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Das Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI) warnt vor der weiteren Nutzung von Windows 10 nach dem Support-Ende im Oktober 2025. Millionen Nutzer müssen jetzt handeln.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-10486622?wt_mc=sm.re

Wanted to find out how many calories are in poop to make a nice fat-positive post on here, but after wading through 5 separate results from the top to the bottom of the first page of results, every single one of them showed signs of AI authorship, so none of the info was trustworthy (several contradicted each other or themselves). The one article that cited legit sources didn't include a straightforward answer to the question. Of course, I could dig past the first page, or look through the cited sources do some math myself, and that's not even that hard to do. But 10 years ago, a trustworthy answer would have been among the first 5 search results. When we say #AI is destroying the digital commons, this is what we mean.
Gonna go find some academic papers to answer this and report back.

Data-Balanced Curriculum Learning for Audio Question Answering
Gijs Wijngaard, Elia Formisano, Michele Esposito, Michel Dumontier
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06815

Data-Balanced Curriculum Learning for Audio Question Answering
Audio question answering (AQA) requires models to understand acoustic content and perform complex reasoning. Current models struggle with dataset imbalances and unstable training dynamics. This work combines curriculum learning with statistical data balancing to address these challenges. The method labels question difficulty using language models, then trains progressively from easy to hard examples. Statistical filtering removes overrepresented audio categories, and guided decoding constrains …

“Humans generally want to feel chosen and special, and some individuals will believe they are to an extraordinary degree.” —YDS Prof Yii-Jan Lin as quoted in Rolling Stone on A.I. and religious fervor. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/cultu

People Are Finding Spiritual Fulfillment in AI. Religious Scholars Have Thoughts
People keep falling down rabbit holes of prophecy and spiritualism thanks to conversations with AI chatbots. Here's what religious scholars are saying.

Can you see circles or rectangles? And does the answer depend on where you grew up?
We may believe we see the world exactly as it is – but as studies of optical illusions show, it’s far more complex than that
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/

How to use the internet badly:
- I did a search on opening hours for the Scotrail ticket office in my town, got 6 different answers, 2 of them from Scotrail sources
- I tweeted to their twitter acct, telling them abt the variety of answers online, and could they please tell me the correct opening hours
- They tweeted back with what turned out to be incorrect information
- I thanked them and said they should contact the other travel sites and update their info /1

Answer (Jaydn, opus 26) #PianoImprov #NowPlaying

Answer (Jaydn, opus 26) #PianoImprov #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

At work, I have now been nicknamed ChatMKJ. As in, "Have you asked ChatMKJ about it?"
This is, I think, "MKJ has lots of obscure knowledge" — or, "MKJ will respond with lots of detail that is actually irrelevant to your question but the answer you seek might be hidden somewhere in his answer" — or, "MKJ might be confidently wrong" — or, most likely, all of the above...

I tried using top LLMs for research and it was disastrous. o3 result looked appealing and did not make up studies titles, but the info allegedly extracted from them was completely hallucinated. Gemini 2.5 pro, while less bad, constantly made up a study title. Claude Opus 4 did not try to answer and just redirect me to PubMed.

Focusing on Students, not Machines: Grounded Question Generation and Automated Answer Grading
G\'er\^ome Meyer, Philip Breuer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12066

Focusing on Students, not Machines: Grounded Question Generation and Automated Answer Grading
Digital technologies are increasingly used in education to reduce the workload of teachers and students. However, creating open-ended study or examination questions and grading their answers is still a tedious task. This thesis presents the foundation for a system that generates questions grounded in class materials and automatically grades student answers. It introduces a sophisticated method for chunking documents with a visual layout, specifically targeting PDF documents. This method enhance…