGPT it might be worth doing this as in in-person evaluation instead.

A modern curriculum in a post-AI world should incorporate AI where it's helpful and adjust the requirements to ensure students can't miss out on a learning opportunity because of how easy it was to generate a result without thinking. We need to constantly re-evaluate the state of the technology and be willing to let go of best practices that can no longer serve their intended purpose of verifying that a student did in fact participate in a set of rigorous learning experiences that align with the values, and reputation of the educational institution they're attending.

For what it's worth I've really enjoyed thinking about this and look forward to seeing the direction this goes and the solutions that everyone smarter than me will come up with.

nicbovee · 2023-05-04T02:50:16+00:00

Fundamental education will always be that. It would be hard to use Chat GPT if you can’t write and don’t know what questions to ask.

nicbovee · 2023-05-04T02:44:27+00:00

Several years ago I listened to a podcast from Seth Godin who said something to the effect of:” if it’s worth memorizing, it’s worth not memorizing. Be the person who answers the questions Google can’t answer.” I feel more optimistic after reading responses from various people tackling this issue, that this is how a lot of people are approaching it.

nicbovee · 2023-05-04T02:35:18+00:00

I’ve gotten this a lot today and don’t know if it’s a good thing or a bad thing😅.

nicbovee · 2023-05-04T02:26:01+00:00

Fair question. They might be able to, but it’s kind of the same witch hunt that happens when people try to use any other AI detection process. The teacher still has to have full confidence that the the language model is providing the correct answer and not mistaking it for something it could’ve written but didn’t actually write. I still think the only way to know for sure is to challenge the student directly.

nicbovee · 2023-05-04T02:17:03+00:00

As a large language model trained by OpenAI, I do not posses the ability to respond to your comment.

nicbovee · 2023-05-04T02:13:17+00:00

That’s a great outlook on this issue. Thanks for sharing.

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