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I do feel that if there were actually decent parental controls on the most used systems out there then we might not have got to this point in the first place! It is either a nightm…

In maths, if you do well enough in the exam, you have to really mess up the interview to not get in though I would say. If you're borderline, the interview is important though - th…

Having interviewed maths applicants for Oxford, I don't think it's just corruption or biases - there are just more really bright students that you have places for and have to rejec…

When my son was about 4 or 5 he used to draw pictures with pens in both hands simultaneously which I was always amazed he could do!

I am a fan of Anki for lots of things but it always puzzled me people trying to learn analysis and group theory by memorising lots and lots of parts of their lecture notes. I would…

I don't agree with age verification, but there isn't anywhere 'set your children's ages in their device accounts' that limits their access to inappropriate content and social media…

Thanks! That's interesting. It is only for pre-teens, but it's certainly a start. I do wondering if all the threats of legislation might finally encourage tech companies to actuall…

Ah that makes more sense then!

Anecdotally from personal experience (gave birth to one child on back, the other in a squatting position, didn't have an epidural for either), the pain didn't depend on position - …

It's a bit weird to see the BBC reporting on this happening in Finland, when plenty of 'Libraries of Things' exist in the UK! I think they tend to be run as community efforts rathe…

Children obviously access the internet in other ways too - it's not uncommon for them to share computers with adults or even access the internet via the family television. I defini…

I think when something is an issue for 90% plus of children (which I think this is probably is in some form), then it's not something we can blame entirely on parenting. I seem to …

Round here they have a locked pouch they have to put their phone in during school which seems to work reasonably well (although I'm sure not perfectly). It makes it more clearcut i…

Regulation does add friction. And it makes it easier for a parent to say 'no, you aren't allowed that app' (which you can obviously say anyway, but it gives you a very solid and no…

Homework requires internet-connected devices (I guess you can semi-supervise that, but it becomes harder as they become older as you don't want to sit there watching them do all th…

It already exists in the schools near where I live in the UK, but only came into place in some of them in the last year. I was surprised that they had been so slow about it.

The vast majority of research-level pure mathematics is never going to get used in science or engineering. Obviously it is hard to predict what will be useful, but for the type of …

Games stuff for me too - geoguessr in my case. It'd never have been worth putting in the time to build them without AI but so easy with AI.

The employers will think it requires less skill, whereas in fact it might actually require more skill to do a good job of being the human-in-the-loop. For example, my sister is a t…

As a parent of teenagers, I feel like the sites make it hard for parents. When they were young, you had a choice between YouTube being completely locked down with no option to whit…

Having owned a house for two decades (well two houses because we moved) and having two children, I would say that owning a home feels like a doddle in comparison :-) I haven't done…

Minecraft servers are full of teens!

In the UK if you sell or rent out a house it has to have an energy certificate with a rating (specified by a letter). I'm pretty sure that you aren't allowed to rent out properties…

Perhaps the people teaching thec purses don't feel qualified to talk about the history? I taught university-level computer science and I'm not a historian by any stretch of the ima…

I have been researching local history and Google's AI is a godsend at reading old handwriting so I can quickly get an idea if a document will be relevant or not.