Here at YorkU we have an asinine policy of forcing students to identify themselves using their phones. It was imposed on us by the division that runs payments for food services, the YUCard office. The silliness leads to contradictory announcements like the ones you regularly hear in the "Sobeys Stadium" exam centre : “Cell phones […]
It's the April 2025 exam system and it's clear to me that the Student ID system here at YorkU is completely broken. I've previously written about how silly it was to rely on cell phones as ID cards. And, in parallel to this, the administration at YorkU has also permitted the use of just about […]
While chatbots like ChatGPT are truly ground-breaking, they have limitations. In fact, there are many cases in which chatbots simply cannot return an answer due to the limitations of the LLM structure and dataset. Experts quickly find the limitations of chatbots, but novices to a topic are very likely to get tripped up by the […]