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Well there is no “roof rule” on the page they linked


It might have been AutoCorrect, and the “social rules” the original comment makes hundred times more sense that way


The social rules page links to the code of conduct, which contains a rule about the roof. The most sensible interpretation to me is that OP wanted to comment on both, possibly forgetting that they had to follow a link to the roof rule, or maybe actively considering both pages to be a single unit.

That would be the"strongest interpretation" of OPs comment, which the local guidelines prefer us to respond to.


I'm honestly surprised how controversial this sub thread became. To put it to rest -- this is indeed correct. I commented on the roof rule but didn't link to the code of conduct because doing so didn't really seem to add anything that a reader couldn't find on their own.

I can't imagine what word might have been autocorrected to "roof" that would make more sense here.

Pause and consider the joint probability that anything was autocorrected to "roof rule" and that it just so happens to be the name of one of their rules.

Are there any other self-guided online university level CS courses like this?


There are dozens. Search "mooc". Also some professors will release their lectures and homework outside of a "mooc" framework. I've even had professors respond to questions in the comments. The Internet can still be pretty cool.


Well there are plenty of places that aren’t in anyone’s backyard


"Backyard" is obviously not to be taken literally. Anywhere you put one of these things is going to have an impact on the region. But perhaps you can provide some examples of places that are not in anyone's backyard?


"in [someone's] backyard" is a colloquialism that refers to "those who are in that area"


LLM spam account


Who is "we"? Lol


I would be surprised if, in the "mature" future of AI tools/products, the labs building the models are also selling/building to end users like they are now.


Would or wouldn't be? I think it makes sense that they will be because of the feedback loop on training. The lab generates tons of example text as part of the training run and if they have that using their own tools then the models will tend to prefer those tools.


>I think I'm at 1 success out of 15 attempts for Gemini to explain how to do something in Google Sheets/Docs, though, so I'm not hopeful that anyone can actually implement this.

People love to talk about this as one of the helpful features of AI (knowledge extraction from documents/summarizing), but I'm really not convinced. The last generation of models seem to have 70-90% accuracy on tasks like this, which is way below what i'd consider a reliable tool

e.g. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/digital-health/articles...

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11197181/

I don't know if there are any benchmarks for this sort of task, maybe the new ones are improved but I also doubt that people are using GPT5.5 pro ultrathink for these tasks anyways


This post is full of AI flair unfortunately


This is quite interesting, but the blatantly AI generated explanations are like an anti-signal for quality


Me explaining to a teacher why i cheated on the test: well did you stop to consider the cognitive load of doing the problems myself and how much easier it was to cheat?


Not even remotely the same situation.


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