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New comment by greentxt in "US and UK refuse to sign AI safety declaration at summit"

greentxt — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 12:53:55 +0000

A future that may yet come.

New comment by greentxt in "US and UK refuse to sign AI safety declaration at summit"

greentxt — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 12:41:54 +0000

"problem is the entire argument-counterargument tree is hundreds of thousands of words, scattered about in many places"

An llm could solve that.

New comment by greentxt in "US and UK refuse to sign AI safety declaration at summit"

greentxt — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 12:05:06 +0000

""It has been argued that the historiography of science is "riddled with Whiggish history"." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whig_history

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greentxt — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 18:18:41 +0000

Prevention always cheaper than cure.

New comment by greentxt in "I built an open source AI tool to find my autoimmune disease"

greentxt — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 15:07:24 +0000

Jeff Koonz thrives, invents tools to produce new works, and will not be replaced by an LLM. Art is wide, and it should not be reduced to a few Koonz'.

New comment by greentxt in "Firing programmers for AI will destroy everything"

greentxt — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 14:57:41 +0000

I hear highly experienced COBOL devs make bank. Supply and demand. Great for them!

New comment by greentxt in "Firing programmers for AI is a mistake"

greentxt — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 14:47:43 +0000

Pizza maker will not be the first job automated away. Nor will janitor. Form fiddlers are cheap and can be blamed. AI fiddlers can be blamed too but are not cheap, yet.

New comment by greentxt in "I built an open source AI tool to find my autoimmune disease"

greentxt — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 13:35:30 +0000

This is the way. If we all did that, our health care system would be the best the world has ever seen. We mostly do the opposite. We give up on our own agency in terms of our health outcomes, then get on ozympic and demand cheap insulin to go with the cheap soda pop and fast food we love so much.

New comment by greentxt in "I built an open source AI tool to find my autoimmune disease"

greentxt — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 13:25:31 +0000

But doesn't economics matter somewhat? You don't seem to acknowledge supply/demand; just talented and untalented craftsmen which you assume exist in eternal ratio that cannot fluctaute with supply and demand or market forces. Reality encompases both money and art.

New comment by greentxt in "Emergence of collective oscillations in human crowds"

greentxt — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 16:16:25 +0000

A clump == blocking the passing lane. They are definitionally the same.

New comment by greentxt in "Emergence of collective oscillations in human crowds"

greentxt — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 16:14:48 +0000

Stay in the far right lane unless passing. Don't tailgate. Those 2 rules would solve a lot of problems if they were enforced. Instead, there is heavy enforcement of the speed limit, which in and of itself isn't a safety concern.

New comment by greentxt in "Emergence of collective oscillations in human crowds"

greentxt — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 16:00:00 +0000

Left lanes are for passing. If you are in the left lane and not passing, guess what.

New comment by greentxt in "Children's arithmetic skills do not transfer between applied and academic math"

greentxt — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 19:54:28 +0000

I agree. Kids need to eat their vegetables, but we can make vegetables quite delicious if we try. Also, the music metaphor is imperfect because some musicians are performers others composers. I prefer sport as the metaphor: a mix of short laregely repituous training and longer term strategy, different styles for different athletes, influence of genetics and talent heterogeneity acknowledged at the elite end of the spectrum.

New comment by greentxt in "Children's arithmetic skills do not transfer between applied and academic math"

greentxt — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 18:23:51 +0000

Maybe there's an element of both time and skill? How many folks that pursue math can point to a great early teacher as being influential. Not all, but I want to believe it's common and maybe true for most.

New comment by greentxt in "Children's arithmetic skills do not transfer between applied and academic math"

greentxt — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 18:19:04 +0000

It is very sad to me that so many people can't enjoy that aspect of math. I was lucky, pbs used to show math stuff to kids, so it was fun and interesting before it was a school thing. Of course a huge part of math learning is just hatd work for most if us. But kids should taste the delight first, it motivates them to do the less delightful practice.

New comment by greentxt in "Children's arithmetic skills do not transfer between applied and academic math"

greentxt — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 16:25:50 +0000

"many children learn mathematics as a set of arcane rituals for manipulating symbols on paper, because they can't yet understand the abstract meanings of those symbols."

In the US?

I had pretty typical US public school education. Word problems and application were ubiquituous. Perhaps my experience is non-representative, or you like the study authors are speaking of other educational contexts (Asia).

New comment by greentxt in "Children's arithmetic skills do not transfer between applied and academic math"

greentxt — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 15:39:26 +0000

"ask whether, in the urban Indian context, the arithmetic skills that are used in market transactions transfer to the more abstract maths skills taught in school."

I have a hard time with this notion of 2 different maths. I wonder if it is specific to the "urban Indian context" as the authors seem to suggest in their literature review -- I didn't pursue their references. Intuitive math that is not associated with memorization sounds like g.

New comment by greentxt in "What's happening inside the NIH and NSF"

greentxt — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 13:41:17 +0000

But you didn't marry her.

New comment by greentxt in "What's happening inside the NIH and NSF"

greentxt — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 13:27:16 +0000

Maybe someone could try to prosecute Trump?

New comment by greentxt in ""A computer can never be held accountable""

greentxt — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 14:02:01 +0000

Not really. The vast majority of adults are not at all accountable in today's society. We blame.