In October 2022, Chess.com released a report saying that he had likely cheated online more than 100 times, some as recently as 2020, at the age of 17 https://www.chess.com/blog/CHESScom/hans-niemann-report

in undergrad i had a functional programming (haskell) midterm which was done in a somewhat novel way

it was open computer but semi open book; the prof emailed us the exam beforehand and then walked around to check if we turned off wifi

so we could consult man pages and offline hoogle

there were 5 questions all of which had elements of progressive difficulty, a couple about the type system, a couple about foldl / foldr , and the last one was on the IO monad

the prof said his reasoning was to weed out people who would go from absolutely failing on basic things like syntax and map and type matching to passing if they had been allowed to google, but create no incentive for students who were already well on the way to passing the class to cheat, because they'd already know "what to look for" and hence be given the benefit of the doubt of simply having something escape their mind under pressure

the majority of the class did soooooo badly that everyone's score was basically flat out doubled (post-hoc, we weren't informed of this beforehand) and nearly half the class still failed, the doubling only served to exaggerate the disparity in the bimodal distribution; people who got a 20% ended up getting a still awful 40%, but people who got 55%+ were all bumped to an honorary 100%

the highest raw score was below 70% if i recall correctly, and based on the distribution, if anyone cheated they did not gain anything

it was one of the most memorable exams i'd ever done

reading about post pandemic online classes makes me horribly nervous because of the complex interplay between perceived Gen Z entitlement and lack of work ethic leading to increased reliance on things like ProctorTrack, and the actual arms race of people who cheat not to go from being an abject failure to scrape by with a pass, but to go from (failing because of the added pressure) to (performing like i am expected to)

there is no semblance of trust or commitment whatsoever

this cancer has spread to the corporate world with people lip syncing during job interviews, crazy quant interview-esque job assessments for positions which pay fucking peanuts and which almost no one passes besides luck, cheating, or insider knowledge

i have absolutely no doubt that my haskell exam as it was wouldn't fly in the post pandemic era, but in hindsight it bears many similarities to competitive programming platforms online which have many of the same rules

• codeforces (and presumably atcoder) have a rule that you can use any premade code if it was published in public on the internet prior to the competition start (which is similar to the printouts rule of acm/icpc)

• hence most of the cheaters end up using side channel attacks like abusing online IDEs known to be used by other competitors https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/48584

• there is no direct, tangible gain to be had cheating in cf or atcoder (besides cred and brownie points)

• the problems on leetcode are usually easy enough that that it becomes a reading speed lottery (i once solved all 4 questions and was still placed ~800th)

it seems to me that some studies should be done in replicating the trust in an offline environment online; i'm reminded of some private tracker interviews which had an elaborate waiting period and notoriously random interviews which included putting one's shoe on top of one's head

“Top players [only] need to cheat three times a game. Literally. Top players know so much about the position that if you even insinuate that they might be better or worse, they might find the right move. But they really only need to cheat one or two times.”14 – International Master (“IM”) Levy Rozman

“Had I started cheating in a clever manner, I am convinced no one would notice. I would have just needed to cheat one or two times during the match, and I would not even need to be given moves, just the answer on which move was way better, or here there is a possibility of winning, and here you need to be more careful. That is all I would need in order to be almost invincible. Which does frighten me.”15 – World Chess Champion and GM Magnus Carlsen (translated)

“Former World Champion Viswanathan Anand said that one bit per game, one yes-no answer about whether a sacrifice is sound, could be worth 150 rating points.” – Chess Life, June 2014

https://old.reddit.com/r/math/comments/xm2ni5/is_it_worth_it_to_try_to_do_a_phd_while_working/
https://old.reddit.com/r/math/comments/7ftki3/folks_30_of_age_do_you_find_it_more_difficult_to/

benito mussolini's granddaughter is a pretty good jcitypop singer

https://www.ajc.com/news/latest-parents-lose-custody-kids-due-low/usxocGgOoQSInWueEdP6oO/

https://mobile.twitter.com/lpnh/status/1432818715704320010

https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/129
on detecting tls-in-tls streams, which is well within the capability of "private" chinese firewall makers
https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks-org/issues/86#issuecomment-362809854
https://sociallyconstructed.online/theory/3-takeaways-decade-of-queer-community-building/
https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/06/28/why-are-transgender-people-immune-to-optical-illusions/

16:30 <A> if normies had invented 4chan i guarantee involuntary childlessness (inchil) would absolutely be a thing
16:31 <A> people are drawn to 19 kids and counting and the quiverful movement to live out their r-selection fantasies
16:34 <A> if we didn't set increasingly high standards for ourselves, e.g. normalize child labor (again), accept that not all of your kids will grow into picture perfect adults or finish school, perhaps the occasional asbestos death or two, let latchkey kids be a thing again, then i'm sure the birthrate would stop being below sub replacement
16:34 <A> the issue is society increasingly demands you adopt the K selection strategy of breeding (helicopter parenting), everything from housing to building credit to education inflation to the real threat of not just having your kids taken away from you, but also getting decades in the clink in the process
16:34 <A> there was this UK docu i was watching where there was a laid off dad, bipolar (diagnosed) mom who would have sudden panic attacks and his two kids, and he got laid off and evicted because of some terrible technicality, and he kept looking for places to stay but he adamantly refused for social workers to step in because "i don't want them to take my kids away through no fault of my own"
16:36 <A> and of course he had to figure out how to get them to school, because if he didn't keep up the ruse of them being a perfectly well adjusted family UK CPS would step in
16:38 <A> https://abc13.com/couple-says-kids-were-taken-away-because-they-arent-smart-enough-us--world-oregon-low-iq/2268870/
16:38 <A> this is ableist because i can't enjoy my retard pussy in peace anymore
16:43 <A> >with a lack of moral support from those related to you, you are forced to rely on alternatives almost like breast milk vs formula
16:43 <A> fear not, we've got breast milk banks https://www.sbs.com.au/news/the-feed/article/its-like-a-black-market-women-chase-the-breast-medicine/6w5l63964
16:44 <A> but again, the problem is that we'll start getting uppity
16:44 <A> >"I don’t see a junkie sitting there expressing breast milk for half an hour to give it away for free"
16:44 <A> now guess what, donating breast milk will be gatekept by social standing and or education or something
16:52 <Seven> Yep, you get it
16:52 <Seven> And thats why i'm not having kids
16:52 <Seven> "our" kids, arent even our kids
16:52 <Seven> Whats, the, point

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