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by g9yuayon 2y ago
> Pushback: Is math acceleration equitable? The fact that the author felt necessary to even discuss this shows how sick the US culture has become. Was it equitable that Newton could invent Calculus before he was 26? Was it equitable that
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by g9yuayon 2y ago
I'm not sure the title captures the essence of a school, at least for STEM subject. For instance, why is doing maths in schools not "doing"? We solved the same math problems that the real mathematicians had to solve hundreds
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by g9yuayon 2y ago
Is it just me who feels that Anthropic has been innovating faster than ChatGPT in the past year?
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by g9yuayon 2y ago
An elementary student in China probably won't learn more than 3000 characters, yet they can read advanced novels. I suspect the difference is that a native speaker feels more comfortable skipping or guess unknown words. I certainly fel
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by g9yuayon 2y ago
> The importance of an SRS system like Anki cannot be overstated. I'm not sure if I agree with that, as no native speakers need to have an SRS to learn their native languages. No doubt that SRS will allow us to remember words, yet f
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by g9yuayon 2y ago
Do US schools and media educate the public that taking drugs is dangerous, ruinous, self destructive, and shameful. I understand that the US in general favors personal freedom, but shouldn't there be some universal values, like don&#x2
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by g9yuayon 2y ago
Funny that some also argue that it is why the left, no matter how extreme they are, often win in the end. The left keeps fighting, always trying to change the status quo. If a legislation attempt fails this year, they will just try again th
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by g9yuayon 2y ago
> from Barack Obama doing cocaine to Donald Trump with a pregnant woman who (vaguely) resembles Kamala Harris to Trump and Harris pointing guns. With US elections approaching and X already under scrutiny from regulators in Europe, it’s a
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by g9yuayon 2y ago
When I grew up in China, students in a school were divided into fixed classes. Those classes formed great communities, as we spent hours every day for at least three years and some for 6 years. Each class had a head teacher, who fostered th
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by g9yuayon 2y ago
When I started to study English many years ago, my mom gave me a book series titled America Today or something like that. The book was life changing as it made learning English so much easier than the Chinese way at that time and it taught
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by g9yuayon 2y ago
I haven't used QQ for years. Now that I look at them, somehow they look less interesting than what I had in memory. Maybe I'm subconsciously comparing them to WeChat's or many of the user-created variants.
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by g9yuayon 2y ago
> I don't think there's ever been a good "looking skeptical" smiley anywhere, though. There used to be one, a serious face that strokes its goatee. That emoji can be used to express doubts or "that's interes
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by g9yuayon 2y ago
Speaking of group chats, I recalled an interesting story how MSN Messenger lost Chinese market. Back in 2003ish, MSN Messenger was THE shit in China. QQ, the competitor of MSN Messenger by Tencent, was losing ground rapidly, especially to w
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by g9yuayon 2y ago
Well in this case Chinese is like Spanish and Japanese, a verb can also be used as a gerund.
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by g9yuayon 2y ago
The All-In podcast mentioned research on the concentration of micro plastic particles in human body. I was wondering if banning single-use plastics can somehow reduce that concentration as well.
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by g9yuayon 2y ago
Yup, 余光中 is one of such authors who urge people to write authentic instead of "westernized" Chinese. I wouldn't call it "blame", though. Just like in English, there's certain standard on good writing. In Chines
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by g9yuayon 2y ago
Note that modern Chinese is heavily influenced by modern English. During the May Fourth Movement[1], prominent authors like Lu Xun diligently explored how to write modern Chinese with "westernized" style. The experiment largely fa
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by g9yuayon 2y ago
> 268,481 words (16 hours 17 minutes) with a reading ease of 74.9 (fairly easy) It's interesting when China introduced Ulysses years ago, publishers and reviewers often mentioned that how challenging the novel was. Often cited reaso
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by g9yuayon 2y ago
My experience as well. I tried it a couple of times more than 10 years ago, one is covering Nancy Lynch's Distributed Algorithms, and one is Maurice Herlihy's The Art of Multiprocessor Programming. We finished about 1/4 of ea
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by g9yuayon 2y ago
This sounds like the trend is good for the incumbents? That is, it's hard for the supply to catch up with the demand in broad scope, so people with solid experience will be marketable for a while.
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by g9yuayon 2y ago
> wrong things (leetcode-type challenges, unnecessarily specific knowledge.. I'm curious about the dynamics of this. If leetcoding or requiring some specific knowledge is too much for candidates, those employers will not be able to
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by g9yuayon 2y ago
> Structural unemployment happens when the skills of the work force don't match the needs of employers, so there is both unemployment and difficulty hiring. Any study on why there would be this kind of mismatch in the tech industry?
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by g9yuayon 2y ago
I actually have a contrarian view: being able to do elementary math is not that important in the current stage. Yes, understanding elementary math is a cornerstone for an AI to become more intelligent, but also let's be honest: LLMs ar
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by g9yuayon 3y ago
Do you have examples? The other commenter's example of generating correct unit test results is indeed interesting, and I was wondering if there are other cases.
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by g9yuayon 3y ago
Is being good math that important to the ChatGPT users, though? The ChatGPT's ability to do math is so limited that I'm not sure what math problems we have to ask ChatGPT to solve.
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by g9yuayon 3y ago
> PjM/PM time to organize initial build This sounds what big companies or a disorganized company would need. For an efficient enough company, a project like this needs just one or two dedicated engineers. In fact, I can't imagi
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by g9yuayon 3y ago
How is this compared to Obsidian? Currently Obsidian is by far the best Markdown editor I've used. The inline preview mode is amazing, and I appreciate how easy it is to embed math equations and diagrams. Speaking of this, shame on Goo
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by g9yuayon 3y ago
Can someone educate me why insurer should not know one's driving habits? I'd imagine that the risks calculated from one's driving habit will be more accurate than that derived from only past accidents, car color, user profile
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by g9yuayon 3y ago
When I reflect what Netflix did back in 2010ish on AWS: * The declarative infra is EC2/ASG configurations plus Jenkins configurations * Client-side load balancing * ASG for autoscaling and recovery * Amazing observability with a home-g
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by g9yuayon 3y ago
I don't know if it's just me or what, but even the vanilla version of FireFox feels slow in responding my mouse clicks. Occasionally FireFox stopped being responsive but didn't freeze. I'd have to kill the FireFox proces

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