PerkinWarwick

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by PerkinWarwick 5y ago
My point is more that a voucher system would tend to hollow out bad schools, taking out the more high-functioning kids. Perhaps they would hollow out the ranks of teachers as they'd prefer to work in a safer/less crazy-making env
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by PerkinWarwick 5y ago
Their presence hasn't threatened to depopulate public schools yet. When (if) it does, you can expect pushback.
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by PerkinWarwick 5y ago
Is it possible to set up Facebook to only give you people you know or people you follow on your feed? I'd consider an account if that were true, with the appropriate personal filters on of course given the spying the company does. It&
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by PerkinWarwick 5y ago
An interesting angle to that is the continuous sorting that goes on. You end up with some schools with the worst of the worst, and heaven help anyone stuck in there. How do you construct those places? Do they have a SHU? Given our current
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by PerkinWarwick 5y ago
>Instead of bring the public schools up to the level of private schools the solution is to get rid of private schools? It depends if private school superiority (or professional tutor superiority) is better in ways that can even be emulat
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by PerkinWarwick 5y ago
I'm not campaigning for anything, just pointing out that 'socialization' in the sense of a modern school never existed for 99.99% of human history. Is it desirable? I don't know. I suppose it's well suited to prod
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by PerkinWarwick 5y ago
>There's no substitute for socialization. The odd thing about 'socialization' is that it really means 'age segregated groups in a highly organized situation'. Really, it's a thing that never existed until th
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by PerkinWarwick 5y ago
So what happens if high/middle class parents discover that the results are superior for this solution? Do you force them to send their kids to public school in order to bring up the lower income children?
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by PerkinWarwick 5y ago
'What our research says about gambler well-being and slot machines' from your friends at Bally.
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by PerkinWarwick 5y ago
I can understand the need for a multiplier as a lot of estimates are based on (a)working continuously and (b)nothing going wrong. My best estimates were more along the lines of 'how long did this take last time' and then building
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by PerkinWarwick 5y ago
Two questions. Are the algorithms necessarily explainable? It seems to me that over time, the all-seeing eye will have a logic that no human really groks. How is this different from surveillance and grading in any other company or professi
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by PerkinWarwick 5y ago
Just to be the old grouchy guy, I can't say that any of the modern processes sound like any fun. 90% of the time I've run into them it was basically a way for external consultants to make a pile of cash (and for an internal champ
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by PerkinWarwick 5y ago
Because it works better that way? or because it's a way to make a visual app more accessible? My guess is that ground-up software for the blind would work differently at fundamental levels. Really, what an interesting problem.
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by PerkinWarwick 5y ago
Oh well, that's what you get when decisions are made by a combination of algorithm and sweatshop call center. I have to admit that software for blind people sounds like a fascinating specialty. I'd love to get into it but being n
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by PerkinWarwick 5y ago
Honestly I think that's too strong. It's hard to define someone in a phrase, but I just view him as a half-bright grifter with backers. The backers are the people to be angry at. His views on civil liberties are probably more ta