Launching The State of AI in College Admissions - a survey of 166 American Universities on their stated policies for how much AI is allowed in college admissions, what should be disclosed and what enforcements exist.
Applying to college in 2025 cant get more stressful. Of the 166 top colleges:
55 have explicit guidelines of AI use.
40 require disclosure of AI use.
106 enforce policies by using tools and systems to detect AI use.
Built for Students, Parents, Counselors and Educators dealing with college admissions this Fall. Use our report to quickly search through policies or generate a disclosure in seconds using our free tool.
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At first glance this sounds like genius but its not
YC or any successful VC doesn't fund ideas. There is something else the founders have figured out which is key to success and funding. This could be a distribution trick, a key insight, a user growth metric.
Its not hard to imagine YC or a VC coming across the same idea pitched by different founders. Why they picked the team they picked cannot be obvious from trawling the startup directory, that insight is hidden, its literally a secret that should be guarded
Modern society is built upon shared beliefs. Dollar has value because people believe it to be so. People go to work because they believe dollar will have value in part because other people believe the same things. Comparison to circular logic is quite apt, but it applies to most of the modern wold.
bitcoin doesnt suffer this because proof of work provides an independent method for verification. the energy utilization argument that comes up should be evaluated in the context of the comparison of this independent humanless verification vs proof-of-stake or other shared or trusted mechanisms
It's mostly hobbyist Plan 9 software development. There is some shared disk storage and people upload code they are working on for other people to test and help with, so it is an active workspace for Plan 9 development. There is also a lot of general discussion of computer related topics in the chat, sometimes with a rather abstract mathematical focus on limits of computation and dependent type theories and the logic of infinity, with only a vague connection to existing Plan 9 software - far out brainstorming.
Do some people have specific ideas or visions of what this could turn out to be? I've tried to play this out in my head but wasn't able to arrive at any new paradigms but then again I've only scratched the surface of plan 9 grid
I've done some experimental setups using hypercubic routing and algorithms inspired by 80s supercomputer designs from the nCUBE corporation, and the 'spawngrid' is a lighter-weight plan 9 take on containerized service architecture, so I'd say the answer is yes.
P2P grid compute + storage that is actually cheap and can drive down the cost of computation significantly.
Can be achieved with unikernels, homomorphic encryption, ipfs. There's a lot of compute and storage available all over the world, idle, waiting to be used. A system like this can utilize it
I've worked on similar things in the past; I think this idea (A distributed compute + storage network) in general, is great. However, although Homomorphic encryption is pretty cool, it's not that fast. AFAIK, current state-of-the art is essentially simulating Boolean gate arrays.
If anyone has any insight on the technicanal foundational feasibility of this, please share :)
I've got my homelab participating in Folding@Home, it'd be interesting to run some commercial workloads in a similar manner to help offset energy costs.
Applying to college in 2025 cant get more stressful. Of the 166 top colleges:
55 have explicit guidelines of AI use.
40 require disclosure of AI use.
106 enforce policies by using tools and systems to detect AI use.
Built for Students, Parents, Counselors and Educators dealing with college admissions this Fall. Use our report to quickly search through policies or generate a disclosure in seconds using our free tool.