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Re:Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots by freehorse on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @05:31AM (#46690304)
And even if you are allowed to use a computer, you cannot use internet (and should not be hard to prevent that).
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Re:Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots by croes on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @05:43AM (#46690383)
Local LLMs
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Re:Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots by DonHopkins on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @05:46AM (#46690396)
Be sure to bring an extra power strip for all your plugs and adaptors.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/tiny-corp-su...

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Re:Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots by lostmsu on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @06:18AM (#46690615)
My laptop runs gpt-oss 120B with none of that. Don't know how long though. I suspect a couple of hours continuous.
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Re:Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots by HWR_14 on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @06:29AM (#46690727)
Which laptop?
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Re:Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots by lostmsu on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @06:56AM (#46690889)
ROG Flow Z13 with maxxed out RAM.
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Re:Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots by red-iron-pine on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @01:06PM (#46695498)
how is anyone going to be able to take a test with all of the noise from that fan as it cranks through tokens?
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Re:Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots by lostmsu on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @02:40PM (#46696770)
You can make it as slow as you want. At half TDP it is silent.
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Re:Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots by DonHopkins on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @02:22PM (#46696546)
Offer to make everyone espresso and macchiato with you GPU cooling module. They won't be able to hear the fan over the grinder and pump and milk foamer!
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Re:Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots by HWR_14 on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @01:13PM (#46695586)
Nice laptop. I love my current laptop in general, but it is lagging in performance.
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Re:Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots by wildzzz on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @12:54PM (#46695292)
I had a Continuous and Discrete Systems class that allowed open everything during exams. You could google whatever you wanted but the exam was so lengthy that if you had to google something, you really did not have much time to do it and would definitely not have enough time to do it a second time. I would load up a PDF of the chapters and lectures I needed and my homeworks for that unit with everything properly labeled. It was much faster looking for a similar problem you already did in the homework than trying to find the answer online.
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