guy98238710

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by guy98238710 3y ago
> Would that not utterly stratify social classes? Not today. Schools no longer have monopoly on education. They actually prevent kids from learning by overloading them with the official curriculum, leaving no time or energy for informal
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by guy98238710 3y ago
Don't be so cynical. There are serious problems with schools and there's no visible progress, so many people gave up. They concluded the problems are endemic and permanent and the only way to fix them is to dissolve the schools en
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by guy98238710 3y ago
Beware of unquantifiable words like "matures". It might just mean minor ongoing changes. Or it might even mean deterioration. In the end, performance is what matters, not morphology.
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by guy98238710 3y ago
Fluid intelligence drops with age: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4906299/ You weren't an idiot as a teenager. You were just uneducated and inexperienced. Personally, my decaying mental per
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by guy98238710 3y ago
Needs sorting by last post date and a way to add new blogs.
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by guy98238710 3y ago
??? My kid loves it to this day. It's a major hobby. Never heard about anyone who would hate Scratch. Maybe it was a really poor presentation by the teacher.
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by guy98238710 3y ago
> What exactly is so difficult to understand about a school being there for educational purposes, and the smartphone directly distracting from that? Smartphone is a universal computer. You can use it for a variety of tasks, including edu
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by guy98238710 3y ago
> "Isn't allowing any kind of behavior the default in free societies?" > No? Err, are you living in a (relatively) free society? My country has this principle written in the constitution: people can do anything the law
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by guy98238710 3y ago
Children can be taught how to use computers in diverse and interesting ways since early age. I know, because I did it with my kid. And I did not exhaust the possibilities, so it can be certainly done much better if educational professionals
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by guy98238710 3y ago
> Computers as a tool for educational purposes is different than a TikTok stream. But nobody is banning TikTok. All schools that do anything about smartphones are always banning smartphones as such. Nobody is showing the kids how to use
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by guy98238710 3y ago
Why do you need reasons to allow smartphones? Isn't allowing any kind of behavior the default in free societies? You need a good reason to disallow something and especially so in case of a sweeping mass measure like this. I haven'
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by guy98238710 3y ago
I am a very caring parent and I have an exceedingly well-behaved kid. I am always kind and I have very few rules. My kid has unrestricted phone time but still prefers other stuff like Scratch. If you are thinking of children as prison inmat
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by guy98238710 3y ago
> Once you start to demand that schools become more entertaining than the most addictive thing the world's entertainment technologists can dream up, you've kind of lost sight of the mission of a school. People aren't idiot
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by guy98238710 3y ago
Careful with generalizations. I have a kid with unlimited game time on the phone and he will prefer Scratch or book reader nearly all of the time anyway. He has been doing coding games since he was 4. Most kids don't do this only becau
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by guy98238710 3y ago
High-tech enforcement of 19th century teaching styles...
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by guy98238710 3y ago
> A computer to use in the school as a means of education is not the same of letting kids use a cellphone in class It is the same thing if the computers are uncensored as they should be. Kids are supposed to be taught responsibility sinc
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by guy98238710 3y ago
In your example, you are asking GPT-4 to rewrite code from one public style to another public style. I was saying that LLMs cannot reflect your personal style, because they know nothing about it. Even when instructed at length and provided
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by guy98238710 3y ago
This is so wrong in so many ways. - There's supposed to be a computer in front of every kid since grade one. Schools are instead banning the little computers kids smuggle in. - Hypocrisy. Smartphone bans are pushed by people who use th
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by guy98238710 3y ago
Isn't this largely solved with links (including fragment links) and comment sections? Webpages are much shorter than books. There's no need to use anything like page number.
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by guy98238710 3y ago
> take this codebase and make it look like my code That's exactly what LLMs don't do. In my experience, there is no way to convince ChatGPT (even v4) to follow any conventions or obey any rules. It might try a bit, but it alw
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by guy98238710 3y ago
Bloody fools. They don't know what beast they are waking up. Certain portion of ad blocker users are zealots. These people are insane and quite a few of them are quite resourceful. Just a few problems that are going to hit YT: - torren
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by guy98238710 3y ago
It's not their content though. Most people upload stuff without any intent to monetize or otherwise control it. YT, like other large sites, was built through mass-scale theft of what was supposed to be public domain works. Sure it&#x27
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by guy98238710 3y ago
Engineers have created it and lawyers have ruined it. It's interesting how whole professions can be inherently constructive or inherently destructive.
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by guy98238710 3y ago
The more I keep thinking about this the less I am inclined to do any optimizations. This is operating system problem. OSes are supposed to implement proper sleep modes for apps instead of mindlessly restarting them. Don't throw this on
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by guy98238710 3y ago
Perhaps what's needed is hibernation for apps? Just let all apps run forever and swap them out to disk when not in use. Hibernate the whole system instead of shutting it down while at it.
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by guy98238710 3y ago
Root cause is that startup path is more crowded these days with JIT, dynamic linking, app initialization, filesystem/DB scans, sandbox initialization, subprocesses, etc. It's a natural consequence of the apps (or underlying framew
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by guy98238710 3y ago
It's the contrast. Like with impossible/imaginary colors. People are apparently comparing themselves to others.
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by guy98238710 3y ago
That sounds positively scary. Also, there will be no eye contact unless both sides are willing to maintain it.
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by guy98238710 3y ago
While this sort of general self-help advice is deservedly ridiculed*, it does have some application in education. Kids often have no idea what they want or where they are going. It's too personal and subjective for schools to teach. Pa
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by guy98238710 3y ago
> 1. Putting things on the web means your words are public, so they can be archived forever, and anyone can look at them. > 4. Most people don't want to put the effort into writing/posting anything beyond basic food/vac

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