How Not To Write Your College Essay
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Brennan Barnard writes about the nuances of college admission. If you are looking for the “secret formula” for writing a “winning” ...
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Show HN: Shikhu – Understand the code your agents write
Agents write code really well, but it can get hard to understand what they've written and why. Shikhu is a CLI tool and Agent Skill that facilitates learning your code through self-quizzing, transcript analysis, and validation flows.I'm Arjun, I'm currently a developer advocate at Pinecone, and I use agents to code a lot!I enjoy using agents to code, but I've been feeling like I've lost some conceptual learning and understanding that comes with writing the code yourself.
Gina Marie Elia: The secret behind how Chinese characters work
According to legend, in the 27th century BCE, the Yellow Emperor of China charged his historian, Cangjie, to develop a system of writing. Sitting alongside a riverbank, Cangjie noted the imagery that surrounded him. From this, he created the first Chinese characters. So, how has Chinese evolved in the last 3,000 years? Gina Marie Elia explores t...
Top 5 Essay Writing Services Students Keep Coming Back To
I’ve been around campuses long enough to see the pattern. Every semester, students start optimistic - color-coded planners, fresh highlighters, the works. By midterms, those same planners are closed ...
Marcus Samuelsson: A master chef's take on food, culture and community
The secret magic of good food is that it brings people and cultures closer together. Chef Marcus Samuelsson taps into that magic at his acclaimed restaurants and through his cross-cultural approach to cooking. In conversation with art curator Thelma Golden, he expands on the rich fusion of modern Black cuisine and how each bite is a celebration ...
Phrasly.AI Helps Students and Writers Stay Original in the AI Era
About Phrasly.AI Phrasly.AI is a Delaware-registered AI writing and content authenticity platform operated by Phrasly, LLC. It combines writing enhancement, AI detection, plagiarism checking, document ...
Revised UGC norms treat unacknowledged AI use as plagiarism in PhD work
Lucknow: The University Grants Commission (UGC) has issued revised guidelines to regulate the use of artificial intelligence and check plagiarism in PhD theses, setting clear limits and penalties for ...
Superhuman has acquired AI authenticity service GPTZero
It's an odd-seeming move for a company selling an AI writing assistant.
Superhuman to Acquire GPTZero, AI Authenticity Platform
Superhuman, the productivity platform bringing AI to wherever people work, announced today that it has agreed to acquire GPTZero, a leading AI content detector with a comprehensive authenticity suite ...
Stop asking ChatGPT to rewrite your drafts. Try this prompt instead
You could go back for another editing pass, but ChatGPT is only a right-click away. Now, I’m not a fan of letting ChatGPT ...
How writing can help some people with autism find their voice
HEALTH AFFAIRS: More people need to know about methods that teach people with autism how to communicate, so that further research can be done on it. When I pick up my son Danny, who is 30 and on the ...
Distillation: The New U.S.–China AI Fight
America's powerful AI models are deemed national security assets, with China accused of stealing them through "distillation." ...
Anthropic Accuses Alibaba of ‘Illicitly’ Accessing AI Models
Anthropic PBC accused Chinese technology giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. of waging a large-scale effort to “illicitly” ...
New Castle man accused of using AI to create lewd videos showing child
Deputies in September received a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children about online activity linked to Johnson's address.
Anthropic accuses Alibaba of illicitly extracting AI capabilities
The firm alleged that Alibaba used fraudulent accounts to access data from its Claude AI model.
Gas stations accused of using AI to boost California prices
Using an AI tool from Kalibrate Fuel Systems Ltd, station owners inflated gasoline by as much as 22 cents a gallon and diesel by 33 cents, on top of already high prices caused by the US war with Iran, the lawsuit alleges.
Major gas retailers accused in lawsuit of using secret AI software to jack up fuel prices
Eleven, Circle K, BP and others used Kalibrate software to inflate fuel prices by up to 30 cents, violating state laws in ...
California gas stations accused of using AI to inflate prices
BP, Circle K, 7-Eleven, Walmart, Marathon Petroleum and Albertsons are accused of violating antitrust law.
Why Does A.I. Write Like … That?
If only they were robotic! Instead, chatbots have developed a distinctive — and grating — voice. Credit...Illustration by Giacomo Gambineri Supported by By Sam Kriss In the quiet hum of our digital ...
Show HN: Videopython – local-first video processing, editing and AI workflows
I've been building videopython, a Python library for programmatic video editing, processing and AI workflows. Repo: https://github.com/BartWojtowicz/videopythonThe core idea is that edit is just a JSON / Pydantic plan. This plan can be validated against metadata of source video(s) via a dry run, then edit plan can be executed via streaming pipeline (many thanks to ffmpeg!) without holding frames in memory.Thanks to the JSON/Pydantic format of edit schema, you c