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by zarify 22d ago
Determining important from human speech. I’ve had a few summaries from meetings I’ve been involved in and there’s always been a real mismatch from what was actually focused on and how it comes across in the summary.
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by zarify 23d ago
Sounds like it's just focused on shows and games from the description in the paper: > At ages 1 and 1.5 years, which was conducted in a subsample, parents were asked to report the average amount of time that the child spent daily on
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by zarify 23d ago
We’re having this sort of conversation at the school that I work at, which serves remote communities and other disadvantaged students. One of our states is currently making noise about reducing “screen time” for schools without much distinc
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by zarify 1mo ago
Feels like there’s a lot of projection going on there. I’ve worked with a lot of professionals over the years who chose to work part time (and have done myself too). Various reasons, but mostly it boiled down to valuing their time and wellb
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by zarify 2mo ago
AI aside, I think the biggest thing we could do is stop thinking about education as a profit centre. We’re not multiplying humanity if we’re only doing it for the fraction that can afford it. Edit: Having more of a look I see you’re making
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by zarify 3mo ago
I bought one of these and I quite like it. Form factor is nice, transfer is a bit rough around the edges but serviceable. Pretty sure my credit card got harvested from either them or the website purchase though
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by zarify 3mo ago
I think there’s a lot of value in some of this (and as the owner of a somewhat spicy brain I relate to the desire for processes that help), but it feels like at least some of this (c|sh)ould be scripted and not LLM’d. I’ve been watching som
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by zarify 4mo ago
Funny, I had the opposite experience with MiniMax and Mimo when using OpenCode. MiniMax got stuck with looping through broken tool calls all the time and MiMo just powered through things and for the most part just worked.
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by zarify 5mo ago
Sounds like yet another thing that makes life harder for the unbanked, the homeless etc.
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by zarify 9mo ago
This is the sort of thing that makes me worry about my solar inverter, battery etc. so much remote management stuffed into these things.
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by zarify 10mo ago
I recently installed Ubuntu on a little Geekom mini PC for my 6 and 8 year olds to share. So far my 6 yo isn’t too into it, but her older sister mostly uses it for the games I’ve put onto it through Epic and Steam and programming using Make
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by zarify 1y ago
> - the fact that in another role they would have to work 25% more (50 weeks per year instead of 40 weeks per year) Heh. I left teaching for three years to work in the private sector and the "25% more work" was honestly the bes
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by zarify 3y ago
Ah, it was probably me hearing about Texas and then extrapolating that to the rest of the US. Probably not a great idea on my part. Thanks for setting me straight :)
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by zarify 3y ago
Ultimately how useful is the high uptake in individual states? My understanding was that the US had a lot of weirdness going on about provision of utilities over state lines. (Mind you here in Oz I think we have our own state politics invol
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by zarify 3y ago
Gemini refused to provide any suggestions about implementing a serial connection in a non-standard way for some hardware I own because I ran the risk of “damaging my hardware” or producing buggy code. Copilot pulled something similar on me
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by zarify 5y ago
There have been a number of instances here in .au where centralised location/health/etc data has been misused (stalking, checking out potential dates, domestic abuse or aiding domestic abusers) through inappropriate access. I doub
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by zarify 6y ago
I teach kids to code (plus other techy stuff) for a living. Some kids love my robotics classes using MakeCode or MicroPython. Some kids love my data science classes with Python and SQL (I doubt anyone loves the Excel formula :P). Some kids
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by zarify 6y ago
Some of my students tell me I talk too fast, so it can be helpful for them to review content, and I've had quite a few students with varying degrees of hearing impairment. Pretty useful in my field.
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by zarify 6y ago
The screen sharing one has bitten me a couple of times. I record live classes for students, and we've had occasions when someone who was away goes back to the video and it's a black screen with me nattering away as if they can see
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by zarify 6y ago
I've use Teams every day in education for a couple of years now. My favourite file access "feature" of Teams (I verified it was in fact working as intended, at least until the pandemic and the warts started getting more obvio
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by zarify 6y ago
Alternatively it could be objection to numerous examples of somewhat arbitrary standardised testing which takes over student education to the exclusion of pretty much anything else, limiting a lot of the creativity and enjoyment students mi
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by zarify 7y ago
I quite like Publii. It’s more of a CMS that builds a static site, and is nice from a “don’t want to fiddle with template languages” perspective. Will push to different services (I use GitHub Pages) as well as just generate a folder to sync
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by zarify 7y ago
I’ve been using Thonny with my students which has some basic feedback about errors and possible solutions, which isn’t bad (as well as variable inspection, although that gets a bit tedious with larger programs).
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by zarify 7y ago
Authentication != authorisation. The bank manager is still authentically the bank manager, gun or not.
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by zarify 7y ago
There was this example from 2017. https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2017/12/27/no-boundaries-for-u... I seem to remember reading about similar stuff done elsewhere, but don't remember the details (or apparen
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Love Letters for Computers(helloruby.com)
1 points by zarify 7y ago|0 comments
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by zarify 7y ago
Pretty sure the abuse is what happens to the victims, not the perpetrators. (Not any sort of implication about whoever Mr Rogers is [I'm not an American], but man the phrasing of this sentence stuck at me.)
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by zarify 7y ago
I can believe someone taking 10 sick days off a year and no more. You take the paid time off if you're sick without much hesitation, and after that you weigh up whether you're sick enough to cost you a day's pay. People shoul
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by zarify 7y ago
The new folios work really well on your lap (and are quite pleasant to type on as well, once you get over the emoji key and lack of escape key). I paired a bluetooth mouse to mine on the iPadOS beta and have been using it for work for a cou
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by zarify 7y ago
I think Adventure Mode and also the stuff available in Education Edition might make Minecraft a bit more of a long-term prospect there. You can make stuff for your kids to explore or do (either on rails or unguided), and there's quite

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