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1auralynn
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- 1auralynn parentYeah our doctor specifically recommended Bambas. Babies love them and they sell them at Trader Joe's.
- The UK has it dialed in on this stuff - check out Tractor Ted https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIo-RUdF6QU&t=10s
- The answer here is actually teach them to self-evaluate, e.g. What do you think about your drawing? Should we hang it up?
Got this from Steve Peters: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Peters_(psychiatrist)
- The same Unity jerk targeted my small educational software company and shook us down for $5000/year industry licenses because we have a grant. I had to let one of my devs go.
When I originally wrote the grant, we had budgeted for $80/month Pro licenses (what I was paying at the time). I've had a Pro license since 2011. It's alarming that they're in such a bad spot to try to draw blood from a stone in this way.
- No not all talented scientists are independently wealthy or have the charisma to raise VC funding. What you're advocating for is the return of the era of the "gentleman scientist" where the only people allowed to do science are those lucky enough to be born into wealth (or some other privilege e.g. extreme good looks).
- Before I disabled it for my organization (couldn't stand the "help me write" prompt on gdocs), I kept asking Gemini stuff like, "Find the last 5 most important emails that I have not responded to", and it replies "I'm sorry I can't do that". Seems like it would be the most basic possible functionality for an AI email assistant.
- The field of biology was created by people who love to classify/name things. This has resulted in what we have now: A subject where the prerequisite to understanding is the ability to read long passages of text littered with jargon and visualize what that might represent. Even if everyone's reading skills were where they should be, the second part is not a super common skillset.
It's one of the reasons why I work in visualization for life sciences education: I think we're missing out on people who might otherwise make massive contributions to the field because they failed to memorize what the "endoplasmic reticulum" does. Much of biology you don't have to actually remember what things are called in order to understand the processes (at least at a basic level like what a middle schooler might be taught). Once you're exposed to the fascinating complexity of life at that level, for many people it can be interesting enough to build the motivation for the memorization/etc.
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- Khan Academy already has a robust AI chatbot/features (https://www.khanmigo.ai/) - they have an ongoing relationship with Microsoft/OpenAI
- I dunno, when I had gestational diabetes, a little bit of ice cream was mostly fine - the protein and fat content kept my blood sugar from spiking. In contrast, white rice was much much worse. Maybe it's just all about the glycemic index, paired with the fact that ice cream is so satisfying so it might keep you from other carb-heavy snacks.
- Personally, I find his work compelling - I saw an amazing exhibit at the Frye in Seattle and the scale of it was incredible, also the composition. But I think his work makes some people uncomfortable. From Wikipedia: "One idiosyncratic feature of Darger's artwork is that his girl subjects are shown to have penises when unclothed or partially clothed. Darger biographer Jim Elledge speculates that this represents a reflection of Darger's own childhood issues with sexual identity and homosexuality."
- Yeah the more auditory learner types don't need to take notes. If I try to do this as a visual learner I'm like "yeah yes OK I get it!" then completely forget what the lecture was about 30 min later. If I just take like two- or three-word notes, especially placed around some kind of diagram, it allows me to remember a little bit of what was said (and, more importantly, be able to look it up).
- Yeah my current washing machine is a refurbished old school top loader. Easy to install, wash cycle is 45 min, gets clothes super clean. It's definitely not water efficient but at least it doesn't take 3 hours to actually clean your clothes. Who's got time for that? I can get 6 loads of laundry done leisurely on a Sunday.
- Not to mention that some of these things get easier once you have the skills for them. E.g. I've been buying my own health insurance on the open market since I was 22 - now in my early 40s, it takes me maybe an hour or two to fully compare a handful of policies and choose the best one for me and my family (even doing calculations, etc). This is vs having to immerse myself in it for a whole evening (4-5 hrs) and then agonize about it for the next week or so like I used to do back in the day (and only for myself)
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