monk_e_boy

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by monk_e_boy 3mo ago
As an educator (UK) it's very hard to find people with experience to join us. The pay is SO crap and the workload is huge. Trying to teach complex, large systems is impossible, because we don't have them. We can't throw 1,000
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by monk_e_boy 2y ago
colleges are seeing apprentices placements drop - why train an apprentice for two years when ChatGPT will do the work for them?
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by monk_e_boy 3y ago
All my students us it a lot. We use it a lot in the office - we have a lot of digital paperwork to do, ChatGPT is fine at doing it all. It can write lectures, generate worksheets, come up with interesting quizzes, D&D stuff. It's j
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by monk_e_boy 3y ago
You should give us educators a free license :) I'd use this in my classes if I could. I'm keen to use it with c++ and rust
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by monk_e_boy 3y ago
part if it is to extend my house - I have tiny rooms, in VR I am in a giant open world. Same on the plane or train. I can wonder a beach or sail the ocean.
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by monk_e_boy 3y ago
Have anyone who is in charge be someone who has X number of years teaching experience. Or they should own at least half a brain
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by monk_e_boy 3y ago
I don't know those people. I think averages that include London and other cities don't represent most of the country. Average salary for where I live is £10,000 less than the UK average (I just looked it up)
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by monk_e_boy 3y ago
And who is hoovering up those expensive houses? Not the middle class. Rich folk are investing in housing and renting it out. It's crazy.
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by monk_e_boy 3y ago
Other than london and a couple of other cities, most of the country was already ranked as most deprived in Europe. Throw in Brexit, cost of living and most normal people are fucked. I'm a lecturer (5 yrs) and I'm struggling to pay
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by monk_e_boy 3y ago
When ChatGPT first came out I was asking it to draw pictures of goblins and wizards using Python and Turtle - it's pretty bloody good at it. You can ask it to make the goblin angry or happy or whatever. There is some sort of magic in w
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by monk_e_boy 4y ago
Fish is wildlife (mostly) so the sooner we stop taking it, the better. Farmers ensure they have cattle for next year. The fishing industry doesn't take that care over next years stock. Stop eating fish. Please. Just move to chicken or
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by monk_e_boy 4y ago
I know how to code and how regex works (I do teach it after all) so I'm pretty ok with what it wrote.
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by monk_e_boy 4y ago
We all (students and staff) use it a lot. It'll write lectures, help think up interesting worksheet ideas, help students code, help them think of things to write about, how to structure assignments. I needed a lecture on regex, ChatGPT
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by monk_e_boy 4y ago
As someone who works in education, we education nurses, the public services (think police, fire, army etc) IT, coding, space tech, brickies, chefs, etc etc etc .... so many lecturers have an exit plan, or are already gone. The very foundadt
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by monk_e_boy 4y ago
Wow - this will change education. "Teach me to code!" AI breaks it down into steps, then finds resources on each step and shows them to you
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by monk_e_boy 4y ago
They had to move space down to meet Blue Origins rocket. At least SpaceX can get to orbit.
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by monk_e_boy 4y ago
I surf and kitesurf. I guess the hardest thing to describe about the sea is how violent it can be. Getting a wave on the head (a wave of decent size) is colossal. Every part of your body is attacked, board shorts ripped off, arms flung arou
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by monk_e_boy 4y ago
Will we become like horses did over this century. Horses did a lot of the work and millions of them were needed. Now we keep horses cos they are nice and fun to have, but we don't need millions of them. Why would an AI need billions of
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by monk_e_boy 4y ago
A different job? Go travelling for a while? Travelling is a lot of fun and makes you realize that life is short and that you should make the most of it. I changed careers and found the change fun. I may go back to coding at some point, I ki
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by monk_e_boy 4y ago
Get into teaching. You'll be skint, but happy.
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by monk_e_boy 4y ago
Same. And after a few days the "photos" app will post some AI enhanced versions of the good shots. Some are ok, some are not much better, but occasionally it makes the photo 100x better. It's pretty amazing. The phone is pret
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by monk_e_boy 4y ago
The king is worth billions, I doubt he gives a shit.
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by monk_e_boy 4y ago
I print all the time. For students, a print out has a different flavour, texture, um ... feel to it. For personal use - I tend to print out then cut the margins off and stick the pages together to get a better feel for the document. Side no
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by monk_e_boy 4y ago
The few races I watched were just silly. The tracks were so narrow and had too many 90 degree turns, it was just painful to watch. No flow. Nothing interesting happening.
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by monk_e_boy 4y ago
I work in post 16 education. The number of young adults who have never had a drink is crazy high. A lot of them just don't drink, don't go out much and haven't ever been to a pub. Covid. Lock down. Being fucking skint. Not ha
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by monk_e_boy 4y ago
I work in educating young men and women, ages 16 up to around 60. Homeschooled kids almost never make a year in "normal" education. They fail to adjust to a small college, they are no longer the center of attention. They have to w
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by monk_e_boy 4y ago
I came here to say the same. My son (10) uses it a lot, he's figured it all out by just trying things. The other day he had an issue with a slight echo in the audio. He mentioned it when we were out of the house. When we got home I had
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by monk_e_boy 4y ago
Yes. https://www.quora.com/In-movies-spaceships-often-accelerate-...
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by monk_e_boy 5y ago
A school with working blinds? Where turning out the lights doesn't result in a riot. Giving students glass and expecting it back without cracks in it. In my school all of that equipment was broken, lost or stolen years before I got the
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by monk_e_boy 5y ago
But blue titles? Blue for hyperlinks, surely. Also, the buttons don't look like buttons.

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