How do you define a social media account? Some laws were including youtube in that list.
I can't see how preventing someone from watching youtube videos would be a net positive, but if you allow youtube whiteout an account then why not reddit, why not snapchat as that's how most kids i know communicate and organize their sporting events, etc.
This seems like I just read an advertisement. Or submarine article as PG would say.
AI studio is just another IDE like cursor so its a very odd choice to say one is bad and the other is the holy grail:)
But I guess this is what guerilla advertising is these days.
Just another random account with 8 karma points that just happens to post an article about how one IDE is bad and its almost identical cousin is the best
> AI studio is just another IDE like cursor so its a very odd choice to say one is bad and the other is the holy grail:)
Google does tend to have large contexts and sometimes reasonable prices for it. So if one of the main takeaway is load everything into context then I can certainly understand why author is a fan
lmao, per Occam's razor a much simpler explanation - I'm a grad student, so of course I'll spend more time exploring free tools, and it just happened that AI Studio with Gemini is really great.
if google wants to send a check, my email is open, lmao, but for now i'm optimizing for tokens per dollar
Ha, we had this conversation with our doctor and they said not to worry about the vaccine if you are married and monogamous. It would likely have zero benefit to us at that point in time.
Now maybe that changes if you get divorced and get a new sexual partner.
Probably to make sure it stays that way. Logistics by ship generally has a big advantage over logistics by land. There is a rough pattern over the last century or so of the big navel empires (UK, US, Japan) having a big military advantage. In the case of the UK and US their strategic policy has a big component that involves restricting their opponents access to resources water (eg, Germany around the world wars, China in the modern era or the way the US controls the sea-based routes out of Saudi Arabia and the land routes tend to be militarily unstable).
Preventing oil exports and increase insurance premiums for Russia's export economy, because Western sanctions clearly are unsuccessful in destroying the Russian economy.
My post history shows that I do support Russia's self defense against U.S./NATO threats. In my opinion Ukraine entering NATO is indeed an existential threat to Russia, because since (at least) the collapse of the UDSSR the U.S. and it's vassals openly communicated and pursued the goal of regime changing Russia (+ Belarus, Georgia).
It's always astonishing to me how people here (mostly Americans) basically know nothing about the long history of U.S. proxy wars with Russia (historically USSR) and the long stated desire from U.S. to destroy or regime change the Russian federation.
To answer your question quickly: Ukraine entering NATO constitutes an existential threat to Russia for the same reason as China building military infrastructure in Mexico, Cuba or Canada would pose an existential threat to the U.S. (e.g. Cuban Missile Crisis).
>Ukraine entering NATO constitutes an existential threat to Russia for the same reason as China building military infrastructure in Mexico, Cuba or Canada would pose an existential threat to the U.S. (e.g. Cuban Missile Crisis).
Funny you should mention that, Russian military infrastructure in Cuba wasn't an existential threat to USA. Russia did build military infrastructure in Cuba and the US let that happen. What they did not let happen was the forward positioning of nuclear missiles during the era that Fist Strikes were still being considered. Similarly the USA has removed nuclear weapons from Russia's periphery.
I think Chinese bases in Mexico would earn Mexico a good deal of stress, but not an invasion of conquest. Of course, Trump and Putin are busy changing international norms, and I can't speak to the potentially brutal world of the future. But the history (Cuban missile crisis) suggests that USA wouldn't engage in a self destructive invasion and conquest.
Is there any particular part of the report you think I should read? The glance I gave it looks like they suggested giving arms to Ukraine to stretch Russia in the civil war they were fomenting and supplying in Eastern Ukraine at the time.
Do you consider the Putin regime as equal to Russia? Because a lot of the threats in the document are to the authoritarian system, not to Russia itself.
Makes sense. Most kids I know put records up on their wall as art. or as a way to pay artists directly by purchasing their album at a concert
If you want to listen to music then Spotify runs circles around vinyl as a medium. Records really suck for music quality which is why everyone dumped them when tapes came along and then even more so when cd's became a thing.
If Vinyl was a good medium to listen to music then no one would have bought cd's or had a Spotify subscriptions.
I can't imagine people going back to old school crt televisions to watch sports or movies either, but I do see people
Minor nit, cassettes were and are mostly worse audio quality than records and they coexisted for decades with their respective compromises. Cassettes replaced 8-track in the portable space and eventually enabled the Walkman.
CD didn't really killed cassette. They coexisted peacefully for 2 decades. CD was nice, transportable but cassette was still more convenient to carry around because a walkman was much smaller[1], wouldn't skip when running/jumping[2], a cassette was less fragile and it was simply so much easier to leave a cassette in a deck and record anything you would ear on the radio on the go. Virtually nobody could/would live burn a dj mix from the radio.
Napster + portable mp3 player and smartphoned did kilómetros ll the cassette.
[1] especially the late 90's early 00's ones that were barely bigger than a standard cassette case.
[2] there was buffering for discmans but it wasn't 100% effective if skipping happened for longer than the buffer
I won't ever go back, but my teenage daughter wanted (and bought) a low-fi digital camera, "dad cam" videos are a common format, polaroid prints had a resurgence and I would not be surprised if we saw a retro tv/video movement. Go figure...
> You can buy a bigger and bigger house car tv stereo whatever, but it will not make you happy.
Hard disagree here.
Ask a 4 person family stuffed into a one bedroom condo if buying a larger 3 bedroom home would make them happier, I'd imagine to 99.99999% of them the answer is yes.
I upgraded my road bike 2 years ago from an entry level one to a nice racing bike and each weekend I ride a 100km route, that sure as heck makes me happier than riding the old slower and heavier bike.
We just took our extended family on a vacation for a week. Money sure as heck made us happier in that instance.
It is true that cash can't fix all issues in life but any one who says money can't make you happy is either lying or doesn't have money.
Run a simple thought experiment in your head. If you woke up tomorrow under crushing credit card and medical debt and it was suddenly paid off, would that make you happier?
> She has agreed to a 10-year ban from holding executive roles in public or crypto companies.
Judging by how Alemeda research was provided with as much money as they wanted with zero interest rate attached and she still ran the company into the ground, I don't think the ban will hurt her too much.
This really goes to show that most hedge funds are successful because of the infrastructure built around them rather than the people.
You need both to be successful, but good systems and infrastructure trump good people most of the time. RenTech is the best example of this.
No one is going to trust her to run a Baskin Robbins, much less put her in a role with any responsibility now.
> She has agreed to a 10-year ban from holding executive roles in public or crypto companies.
So you can hold an executive role in a wholly owned private subsidiary of a public company, or hold a role in a Cayman Island company instead of a US company and have the Cayman entity buy the US entity. Rules like this don't actually do anything.
> Is it? So you can what? Buy exotic vehicles? Buy extra houses? Buy surgeries? Buy expensive experiences?
Buy freedom to chose what to do with your life. I've never sold a company and netted 9 figures but i have been lucky enough to work for a hedge fund and make enough that I and my family can do what ever we want from the age of 30 onwards.
That is an incredible amount of freedom and one that I wish most people would have.
You seem to think only in materialistic ways.
But having enough money to not have to work again allows you to be a better and more available parent. To be able to provide your kids and nieces and nephews with schooling to put them apart from other kids.
Its not always about owning another home, Just knowing that my kids are set for life before they start their own lives in case something happens to me was enough for me.
My wife is a teacher of physics and math for an online highschool. Its very common for kids to go into the in person exam with a mark in the 80s and 90s and get a failing grade on the exam.
The web wasn't alwasy that useful for cheating on timed exams as it was essentially like being able to bring in a formula sheet.
LLM's changed this such that you can type in the question and get a fully correct answer in a lot of cases.
The only solution that I see in education is that in person exams start to represent a larger and larger portion of a students grade such that the mid term and final will be more than 50% of a students grade for most classes going forward due to the gratuitous use of llms by students.
When I took quantum mechanics in grad school, I struggled through the weekly (and intense) homework sets. My TA was a hardass, I’d spend hours on some problem, several few pages of math work just for one problem, and make some dumb mistake in an integral somewhere, being off by a factor of 2 at the end and only getting 2 of 4 points.
It was painful, and I felt like a dumbass seeing the other kids regularly getting perfect scores.
Then the midterm came and I blew them all out of the water. I hadn’t realised they somehow had the solutions manual so just got perfect scores all along but clearly didn’t learn the material like I did.
Yeah, I had this happen to me in an algorithms course. Tests were 80% of the grade and we had the guy who had been organizing mass homework "study" groups taking up increasingly larger sections of the class time desperately trying to figure out how to convince the professor to switch up the grading to be more homework based.
I figure that the professor had to know what was going on because he kept giving the same philosophical handwavey reasons for why the tests were staying at 80%.
80-100% of the grade imo. You could always tell which teachers were serious and teaching serious subjects by how little they cared about your attendance and homework assignments. In math classes, you could tell in an instant when they only assigned the problems that had answers in the back of the book. Not doing your homework in a serious subject is just punishing yourself when the exam comes in and it looks like it's written in a different language.
If you don't do your homework, or show up to class, but you ace the exams, you were just paying for the certification and to me that's totally legitimate.
I went to school with a bunch of working class immigrants who were working full time and going to school full time. If they had to miss every other class because of work but wanted to make up for it by studying all night, that seemed admirable to me. Nothing I hated more than participation points. It reminds me of management desperate to increase their headcount. It's the insistence that the focus of the class is the master-shifu at the front and center. It's a 300-level math class, dude; it's nothing that most people couldn't learn on their own.
having "homework / coursework" count for the final score is what surprised me the most when learning about schooling in the US, in my university 100% of the score was the final, typically written test first, then oral in front of a blackboard (and usually the oral portion could move the needle of the written only +20%, but could definitely have you fail completely).
The one course that had something similar was microelectronics where during Christmas holidays we were given an optional assignment where we could design IIRC a NAND gate (2um process I think, most people ended up with a 5ft x 5ft sheet of paper at the end) which took a long time, but would give you up to +5% at the final (only one person got the full 5%, due to their creative use of the diffusion layer for interconnects). I don't remember any other course having anything along those lines, although to be honest you could slightly influence the difficulty of the oral final questions depending on how hard you worked / your behavior in class (of course only in years 4-5 where courses had only 20-30 students, no chance in year 1-2 with 400+)
It was extremely high stress, as you can imagine, but basically impossible to cheat. Every year a significant percentage of the students had to drop out, so by the time the 5th year thesis came around I think less than 20% of first years graduated at all. You were allowed to retake course finals if you wanted a different score (available 3x year typically, no guarantee you'd do better tho), but if you failed enough times you had to retake the course from scratch. You also were not allowed to enroll in the next year's courses until you passed all the prerequisites.
This comment made me laugh, because I was looking into doing an online highschool, and while looking for discussions on the pros/cons, I stumbled upon the Reddit, which was all "Does anybody have the answers to the Unit 3 test for Mr. ${LAST_NAME}'s MCR3U class? I have $20." or "Selling the answers to the Unit 4 test for Mrs. ${LAST_NAME}'s ENG4U class for $30." That scared me off of doing high school online.
That last sentence reminded me of a story one of my religion teachers told us last year: he was in university, and the way the course was structured was something like there were two exams, mid-term and final, each worth like 50%, but you could choose to not do the mid-term, and have the final be worth 100%. He chose the latter, and ended up being stressed out of the mine preparing for the exam. I can't remember if there was supposed to be a moral to the story, but it was a funny story, at least. It was probably funnier in-person than it will be for the person reading this comment.
I don't know, I've known many people that struggle with exams even if they know the material and even more people that excel with exams that learn nothing. Falling back on any kind of exam is just a recipe for more rote learning and that doesn't create better people (although possibly better readers, which we need).
(Preface: I am not a teacher, and I understand this is a hot take). At the end of the day there's an unwillingness from every level of education (parents, teachers, administrators, school boards, etc) to fight against the assault on intelligence by tech.
I don't think kids should have access to the public internet until they're adults, and certainly should never have it in schools except in controlled environments. Schools could create a private networks of curated sites and software. Parents don't have to give their kids unfettered access to computers. It's entirely in the realm of possibility to use computers and information networks in schools, accessed by children, designed to make it impossible to cheat while maximizing their ability to learn in a safe environment.
We don't build it because we don't want to. Parents don't care enough, teachers are overworked, administrators are inept, and big tech wants to turn them into little consumers who don't have critical thinking and addicted to their software.
I see this line of argument more and more over the last decade and it makes me feel heartless for my opinion.
But if you know the material but cannot apply it in an examination then you either don't actually know the material or don't have the emotional (for lack of better term) control to apply it in critical situations. Both are valid reasons to be marked down.
> don't have the emotional (for lack of better term) control to apply it in critical situations
No, not really, it just means you couldn't apply it in this one particular anxiety-inducing situation.
If someone finds it easier to display their knowledge in a certain way then school should strive to accommodate that as best they can (obviously there are practical limitations to this).
Mental health should be left to mental health professionals because you won't achieve anything by punishing students for their mental health struggles, you just make them hate you, hate school, and make their anxiety even worse.
I would argue that "knowledge" is an almost meaningless concept on its own. What assessments measure is a more complex form of "competency", and the competency of being able to write an essay on a topic is different from the competency of passing an MCQ quiz about it and both are different from being able to apply it in the field.
I don't have a clear solution, other than to have the assessments depend on what we're preparing people for. As an extreme example, I don't care how good of an essay a surgeon or anesthesiologist can write if they can't apply that under pressure.
But on the topic of test anxiety: I think intentionally causing emotional distress to children for the purposes of making a bad evaluation of their studies is cruel. It's a kind of cycle of trauma - "I did this, so you must to." We use grades to make value judgements of the quality of our children, when what we should be measuring is the ability of our schools to educate them and not how well-educated _the kids are_. The system is backwards, basically, and the fact it causes distress as a side effect is something that _should_ be managed - not ignored.
However anxiety exists and teaching children not to manage it is also bad. One of the really good things I've seen locally is that my school districts (the same that I went through as a child) focus on emotional education at the grade school level much more than when I was a kid, and I notice that the kids have much better emotional regulation than my generation.
Children should and must be allowed to fail. In fact, failure is the default outcome most of the time.
I wish I had learned in childhood that doing my best was enough. Not being the best, just doing my best.
But no, this is a lesson I learned from sim racing, as an adult, during the COVID-19 quarantine, as there was not much else to do.
What did I learn from sim racing:
— If I make a mistake, and I keep thinking about that mistake, I will just make more mistakes. Mental recovery, and not punishing myself, is a must. I must go back to mental clarity as fast as possible, to avoid making another mistake.
— Sometimes, doing my best is not enough. It can even be worthless. Other people make mistakes and that will ruin your race. In a long season, this can be offset by consistently good results. “It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life.” — Jan Luc Picard
— I should not respect this driver because he has a famous last name or so. But I must respect that he did 600 laps preparing for the race. And my respect should be that I also practice as much. Preparation is important, we can't just go to a new track and expect to win. The winner is usually the best combination of general experience and event preparation.
— Nothing feels better than a victory that's hard-earned, against a talented group. Easy victories just feel cheap in comparison.
> I've known many people that struggle with exams even if they know the material and even more people that excel with exams that learn nothing.
This point is overstated. The former did not knew the material as well as they think and frankly, unless the exam was super badly done dont exist.
There are some people who fail in stress situation, but not that many of them. If you have met many people like that, you was most likely in a culture where people did not learned well and then blamed inability to test.
But even more importantly, the people who pass tests again and again without learning anything are not a thing. There are some badly designed tests here and there, occasionally. But in most cases, even if the test is not measuring the correct thing, you wont pass it without learning and knowing things.
I failed one exam in my final year of uni (marginally), but passed the module because of excellent coursework. I put in an order of magnitude more work into the coursework for that class than I did any other class because I knew I was going to struggle in the exam.
In all honesty I shouldn’t have passed that course but it is what it is - and as far as I was (and still am) concerned, it was a bolt on course that I am ok being limited in my knowledge of.
I can't see how preventing someone from watching youtube videos would be a net positive, but if you allow youtube whiteout an account then why not reddit, why not snapchat as that's how most kids i know communicate and organize their sporting events, etc.