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Would you be upset if in the 70s you found out your sister was using a calculator to check her math homework?
by redcobra762 2y ago
Would you be upset if in the 70s you found out your sister was using a calculator to check her math homework?
- stonogo 2y agoCalculators are deterministic. I'd be super upset if my sister was using a calculator that can hallucinate and trusting the output.
- lewhoo 2y ago> a calculator to check her math homework Change 'check' to 'do' and we'll have a discussion.
- GeoAtreides 2y agoah yes, "something in the past happened so then this thing in the present is ok" argument now mention Socrates and his dislike of writing, or maybe how people were worried about television, video games... meanwhile, a 12 years old somewhere is mechanically copying and pasting her math homework while understanding and learning absolutely nothing no, wait, it's not just one 12 years old, it's probably all of them
- SomeDaysBe 2y agoIf she was using it to check 24 + 7, then yes.
- id34 2y agoThere difference is between "check" and "do" - verifying your work is a helpful use of feedback, not being able to multiply single digits without a calculator is a failed skill without a crutch to rely on.
- mihaaly 2y agoCalculators don't do homework. Neither slide rules do.
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- timeon 2y agoSeems like your pattern matching can have many false positives.
- TZubiri 2y agoCalculators in the 70s were a huge subject of debate and there were precise rulings, standard models, definitions and codes of ethics around them. It didn't just solve itself.
- nottorp 2y agoFor the record, I just asked a LLM for an answer I already knew in hope it gives me a link to the original documentation page. Nope. It tried 5 times and failed.