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New comment by electroweak in "Reading for pleasure is sharply down among schoolkids, report shows"

electroweak — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:23:40 +0000

That would have been a good follow up question - I'll ask next term.

New comment by electroweak in "Reading for pleasure is sharply down among schoolkids, report shows"

electroweak — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:18:25 +0000

Anecdote: waiting for my childs parent-teacher interview in the library of a mid-range highschool in a large city, I casually asked the row of student facilitators how much they used the (pretty substantial) library. They all said, with emphasis, that they'd never used the library once, not even for a single book. Overhearing this a teacher looked at me and shook his head with resignation.

New comment by electroweak in "What it feels like to work with Mythos"

electroweak — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 05:53:02 +0000

A whole lot better when written by a human, such as Michael Kandel. This was one of the tests of the electrobard in a story from the Cyberiad ("fables for the cybernetic age"). The key point about Samson was his suicide, which despite the obvious isn't mentioned in the six pages of this rubbish. Perhaps guardrails are throttling this corporate "fable"s ability to comment on the human condition.

The poem Kandel translated from the original Polish was, for artistic reasons, completely different. I will be impressed when machine translation can duplicate that!