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It’s tough.

Kids are going to use their phones for random bullshit in class no matter what if they are allowed, but phones in general can be a fantastic learning tool used in the classroom.

I wonder if we might eventually see schools distribute phones like they do laptops, even though that in itself is rare. It would allow the school to lock them down during school hours. Maybe include some option to buy out the phone/number when a student leaves.

A common complaint of not allowing phones is that students can’t contact their parents quickly in an emergency or vice versa. A locked down phone with “emergency contacts” fixes that issue.

Additionally, just “knowing how to code” has never been an actual ticket to success.

Software engineers are hired to solve problems, not write code. If you can write code but can’t solve problems and create innovative solutions you’re no better than a monkey.

I believe most people’s problem with AI comes from the potentially massive financial bubble and economical damage to come from over-adoption of the technology where it should not be used.

Many people, like Torvalds, know that AI is useful for certain things when used responsibly. Low level programming is one of the best places for it. You’re not solving business problems. These are usually optimization and security problems with verifiable outcomes(ex AI finds bug, you can actually confirm bug exists).

Unfortunately the ease of which you can produce crap with AI causes big problems for everyone trying to actually improve things.

on national anthem · c/lemmyshitpost · 24 pts · 24d

To me that’s always been the point of the show.

Take some real world thing and push it to the point of being dystopian.

In the “Facebook likes” one, you can make a connection to social credit systems IRL.

The explanation is applying a “slippery slope” fallacy for pretty much every single concept.

on Valid point · c/lemmyshitpost · 1 pts · 25d

A guy in front me at the grocery store had to ditch a cart full of items because his phone was dead.

Super embarrassing for them.

I listened to a podcast with a couple smart mathematicians talking about AI recently and this rings true based off what I heard them discuss.

They hypothesized that only verifiable domains can really see advances due to AI. So mathematics, physics, a load of the other sciences, and medical research. Even programming, as long as you have a pre-designed solution.

But for problems where you can’t look at a solution and say “yeah, that’s an optimal solution or close to it”, ie basically any business problem; they are much less useful, a big reason being what you mentioned in your comment.

on purpose · c/lemmyshitpost · 20 pts · 52d

I would kill to get a cubicle like this instead of the soul crushing open office we have today.

It’s because in any higher level math these rules aren’t needed. Everyone just uses brackets(and mathematical notation) to clearly define an order of operations. There’s no confusion as you’ll never see something potentially ambiguous like “x * y / z / a” .

And even if you did, the division operators would likely be horizontal lines to make it clear what is being divided.