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by wdutch 6d ago
Sounds like they were the opposite of shit if they noticed someone setting up specialist equipment. I don't think any national monument in the world would be keen on people doing that without advanced permission.
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by wdutch 9d ago
I think they exist already... Crosswords, sudokus and puzzles have long been popular. Has the world also forgotten the brain training craze of the naughties?
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by wdutch 28d ago
I was in The Ho Chi Minh City History Museum this weekend and they have some very cool shipwreck exhibits, worth checking out.
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by wdutch 1mo ago
Thanks for sharing, I am absolutely fascinated with the differences in people's internal experiences. For me, I have the bad "factual" memory and good "conceptual" memory but unlike you, I also have aphantasia: a co
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by wdutch 1mo ago
I also have an aversion to this. But I'm not sure how you conclude that it's lazy?
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by wdutch 3mo ago
As a math teacher myself I want to say... A parent taking an interest and spending some quality time with their child over a subject can have a huge impact on their motivation to learn. Props to your mom.
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by wdutch 4mo ago
I've never seen so many emdashes in one piece!
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by wdutch 5mo ago
When I was young I was taught that pink is a light shade of red. But what kids these days call pink seems to me to be a bright magenta.
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by wdutch 6mo ago
I love iNaturalist! It's the closest thing to real-life Pokemon I know of. A friend of mine has uploaded several observations that turned out to be new to science.
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by wdutch 6mo ago
I can't comment on if it was written by AI or not but I found the OP informative and quite dense with useful information. Nothing stood out to me as garbage.
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by wdutch 6mo ago
The UK is still a respected "brand" in most of the world despite what chronically online people say. British education is the most sought-after in many countries for example.
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by wdutch 9mo ago
> a general theme of discrediting and devaluing teachers and school in English speaking countries that is reinforced by Hollywood and out of touch billionaires It's the dumbest thing for a culture to do to itself. I'm often so
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by wdutch 9mo ago
> students actively benefit from struggling through the act of the craft itself. Hard agree! Although I'm biased as a foreign language teacher :) Geography is a great example actually because it can be "factoid based" or i
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by wdutch 1y ago
Oh nicely done! There was me thinking I'd done well with 38,332 / 50,000. It'd be nice if the site itself showed how well you did relative to others but I can't see anything like that, maybe I'm missing it.
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by wdutch 1y ago
It's interesting that I find loops. For example car + stupid = idiot, car + idiot = stupid
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by wdutch 2y ago
Plug for my favourite podcast Literature and History which has convered this topic: https://literatureandhistory.com/episode-096-the-last-pagan-...
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by wdutch 2y ago
The decline in cnet might suggest people are using LLMs for product reviews and recommendations? I'm surprised because I personally wouldn't trust an LLM for that. Maybe the new frontier of SEO is gaming LLMs to recommend your pro
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by wdutch 2y ago
I couldn't find much context on the website but the name is very broad yet the content focuses on a specific aesthetic. Personally, I am constantly amused in 2025 how much Vietnam loves asthetics like Frutiger Aero[1]. For example [2].
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by wdutch 2y ago
I was asking ChatGPT for ideas for activities today and one suggestion was chatting to an AI Chatbot. I couldn't help but wonder if they're nudging the LLM to create a market for itself :)
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by wdutch 2y ago
I blog about really niche local history. I enjoy it because it acts as external motivation for my hobby. The idea that someone could read it makes me research thoroughly and write as well as I can. I don't mind if nobody reads it. I
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by wdutch 2y ago
I think vtuber sports could be an interesting genre! Real displays of athleticism and sportsmanship but with digital effects to augment it. Maybe it's already been done, I'm not particularly in touch with online trends.
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by wdutch 2y ago
That's a good example. My favorite has always been rock-paper-scissors. If `vs` is a binary operator which gives you the winner according to the game then rock vs paper = paper vs rock but (rock vs paper) vs scissors !=
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by wdutch 2y ago
I no longer work in tech, but I still write simple applications to make my work life easier. I frequently use what OP refers to as chat-driven programming, and I find it incredibly useful. My process starts by explaining a minimum viable pr
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by wdutch 2y ago
I imagine maths teachers had a similar dilemma when pocket calculators became widely available. Now, in the UK students sit 2 different exams: one where calculators are forbidden and one where calculators are permitted (and encouraged). The
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by wdutch 2y ago
> The notion of “fairness” dominates English education policy in Japan. Because of the importance of educational credentials in Japanese life, any policy that seems to favor one group or another—the rich, the urban, children with highly-
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by wdutch 2y ago
I agree that it's a disorder. I have aphantasia and wish I didn't. I have low resilience due to having no ability to go to a "happy place" or recall pleasant memories. I wonder if other aphantasiacs have a similar experi
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by wdutch 2y ago
I have aphantasia. I relate to what you say about how "feel" a face when I remember it. I'd compare it to a neutral nets embedding. I'm not storing every "pixel" of an image but instead a "vector" tha
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by wdutch 2y ago
I think you're right. Since LLMs went mainstream, I've seen a lot of my colleagues' presentations and thought "was this written by ChatGPT?" but I've come to wonder if it's just given me the frame of mind
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by wdutch 3y ago
They ask themselves the difficult question for every anime: which character will be voiced by Vic Mignogna.
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by wdutch 3y ago
This is a nice idea, in the past I worked as a maths tutor and was always on the lookout for good problems for students. (Maybe this is possible, I didn't make an account but ...) Seems like the scraped problems are a great starting po

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