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Cosi1125today at 2:28 PM1 replyview on HN

> Quasi-monastic orders that still scribe with pen and paper emerge, that believe there is still value in training and educating a human mind and body.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anathem#Plot_summary


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shagietoday at 3:02 PM

A college instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work and teach life lessons - https://apnews.com/article/typewriter-ai-cheating-chatgpt-co...

    The scene is right out of the 1950s with students pecking away at manual typewriters, the machines dinging at the end of each line.

    Once each semester, Grit Matthias Phelps, a German language instructor at Cornell University, introduces her students to the raw feeling of typing without online assistance. No screens, online dictionaries, spellcheckers or delete keys.

    The exercise started in spring 2023 as Phelps grew frustrated with the reality that students were using generative AI and online translation platforms to churn out grammatically perfect assignments.