Aemmyjah: Pls Someone should educate me Is investing in crypto right or wrong? I don't have any interest in it but with all these crashes and failed predictions and the rest Does it still seem wise that people still invest in it?
Buy next year and plan to keep it for at least 3 years, you would be rich. Crypto is like MMM Ponzi Scheme. The last person to buy is the loser. When you buy, promote it so more people would want it and the value would go up, then sell (when the value is too high).
With all those cashless economy and government taxing every transaction, crypto would increase in value in the future.
All the properties damaged, is it not better to use 10% to buy protective gears for the police and send them to protect the places known to be targeted?
One armored personnel carrier and 3 well protect policemen would be no match for any UGM.
mrkings84: Better they postponed it cos these foreign people who are issuing security warnings can do and undo.
If you refused to adhere to their warnings they can mastermize an attack just to prove a point.
Fear oyinbo people.
There are lots of VIP that do marathon. We should fear our own people that can do anything for headline (as election tactics). They would just repeat the Abuja train kidnapping.
No, ChatGPT Is Not The End Of High School English. But Here’s The Useful Tool It Offers Teachers.
Folks have been lining up to take Open AI’s new ChatbotGPT for a spin (in fact, as I type this, the chatbot is inaccessible due to high demand). Reactions are largely positive and impressed, though some border on the apocalyptic. In one week, the Atlantic has declared both the death of the college essay and the end of high school English.
Well, let’s hold on for a second.
The college essay may well be dead; that’s not a bad thing, for reasons we’ll get into. English class (which I taught for 39 years) is not dead; however, some teachers may need to do a bit of soul searching.
ChatGPT does represent a serious step forward and seems to have finally brought algorithmic language composition out of the uncanny valley where it has been stuck for years. But it still has some serious limits.
Language production algorithms are like linguistic weather predictions. Your weather forecast comes from a simple process: check current conditions, search a vast library of previous conditions, answer the question “When conditions have been like this, or sort of like this, in the past, what happened next?”
The growing strength of the GPT family has been an increasingly large library of “conditions” aka pieces of writing accessible on the internet. It is the predictive text of your google search bar times a gazillion. It is a selective mash-up of everything that has ever been fed into it.
That comes with built-in limitations. My culminating assignment for years was a local history built on primary sources. The chatbot has never “read” anything about my small county, so it apologetically “declined” the assignment. I asked it to write an analysis of a report released by a major organization a few days earlier; it declined that assignment, too. “I’m sorry, but I’m not able to browse the internet or access external information,” it says.
Lucas Ropek, reviewing the chatbot for Gizmodo, found that not only does it make mistakes, but it will cover its gaps in knowledge by making things up, sometimes with considerable embellishment. In other words, it has an eerily human capacity for bullshitting its way around gaps in its data base. Ropek’s big insight was that this makes ChatGPT a good fiction generator (check his article for Richard Nixon and the T-Rex).
Many teachers have been handing the chatbot some of their favorite assignments and reporting that the algorithm produces serviceable results. Lots of us have thrown assignments involving comparing and contrasting two works of literature, and it can do it, sort of.
My requests to compare Heart of Darkness to Huck Finn, and to compare Heart of Darkness to Moby Dick, were very similar both in content and structure and especially in how superficial they were. Both started with a version of “Work A and Work B have many similarities and many differences,” an opening sentence that I would have rejected from a live student. And the algorithm cannot manage supporting its points with quotes from the works, a pretty fundamental part of writing about literature.
Daniel Herman, the author-teacher who declared high school English over, set similar tasks to the algorithm and was impressed by the results. In looking at his article, I was struck by how descriptive his prompts were, with plenty of adjectives to steer the chatbot.
I suspect that test runs with ChatGPT depend in part on the richness of the prompt given, which in turn makes me wonder how rich and detailed the prompts given by the cheating high school students that we’re all imagining and fretting about might be. If they put a great degree of thought into designing a prompt, would that not mean that they were doing something involving real learning?
I used bare bones prompts, the way most students would likely describe them, and what I got in return were pretty mediocre essays. They might be good enough to save a student from failing, but I don’t see anyone rocketing to the valedictorian spot on the back of algorithm-constructed essays.
ChatGPT should kill a certain type of writing, of which the college admission essay is one conspicuous example.
Pushed by the rise of rubrics and standardized test essays, high school writing instruction has drifted in the direction of performative faux writing. The five-paragraph essay is a perfect example of writing in which a student is expected to perform adherence to a composition algorithm, rather than develop an essay by starting with ideas and working out how best to express them. Too often student are expected to follow a formula, to reliably mediocre results.
Well, nothing follows a formula and an algorithm better than a computer program. But if software can now reliably produce mediocre performances of “writing,” then why bother teaching students to do it? Drop the formula essays.
Which brings us to the best teacher use of ChatGPT.
ChatGPT is an excellent prompt tester.
Think you’ve come up with a good writing prompt? Feed it to the chatbot. If it can come up with an essay that you would consider a good piece of work, then that prompt should be refined, reworked, or simply scrapped.
Sure, your students might not use the software to cheat (particularly if its capacity is not increased). But if you have come up with an assignment that can be satisfactorily completed by computer software, why bother assigning it to a human being?
ChatGPT does mark the end of high school English class, but it can mark the end of formulaic, mediocre writing performance as a goal for students and teachers. That end is long overdue, and if ChatGPT hastens that end, then that is good news.
Queen Elizabet freed the "banana republics". A man wouldn't have lost his common wealth nations.
She is a modest woman but she bleeped us up in Nigeria. A man would have reclaimed the country and both countries would have been greater. That is my only grudges with women-leadership.
They carry babies for 9 months. It's only natural that they act that way for their wellbeing and the survival of the future child. There ancestors use these tactics to survive and it's encoded in their DNA.
Women can't hunt due to their period so they depended on the men and it would be wise to find the most powerful or the most SECURED man.
pocohantas: She should put it in the bank so that time to withdraw it, they will tell her “no dollars” ba?
Any money you put in bank is not really yours... and if every Nigerian demand to withdraw all their money from the bank (at the same time), we would find out that the bank don't even have one quarter of all our money.
APC Crisis: Party chieftain stripped naked, molested in Nasarawa
LAFIA —Chairman of the Nasarawa state Inter party Advisory Council, Hon. Cletus Ogah Doma Friday condemned in totality the attack on APC Chieftain, Abubakar Abu Giza and cautioned the youth in the state against thuggery.
Cletus Ogah stated this while reacting to the a video showing a chieftain of the All Progressive Congress APC, Abubakar Abu Gija stripped naked, molested and humiliated by youth suspected to be supporters of APC in Lafia the Nasarawa state capital.
According to IPAC Chairman, Youths as the vanguard of nation building and instrument of integration should remain neutral and should not allowed themselves to be used as agents in the hands of the politicians.
Honourable Ogah who is also the Chairman of the Zenith Party in the state condemned t the molestation of the APC chieftain, describing the act as barbaric, unwholesome stating that Nigeria s must rise against attack on innocent citizens.
The IPAC boss advised the ruling APC and other political parties, residents and other citizens to robustly condenms thuggery and other forms of unwholesome acts that could truncate the forth coming general elections in the country.
“The yearnings and aspirations of Nigerians to have a credible, peaceful conduct of elections in 2023, must not be allowed in the hands of the politicians causing troubles in the country.
“It is the collective responsibility of all actors and members of of all the political parties to ensure that campaigns are conducted with decorum and in accordance with the rules of the game”, the Zenith Labour party Chairman declared.
He appealed to people of the state to desist from fanning the embers of discord and violence during electioneering campaigns.
It would be recalled that Abubakar Abu Giza was allegedly stripped naked, molested and humiliated by the youths suspected to be supporters of the ruling APC yesterday when the party held it’s meager rally in Nasarawa state,
The youths suspected to be supporters of the party alleged descended on the chieftain of the party, at the Emir Palace in Lafia.
Omihanifa: Don't know who that person is, but am very sure that not the national chairman. The APC national chairman is older than the person in that video and he's lighter than than the person in that video
He can't be APC National Chairman or police would have gun them down. That one has a 'bag' under his eyes.
New R. Kelly Album, ‘I Admit,’ Is a Bootleg — Not an Official Release, Sony Rep Confirms
UPDATED: A new, official-appearing R. Kelly collection provocatively titled “I Admit It” appeared on streaming services — including Spotify and Apple Music — on Friday, although reps for Sony Music, which owns the rights to much of the singer’s catalog, stressed to Variety that the album is an unofficial release (i.e. a bootleg) and did not come from them, even though the copyright line on the album reads “Legacy Recordings,” which is Sony Music’s catalog division.
An attorney for Kelly, Jennifer Bonjean, tells Variety that the singer’s camp is not behind the release either, and that he “is having intellectual property stolen from him.” Kelly is serving a 30-year prison sentence after being found guilty of multiple sexual-misconduct-related charges in New York last year; he is awaiting trial on similar charges in Illinois and other jurisdictions.
The album was removed from Spotify and Apple Music on Friday afternoon: “This content has been removed from the platform at the request of the distributor,” a rep for Spotify told Variety.
A source close to the situation tells Variety that the album was released by the Los Angeles-based label Real Talk Entertainment, which was founded in 2003 and has a lengthy discography including releases by Bone Thugz N Harmony and early ’00s rappers like Chingy, Freeway and Young Buck, although it is not clear how or whether the company acquired the rights to the Kelly recordings, or the rights to the name Legacy Recordings. It seems possible that some or all of the recordings could have fallen outside of Kelly’s contract with his longtime label — Sony Music’s RCA, which parted ways with the singer in 2019 — and Kelly sold or licensed those rights to Real Talk, although that is purely speculation. The album was distributed by Ingrooves, which is owned by Universal Music Group. A source tells Variety Ingrooves has terminated its agreement with Real Talk; reps for both companies did not immediately respond to Variety‘s requests for comment.
The album’s title comes from a 19-minute song Kelly released in July of 2018 in which, contrary to the title, he essentially denies the longstanding sexual-misconduct allegations against him. The album is a collection of previously released and unreleased material primarily dating from the latter years of Kelly’s recording career, although several of the unreleased tracks have been floating around on the internet for as long as 15 years. He continued to release music as the allegations against him mounted in 2018 and 2019, sometimes through RCA and some on SoundCloud and other services.
While it is surprising that such a controversially titled unofficial release by an artist such as Kelly was posted on the world’s largest streaming platforms without setting off any alarms, hundreds of thousands of songs are uploaded to the services every day, and the copyright says “Legacy Recordings,” which is the name of Sony Music’s catalog division — however, official Legacy releases bear a Sony Music Entertainment copyright.
Variety will have more on the situation as it develops.
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