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by freeopinion 10d ago
About half of the states in the USA require the ACT or SAT for high school graduation. Alabama is one state that requires the ACT. The mean score in Alabama is below 18/36. Wisconsin is another. Its students score on average about 1 po
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by freeopinion 10d ago
Do you have the stomach to walk into a high school in the USA these days? Teachers use AI to generate assignments. Students feed the assignments to AI and submit the responses. Teachers feed the student submissions to an AI for grading.
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by freeopinion 10d ago
Good luck with that. You will have to pry the water from the AI datacenters.
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by freeopinion 10d ago
This does not imply that the organization is not paying for content writers or proof readers. It does suggest that they are not getting the value of paying for content writers or proof readers.
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by freeopinion 12d ago
Amazon cannot even sort by price. An AI that gives me a list of Amazon products sorted by price will instantly replace Amazon for me.
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by freeopinion 12d ago
Delivery time is super important--50% of the time. Maybe less than 50%. I never pay for express shipping on personal orders. One or two days is never worth $3 cost to me. Let alone a $12-20 charge. I suspect super fast delivery is only a di
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by freeopinion 17d ago
It's interesting to me that most of the people who are motivated to vandalize Flock cameras seem to balk at vandalizing Ring cameras. Indeed, they may own and operate their own Ring cameras. Most everyone can understand the utility of
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by freeopinion 20d ago
I think Canada might recognize that it needs to be a much faster process than anyone expected. Europe is getting some pretty strong signals and should be accelerating the process. Ukraine is obviously already in a full war footing to accele
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by freeopinion 1mo ago
The Book of Ingenious Mechanical Devices was published in 1206. https://historymedieval.com/ismail-al-jazaris-marvelous-mach...
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by freeopinion 2mo ago
Just to present another reality... a lot of kids coast through high school academically. They sleep through classes or play video games on their school-provided laptops, or play on their phones all day. They know about "minimum-F"
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by freeopinion 2mo ago
I thought about the volatility, too. But here are some additional thoughts: Many AI uses are not that volatile. I had a 20 minute conversation today with some company's AI phone assistant. It was extremely good and would have been very
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by freeopinion 3mo ago
I have a simple mind. I think of a company with 100 employees building a dozen houses at a time. That company could replace a six-person framing crew with a two-person, one-robot team as an experiment. They could do various experiments to s
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by freeopinion 3mo ago
Wallace Shawn was in on the joke when he expertly delivered the original line. It seems like Anthropic has spent years and billions of dollars to recreate the entire scene. But what will become of the princess in Anthropic's recreation
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by freeopinion 3mo ago
Be careful to properly identify the bad behavior. A customer who buys a product for less money than it cost to produce has not necessarily done anything wrong. They just took advantage of a loss leader. That's on the seller. Did you no
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by freeopinion 3mo ago
Or... use a protocol that hides packets in Minecraft traffic with out-of-band control through steganographic Discord audio. It's really slow, but its private.
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by freeopinion 3mo ago
You mean @fooco.com? Or @foocousa.com? Or @fooco.xyz? @fooco.ai? @foocoltd.net? @foo.co.uk? How would LinkedIn validate that your email domain belongs to the company you claim to work for?
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by freeopinion 3mo ago
There's an endless list of improvements on a project like this. - Dragging a group should also drag the tables within the group. - It would be nice to be able to drag relationship lines to reshape their curves around other tables. But
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by freeopinion 4mo ago
This headline claims large-scale production, but the article never indicates what that would be in terms of quantity per year. Their motor is pretty cool. So are lots of other ideas and concepts. This is supposed to be about production. Arg
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WSL vs Wine
3 points by freeopinion 4mo ago|2 comments
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by freeopinion 4mo ago
Incarcerating people is not free. And the more people you incarcerate the more you normalize incarceration and it loses its power of dissuasion. Surely it is worthwhile to encourage other ideas. We might have to experiment with a lot of ide
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by freeopinion 4mo ago
A lot of people on this site grew up lower middle class or below and benefited from the generosity of a lot of other people. But they leveraged that generosity into an education and a skill set that improved their economic security. Then th
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by freeopinion 4mo ago
I'm sure different jurisdictions are different, but many places don't allow random people to show up with a suspicious pile of metal. They have to file photo ids and sign a document. Sometimes there is a waiting period for payment
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by freeopinion 4mo ago
Considering that stolen wire carries a lot of risk, the market value is considerably less than normal scrap prices. I've seen thefts that required special equipment like cranes and probably 10 man hours to recon, plan, and execute. All
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by freeopinion 4mo ago
Ignoring the obvious math problem here, I think the broader scope is important. Some of the point from preceding comments is that overall longterm output is not changing. So if somebody is oneshotting a week of work in an hour, but has the
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by freeopinion 4mo ago
Do you find it controversial to have different tracks for Geometry, Swim, and Orchestra students? These are different types of students. Arithmetic, Algebra, and Statistics are different classes should be taught separately. "Please wak
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by freeopinion 4mo ago
No, we don't have calculators to do that. AI, maybe. But a calculator cannot form an equation out of a social context and solve the equation. If you bought 6 liters of soda for £3/2-liter bottle with 8% consumption tax, how much s
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by freeopinion 4mo ago
Walter, I have a great deal of respect for you. Your math skills are much greater than my own. But you have stretched your statement too far. Flash cards can be very helpful in teaching math. Timed tests for math facts can be very helpful.
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by freeopinion 4mo ago
Budgets are a region-specific thing. In the USA there are approximately 50 million students aged 5-18. If you paid for each student to get 1:1 attention one day a week, you would need one teacher per five students in schools that meet five
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by freeopinion 4mo ago
IMO, the best questions around revolutionizing school should address whether children should be coerced into learning something. It seems obvious to me that the answer should be yes. So the follow ups should be figuring out how to move a st
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by freeopinion 4mo ago
It would be very interesting if you could accumulate privileges by stacking logins. So `login a; login b` gave you both a and b privileges. `logout a` would drop a's privileges but keep b's.

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