nucrow

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by nucrow 2y ago
Not sure that's true. https://assets.weforum.org/editor/cXaoElD7K4eR-JTqP-ViH1LkcC... https://climateataglance.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/lomb... (disclaimer: quickly looke
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by nucrow 2y ago
> Unfortunately, we couldn't measure such correlations due to many external factors that can impact students' performance on test scores. Fair. Guess we'll have to roll it out to increase that sample size :) > We found
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by nucrow 2y ago
I think I may have been unclear. >... I would still see that this kind of linguistic framing is insensitive and self-defeating if not wholly inappropriate and demeaning if you want to see any co-operation from educators I think this was
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by nucrow 2y ago
> It elides the possibility that it is inherently better to learn from a real person, who has invested time and effort into teaching you. I did elude it, for the sake of the argument. If it turns out that in fact human tutoring is fundam
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by nucrow 2y ago
First off, congrats! Cool paper! Q: did you measure the correlation between CodeAid use and test scores? When educational youtube videos took off, people liked them a lot, but turns out people weren't really retaining very much inform
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by nucrow 2y ago
Imagine we could, with the snap of a finger, come up with an AI tutor that is objectively better than human TAs. Better as in: between 2 groups of 10,000 students, those with AI tutors do better on perfomance metrics 95% of the time than th
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by nucrow 2y ago
I'm curious as to how you would frame it instead.
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by nucrow 2y ago
Which is great, but the point is that we should "fret" about making sure that's the case.
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by nucrow 2y ago
The goal of building washing machines, highways, etc. is not a cleaner environment. The point of windfarms is, but it defeats the purpose if producing them emits more carbon than they save.