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by jvvw 15d ago
It might still be a bit too early to tell I would have thought - Scratch 2.0 was released in 2013 so a child who was 7 when that was released would only be 20 now. It might also be hard to disentangle from the effect of AI on early careers
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by jvvw 21d ago
It's very hard to not give them internet access at all though even if you don't give them a phone, because they need it for homework and you can't and don't want to supervise them every moment they are doing homework.
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by jvvw 21d ago
A lot of parental control systems stop working when they turn 13 so you have a system that works fine and then suddenly it stops working. I know a lot of parents who have complained about this.
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by jvvw 26d ago
Likewise at Oxford - only the final exams counted (though you had to pass first year exams to continue to the second year). But you had tutorials each week, and if your tutors thought you weren't doing enough work they could set you ex
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by jvvw 2mo ago
I do feel that if there were actually decent parental controls on the most used systems out there then we might not have got to this point in the first place! It is either a nightmare or impossible to set any sort of sensible controls on in
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by jvvw 2mo ago
In maths, if you do well enough in the exam, you have to really mess up the interview to not get in though I would say. If you're borderline, the interview is important though - the interviews will usually be 95% maths questions so it&
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by jvvw 2mo ago
Having interviewed maths applicants for Oxford, I don't think it's just corruption or biases - there are just more really bright students that you have places for and have to reject some people! We all tried really hard not be bia
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by jvvw 2mo ago
When my son was about 4 or 5 he used to draw pictures with pens in both hands simultaneously which I was always amazed he could do!
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by jvvw 2mo ago
I am a fan of Anki for lots of things but it always puzzled me people trying to learn analysis and group theory by memorising lots and lots of parts of their lecture notes. I would test myself on the main steps of some of the proofs before
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by jvvw 3mo ago
I don't agree with age verification, but there isn't anywhere 'set your children's ages in their device accounts' that limits their access to inappropriate content and social media. You can set age in Google Account
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by jvvw 3mo ago
Thanks! That's interesting. It is only for pre-teens, but it's certainly a start. I do wondering if all the threats of legislation might finally encourage tech companies to actually come up with sensible solutions for parents.
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by jvvw 3mo ago
Ah that makes more sense then!
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by jvvw 3mo ago
Anecdotally from personal experience (gave birth to one child on back, the other in a squatting position, didn't have an epidural for either), the pain didn't depend on position - very painful both times! But pushing felt much muc
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by jvvw 3mo ago
It's a bit weird to see the BBC reporting on this happening in Finland, when plenty of 'Libraries of Things' exist in the UK! I think they tend to be run as community efforts rather than by public libraries. though.
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by jvvw 3mo ago
Children obviously access the internet in other ways too - it's not uncommon for them to share computers with adults or even access the internet via the family television. I definitely remember during covid, most children would be on t
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by jvvw 3mo ago
I think when something is an issue for 90% plus of children (which I think this is probably is in some form), then it's not something we can blame entirely on parenting. I seem to have struck lucky with a child who didn't want a m
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by jvvw 3mo ago
Round here they have a locked pouch they have to put their phone in during school which seems to work reasonably well (although I'm sure not perfectly). It makes it more clearcut if they do find somebody with a phone not in their pouch
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by jvvw 3mo ago
Regulation does add friction. And it makes it easier for a parent to say 'no, you aren't allowed that app' (which you can obviously say anyway, but it gives you a very solid and non-negotiable reason to say no). Some children
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by jvvw 3mo ago
Homework requires internet-connected devices (I guess you can semi-supervise that, but it becomes harder as they become older as you don't want to sit there watching them do all their homework). There is also a cost socially, which is
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by jvvw 3mo ago
It already exists in the schools near where I live in the UK, but only came into place in some of them in the last year. I was surprised that they had been so slow about it.
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by jvvw 3mo ago
The vast majority of research-level pure mathematics is never going to get used in science or engineering. Obviously it is hard to predict what will be useful, but for the type of mathematics that is unlikely to be, there is a question as t
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by jvvw 3mo ago
Games stuff for me too - geoguessr in my case. It'd never have been worth putting in the time to build them without AI but so easy with AI.
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by jvvw 4mo ago
The employers will think it requires less skill, whereas in fact it might actually require more skill to do a good job of being the human-in-the-loop. For example, my sister is a translator and she says that checking AI translations is actu
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by jvvw 4mo ago
As a parent of teenagers, I feel like the sites make it hard for parents. When they were young, you had a choice between YouTube being completely locked down with no option to whitelist channels or letting them watch almost anything (althou
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by jvvw 4mo ago
Having owned a house for two decades (well two houses because we moved) and having two children, I would say that owning a home feels like a doddle in comparison :-) I haven't done the sums to compare expenses, but when they are young
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by jvvw 7mo ago
Minecraft servers are full of teens!
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by jvvw 8mo ago
In the UK if you sell or rent out a house it has to have an energy certificate with a rating (specified by a letter). I'm pretty sure that you aren't allowed to rent out properties with less than a certain rating and that rating w
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by jvvw 10mo ago
Perhaps the people teaching thec purses don't feel qualified to talk about the history? I taught university-level computer science and I'm not a historian by any stretch of the imagination. I know something about the history and m
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by jvvw 10mo ago
I have been researching local history and Google's AI is a godsend at reading old handwriting so I can quickly get an idea if a document will be relevant or not.
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by jvvw 10mo ago
It did, but I'm not sure it exists any longer. This was 15 years ago and I've just done a quick google and can't find it. It was called the Pelagios project and it used the Pleiades gazetteer.

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