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As an educator (UK) it's very hard to find people with experience to join us. The pay is SO crap and the workload is huge. Trying to teach complex, large systems is impossible, bec…

colleges are seeing apprentices placements drop - why train an apprentice for two years when ChatGPT will do the work for them?

All my students us it a lot. We use it a lot in the office - we have a lot of digital paperwork to do, ChatGPT is fine at doing it all. It can write lectures, generate worksheets, …

You should give us educators a free license :) I'd use this in my classes if I could. I'm keen to use it with c++ and rust

part if it is to extend my house - I have tiny rooms, in VR I am in a giant open world. Same on the plane or train. I can wonder a beach or sail the ocean.

Have anyone who is in charge be someone who has X number of years teaching experience. Or they should own at least half a brain

I don't know those people. I think averages that include London and other cities don't represent most of the country. Average salary for where I live is £10,000 less than the UK av…

And who is hoovering up those expensive houses? Not the middle class. Rich folk are investing in housing and renting it out. It's crazy.

Other than london and a couple of other cities, most of the country was already ranked as most deprived in Europe. Throw in Brexit, cost of living and most normal people are fucked…

When ChatGPT first came out I was asking it to draw pictures of goblins and wizards using Python and Turtle - it's pretty bloody good at it. You can ask it to make the goblin angry…

Fish is wildlife (mostly) so the sooner we stop taking it, the better. Farmers ensure they have cattle for next year. The fishing industry doesn't take that care over next years st…

I know how to code and how regex works (I do teach it after all) so I'm pretty ok with what it wrote.

We all (students and staff) use it a lot. It'll write lectures, help think up interesting worksheet ideas, help students code, help them think of things to write about, how to stru…

As someone who works in education, we education nurses, the public services (think police, fire, army etc) IT, coding, space tech, brickies, chefs, etc etc etc .... so many lecture…

Wow - this will change education. "Teach me to code!" AI breaks it down into steps, then finds resources on each step and shows them to you

They had to move space down to meet Blue Origins rocket. At least SpaceX can get to orbit.

I surf and kitesurf. I guess the hardest thing to describe about the sea is how violent it can be. Getting a wave on the head (a wave of decent size) is colossal. Every part of you…

Will we become like horses did over this century. Horses did a lot of the work and millions of them were needed. Now we keep horses cos they are nice and fun to have, but we don't …

A different job? Go travelling for a while? Travelling is a lot of fun and makes you realize that life is short and that you should make the most of it. I changed careers and found…

Get into teaching. You'll be skint, but happy.

Same. And after a few days the "photos" app will post some AI enhanced versions of the good shots. Some are ok, some are not much better, but occasionally it makes the photo 100x b…

The king is worth billions, I doubt he gives a shit.

I print all the time. For students, a print out has a different flavour, texture, um ... feel to it. For personal use - I tend to print out then cut the margins off and stick the p…

The few races I watched were just silly. The tracks were so narrow and had too many 90 degree turns, it was just painful to watch. No flow. Nothing interesting happening.

I work in post 16 education. The number of young adults who have never had a drink is crazy high. A lot of them just don't drink, don't go out much and haven't ever been to a pub. …