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Good to see. Related, I've moved to requiring regular in-class handwritten quizzes. Just a blank piece of paper to start, with the questions on the board. The practice forces stude…

This came up in a few responses below as various roles have been replaced by machines (gas station attendants, printers, travel agents...) so I'm responding in a new thread. When i…

Since you mentioned Etaoin Shrdlu and hot type / linotype... There are a lot of industries (at least historically) that have organized labor. In the UK, there was the “Wapping Disp…

Yes, it's not part of the daily fear and considerations people take anymore. No more nuclear duck and cover drills; no more fallout shelters scattered around cities. Look at the hi…

It seems quaint now, but it’s astonishing how much the fear of war (especially nuclear annihilation) affected mid-century fiction. In addition to "There Will Come Soft Rains" we ha…

I feel for the guy who wrote this. I feel this myself at times. But it's also not a productive feeling, as cruel as that sounds. There's a Chinese idiom: 生不逢时 "to be born at the wr…

From the results I can see that I am somehow living as a radically messy desk creator. Even my books are not color coordinated or nicely arranged. I will try to do better.

I really liked this quote: “If in the future we write less code and only review, these abilities are hard to train — what do we do?” That's a different question than the included L…

Nice... Would be interesting to connect this to pancakebot.com

I remember years ago movie theaters in Hong Kong allowed smoking. If I remember right, it wasn't in the back, like on planes, but the seats to the one side of the center aisle.

The Casual form of Goodhart's Law... https://unintendedconsequenc.es/new-morality-of-attainment-g...

That is fascinating to me. Especially in English composition. The flip side is if it's an adjunct prof making $4k per class (English typically pays poorly) then she's doing the hou…

Profs can push back on this if they want. Not all of them want to (or want to justify pushback given their pay). For me when I teach, no laptops or phones in class along with in-cl…

> the bar for signal quality is just really low During the Covid-era when money was flowing more readily I worked with a series A startup founder on improving their unit economics.…

Sorry to say you can't take my class.

I like this. Related, this semester I've been using handwritten quizzes in class. A simple change that's been one of the best things as it changed students' expectations of class p…

Yes. I while back I posted an initial list ( https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1M_UjOPxpbKMYes5CcWRW... ) but have gone way beyond this now. For me this is an example of when …

I'm researching Luddite-style examples from around the world. That is, examples of when people rebel against new technology that they see as harming their livelihoods.

I've been research Luddite movements around the world. Agreed that the topic is timely. A closer comparison to Sam Altman might be Edmund Cartwright (inventor of the power loom tha…