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gault8121

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About gault8121

Executive Director of Quill.org, an open source nonprofit developing free online learning tools to help low-income 3rd-12th grade students become stronger writers. We support more than two million students, and students have written and received feedback on more than 400 million sentences.

http://www.quill.org

We're a Rails/React stack and are always interested in connecting with engineers interested in education. You can reach me at: peter at quill dot org

Recent public activity

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    Comment #47593820

    So sorry to hear that. I'm providing caretaking for my mother, who has GBM now, and we've been lucky to get to month 15 now. It's such a difficult disease to grapple with.

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    Comment #47359339

    This site is not satire. You can actually pay on Stripe and it will create code for you. The site is written with satirical language but it is a real service.

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    Comment #47359333

    Yes but all of the commenters think this is a fake site created ironically. It isn't. It is a company doing the evil thing it is mocking.

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    Comment #47358580

    This site is not satire. You can actually pay on Stripe and it will create code for you. The site is written with satirical language but it is a real service.

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    Comment #47358578

    This site is not satire. You can actually pay on Stripe and it will create code for you. The site is written with satirical language but it is a real service.

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    Comment #47358572

    This site is not satire. You can actually pay on Stripe and it will create code for you. The site is written with satirical language but it is a real service.

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    Comment #47358565

    So this site is not satire. You can actually pay on Stripe and it will create code for you. The site is written with satirical language but it is a real service.

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    Comment #41930893

    The headline here is manipulative. > The $212 million contract includes support services from Hitachi for "20 to 25 years," The $212m is a 20-year service contract for the new tech…

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    Comment #39267971

    The video game market doesn’t seem like a good market for raising venture capital - there is a ton of competition, and it seems that the folks who can raise money have a track reco…

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    Comment #36501978

    The Chrome Inspector Color Picker does not return the right hex code! You have to go into the properties to get the right value.

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    Comment #36501961

    When you break the captcha rule, you can re-select the captcha. You want to keep re-rolling till you find a low number combo. There are a few rules where you can re-roll to get a b…

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    Comment #36500611

    How do you solve the time issue - does it lock in the time at the moment you complete that rule, or do you need to keep updating the password with the new time? Also, is the time U…

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    Comment #36500576

    Got to rule 33 after like two hours! The cap on adding up to 25 becomes really tough with the later rules.

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    Comment #35105728

    There are three articles about this on the front page of the New York Times right now. It’s going to be widespread knowledge very soon.

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    Comment #34558091

    How does this compare to GPT2 output detector? I created AIwritingcheck.org to provide teachers with a user friendly interface for this model.

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    Comment #34553066

    Gusto has horrible customer support.we switched to JustWorks, which isn’t perfect but much better. Gusto had good customer support when they launched, and it got much worse over ti…

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    Comment #33938141

    The four extra stations in the Bronx can't be hooked up to Grand Central - they are along the line that runs into Penn Station, and for folks in that area of the Bronx, walking to …

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    Comment #33918674

    As a standard of Ethical AI, all AI companies should require age verification as a pre-requisite for access and mandate blocking services that provide cheating via an API. Some may…

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    Comment #33917943

    It needs to be put behind a paywall. It will unleash a massive wave of cheating among students, harming hundreds of millions of students' educations by making cheating super easy a…

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    Comment #33812135

    I've had this and I've had seaweed. It tastes much more like bacon than seaweed.

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    Comment #33205958

    So I am having trouble finding this source now, but I have perviously read from the main team researching Calcium Carbonate, SCoPEx ( https://scopexac.com/ ), that the intention is…

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    Comment #33205695

    Yes, exactly - it's an interesting idea worth researching. Thanks for adding this idea!

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    Comment #33199551

    Yes, and so that's why we need to study these things now. These aerosols dissipate - you need to continually add them to the atmosphere every few months. The point here is that thi…