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Can Australian teachers be replaced by GPT4 or by a 19-year-old guiding a classroom of students all using GPT4?

Probably.

The value of a teacher in 2023 is lower than ever in history.

To me this article title reads like 90% of Australian chimney sweeps can’t afford to live where they sweep.

Classroom teachers have always held a special place in our societies because of 1) the immense value they provide and 2) the human bonds they build with students.

It’s been a long time since most teachers were able to build bonds with most students. And soon it’ll be a toss-up whether human classroom teachers provide any value at all.

Now 1:1 tutors: that’s a different animal.
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> But here's the thing, why aren't value and meaning aligned? Don't we want to value and pay for things we find meaningful?

Under capitalist systems, the only way to align value and meaning is for meaning to be profitable. If you can't make a buck off it, then what's the point of doing it?
Economies are not zero sum in the way that thermodynamics is.

Has a positive amount of wealth been created by humans in the last 50 years? The last 200 years? In the last 2000? It seems obviously true that it has in each of those cases.
They are ubiquitous. Old guy at the cafe counter has one he got for $1.
So maybe not the societal problem it might have been decades ago.

I mean, if you need a PayPal account then you must have a dollar.
Just as a note: build backends still run arbitrary code. You’re exchanging a `setup.py` for an arbitrary Python package that specifies the build backend, and packages can specify their own backend (including one embedded in their own source).

Python as an ecosystem will probably never be able to fully remove build-time code execution from sdists, since native extensions fundamentally rely on it. The best we can do is unify and streamline them so that as many people upload wheels as possible.
> Low productivity growth

Australia has exceptional 'productivity' from extracting geological resources, providing exceptional and taxable profits, and requiring few human resources. Low productivity in other areas (e.g., service industries, tech) is more caused by low investment in education than vice versa. Other industries won't find a home in Australia without a capable talent pool, and you can't have that without a well-funded education system.
Most of the issues described there are solved for me by using pydantic: https://docs.pydantic.dev/latest/ (whose core has actually been recently rewritten in rust ^^).

To avoid switching parameters with the same type, I like to use * in my methods definitions instead of NewType to force naming parameters. Pydantic allows to validate methods parameters too (see https://docs.pydantic.dev/latest/usage/validation_decorator/) but this is at runtime and can add a performance overhead so it could be enough for the modules interfaces with the rest of the code only. For static checking, the NewType method is probably better, using a simple * avoided us many mistakes already.
Snake oil.

I tried tools like GPTZero on dozens of my hand written texts and AI texts.

Random results all the way.

After an editor had their hands on an AI text, you can't tell the difference anymore.
One argument I've heard is that you're being paid in meaningfulness (in addition to the money). And that's why it works out (ethically speaking).
There's two, but ChatWithPDF works well with Zotero-published public links to PDFs in a personal library. Or you can upload on their website and then paste the response code back in to the plugin.
Short term perspective, easier to play games than work on projects.
Go doesn’t have traditional stacks; it has growable stacks and they work out very well in practice. But yeah they aren’t segmented to my knowledge.
There are official LineageOS ROMs for a couple tv boxes, namely the Nvidia Shield, Google ADT-3 and Dynalink Tv-box. The latter is not only cheap, but it seems to keep its DRM working after installing LineageOS, at least that was mentioned some time ago in the corresponding subreddit.

There are also some unofficial ROMs in XDA for other devices, and some dev also offers ROMs for Raspberry Pis in his website.
I have been writing multithreaded code for decades and it is hard. My current database engine can break a single query into tasks to be run in parallel for much faster performance; but finding and fixing bugs is a real challenge.

All it takes is one critical section to not be protected (i.e. locked) to cause a bug. A series of tests can run hundreds of times correctly without detecting the problem. It is only when a context switch happens at a certain microsecond that the error is exposed.

I am a true believer in multithreading as my own code can see tremendous performance gains using it on the latest multi-core CPUs; but tread very carefully when programming in this manner.
What have you ever bought that is always correct?
It was Xscreensaver, written by JWZ. He was pissed that debian distributed old versions, so he put in a timebomb that would make it stop working on a certain date. I kinda forget the details, but still I wouldn't consider this malware, it's not something you would worry about trying to exfiltrate credentials, run a cryptominer, open a backdoor shell, etc. It just disables itself with a taunting message, harmless really.

Another famous case was when debian patched OpenSSL to fix an uninitialized-memory compiler warning, way back 20 years ago, and other than PID this was the only entropy mixed in before generating keys at the time, so there was a couple months when only 65535 different ssh keys could be generated on such systems, and it's pretty easy and fast to just check them all. Still today (or until very recently) there was a special check to reject usage of such set of weak keys that were generated in those ill-fated 2 months. Still, really nothing like malware. Just a huge security bug. Those happen occasionally (e.g. heartbleed, not debian specific ofc).

So like 2 notable cases of less-than-optimal software prepared for users by the debian project? But not malware.
ll is a single letter in Spanish.
Please tell people you believe this anytime you feel like commenting on an economic article. Maybe add a note to your profile.

Most readers are trying to understand the topic from a cause and effect relationships, and those who share your view already made the same conclusion.
Surprised the author did not mention Louis Auchincloss, who is the obvious template for the excellent Diaz book. Auchincloss was fascinated by what money did to the wealthy class of his time. The Great World and Timothy Colt, The House of Five Talents (fiction but about the Vanderbilts) and many others focus on what happens to the person who makes the money and what they ultimately leave behind.

It was common for Auchincloss to use diaries, news stories, and personal narration from people around the subject to provide perspective. The Rector of Justin has six narrators. This seems to be most useful at piercing the many layers that form around wealth, and how the individuals often lose themselves. Citizen Kane would be the film example of this.

Auchincloss was also a great short story writer. Tales of Manhattan is a great way to get into his subtle, but deeply perceptive writing about New York's old world of finance, law and art worlds.
I thought it was going to be about a project to build an ornithopter
I came here to post the link from Asianometry (one of my fav YT channels), but you beat me to it. I also want to point out that Wang Senior reminds me of Marcus Aurelius. Both were very smart and showed a lot of wisdom. Very accomplished individuals. But both made the same mistake. They thought that their offspring would be as affective as them? Or maybe that their offspring, even with their flaws, deserved to own the things that they built?

In both cases their is a lesson for the rest of us. Do not assume your children will be good stewards of our creations or that they are as good (in the things we built and want to give to them) as we were. I do not know the solution here. Maybe sell said creation and give them the cash. Or give it to the family, assuming you built a family. I point to the Ford family here. They have been good stewards to the car company. Many might not agree, but whenever the Ford company goes into deep trouble (maybe due to the family itself) but the family does come together and do the right things to save the company.
According to Northdata[0], the Managing Director has been part of the now-defunct "Black Diamond Suxess Club GmbH", which allegedly has been running a Ponzi scheme[1].

Also, if you look up the address, it's not an office complex. It's a residential area with single-family homes.

[0]: https://www.northdata.com/M%C3%BCller,+Montgomery,+K%C3%B6ln...

[1]: https://www.bekm.us/black-diamond-suxess-club-gmbh-mario-ore...
I read The Little Schemer, twice! It's a wonderful fun book that I recommend to anyone.

When I'm going through the book and playing around with Scheme I "get" recursion. Then I put the book down and go back to "real" programming and somehow this just gets lost.

Maybe it's just a matter of more practice, but it's never come naturally to me.

Dijkstra famously wrote that "it is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration."

I started with BASIC. Maybe Dijkstra was right.
Exactly what one of the creators/marketers of remix would say, with a just crated account.

Remix might be good if you want to use React, but it's ages away from what the Rails or Laravel ecosystem will provide you. Things such as official (or de facto) solutions for ORM, validation, sending (or receiving!) emails, authentication, writing custom utility commands, translations, i18n, background jobs, queues, admin dashboards, etc have a clear and either an official or de fact solution. That makes part of the "development experience" because developer experience is not just saving a script and seeing it refreshing in the browser. There's a lot more to it, like not having to reinvent the wheel at each step or tying together 10k third party libraries.

Remix, Next.js, blitz, whatever... those are all great solutions if all you have to build is a landing page with a form, or if you already have a proper backend in place, or if you have a team of several dozens/hundreds engineers and a ton of money to reinvent the wheel.

For solo or small teams or constrained budgets, nothing beats Rails or Laravel. There's a reason many of those frameworks wanna be called "Rails for JavaScript"... because none of them are anything close on their own name. Closest one is Adonis, and it's still a thousand miles behind regarding features, community, third party packages, being future proof and being battle proven.
I wonder which numbers are altered to find the leaker this time.
Yes, it has a full automotive-grade rear-view mirror.
Right. Schools will become more like tech job interviews. Let’s be frank, that’s what higher education is anyway. An employment filter.

So students will white board their term papers and do other absurdities totally removed from any actual real world job requirements. Because in the real world everyone will just use gpt.
Thanks for the reply! The app is still in it's infancy so if you or people you know have suggestions, feel free to hit me up at geauser@protonmail.com or contact@guiderail.io!
I asked ChatGPT for lists of movies and TV shows that it knows about and used those, to avoid getting into situations with movies published after the training window
A I understand it, the PS3, Xbox 360, and PS4 have been broken by hackers. The Xbox opened its platform to unsigned code removing a big incentive for hackers to break the system. I’m expecting the PS5 to be hacked first.
It's probably a reverse pass through window that got poorly translated
I am really struggling to see how this can succeed. Maybe it will be like Apple Pay, lackluster adoption for a time and then years down the line starts to gain marketshare. Even for me a geek who works in the apple ecosystem with a relatively high paying job who would love to mess with this thing it would be hard for me to justify spending 3k+ on a headset like this. Combine that with the fact that building compelling virtual reality experiences is just difficult, where are the apps going to come from? Maybe I will be totally wrong, I am excited to see it though.
Australian home buyers are suffering from negitive gearing. While there are still tax incentives for hoarding houses, this kinda things gonna keep happening.
What pisses me off is that many smart tvs aren't even in the cheap spectrum of things, yet are full of dark pattern stuff
That conflates perception with perceiver. LLMs have only internalized [/encoded] our perceptions and expressions. From a model of the mind pov, the 'self' that we sense has an internal LLM-like tool. And it is that self that understands and not the tool.
> Can Australian teachers be replaced by GPT4 or by a 19-year-old guiding a classroom of students all using GPT4?

No. The answer here is no. Anyone who has used ChatGPT 3, 3.5 or 4 at all to learn a subject can answer that. Unless you're learning the very basics in field X, GPT - as of right now - cannot help you meaningfully and reliably.
We are cerebral mammals. The crown of creation. But our society forces us to imitate the lowest creatures : Viruses. Insects.

Funny.
Not only would it work for NPM, but it already does[1] :-)

[1]: https://blog.sigstore.dev/npm-public-beta/
You're right. Thanks for sharing the link to your full-text search helper, really neat.
>If the parents actually get more productive they can afford paying

That assumes that the gains in productivity are passed unto the parents in the form of increased income, do you have any data that shows this to be the case?
Change my mind then.

I have family that works on a Reservation. I have family that have been homeless not just almost homeless. I have relatives in the service and friends who have been assaulted even murdered on the street. I have relatives on disability and relatives on food stamps. I have relatives who can never afford to retire and relatives who live in government housing.

Am I personally rich? Now yes but both my parents died before I finished college and rather than any kind of inheritance, their final proceedings cost me my life's savings.
I lived in someone's livingroom and in someone else's dining room to avoid being homeless myself.

I rode a used bike to work even in the SF rainy seasons as I could not afford an alternative.

I feel I have a good sense of the cycle of poverty and dependence from my personal lived experiences.

Saying lack of housing causes homelessness is like saying lack of life causes death. It is a tautology that glosses over the real issues. If we shipped homeless Californians to Detroit where houses can be purchased by bartering a phone or sit abandoned are you suggesting the housing crisis would be solved?
Well, yes, on a per core basis it is of course very weak compared to current cores from Intel / AMD / Apple.

The C910 is very comparable to an Arm A72, as in the Raspberry Pi 4.

> I have some arm boards that are quad core 2ghz, but they perform nothing like an x86 equivalent.

If those boards are A15 (e.g. Odroid XU3/XU4) or A72 then they are very comparable on a per-core basis to the SG2042.

If they are A55 then they are quite a lot weaker.

What do you mean by "x86 equivalent"? If you mean current generation x86 at 2 GHz then of course not. If you mean Pentium-M or Core/Core 2 at 2 GHz then an A15 or A72 should be quite comparable.
In librarianship we have the concept of "vocational awe" [0] which also applies to professions such as EMTs, nursing, and teaching. It's a combination of guilt, the idea that bringing money into something 'holy'/moral is crass, and that if you leave you're to blame for the difficulties that your patrons/students/patients experience in the wake of having less access to resources (rather than blaming those who set salaries + staffing levels who are well aware of the correlation between low salaries and poor work conditions and high turnover).

[0] = https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2018/vocational-...
"People in the market for an Android phone should steer toward known brands like Samsung, Asus, or OnePlus, which generally have much more reliable quality assurance controls on their inventory."

What is the author thinking? E.g. Samsung TVs comes with malware preinstalled from factory.

I don't know about the phones, but it has been nagging me to approve some "Bixby" and "Samsung Pay" spyware.

I am never buying a Samsung device again ...
This is actually a great argument for rooting (and unlocked devices in general), because there's no reason you shouldn't be able to just obtain a dump of the /system directory and upload it to Virustotal to see what's in there.

But to answer your question, no, there's no easy way for even moderately technical people to find out what's in their system image, except when we get a report such as this one.
Based on this user's post history, I doubt you'll get a response. And seeing that the post was obviously written by chatgpt, I doubt they'll even be back to read your post.
No I get that part, I'm just saying you're clearly projecting your worldviews and trying to make reality fit that narrative rather than the other way around.
That’s not really a solution to this either, because security can’t just be for people who know how to compile and side load apps.
> WSL2 is not (installed and) activated by default.

Windows also does not ship with ocicl (by default), but no one's gonna complain about that. If you'd like to install this piece of software on a Windows machine, think of enabling WSL2 as a preparatory step, like how you'd have to install MS Visual Studio / Cygwin to build Windows-only software, or install a DLL to run some Windows-only software.

> I wrote none of my Lisp tools on Linux, and I never received a Linux-related bug report for those.

Congrats. It is absolutely a good thing that you did not have to touch Linux in order to write software that (presumably) runs on Linux. Maybe the other OSes of the world can learn a thing or two about that.

And it is also good that you never received a Linux-related bug report. Presumably, your software runs flawlessly on Linux. Or, more likely, Linux users of your software know how to fix issues that may pop up and move on.

However, your limited experience of the world does not have to accurately portray how the world actually is.

> I wonder where I can find numbers on that.

The most popular implementation of CL is SBCL (ref: State of Common Lisp Survey 2020). SBCL is primarily developed and tested on Linux, and its largest industrial users also run it on Linux servers (same goes for ECL, Allegro, and LispWorks). This I know from being a (passive) participant in the CL community. I'm not sure I can get you numbers on this, but I can get you numbers that show SBCL receives bug reports for Windows far more than it does for Linux, despite Windows being one of the least tested or prioritised platform, so I'm not sure your method of judging a platform's importance is very good.
My point isn't that housing costs as % of income can go arbitrarily high without any negative impacts, it's that the study/headline is misleading the reader using a definition of "unaffordable" that is inconsistent with their expectations. "Unaffordable" makes me think that the teachers are struggling to meet rent and have to cut non-discretionary spending to make ends meet, whereas the reality (ie. the 30% mark used by the study) is closer to "have less discretionary spending than wanted".
How so? Side-loading an arbitrary binary is no safer (arguably less safe) than downloading a binary from the App Store.
Hard, disgusting, dangerous jobs are needed for society to work. You need to pay for those, otherwise nobody will do them.

Easy, motivating, well perceived by society jobs are very appealing, and if they got the same money as the others, society would collapse as nobody would do the first ones.

That is unless you force people to do the hard jobs and pay them the same as the people you assign to the nice jobs.
Let's wait and see if 1600USD VR/AR headset will be market hit or miss. I am personally skeptical.
Let’s say you decide to give each thread a 1 terabyte stack, on the off chance it will run a recursive algorithm where (stack frame size × iteration depth) approximates that.

(Ignoring memory usage for administration, that is doable on 64-bit systems. 1 terabyte is 2⁴⁰ bytes, so you could have 2²⁴ ≈ 16 million such stacks in a 64-bit virtual address space)

Setting up the MMU to know about that will take time and memory, though. It also likely (details vary between systems) will introduce another layer of indirection in the tables used to translate virtual to physical addresses (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page_table) and thus slow them down.

Workaround would be to use huge page sizes, but that at is wasteful because that not only means large page sizes in virtual memory, which is plentiful, but also in physical memory, which is much scarcer (even if the hardware would support 64 address lines and had 2⁶⁴ bytes of RAM, that still would be shared between processes)
Should be back up, sorry about that! For anyone else hitting this you may need to refresh and try again in a few minutes -- the OpenAI API sometimes complains but I don't handle this so gracefully yet.
> The Billion Dollar Mistake lives on.

If you are referring to Tony Hoare, the “billion dollar mistake” was not the existence of nulls per se, but that all references were nullable, with no support in the type system to distinguish between nullable and non-nullable references.
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I have this same exact problem. I thought I was crazy. The call history on Android/Pixel is absolutely terrible.
I realize now, instead of a lookup table, ChatGPT could probably generate a piece of code that considers those inputs (so e.g. temperature, time of day/weekday, cloud cover); and output colors.
No, people don't reject child marriages just because they don't like it, it is medically known to be harmful and children can't consent.

Further, moral relativism is a dangerous and absurd position to hold. It might be convenient in excusing something you hold that's controversial but it also means a group of people can use it to defend any position at all they have. Any familiarity with what we humans have done and do should tell you this won't be about excusing disagreements over irrelevant things like ice-cream flavors.
The problem is that most of the cheap Chinese (minus all the adware) don't have Widevine support, so you won't be able to use Netflix in HD.
Also, if you are sideloading apps, you'll need to do a lot of fiddling to get stuff working.

The Nvidia Shield is probably your best bet on the least amount of crap on there that still gets regular updates. You can change the luancher to hide the ads and lock down as much of the phone home with Adguard.

Also when you look at majority of Android TV devices, none of them get any update. The only ones that seem to do are the Chromecast TV and Nvidia Shields. If you're in Murica, you can pickup the new Onn box for $20 but being that cheap it will probably be phoning home more.

End of the day you just want your TV to just work. If you start having to sideload Netflix/Prime/Hulu, you're gonna encounter sooner or later spending hours just to fix it.
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What's the implied problem then? If there's no problem of pay going to zero, why fret about it going to zero?