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I don't buy your "theory" at all. Learning requires curiosity. If you want to know how something works you will do all those things irregardless if you saw it in a book or an AI spat it out. If you don't you won't.

There is no free lunch, if you use writing to "scaffold" your learning, you trade learning speed for a limited "neural pathways" budget that could connect two useful topics. And when you stop practicing your writing (or coding, as reported by some people who stopped coding due to AI) you feel that you are getting dumber. Since you scaffolded your knowledge of a topic with writing or coding, rather than doing the difficult work of learning it from more pervasive conceptions.

The best thing AI taught us is to not tie your knowledge to some specific task. It's overly reactionary to recommended task/action based education (even from an AI) in response to AI.


If you don't buy into the acquired, existing knowledge of neuroscience and the role of lymph nodes in learning, you can do whatever you want in your free time, but don't call it my theory, because it's neither mine nor a theory.

For the rest, maybe you're the chosen one, who doesn't need to expend any cognitive load to learn a subject, and just glide on your curiosity. Good for you. There are, to a degree of approximation, zero other people who work this way.


The goal of any study is to build a mental model in your head. The math curriculum for example is based on analysis so we gain an intuitive feel for physics and engineering. If the utility of building a model for research is low (essentially 0 since the advent of the internet) this should be a specialist skill, not general education.

A general education should focus on structure, all mental models built shall reinforce one another. For specific recommendations, completely replace the current Euler inspired curricula with one based on category theory. Strive to make all home and class work multimedia, multi-discipline presentations. Seriously teach one constructed meta-language from kindergarten. And stop passing along students who fail, clearly communicate the requirements.

I believe this is vital for students. Think about Student-AI interaction. Does this thing the AI is telling me fit with my understanding of the world, if it does they will accept it. If the student can think structurally the mismatch will be as obvious as a square peg in a round hole. A simple check for an isomorphism. Essentially expediting a proof certificate of the model output.


corn->ethanol is government subsidized robbery. I paid for those nutrients let them rot. Now consumers have to buy more and eat more calories to get the same nutrition. All so we can have net negative ROEI ethanol?

> corn->ethanol is government subsidized robbery.

There was that brief period where subsidies were enacted to spur on construction of ethanol plants to take up the excess corn that was rotting leading up to that time. They have long since come to an end. You could still call E10 requirements a subsidy, but you'd only be paying for that if you willingly chose to consume the product.

> Now consumers have to buy more and eat more calories to get the same nutrition.

Why?

> All so we can have net negative ROEI ethanol?

I'm not sure your math is mathing. Recapturing something, even with some marginal loss, is still a greater return than nothing.


It's more that farmers are through feeding city leeches. I don't think they care a lick about your "wealth"

That would bankrupt the farmers so I don't get this?

Says the guy on a computer.

If half the points here were true than internet banking and ecommerce would have already failed. Does the current system prevent fake votes? Did old banking and commerce prevent more fraud?

Here is the thing you are missing. With Internet voting we can have votes way more often. Limiting the damage caused by fraud. Yeah you could have malware on your phone that changes your inputs to a sandboxed voting app, and the malware also tracks your real votes so when you request an audit it shows you what you actually voted for. In reality that is extremely difficult to pull off over a long period of time.

I don't care about any of the names on the list, as far as I'm concerned they are missing the forest for the trees.


This whole thread is pretty funny. Either it can demo some pretty clever, but still limited, features resulting in math skills OR it's literally the best search engine ever invented. My guess is the former, it's pretty whatever at web search and I'd expect to see something similar to the easily retrievable, more visible proof method from Rogers' (as opposed to some alleged proof hidden in some dataset).

Either it can demo some pretty clever, but still limited, features resulting in math skills OR it's literally the best search engine ever invented.

Both are precisely true. It is a better search engine than anything else -- which, while true, is something you won't realize unless you've used the non-free 'pro research' features from Google and/or OpenAI. And it can perform limited but increasingly-capable reasoning about what it finds before presenting the results to the user.

Note that no online Web search or tool usage at all was involved in the recent IMO results. I think a lot of people missed that little detail.


It's not true. This is just a natural process in technology. Look at oracle bone script. Over time people simplify for expedience, but only because they knew what came before.

Here simplification is used to increase the set of people who understand the meaning of the symbol. Understanding the meaning of a symbol is the foundation of language. I'm sorry you are disabled, but you are the monster for trying to hoist your disability onto everyone else.


Poppycock. If a software engineer truly solved a hard problem they they would be a billionaire overnight.

Now that everyone has a assistant that can work 24/7, talk to customers, get requirements There is no excuse for neglecting hard skills.

What this article calls "soft skills" is largely just experience which is often wrong in tech.


Fracking has nothing to do with energy. When you look at EROI oil from a gusher is around ~100:1. For solar 10-25:1, wind 20-50:1, Fracking is 10:1 and most of that doesn't end up as diesel

It's useful for the plastics and petrochemical industry, but it's not going to make the country energy independent, even including battery costs wind still trounces.


Isn't LNG a byproduct of the fracking process - and natural gas has taken over a good chunk of coal's role in our electricity generation?

Extracting LNG may or may not be via fracking, and may come from conventional or unconvential fields.

The largest LNG gas fields currently producing are not being "fracked", eg:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Pars/North_Dome_Gas-Cond...


I'm guessing that the lady laying on her horn protesting ICE doesn't have many (or any) close friends/family

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