paulorlando

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by paulorlando 18d ago
If you just look at hard costs and ignore beauty and comfort, is it also the cost-over-what-timeframe question? If a building is expected to be actively used for 100 years vs 20, you get to different decisions. My other question that I&#x27
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by paulorlando 2mo ago
That last line: "...to demonstrate fiscal and HR dexterity for stockholders..."
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by paulorlando 2mo ago
And here I've just been using pen/paper for outlining and notes and then GoogleDocs for mine.
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by paulorlando 2mo ago
Good to see. Related, I've moved to requiring regular in-class handwritten quizzes. Just a blank piece of paper to start, with the questions on the board. The practice forces students to recognize whether they are learning specific top
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by paulorlando 2mo ago
This came up in a few responses below as various roles have been replaced by machines (gas station attendants, printers, travel agents...) so I'm responding in a new thread. When it comes to revolting against industry change, there&#x2
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by paulorlando 2mo ago
Since you mentioned Etaoin Shrdlu and hot type / linotype... There are a lot of industries (at least historically) that have organized labor. In the UK, there was the “Wapping Dispute” in 1986 when computer technology enabled journalis
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by paulorlando 2mo ago
Yes, it's not part of the daily fear and considerations people take anymore. No more nuclear duck and cover drills; no more fallout shelters scattered around cities. Look at the history of that clock and tell me if you think it's
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by paulorlando 2mo ago
It seems quaint now, but it’s astonishing how much the fear of war (especially nuclear annihilation) affected mid-century fiction. In addition to "There Will Come Soft Rains" we have short stories like Stephen Vincent Benét’s &quo
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by paulorlando 2mo ago
I feel for the guy who wrote this. I feel this myself at times. But it's also not a productive feeling, as cruel as that sounds. There's a Chinese idiom: 生不逢时 "to be born at the wrong time." The story was about a man who
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by paulorlando 3mo ago
From the results I can see that I am somehow living as a radically messy desk creator. Even my books are not color coordinated or nicely arranged. I will try to do better.
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by paulorlando 4mo ago
I really liked this quote: “If in the future we write less code and only review, these abilities are hard to train — what do we do?” That's a different question than the included Luddite example, which I take as "what do we do to
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by paulorlando 4mo ago
Nice... Would be interesting to connect this to pancakebot.com
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Engineers vs. Psychiatrists (C. P. Snow)(unintendedconsequenc.es)
3 points by paulorlando 4mo ago|0 comments
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by paulorlando 5mo ago
I remember years ago movie theaters in Hong Kong allowed smoking. If I remember right, it wasn't in the back, like on planes, but the seats to the one side of the center aisle.
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by paulorlando 5mo ago
The Casual form of Goodhart's Law... https://unintendedconsequenc.es/new-morality-of-attainment-g...
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by paulorlando 5mo ago
That is fascinating to me. Especially in English composition. The flip side is if it's an adjunct prof making $4k per class (English typically pays poorly) then she's doing the hourly rate calculation and thinking that AI is going
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by paulorlando 5mo ago
Profs can push back on this if they want. Not all of them want to (or want to justify pushback given their pay). For me when I teach, no laptops or phones in class along with in-class handwritten paper quizzes on course readings and concept
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by paulorlando 6mo ago
> the bar for signal quality is just really low During the Covid-era when money was flowing more readily I worked with a series A startup founder on improving their unit economics. They were spending a lot on customer acquisition but aft
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by paulorlando 6mo ago
Sorry to say you can't take my class.
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by paulorlando 6mo ago
I like this. Related, this semester I've been using handwritten quizzes in class. A simple change that's been one of the best things as it changed students' expectations of class prep. Kind of do the readings and sort of prep
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They Lie So(unintendedconsequenc.es)
1 points by paulorlando 6mo ago|0 comments
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by paulorlando 6mo ago
Yes. I while back I posted an initial list ( https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1M_UjOPxpbKMYes5CcWRW... ) but have gone way beyond this now. For me this is an example of when you become aware of something you s
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by paulorlando 6mo ago
I'm researching Luddite-style examples from around the world. That is, examples of when people rebel against new technology that they see as harming their livelihoods.
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by paulorlando 6mo ago
I've been research Luddite movements around the world. Agreed that the topic is timely. A closer comparison to Sam Altman might be Edmund Cartwright (inventor of the power loom that automated weaving). The Horsfall and Altman situation
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What I Talk About When I Talk About Grading(unintendedconsequenc.es)
2 points by paulorlando 6mo ago|0 comments
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A Visit to the Library(unintendedconsequenc.es)
2 points by paulorlando 7mo ago|0 comments
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The Self-Defeating Prophecy (and How It Works)(unintendedconsequenc.es)
1 points by paulorlando 7mo ago|0 comments
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by paulorlando 7mo ago
Yes, that's right. You work your way up to bigger and bigger potential rejections all while realizing that maybe you're asking too little.
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by paulorlando 7mo ago
Forgive me because I'm maybe reading in too much, but it doesn't seem like you're asking how to be alone. It sounds like you might be asking how to deal with your new situation, which must be very difficult. If that's no
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by paulorlando 7mo ago
"Giant donations, he’s come to realize, often increase the university’s bills, generating new operating expenses for projects that may have only tenuous links to the university’s core mission. The new fixed costs cannibalize existing f

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