Ben Kovitz

Not the plural of CoViD. Computer Science professor @ Cal Poly Humboldt. Research interests: reasoning both natural and artificial, evolvability, analogy.

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@BWalkerTTAGGG Can't AI outperform a macaque by now?

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Hey! Yelp changed my em dash to two hyphens. https://t.co/2e7ZwwC10n

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@novasarc01 https://t.co/84iDTthZmI is just what I needed! Thanks for this!

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https://t.co/gFd5coE1rQ
#Latin #Physics #Inertia #Newton #Galileo #Aristotle #Popper #Philosophy #Experiment #Gemini #LLMs

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@RealDonnieBBall @shaneisland The word has struggled with ambiguity since it was invented in 1735.
https://t.co/H4Rjr0H2QG

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ChatGPT can pass exams at a Ph.D. level, but does it know what time it is? Find out the astonishing answer here: https://t.co/HwDZ2pomGg

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I hope the real CCAT does not have these ambiguities. 50 questions in 15 minutes (18 sec/question) means that you need to spot the *one* relevant aspect very fast. If there's ambiguity, then you likely have only a 50% chance of guessing the right one.

cc: @Vista_Equity

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I've been seeing some unfortunate questions in CCAT practice exams. See if you can guess the answer to this one. 🧵

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

Here's the biggest factor: just straight-up lying.

Question 16:

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I can't tell if these ambiguous questions are goofs or if they're really good training for similar ambiguities on the real CCAT test.

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@Hesamation Many of the replies are about "system design" (distributed architecture: load balancers, microservices, etc.) but the video is about "systems thinking"/"system dynamics" (feedback loops, diffeqs, etc.) though it tries to blur them. More here: https://t.co/zkWq6e7dDo

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@BureaucratPilld @kitten_beloved @EricRichards22 I don't understand why students have such a hard time with pointers. I tell them a pointer is like a slip of paper with an address written on it, telling you which house to go to to get the data. Nothing hard about that, right?

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@kitten_beloved @EricRichards22 Interesting. I taught computer science for two years and saw bimodal grade distributions pretty consistently. Some people say this means the teacher is doing something wrong, but I've never heard a reason for this.