News and Updates
Huge props to Sir Myk Ogbinar and the rest of Data Engineering Pilipinas for continuously pushing free data education for Filipinos who are looking to upskill. They held their meetup this past weekend, and it was very well attended.
As the venue was near where I live, I took the chance to drop by and even got to introduce some of my favorite tabletop games with new "recruits" right after the event. ๐
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While academic institutions will be open to students adopting AI, they may opt to use AI detection tools to prevent its usage for academic dishonesty. Even though DLSU recognizes that these tools can produce false positives, it seems the burden of proof will lie on the student, through maintaining records of their work process such as drafts and notes. This is also an ongoing issue in Georgia Tech's famed OMSCS program. The OMSCS subreddit is filled by horror stories of students being wrongly flagged by AI detection software (allegedly). It's adding to the pressure that students usually bear, and is one of the many cases where AI and AI policies may be causing more harm than good.
I do think there's a better path forward for AI in the academe, maybe something similar to how calculators were adopted.
Talk about AI creating new jobs... literally! ๐
Another instance of individuals taking advantage of the AI hype train. I wonder when this hype cycle will finally die down.
I've been using both optional chaining and nullish coalescing almost everyday as a JavaScript engineer, but I can't get myself to remember which is appropriate for the current given situation I'm in. I always end up looking it up. If you're like me, I hope this can also help you somehow.
With how I'm using AI to help dumb down complex concepts for me to be able to understand them better, I'd have to agree here. Learning, which used to be democratized by academic institutions, is now fast being democratized.
Academe really needs to find a way to supplement AI, not compete with it. It should play to their strengths, which is to foster critical thinking and research.
Now, if you're a student interested in pursuing a career in tech, should you still pursue college? I would say yes, if you have that capability. There are many ways you can enhance your chances for landing a job in tech, and you should grab as many of these paths as possible.
That said, even if you don't end up with a degree in tech, there are still other paths less travelled, of course. I won't say they're easier or harder. Let's just say, they offer different challenges than college.
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