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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 c…

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 …

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"…

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 h…

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 a…

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 man…

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 …

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 reference…

Check out E.D. Hirsch Jr.'s work, e.g.'Why Knowledge Matters'.

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 i…

There are such legal, cultural and economic differences between countries that no homework might work in one country but not at all in another.

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 argumen…

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 n…

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.…

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 fo…

> 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

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 to…

It's hard, but you can create tests that you can only pass if before you've processed a problem for weeks.

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 universitie…

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.

You need a base level of knowledge and skill in your head in order to do something of a higher level in your head.

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 …

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. E…

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…

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 …