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by atoav 4mo ago
Yes, but as an university level educator I have to stress that the vast majority of students suck at understanding what they will need to know to be good at the juicy bits that interested them in the first place. Our task isn't just
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by atoav 4mo ago
I am teaching for at the university level for 6 years now, with 5 courses per year. The one most important goal many beginning (or bad) educators miss is making students care before going all explainy. My subjects are very practical (Medi
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by atoav 4mo ago
Maybe ot is just me, but gmail users can go.. [fill the blank]. It is one thing to not value your own privacy, but not valuing that of other people is unacceptable. Sure using the mysteriously free webmail client of that ad-company may be c
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by atoav 5mo ago
So what you're saying is if the captain doesn't like you because you're Zionist they can remove you?
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by atoav 5mo ago
Btw. as per EU law (GDPR) website owners are required to aquire informed consent for any kind of client side storage if it contains information that is personal. And it has been ruled that any information that can be used to identify return
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by atoav 5mo ago
Last week I read through 10 project proposals by students. Two of those ticked all boxes for LLM writing throughout their full text. Not that I checked for LLM-markers specifically, but if a text makes you go: wait a minute, am I reading t
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by atoav 5mo ago
The problem I see is that LLMs have the tendency to pull everything towards the mean of whatever you ask it to. But the really, really good stuff is often totally out there on the fringes. You can get some good results with really precise i
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by atoav 5mo ago
I run the media lab at one of Europe's must prolific art universities. The variant I tend to use most is the 3B+. Reasons: - full sized HDMI connector - headphone connector - good bang for the buck If I had one wish for any new product
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by atoav 5mo ago
Well. It all boils down to one simple truth: Any gains in productivity are extracted by the rich. Any losses of productivity shall be covered by the poor. It is a one-way rachet.
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by atoav 5mo ago
How so? This is someone speculating about the Pope using AI. That doesn't mean he did.
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by atoav 5mo ago
It was a textbook example of the double contingency of communication¹. In communications it doesn't only matter what each side is objectively saying. It matters what the other side expects them to hear. And that goes both ways. In this
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by atoav 5mo ago
Congrats on not working there I guess. Apparently that CTO wasn't worth working with anyways
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by atoav 5mo ago
Maybe this article cites a real phenomenon. I don't know. What I find odd though, is that it doesn't even include the question of whether there is merit to the Yes or No of the engineer. Maybe the cynical take is that within many
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by atoav 5mo ago
Additionally: the most important not is that you teach kids to face risks themselves. If you constantly hover around kids from the baby age onwards and jump in at the tiniest risk, what you teach them is that the world is a dangerous place
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by atoav 5mo ago
Houses are very different. I grew up in a guest house (so: three floors, a cellar, 14 flats/rooms) that has various layers from various ages. The foundations are hundreds of years old, most of the rest 50s, 60s, 70s, 90s. If you'r
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by atoav 5mo ago
So how long before the actual flight departure will you be at the airport? If I catch a train that is 10 minutes before the train departs on a metropolitan train station in Europe. With planes in my experience arriving two hours before the
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by atoav 5mo ago
I am not switching the different LLMs as much, but my approach is similar: 1. I write a list of things I want to have without AI support 2. I discuss the list with an LLM, which occasionally reveals obviously missing things I hadn't th
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by atoav 5mo ago
The actual time to skim off IMO is all the airport procedures.
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by atoav 5mo ago
So what you're saying is that people arriving in a country don't earn as much as people with established ties there? Cool. I wonder how that could be? /s Hours worked: https://cphpost.dk/2025-06-18/busi
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by atoav 5mo ago
I said is was seen as such. The US has derived great value of being seen as a country that fought fascism and respected the rule of law (in their own weird way at least) by many countries around the world. When is a good question but can&
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by atoav 5mo ago
It was once an open, free country that fought fascism and respected the rule of law? Arguably it was never perfect and the ugly bits where there, so a lot of that is about an image it projected to the outside world. You know it is the land
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by atoav 5mo ago
A very common xenophobic narrative is that foreigners do two things at the same time (1) steal your jobs and (2) drain your social systems. Another even more vile one one would be anything to do with coming for your daughters and women, but
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by atoav 5mo ago
Another one I'd like to add is: fuck prestige. Everybody wants to run a Café or a Bar, nobody wants to run a gutter cleaning service. Of the former ones most go out of business within a year. Transfer that to other things as well. Thin
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by atoav 5mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foobar
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by atoav 5mo ago
Excuse me, but I am not sure what to make of people who: - use Chrome, by Google, a company earning money with selling ads and wonder why the adblocker is not working - use Kindle, by Amazon, a company that earns money by renting out DRM-pr
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by atoav 5mo ago
If e.g. OpenAI downloaded it from their servers to train their models, what else is there to say about it? If capitalism was capable of actually preserving the knowledge of humanity, we wouldn't need things like Anna's Archive.
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by atoav 5mo ago
The problem with this is that agents need to have good taste (code, design and UX) hammered into them with a crowbar and eben then writing manual CSS is something I find myself doing
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by atoav 5mo ago
The one truly astonishing aspect in US politics for my european mind is the degree to which many US voters appear to have given up their agency in favour of party loyalty. Some may think supporting their own party no matter what is a smart
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by atoav 5mo ago
Yep. If you want foreigners to contribute to your country, you may wanna avoid electing a known geriatric narcissist that has the impulse control of an angry toddler and creates a huge cloud of unpredictablity. Not that US borders were pred
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by atoav 5mo ago
As another non-US citizen I feel similar. My profile as a maker and software dev with extensive infrastructure knowledge should be exactly what the US is looking for, but I already decided the US isn't a country I am going to police my

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