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I’d note that China does not need democratic approval for any of its projects and thus is substantially more efficient.

Not a rigorous response, but Minecraft.

What’s the purpose of creating completely LLM generated blog posts? There’s not even an attempt to make it seem human. I thought the whole purpose of blogs was to share an individual perspective. I’m not trying to be a hater; I’m just genuinely wondering.

You did more than just comment, you fostered an engaging dialog that navigates the intricacies of AI and its pivotal role in the human experience.

It’s a “learning management system.” It replaces a course website in most instances. It’s also used for course grades and you can submit assignments or take quizzes.

Occam’s razor seems nice here. Higher demand for care due to rising number of legitimate diagnoses or widespread fraud?

What was released last year was the same AirPods Max just with a USB-C port. This is a new generation.

I was thinking the same thing, but I thought I was being too cynical given it was a post lamenting about all the cognitive abstractions we have created.

I was thinking the same thing. My understanding has always been that stimulants flood the brain with dopamine which in turns makes difficult tasks less unpleasant.

Please tell me you’re joking.

May I ask why you have had to put programming aside?

No offense taken. My first point was that some of these students were legitimately diagnosed with learning disabilities long before grades, the SAT, or college admissions were even a thought. I also should have been more clear that I wasn't diagnosed with dyslexia and ADHD until I was around 9, so I went from needing to repeat grades to being more successful in school as a result of getting the support I needed.

My overall point is that learning disabilities like dyslexia have no impact on intelligence, and accommodations just level the playing field. I imagine that if I hadn't been diagnosed with dyslexia and ADHD, I wouldn't have made it to the same school.

But for people who truly need academic accommodations, the playing field will never be level, because every aspect of school takes them longer. I don't get more time to study for exams, and if it takes me twice as long to read and comprehend the same chapter of a textbook as someone without dyslexia, I have to study twice as long just to get through the same content. I think it's fair that I get to take notes using "prohibited technology" during lecture when it is impossible for me to decode what the lecturer is saying fast enough to turn it into handwritten notes.

However, I agree with the article that the percentage of students who claim to have disabilities has gotten out of control. Almost 60% of the students in the extended exam room finish the exam in the standard time anyway. It does make it appear as though everyone with accommodations is gaming the system.

Having ADHD and dyslexia is not "quirky" or fun. It consistently ruins my life. It is not something I make part of my identity.

I would do anything to not need accommodations.

I go to one of those elite universities now, and I get academic accommodations. I think some of the increase is truly from greater awareness about disabilities among teachers and parents. My mom was a teacher, and she was the one who first suspected that I had dyslexia. I repeated kindergarten, and I was privileged that my parents were able to afford external educational psychology testing. Socioeconomic status is a large part of my success. Even seemingly small things like the fact that my parents could pick me up after school so that I could go to tutoring was something that other kids didn’t have, because their parents were working or didn’t have a car.

Does this number include housing accommodations? They are provided through the same disability office. I have dry eye disease, and when the relative humidity was 19% in my dorm room I requested an accommodation to have a humidifier. I’m sure that type of accommodation wouldn’t have been approved in the past.

I’ve thought about something like this, but I feel like the core part of the Zettelkasten method is the act of making connections and extracting ideas from the sources you interact with.

Is Stanford not much better than a bootcamp these days?

Rage-bait?

Universities are criticized for not providing enough economic value and real job training, yet when they do, they are labeled corporate shills.

This is almost as bad as the argument the other day about why OpenAI needs to store ChatGPT conversations.

the epitome of the slippery slope fallacy.

Sure it's harmless, but I think the app has enough suggestive content to be "explicit." There is a section where you can track your toy performance with options including ropes and vibrators.

In all honesty, I think the front of a condom box which says "for contraception plus STI protection" is less sexually suggestive than an app that has a "Spice Library" where the user can tag activities with tags such as "Anal," "Oral," or "Intercourse."

Books that describe sex are somewhat age restricted. Something like Looking for Alaska is rated 16+ by Common Sense Media and not in elementary or middle school libraries.

In this case, being a "traffic engineer" with the ability to sign engineering plans means graduating from an ABET-accredited engineering program, passing both the Fundamentals of Engineering exam and the Principles & Practice of Engineering exam, being licensed as a professional engineer, and passing the Professional Traffic Operations Engineer exam. I think they do a little more than "maximize vehicular traffic flow."

I think there are a good number of false positives. I asked ChatGPT something about Git commits, and it told me “I was going through a lot” and needed to get some support.

Must be insider information. I thought Windows 10 came out 10 years ago.

I think there were some nice improvements like changing the cursor in iPadOS to be an arrow instead of a circle. I’m really just shocked at the number of serious bugs in the updates. My Apple Watch is sometimes 7 minutes faster than the actual time. MacOS is the worst though. I don’t remember the last time I experienced a kernel panic, but today my Mac crashed because of a DMA translation fault.

agasp

Amen

The last I checked, most high schoolers don't take Diff Eq classes.

https://www.khanacademy.org/math/multivariable-calculus https://www.khanacademy.org/math/differential-equations https://www.khanacademy.org/math/linear-algebra

How does liking music make someone a “conformist”? I don’t know anyone who thinks, “I need to make sure my music taste conforms to societal norms.” People add songs to their playlists because they like them.

I was expecting this to just be another AI API wrapper, but I really like Neuro Tools. I’ve been given a whole alphabet to describe my brain, and I think I could actually benefit from using these tools. The most success I’ve had so far in changing my behavior has come through reflection, and I like that reflection is a key aspect of these tools. One idea for an additional tool would be to have a “reality check” tool. I often believe that I can accomplish an impossible amount of work in one day. It would be great to have a tool that helps schedule work in a more feasible way. So if I say, “I’m going to work on this paper for six hours today and eight hours tomorrow,” it would challenge that and say something like “Let’s start with accomplishing two paragraphs today and see what else you’re up to.”