oerdier

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by oerdier 5mo ago
It has gone well enough for these rich people because their hired assistants were human. With humans there is some degree of responsibility, liability and a slow tempo (= time to correct) involved. LLMs are a significantly different beast.
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by oerdier 5mo ago
A critical difference between a calculator and an LLM is that a calculator doesn't make decisions. A calculator performs the operations you type in, nothing more. An LLM does make decisions. The human operator of the LLM needs to be ab
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by oerdier 5mo ago
Dutch culture is primarily atheist, yet it's considered virtuous and goes-without-saying to uphold agreements . A common saying any child would have heard is "afspraak is afspraak": an agreement is an agreement, period. Athe
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by oerdier 6mo ago
One doesn't exclude the other. I still program myself; I actually have more time to do so because the LLM I pay some billionaire for is taking care of the mundane stuff. Before I had to do the mundane stuff myself. What I pay the billi
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by oerdier 7mo ago
I wasn't suggesting individuals shouldn't be able to pay with credit. I have a credit card myself, which I use when I can't pay with debit. I was suggesting that for a population as a whole, having paying with credit being so
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by oerdier 7mo ago
I think it's healthy for a population to not have as part of day-to-day life to pay with credit, effectively paying with money you might not actually have, going into debt. How many US citizens are crippled by credit card debt, and the
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by oerdier 1y ago
After getting shoulder bursitis two years ago--although the direct cause was sports, not desk habits--I dove into the world of split ergo keyboards. I did get one (a Kyria v3) and learned to type on it at an acceptable speed--although still
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by oerdier 1y ago
This kind of translation problem is the focal point of Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 5 episode 2, "Darmok" (1991). I watched it for the first time after somebody referenced it, as I did just now, as an example of this kin
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by oerdier 1y ago
Check out E.D. Hirsch Jr.'s work, e.g.'Why Knowledge Matters'.
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by oerdier 1y ago
I hope they'll apply the critical thinking rule of thumb to check for themselves what modern research has to say on this! Edit: And how can you critically assess if that research is any good? To do it well you need... domain knowledge.
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by oerdier 1y ago
There are such legal, cultural and economic differences between countries that no homework might work in one country but not at all in another.
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by oerdier 1y ago
Not being able to solve basic math problems in your mind (without a calculator) is still a problem. "Because you won't always have a calculator with you" just was the wrong argument. You'll acquire advanced knowledge and
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by oerdier 1y ago
Critical thinking is not a generic/standalone skill that you can practise targetedly. As in, critical thinking doesn't translate across knowledge domains. To think critically you need extensive knowledge of the domain in question;
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by oerdier 1y ago
Great initiative, but the landing page on Firefox Android is quite annoying because the animated text wraps and keeps changing the vertical position of the text I'm trying to read.
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by oerdier 2y ago
At https://www.hedy.org/learn-more many of the listed 'research' items are bachelor's theses supervised by the creator of Hedy, with topics such as 'creating Syntax highlighting for Hedy'. To me thi
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by oerdier 2y ago
> it's not "2FA" if the second factor is the only one I need It will be 2FA again if you protect your email with 2FA
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by oerdier 2y ago
I appreciate your taking the time to elaborate. I see you've responded to all comments on your original comment and remained civil despite people's negative sentiment. There are too few places on the internet left where such civil
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by oerdier 2y ago
It's hard, but you can create tests that you can only pass if before you've processed a problem for weeks.
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by oerdier 2y ago
In the Netherlands, programming in secondary education (ages 12-18) is not uncommon but also not widespread. If it's offered, it's not great. Like programming taught at universities, it's mostly people with a knack for it tha
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by oerdier 2y ago
I don't feel assured at all. I don't want to bet on any horse in the volatile arms race between AI and anti-AI.
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by oerdier 2y ago
You need a base level of knowledge and skill in your head in order to do something of a higher level in your head.
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by oerdier 2y ago
You're right that some students fail only because of the way they are graded. Although with the right preparation this number can be quite low, it's never zero. It's heartbreaking to see some fall between the cracks, but I do
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by oerdier 2y ago
In principle nothing about the structure of the course has to change. You can keep an existing course with instruction during class and and working on a project outside of class. Even handing in the project and grading could stay the same,
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by oerdier 2y ago
As a teacher, my answer to publicly available AI, regarding grading, has been to only let work by students I have seen been done myself (or staff, trusted implicitly) count towards passing/failing/diplomas. This means graded longe
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by oerdier 2y ago
Pop!_OS has been my daily driver for three years and counting. I think its desktop enviroment is already fine, with a few annoyances (hiding the top bar requires GNOME Toolkit and doesn't work reliably). I've been following the pr
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by oerdier 2y ago
There is a fog-of-war mechanic, called 'vision'. In the game discussed in the monitor article (League of Legends), what is shown on the minimap is restricted to what your team can see at that moment. The monitor is akin to having
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by oerdier 2y ago
Regarding HUD improvements, this monitor shows where enemies are likely to appear. The monitor does this autonomously; the OS isn't in the loop. https://www.tomshardware.com/monitors/msis-ai-powered-gaming...
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by oerdier 2y ago
If you don't have or want to have a printer, try looking for hobbyists with a printer, somewhat in your area. If you contact them personally they might print for cheap and mail it to you.
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Underware, open source 3D-printed cable management(handsonkatie.com)
21 points by oerdier 2y ago|9 comments
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by oerdier 2y ago
Here in the Netherlands, already a generally densely populated country, there's a teacher shortage everywhere, including cities. People rather have higher paying jobs, or quit because the job disappoints. I belong to the latter group.

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