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by wisty 2y ago
Spending 10 minutes a day on reading or math is probably fine, if you are 1:1 you can just problem solve most issues with a mainstream student, and if they are having major issues look at what special ed teachers do (they are way more scien
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by wisty 2y ago
A lot of education "experts" (people doing education research, policy and Ted talks) are usually privileged enough that their parents forced them to memorise enough phonics and times tables to get to college, and think that the te
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by wisty 3y ago
Can you point out the last hn submission with scientific proof that men might be better than women at something? If not, is this because there's nothing men are better at, or that if there is we won't read about it? And by "b
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by wisty 3y ago
It will be statisticaly significant but if there's any confounders at all it's a correlation but not necessarily causation.
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by wisty 3y ago
They were complaining about a weed-out class being a weed-out class. The students wanted to get into an extremely prestigious career. Weed-out courses exist because there's a limited number of prestigious spots, or because most student
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by wisty 3y ago
I don't think Diamond was a reductionist, he often considers multiple factors, as many as most academics IMO. Did the professor have a single factor who they tried to reduce anything to (and was mad that Diamond didn't share the s
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by wisty 3y ago
I've thought about trying to write a short story about an apocalypse in which Facebook or Youtube creates an AI that's so effective it traps the entire human race (including the creators) into doing nothing but engaging with the a
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by wisty 3y ago
Insurers don't on average provide value. If a risk can't be assessed, they will only offer a policy if they think it's value to them at the price they charge.
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by wisty 3y ago
Can an AI sot on its own board of directors?
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by wisty 3y ago
So instead of a consistent system, teachers randomly punish kids for going to the bathroom if the teacher feels like the kid might be on their phone based on whether it seems to frequent?
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by wisty 3y ago
Are they marked absemt on some kind of app?
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by wisty 3y ago
So to ensure students can use a bathroom if they really need to, but aren't abusing it to just take a break every class (missing maybe 25% of their class time? Say 15 minutes per hour class) you'd agree to something like an app to
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by wisty 3y ago
Learning isn't all fun. Everyone thinks they can make learning fun, but it's always a combination of things that are very specific to the person suggesting it ('Actually making everything Thomas the Tank Engine themed is ma
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by wisty 3y ago
A lot of vampire fiction includes themes about technology vs the supernatural, Anne Rice especially has the vampires being overwhelmed by the new world. The focus (not so much in Ann Rice books) can be more on more action oriented technolog
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by wisty 3y ago
That's a charitable take on the "professionals" (and arguably also on the "vocationals"). Both your model and the more pessimistic one can happen, but I think the pessimistic model is what happens more often as an o
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by wisty 3y ago
Australian ones have a retail section with band-aids, non-prescription medicine, vitamins, nappies, sunscreen, skincare, hair care and "natural medicines" most of which are borderline frauds. Maybe no trollies though.
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by wisty 3y ago
There will always be some luck and politics, but if it's outrageous then at some point it's time to make a stand and refuse it. That's up to the author I guess. In this case, I'd say I'd respect either a grudging ac
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by wisty 3y ago
Back on topic: > The way that things currently stand, I don’t think I can fully consider myself a Hugo winner. Not a writer, but I expect any Hugo is partly hard work and talent, and partly luck. Very few winners can consider themselves
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by wisty 3y ago
> the short of it is: one of the 2023 award administrators leaked a set of emails showing that the American/Canadian contingent of the committee (voluntarily! proactively! and incompetently!) vetted potential finalists for political
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by wisty 3y ago
Small scale agriculture and aquaculture has been long understood. The tipping point where the use of labour and soil to create surlus labour, which is then used to conquer more soil is why agriculture led to a "culture" or "
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by wisty 3y ago
From the first link, it seems like the slightly to moderately higher cancer risks (correlational) of living near a dump are due to socio-economic factors (smoking). Quotes: A proximity analysis, which modeled how many cancer cases could be
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by wisty 3y ago
That's littering.
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by wisty 3y ago
Any proper evidence or is this just some internet meme? https://www.consumerreports.org/health/healthy-eating/do-see...
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by wisty 3y ago
Let's say I have $100k to invest, and can beat the market by 10% a year which is unrealistically good. I could make $10,000 a year extra with a decent amount of savings. I suppose leverage can increase this, but you see the point, righ
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by wisty 3y ago
People who think (consciously or not) that all things have massively changed since the golden age / bad old days are often wrong.
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by wisty 3y ago
Cool. On a side note, I think the old Jupytext extension is hugely underrated. It lets Jupyter run a .py file (with markdown notes as comment in the file, displayed as notes in the web page). Both of these solve the most important part of t
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by wisty 3y ago
I'm going to say there's at least four factors, all related to bad parenting, not that bad parenting is the only cause. The phone as a babysitter is a big one, but also parents on phones / social media. There's also an a
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by wisty 3y ago
Just look at the signs in the gym to see what they hate. Leaving equipment out, and messing up the toilets (apparently someone spits gum in the urinals?) is what annoys the staff at the gym I go to.
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by wisty 3y ago
The government allows software piracy protection. There should be a trade-off where source (with a few variables hidden for privacy / security) is escrowed and released after a certain time. Would MS share prices really drop if 20 year
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by wisty 3y ago
It's going to be like self driving cars all over again. Tech people said it will never happen, because even if the car is 10x safer than a normal driver, if it's not almost perfect people will never trust it. But once self driving

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