zarkov99

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by zarkov99 7y ago
Well, sure, I guess. I suppose a great teacher can be a positive influence beyond academics in some ineffable ways. However, as far my kids are concerned, my wife and I can provide the positive influence and the teacher can handle the acade
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by zarkov99 7y ago
I expected different things from my dog and my teacher when I was a kid. I still do today. Many of my teachers, most even, could have been replaced, with with some gain, by high-quality videos and quizzes.
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by zarkov99 7y ago
Where I live they let home-school kids participate in public school teams. My friends who home-schooled their kids told me that was the best of both worlds.
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by zarkov99 7y ago
Its a pain, but it can be managed, specially if the teaching methods are adapted to the situation.
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by zarkov99 7y ago
Public school is what you get when you have one instructor per 20 kids with wildly different backgrounds, parent support and aptitudes. You need 10x better teachers with 1/20 of the load and much more involved parents. If you get all t
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by zarkov99 7y ago
This is very much consistent with my experience when tutoring my kids as well as that of friends who home-schooled their children. One hour of one-on-one tutoring is easily worth 3 or 4 hours of regular school time.
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by zarkov99 7y ago
Do you think that perhaps that issue might be alleviated if the lecture is intertwined with interactive quizzes, models, examples, things like that?
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by zarkov99 7y ago
I am in almost identical situation, two kids, roughly same age, both parents work full time. My wife and I had a rough time in the first couple of weeks but now the kids have gotten into a routine. They plan their day a day before and they
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by zarkov99 7y ago
I agree 100%. I think after say 1st grade, most schools are enormously inefficient, their main value is providing free day care and (somewhat) supervised socialization opportunities. The actual academic work is easily done at home with litt
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by zarkov99 7y ago
Does the equation change if you get the best teacher in the world via video vs just an average teacher live?
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by zarkov99 7y ago
I am not blaming them exactly. Its a though situation for all involved and at least my kids teachers are clearly working as hard as they can to make this work and the school district has provided laptops and written materials to the relativ
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by zarkov99 7y ago
I personally do not think its a lack of high tech. A written schedule mailed every week and the ability to email or call the teacher once or twice a week would get you 90% of the value.
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by zarkov99 7y ago
I do not know about this. I have two kids, 7 and 10, and yes, its messy but this is mostly because the teachers have not yet realized that they need to adapt and simplify their methods and, most importantly, communicate properly with the pa
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by zarkov99 7y ago
I think I get coroutines in theory. It's the C++ specific complexity that is the hardest barrier. Thanks for the explanation though
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by zarkov99 7y ago
Coroutines in C++.
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by zarkov99 7y ago
No, it only seems obvious if you assume that all racial groups should have outcomes that exactly mirror their demographics with racism being the only possible explanation as to why this has never been the case anywhere for anything. The s
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by zarkov99 7y ago
The open discrimination and outright racism Asian Americans are subject to in Academia, in Hollywood is maybe the hallmark of the age of hypocrisy and bullshit we live in. Against all odds, AA have succeeded and contributed immensely to Ame
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by zarkov99 7y ago
He certainly does not appear capable of coherent thought or speech which is a little concerning given the job he is applying for.
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by zarkov99 7y ago
Very dangerous stuff. The WHO has not exactly done a stellar job in this crisis.
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by zarkov99 7y ago
Not only they are not taking risk, they get to pick who gets the funding so they further optimize their bottom line, by say favoring bigger loans or loans to their most indebted customers. I hope there is a reckoning but I am pretty sure th
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by zarkov99 7y ago
The point is that FB has a disproportionate influence over speech and it should not be trusted with that sort of power (no one should really, but least of all an unelected, unaccountable, for-profit organization).
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by zarkov99 7y ago
Yes, you have it exactly. Facebook is used as if it was a the utility for information dissemination but it is run as a publisher with editorial license to suppress and boost whatever it wants. This is a new and unholy combination that sho
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by zarkov99 7y ago
The problem is relying on FB as the arbiter of truth. Ideas that sounded insane a few weeks back, and might have been censored for the sake of the confused masses, like the possibility the virus escaped from a bio-lab or that masks really h
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by zarkov99 7y ago
I have a laptop, a home computer, a work computer and I have all my tools on all of them. I bet that is more the norm than not. The license should be associated with the person not the device.
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by zarkov99 7y ago
Absolutely. Bank of America pretty much stated that explicitly, they prioritized exactly the customers who had outstanding credit debt with BofA. How this stuff passes ethical muster is beyond me.
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by zarkov99 7y ago
Wells Fargo. Did not accept applications until a week in. Ran out of money after 10 Billion since they were still under an asset cap because of their past frauds. To this day I have no idea if I will be approved or not. 0/10 would not
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by zarkov99 7y ago
What do you mean by this? Oasis from what?
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by zarkov99 7y ago
Before Netflix, Facebook, Twitter and cable TV it probably was.
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by zarkov99 7y ago
Why would you say that? NY, Italy, Spain suffered horrifically, do you think the reaction was exaggerated there?
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by zarkov99 7y ago
I doubt it. Just like nothing was done until the virus started killing people not will be done until climate change starts to really kick in.

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