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Nuclear.
But then it raises questions like "are they really unqualified or is the testing methodology inadequate?" and "why was the system unable to provide the necessary growth to such a high slice of the class?". And then the easy way out is to just cherry-pick which students enter the system at all.
The reality is sometimes tests in academia are just not very well made and don't really test what they are supposed to be testing, and that's usually due to multiple reasons like misaligned incentives, staffing shortages and maybe lack of resources / funding.
I don't think the comparison to flight school is relevant enough in this context because it's a too different of a world to traditional academia.
[1]: https://deadeclipse666.blogspot.com/2026/05/were-doing-silen...
Tom (the moderator) said he was looking into getting it appended to the HN's CSS. I haven't asked them about it since ages ago, wonder if they dropped the idea.
Ask HN: Are AI coding agents becoming more stupid?
I wonder what the general opinion is nowadays even though this complaint has been common since years ago.
IiSU – Front end for game emulation [video]
It would be nice if we had a better explanation of what is wrong with the Bézier curves in the example. I've put the spring Bézier example side by side with the javascript simulated one, had them both trigger at the same time on a keyboard press and I can barely notice a difference; one doesn't look better than the other to my eyes.
Asking that same volunteer to hop on a video call is just insensitive. They're the one providing free work; if you care about solving the problem and not losing the volunteer force, you should go where they are (the forums) instead of asking them to come to you (video call). They probably don't want to take time out of their schedule to waste their time talking with a community rep. And they probably don't even want to do a voice/video call.
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Personally, I think it's still uncanny similar to these AI image gens with multiple hands and nonsense details in the background. You can one-shot a lot of passable stuff but the moment you want to put more effort into it (e.g. correct a word or two, slightly change the style of a section) the track gets really messy very fast.
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I regularly listen to my own AI music
Poll: Opinion on AI Generated Music
What are your opinions on AI generated music?Suno and other similar tools have been discussed on HN a few times and they make it very easy to get started. If you go to YouTube and search for "music to listen to while X" you're very likely to hit AI generated music. What do you think about it? Do you use these tools to make music for yourself only or do you publish them? Do you one-shot tracks...
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I actively avoid AI music
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I don't mind listening to AI music if I like how it sounds
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I always feel AI music is inferior to non-AI music
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I regularly listen to AI music made by others
Which software is that? I can only think about either the open source codec or the LLM from Anthropic.
Maybe if there's a fundamental leap in AI. It's still undecided if larger datasets and larger models will make these problems go away.