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For "personal growth" contexts, yes. For "valedictorian and GPA for college" sort of contexts, no.
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Reminds me of the final outcome of the absurd series Mrs. Davis, where (spoiler warning) humanity has voluntarily succombed to the arbitrary assignments of a single AI-based customer rewards points app, because it was just a bit smarter than humans at manipulating people.
I don't understand this sentiment, even though it is common among Americans. Why is education seen as a competition between students, even in the younger grades? I've even heard stories of parents of young children fighting with each other over their children's grades.
Can someone explain me the point?
Recently at the restaurant I saw a family with three kids, all with their own individual smartphones. One was a toddler barely a few months old, too young to even be able to understand how to use it, his smartphone was on a stand on the table, playing some of those coma inducing toddler videos that exist on the nightmare-ish corners of youtube.

There is a legitimate problem at hand here with our relationship with tech and how children.. are left to their own device with that stuff. On purpose, for the most part: the parents seem all too happy with the ability of those devices to make their kids shut up and stay constantly distracted. Doomscrolling habits makes for more "well behaved" children in public settings.

chatGPT is but one of the many symptoms, the root problem is that children should really have no business having unsupervised internet access.
It's not a competition. Teach her to use her brain, and hope school will end up being a net positive. You can't fix other parents and their children.

It starts now for you by the way. Keep her away from screens for now, and be a good role model when handling devices (and the apps on them). You have ten years to show them what computers can do for you, but also what being the master of your own cognitive skills will gain you. If you do it right it won't matter whether she is allowed to use those tools or not, she'll use her own brain because that will allow her to get ahead by the time it really matters.
I think her parents are not doing what they should be doing. And I also think, that it is partially their parents fault but much more the fault of the education and social system the parents has been brought up and currently working and existing, because they are missing the resources (time and knowledge, etc) to attend to their child needs in this regards. And I'm also 100% sure they are not missing those resource because they are not doing their best to get what they need to meet with their child's needs.

It would be really easy for me to blame her for choosing the easiest things to do, her teacher to not giving homework which cannot be solved with chatgpt, her brother for letting her using his account, her parents for not being there and overseeing how she does her homework, but I very much think that each and every person is in this story is exhausted by just simply trying to exists in systems which are not setup for this 11 years old to meet what she needs with her homework and every person either still fighting the systems or just gave up because they run out of steam and they are doing their best to keep their head above the water.
From the people that brought you Scroogled, comes more fuckery. Stop trying to make Bing a thing. The only people that use it are folks that will never change the default search engine.
You can have both. Selected the candidate and proportional presentation. Most popular party candidates get elected.
A number of corporations are going to learn hard lessons from indiscriminate cutting of middle management, like when Google thought they were being innovative in not having much management a long time ago.
Honestly, I do not see the different fonts in the image. I see the status line showing the Courier font name. If it is different from the body text, I cannot distinguish it.

Obviously WordStar was limited by what DOS could render, so the variety of fonts available had to work in a drastically constrained bitmap. I could also not find samples of the PC-8 graphic set.

But for comparison, here are the original 1984 Macintosh system fonts:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/Original...
Anomaly detection (AD) can arguably be a value-add to any industry. It may not be a core product, but AD can help optimize operations for almost anyone.

* Manufacturing: Computer vision to pick anomalies off the assembly line.

* Operation: Accelerometers/temperature sensors w/ frequency analysis to detect onset of faults (prognostics / diagnostics) and do predictive maintenance.

* Sales: Timeseries analyses on numbers / support calls to detect up/downticks in cashflows, customer satisfaction etc.
Isn't that exactly the Chinese room argument though? The human/computer in the room doesn't need to understand Chinese or English to translate?
Like others have said, solenoid coils don't have a replacement. They're the state of the art for a two position actuator.

You could conceivably replace most of an ElectroMechanical machine's steppers and relays and score reels and things with a microcontroller and digital displays, and there are transitional machines that were factory produced as EM and Solid State, but I think you loose the character of the games that way. The buzzing and thunks and the lamps turning off while it computes and all that is part of the experience.

If there's no way to make the games work as they did originally, sure, make them work again by any means, but while we can make them work like they did, we should.

There's p-roc and p3-roc that offer the basics of a computer to pinball interface board (you'll need at least a solenoid driver board, too). That would probably be the basis of control for a modern enthusiast built pinball machine. Most enthusiasts are trying to build something that fits more in the Solid State era than the EM era though.
This reminds me when i worked on an open world game ~12 years ago. I implemented spline-based "stripes" (think long decals), mainly to be used for roads (though could also be used for smaller things like blood trails) and i added a button in the editor to align the terrain with the stripe with a configurable falloff so that it transitions smoothly from the stripe to the surrounding terrain - and optionally you could use a (grayscale) texture to modulate the falloff so that the transition isn't completely smooth.

Next thing i knew, the environment artists had started using stripes to sculpt the terrain :-P
> The first type is vastly more common than the second.

Depends- you might not even qualify non-type-1s as sales people. Especially the type that's trying to help you get what you need, and listen to you in the process.
That corporate context is a good candidate, yes, but I think it's simpler than that. Assuming whatever Apple and Google cook up these next few years is essentially identical from a user standpoint, you can assume that Google's will be selling off every microscopic datum they collect from you, and know for a verifiable fact that Apple's will not (and cannot).
It would have been okay if they continued to release features that just happened to use ML under the hood. But instead they are expressedly marketing “Apple Intelligence”, with most of the features released under that umbrella so far not really working well (notification summaries, mail categories, Genmoji, …).
Let's dig deeper.

Level 0: this is bad.

Level -1: The teaching methods need to change.

Level -2: It's a glimpse into all of our future, not just children.

Level -3: Who controls the AI controls the world.
Ahh, so we just need an RPN variant of LLMs to avoid any ambiguity .
Eventually they’ll do a better job than us, so maybe why not. People are very bad at managing themselves and the world. Leave a final prompt to take care of the biosphere, clean up the environment, and manage the humans but let them live happily.
That's a slightly different angle - if I understand correctly it's about why firms exist at all - and if I were to summarise it's because lack of trust costs - a firms boundaries are created to balance transactional costs ( within the firm it's low, between firms or individuals it can dominate ) versus the costs of perhaps not being market efficient.

My argument above is about not what shapes a firm's boundary but how it operates internally - too much top down control potentially risks exacerbating the risks associated with being a company and also potentially increases internal transactional costs as well - worse of both worlds! - all that ceremony around decision making, time spent justifying existences, inability to just act.

Obviously as I said above - it's a balance - just as it is with country/international systems.
It has to be much higher than that. Look at the reddit op. I assume this person is nearly an adult and their writing is very broken and meandering. Sure you could argue “it’s just a reddit post”, but I find how people write informally is generally indicative of their overall writing ability.
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They don't want to compromise, agreed.

But they know they live in a state where any presidential candidate with (R) next to their name can win by 10-20 points. So they wonder how such a state can elect a Democrat without something underhanded going on. A working theory is that the RCV system is "too confusing" for some folks and it leads to the D candidate winning an "undeserved" victory.
This is super cool -- I wonder if the next step in this would be to suggest specific dashboards to monitor based on the data that a company collects.
> […] coma inducing toddler videos […]

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If I am going to guess part of the reason has to do with Swift.
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There's a long list of historical quotes about planning, but I think this reference might be to a different Patton:

"A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week." - George S. Patton

* "Those who are victorious plan effectively and change decisively. They are like a great river that maintains its course but adjusts its flow." ~ Sun Tzu

* "In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable." ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

* "Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." ~ Abraham Lincoln
> People spend more money and tip higher when they use credit cards than cash….

And you think that's a good thing?
This is the stupidest thing - why am I so addicted to it?????

Neal.fun has clearly hacked my brain. it is too much fun and I don’t know why.
With a lot of caveats. You are in competition with these peers for grades, college admissions, and job applications. In many cases, the benefits of actually accruing knowledge and the consequences of failure to do so is delayed decades into the future.
Top 10% guy... Are people really saying crap like that about themselves? Weird.
> They sell bicycles for the mind.

Given the lack of a single good supporting example (what, did PCs have no word processors that reacted to backspace keys?) it seems like these are fantasy bicycles...

And since no evidence is needed to believe, you can of course believe in Intelligence that can act better than your brain (what are "those pics from San Francisco", you've snapped a hundred there, which 5 would you like to post?)

And yet the disillusionment comes a bit faster than expected, why not give Apple a few more decades to iron out some kinks on such a revolutionary fantasy path?
It's almost as if we need to be actively parenting and engaged with our children! Who'd've thought!

Sarcasm aside, making informed decisions on how to do those things can be a challenge.
I usually ask gpt4o as my ref doc.
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I know this method works for some people, but it isn't consistent with the way I have observed that people learn.

I used to watch Veritasium [1] videos (way back) that vividly illustrated that even when told the correct information, people would not change their world view but instead give answers consistent with their pre-teaching naive views.

Learning is complex. If all that a "teacher" is doing is lecturing, then a video might be a reasonable replacement.

Even when the content is straightforward, my observation is that engagement with videos are awful. Heck, engagement in a lecture is awful, but at least the (human) teacher in the room can reasonably be expected to do things to engage the audience and probe their understanding. Some of that might be possible in a video format, for 5x the effort; follow up with examples if you know good ones. I know in the MIT OCW I have seen recordings of discussion sections (very effective), and that should be the bottom of the barrel as far as engagement when "honestly trying to engage learners".

You would be better off just trying to do the work, then looking up the information needed. That kind of works, and I bet that's what happens in the flipped classroom model. (Maybe 20% of the class watched the video? Stats welcome.)

I'm really just trying to point out that learning is complex. There's supposed to be a national What Works Clearinghouse [2], but I had a hard time finding useful information there.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/@veritasium
[2]: https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/
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This will be "better in the long run" for her, in one way.

I see such competition as hare vs tortoise races, where the students who get an early unfair advantage end up cheating themselves out of an education, in the sense that all they come to know is how to prompt an LLM, rather than break down and solve hard problems.

It's still heartbreaking to consider both the early discrimination she will likely encounter, and the later failures that will anticipate her classmates, and the society that they will come to inhabit as adults.
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Good salespeople are trying to connect customers with solutions that provide them value that they otherwise wouldn't have access to (generally because they weren't aware of it). Obviously, in practice, the line between that and the more negative experiences can be fuzzy and vary by one's perspective, but unless you have someone in-house who's dedicated to searching for new solutions... And then, they turn into a sort of salesperson themselves, with ambiguous allegiances. At least someone from the outside is someone you will always be skeptical about.
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this kind of thing feeds perfectly into our fears. However, we have to place trust in individuals and the choices they make - that's the only thing that matters at the end of the day.

Kids know that they should be learning things. They know that chatgpt can get in the way of that. Will they choose to do it the right way eventually aside from a few bumps in the road? I think so.
I worked for my uncle who had a coin-op business. We had a few old mech pinballs. They weighed a ton!

They had zillion contacts to clean I'd just spray contact cleaner and come back later. Many parts were Bakelite like cams and spinning things with contacts that would touch as things rotated. Bakelite was impossible to fix and was brittle as hell in the mid 1980s now it must be dust.
Advertisers might be paying due to historical inertia and the need to compete with other advertisers during these times. And NBC rakes in the money just like Google does from local pest control companies who pay $10+ per click.

They don't want to pay that much, they may not really profit from paying that much, but they can't let their competitors take the customer for free.
These models are stochastic though, so saving conversations with elaborate context so they're actually useful in the domain you need them to be useful in is a fundamental feature. The alternative to that is saving a document to copy-paste in as a "startup prompt" of things it needs to know contextually, which is kind of silly.
Yeah in emacs with paredit/smartparens/parinfer or whatever, it is both text and structure. With parinfer you change the text and the structure gets modified to match. With the other two you can change the structure directly with a command that has a silly but descriptive name like slurp or barf.
Not just classified . . . anything that indicates "this boat was in this spot at time X" is kept close-hold for obvious reasons until no longer deemed as relevant.
> Given news reports that (some people in) GenZ has trouble after joining the workforce with computer skills later generations take for granted, and other reports on how much GenZ is unable to save, I doubt it's an age thing. Some people are just better with physical objects vs digital. (Some people do just deal with it just fine, mind you.)

My (step)son has had his own bank account - joint with myself and my wife since he was 9 years old. I transferred his allowance to it. Before he was 12, he had to ask us for his balance - which he did frequently - because he couldn’t get his own sign in.

Since then, he has had his own sign in. He is 22 now and we still have the same joint account with him.

It has overdraft protection to a savings account with $500 in it that we all use for overdraft protection.

I know he checks his account often because when it does slightly overdraft and things are pending. He transfers money from his own savings account that is separate from ours to catch it.

I taught him good money habits from the day that we became a family.
This is because a) Google is a data-harvesting company and Apple is not, and b) the vast majority of businesses only update their info on Google due to market share (if they update their info anywhere).

You can verify this for yourself by looking up a business on Apple Maps and seeing if there’s a “Claim this Place” button.

It is very easy to submit corrections to Apple Maps and they usually accept them within a week.

For me personally, I would much rather use a superior maps app for maps, and use the data harvesting/advertising company’s website as a business directory, or ideally get the hours directly from the business’ website or social media profile since, like I mentioned previously, they often fail to update their info even on the data harvesting website.
I see it more like calculators. Using a calculator isn't inherently good or bad in itself. If you're using a calculator to fake learning the intuitions and mechanics of division on your math homework then that's bad - regardless of how many other good use cases for calculators can be talked about in a separate context.
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There's cheap frozen veg too. The problem is largely variety and texture.

It isn't that good reasonably priced vegetarian and vegan lifestyles aren't possible. The problem it's when you set "cheaper than animal products" as the bar to get under, it becomes very boring very quickly.

I do limit the amount of animal products I consume myself, and unless everything is in season somewhere somewhat local, I don't find myself saving a ton of money.
That seems to be a common theme in the responses to me here.

The teachers set the course material and grading standards at least partially on how well the students are performing. Maybe not for a given class or year, but certainly over time. Scholarships are competitive. Slots in higher level courses are competitive, and often (at least partially) based on grades.

Can you imagine that the coursework and education overall might, over time, look quite different if half or more of students are regularly using LLMs, without explicitly disclosing it?
I think Laozi and Zhuangzi had something to say about this.
I think as with everything, it depends on what end of the spectrum your company is at.

There are a lot companies, Volkswagen to name a prominent example, that have over time built up massive management layers that don't ultimately serve the company goals.

Getting rid of excess is something that is necessary because they have ballooned to expensive and unhealthy proportions.

Having none at all or too little obviously also has downsides.
There are a bunch of usual suspects for the current situation, some that are temporary but others that are very worrisome long term (for the US at least):

1. There was massive over-hiring at many tech companies during the pandemic boom. That hangover is still taking time to wring out.

2. The era of easy money is over. Lots and lots of speculative investments that make sense when interest rates are essentially 0 don't make sense at all when rates are 5+ percent.

3. Outsourcing has exploded since the pandemic, and this is a long term change that is definitely not going away. The remote work trend is a double edged sword. I've worked with lots of great developers in Latin America and Europe (both Eastern and Western Europe) whose salaries are much less than American software developers, and there is plenty of time zone overlap to get lots of collaboration time in.

4. Companies are realizing they can get by with a lot fewer people. Elon may have gone off the deep end with laying off 75% of Twitter, but a lot of places are realizing they can lay off ~20% with no loss of effectiveness, including future bets. In fact, I've seen some business leaders argue (and I agree with them) that the post pandemic downturn has actually provided an opportunity for better focus and less bureaucratic meetings. I.e. cutting some people has allowed them to move faster.

5. AI is having a big impact on at least some roles. Washington Post did an article shortly after ChatGPT came out about how a bunch of copywriters were being replaced by AI. I think AI is generally over hyped, but for roles like marketing, copywriting, recruiting, etc. it's definitely having an impact on jobs.

I think #s 3, 4 and 5 are long term trends that are here to stay.
You missed the point that you put it in other things where it has minimal impact on the texture and taste.
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Not T1 or T2 but wore CGM patches for a month. Amazing insight into how your body reacts to foods and food + exercise. Even if this tech isn't accurate enough at first for people who need to manage a disease, it could be amazing for anyone interested in health optimization.
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