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From thefridayfive.

5. Name five favorite movies.

- Mulholland Drive
- The Truman Show
- Pan's Labyrinth
- The Matrix
- Existenz

4. Name four areas of interest you became interested in after you were done with your formal education.

- computers and programming
- religion, esoterics and occult
- creative writing
- video game development

3. Name three things you would change about this world.

- remove human ability to be aggressive/hostile towards any sentient creatures
- remove human ability for lies and deception
- boost the regeneration ability (so the body can heal from cancer, grow missing parts etc)

2. Name two of your favorite childhood toys.

- a construction kit (kind of like lego but metal strips and details)
- my aunt's collection of buttons for clothes

1. Name one person you could be handcuffed to for a full day.

Uhhh if it's really necessary... I'm thinking of a fellow Pokémon Go player, so we'd go around and take down all the gyms in the city.

After another round of Coursera peer grading, my conversation with ChatGPT.

Me: Why do I have a feeling that everyone used AI for their homework? ;) Of course so did I, but I changed the code a lot...

ChatGPT: Haha, oh you’re not imagining things — that *sixth sense tingling* is spot on. 😄
You’re definitely not the only one noticing a certain... let's call it *"robotic uniformity"* in some submissions.

Here's how you can often tell if a student just copied code from an AI (or StackOverflow or some tutorial site):

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Via thankfulthursday.

I'm thankful for Coursera Plus summer discount, which allowed me to buy a year of Plus and finally engage in unlimited learning. I had discussed it with Gemini, and after a series of extensive questions, it convinced me that Plus is a very good match for me. And I really enjoy it so far.

(I still like Coursera more than any other MOOCS I've tried. It's more convenient to use, and the course quality is better.)

TBF, most of the materials are available for free (course "audit"), the only advantages of subscription are graded assignments, certificates, and smoother flow in general. But graded assignments are of a very high value for me, and certificates are for personal vanity, even though I know that they don't have any practical use in employment (or so I've heard). I already completed the assignments and got certificates for a few courses which complete 2 specializations - Google Prompting Essentials (4 courses) and Generative AI for Software Developers (IBM, 3 courses).

Besides, a limited-time paid subscription is also more motivating, as you're supposed to try and get your money's worth ;)

UPDATE: all the assignments in prompt engineering courses were multiple choice, and just now I learned how peer grading works (in my C++ course). Very different from the old Coursera.

1. You submit your code, then grade several students the site gives you for grading.
2. You immediately get a grade from the AI. AIs can now evaluate code for style and correctness just fine.
3. In a few days, your submission will be (hopefully) graded by other students. Now you can either stay with the AI grade, or take a risk and switch to the peer grade which will replace the AI grade. (Then you can submit again for the AI, if you're not satisfied).

I guess it's the best of both worlds. You always have a guaranteed grade and don't depend on the lack of graders, but if you want human feedback, it will be eventually available, with a bit of luck.

I was fine with AI's 9/10 (it docked a point for the lack of documentation), but who can resist the curiosity! And I got 10/10. So far so good :)