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by mold_aid 5mo ago
>The US has destroyed the PC market perhaps irrevocably, and made getting small >single-board-computers for new products extraordinarily difficult. It's enraged >its own populus with skyrocketing energy prices causing wild con
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by mold_aid 5mo ago
I wonder if people inject the "tool" discourse into these discussions because they think it has some redemptive power. Like where is the difference between "AI is an expedient to producing images I don't have the talent
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by mold_aid 5mo ago
you mean like standing in front of a Rothko and saying "I could do that"
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by mold_aid 5mo ago
Most of my students, across all disciplines, don't have basic competence in Word or GDocs, software they've been using for years. It's weeks to teach them how to appy headings
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by mold_aid 5mo ago
That's actually the trick. If you assign word count, MLA style, grammar, you just have to look for the errors. You don't have to engage with the ideas at all, or provide conversational feedback - just cryptic notes in the margins,
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by mold_aid 5mo ago
It is. Ex-FIRE guy's idea. Avoiding Ladybird like the plague, personally.
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by mold_aid 6mo ago
This is an ad. "There is a lot of money pushed towards building edtech apps" is certainly an accurate statement, at least.
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by mold_aid 6mo ago
I don't think it's strange at all to see this post, and the argument, in the context of Brunet's general antagonism towards academe. Certainly suggests that some arguments might be made in bad faith, or as performative gravy-
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by mold_aid 6mo ago
What on earth is the problem you people have with emotional appeals? It's so weird.
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by mold_aid 6mo ago
That's right, we're just raking it in! Laughing over here and smoking a stogie thinking about you uncorrupt saps in [checks notes] the Ycombinator forum
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by mold_aid 6mo ago
"Psychophantic" here is a telling (and hilarious, until I realized OP was serious) slip. "I kept winning arguments, but then I realized I could be obsequious instead."
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by mold_aid 6mo ago
You sure they're not on 20 pay contracts? Everybody tells me "it must be so nice, getting summers off" and I'm like "actually I look for summer courses because I don't get paid."
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by mold_aid 6mo ago
Yeah there's some truth to this - I find that my Ed students don't always have sophisticated understandings of their content area (though honestly I find that ENGR and BIOL students don't, either). But they do get more conten
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by mold_aid 6mo ago
I'd prefer someone who is confident enough to take another geology or literature course over the gun-handler. I'd make sure that person is in a supervisory position over welfare-state products of our armed forces, certainly.
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by mold_aid 6mo ago
Bit silly to read that as a "solution." Financial gatekeeping? Unis don't set costs for AI products. >thus making the richies have access but the poors not to? I don't know that you need "thus" to describe t
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by mold_aid 6mo ago
It's not a bad point, but the "calculator" metaphor is not the best one. First, schools don't create schoolwork. Teachers in different disciplines do. Second, calculators aren't in pervasive use across disciplines;
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by mold_aid 6mo ago
Yes - US high school instruction in writing is something I have to spend weeks un-teaching in first year and majors courses.
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by mold_aid 6mo ago
Sure, but also: so many articles that could be books. I think all the articles should be books! I don't want to read all those books but hey go for it
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by mold_aid 6mo ago
Dated, surely - did not check the date and I was like "why are they talking about Alone Together as a new release" Reconsidering AT and The Second Self at this stage is probably useful, this is a timely posting.
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by mold_aid 6mo ago
[Luhmann, back from the dead]: how has my work been received? Sociology prof: "uhhhh. Well, the good news is that there are a ton of YouTube videos about you."
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by mold_aid 6mo ago
I'm not sure what argument you are making, but the opinion you expressed initially was: >Nursing and teaching are surprisingly well-compensated fields To which somebody else said: Not in the US! And no, they aren't. And they&
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by mold_aid 6mo ago
>that claim is broadly false. No, sorry, no, it is not "broadly false." K-12 salaries enter at average 40k often with a requirement to enter a graduate program within five years. I don't see that teachers in most states ha
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by mold_aid 6mo ago
Since you're a fellow Obsidian user, you likely remember the early days of back-linking note-taking software like Roam and such. I remember just seeing pictures of the graph being the primary visual symbol representing the depth of lea
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by mold_aid 6mo ago
Almost certain OP is referring to the fact that nurses and teachers are not well-paid or respected in the US, which I'd like to note as well. Despite this, Public Health as a pseudo-STEM major nearly ranks with STEM fields in general f
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by mold_aid 7mo ago
I would assume so. But that's probably it; it's for Wikipedia to record the failed attempts of Christianists to make it not "ok." Like many, you are confusing "making it legal" for "making it ok." But
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by mold_aid 7mo ago
>Literally nobody would know if the LLM was doing even a passable job of Truman >Capote-ing its way through their half-written attempt at NaNoWriMo As I look back on my day, I find myself quite pleased with this line.
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by mold_aid 7mo ago
You are not able to write like Shakespeare. Shakespeare isn't really even a great example of an "author" per se. Like anybody else you could get away with: "well I read a lot of Bukowski and can do a passable imitation&q
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by mold_aid 7mo ago
A good point. "Famous author" is a marketing term for Grammarly here; it's easy to conceive of an "author" as being an individual that we associate with a finite set of published works, all of which contain data. Bu
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by mold_aid 7mo ago
>Yes, and it's a detection loop without feedback. You can never verify that a piece of work in the wild is actually AI. The poster is the only one who really knows, and they'll always say it's not. Yes. People keep saying,
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by mold_aid 7mo ago
I suppose the hard part then is sitting through 26 grade appeals.

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