An interesting paper about a strategy that was created after a cheating scandal involving Canada’s Medical Council of Canada Qualifying Examination (MCCQE) in 2004.
After learning which questions were circulated, MCCQE administrators evaluated exams by comparing answers of compromised questions with the answers of noncompromised questions.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0163278709356192
“The selling and buying of USMLE questions online have become rampant in recent years, particularly by groups within the international medical graduate (IMG) community, according to multiple IMGs who shared their concerns with Medscape Medical News over the past month. Sellers operate under pseudonyms across social media platforms and charge anywhere from $300 to $2000 for questions, Medscape research shows.”
“The statistical probability that you would have three or more candidates in the same year, scoring in the 99th percentile worldwide, belonging to a small geographical area is extremely low.”
Checking the build log:
> cat /home/chris/kde/src/log/2024-02-04-01/kiconthemes/build.log
# kdesrc-build running: 'ninja' '-j' '4'
# from directory: /home/chris/kde/build/kiconthemes
[0/1] Re-running CMake...
CMake Deprecation Warning:
Support for "Extra Generators" like
Kate
is deprecated and will be removed from a future version of CMake. IDEs may
use the cmake-file-api(7) to view CMake-generated project build trees.
--
Installing in /home/chris/kde/usr. Run /home/chris/kde/build/kiconthemes/prefix.sh to set the environment for KIconThemes.
CMake Error at /home/chris/kde/usr/lib/cmake/KF6BreezeIcons/KF6BreezeIconsConfig.cmake:32 (include):
include could not find requested file:
/home/chris/kde/usr/lib/cmake/KF6BreezeIcons/KF6BreezeIconsTargets.cmake
Call Stack (most recent call first):
CMakeLists.txt:62 (find_package)
CMake Warning (dev) at /home/chris/kde/usr/share/ECM/modules/ECMQmlModule6.cmake:49 (message):
The CLASSNAME argument to ecm_add_qml_module is deprecated for Qt 6; Use
CLASS_NAME instead.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
src/qml/CMakeLists.txt:1 (ecm_add_qml_module)
This warning is for project developers. Use -Wno-dev to suppress it.
-- The following features have been enabled:
* DESIGNERPLUGIN, Build plugin for Qt Designer
-- The following OPTIONAL packages have been found:
* OpenGL
* XKB (required version >= 0.5.0), XKB API common to servers and clients., <http://xkbcommon.org>
* Qt6GuiTools (required version >= 6.7.0)
* WrapVulkanHeaders
* Qt6Quick (required version >= 6.5.0)
* Qt6CoreTools (required version >= 6.7.0)
* Qt6DBusTools (required version >= 6.7.0)
* Qt6QmlTools (required version >= 6.7.0)
* Qt6WidgetsTools (required version >= 6.7.0)
* Qt6Test (required version >= 6.5.0)
-- The following REQUIRED packages have been found:
* ECM (required version >= 5.249.0), Extra CMake Modules., <https://commits.kde.org/extra-cmake-modules>
* Qt6Svg (required version >= 6.5.0)
* Qt6Core (required version >= 6.5.0)
* KF6Archive (required version >= 5.249.0)
* Gettext
* KF6I18n (required version >= 5.249.0)
* Qt6DBus (required version >= 6.5.0)
* Qt6Qml (required version >= 6.5.0)
* Qt6Widgets (required version >= 6.5.0)
* KF6ConfigWidgets (required version >= 5.249.0)
* KF6WidgetsAddons (required version >= 5.249.0)
* KF6ColorScheme (required version >= 5.249.0)
* Qt6UiPlugin
Required to build Qt Designer plugins
* Qt6
-- The following features have been disabled:
* QCH, API documentation in QCH format (for e.g. Qt Assistant, Qt Creator & KDevelop)
-- Found clang-format version 16
-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
FAILED: build.ninja
/usr/bin/cmake --regenerate-during-build -S/home/chris/kde/src/kiconthemes -B/home/chris/kde/build/kiconthemes
ninja: error: rebuilding 'build.ninja': subcommand failedP.S. Problem resolved following these instructions!!
The official Release Schedule of 13.3 version
The following Twitter post explains the science and statistical analysis behind the USMLE compromise by Nepali candidates.
“If low-scoring examinees are more likely to answer a question correctly than high scorers, it likely means they’re responding to something in the question stem other than what the construct is intended to assess.
So what you do is look at each examinee’s performance on the compromised items, and compare it to their performance on not-known-to-be-compromised items. It should be the same. But if certain examinees systematically perform better on compromised items – you’ve found a cheater.
This procedure was first described after the Medical Council of Canada had an exam breach on the MCCQE Part 1 exam in 2004.”
Google Update Reveals AI Will Read All Your Private Messages
An important lesson that indicates that some of the Wikipedia page edits have malicious intent.
Following the steps of the Linux kernel there is an extended discussion regarding the introduction of Rust code also into the FreeBSD base system. The cost of this change would be the doubling of build-times. imp suggested adding an additional step after buildworld for stuff that requires an external toolchain. That would ease the build time pain and the benefit would be the implementation of new tools that were previously unable to exit or making easier code-testing of some base system components.
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/the-case-for-rust-in-the-base-system.92024/
https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers/2024-January/002823.html
Fractional scaling in Anki yields in blurry fonts. Tried setting the environmental variable to ANKI_WAYLAND=1, in order to “force” Wayland mode.
Apparently this did not work due to a QT bug that is still unresolved: https://github.com/ankitects/anki/issues/1767, https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/issues/6914
A temporary bypass is setting the env variable QT_QPA_PLATFORM to xcb aka using X11 mode until the bug is fixed.
P.S.: Starting Anki with QT_SCALE_FACTOR_ROUNDING_POLICY=RoundPreferFloor works and there is no need to use X11 legacy mode!!
https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/anki-in-wayland/40361/5
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