Last week i read a few articles about scientific studies that seem to show that
people forget everything they learn in school, unless they already know it from general osmosis
people also forget everything they learn in university, but it doesn't matter because people don't go there to learn but to get a degree
scientists (especially sociologists) do not understand statistics, not even statisticians
the likelihood of a paper passing peer review is only lightly correlated to the quality of the paper
I guess the first thing explains why it seems to matter so little (after a decade) whether you send a kid to a regular school or do something like homeschooling or montessori. Although it's hard to say if this applies to all kinds of schooling or just to the current degree-based system.
@billiam@lain yeah, search engines really went to shit in the last years. really hard to find non mainstream stuff as everythimg gets lowered and "ℹ️ this was flagged misinformation by independent fact checkers" and so on.
It seems to be that, now the UK GE has been called, the war in Ukraine and Israel has stopped, global warming and associated climate / weather as stopped. Along with all the other things that are happening worldwide.
At least going by the fact the BBC are giving endless coverage.
@freemo
regarding to the problem of posts missing, i think it's something regarding remote media. trying to fetch these posts by pasting the link in the search box gives a 500 error.
@freemo@freeschool i never tried before last week so i can't comment on it :) i think i opened an issue at the gitlab about this as well when it happened
While all the big companies are crunching on thousands of CPUs and GPUs to help you give you an AI assistant that can give you a chart I am writing shell scripts using gnuplot to feed my ledger data into.
Hahaha, this is so ridiculous. The contrast of it alone.
@Anachron what really annoys me is that GPUs with their massive parallelism would enable really cool algorithms but nobody is researching those anymore as all the (grant) money is in AI memery. we really live in the most bullshit future imaginable.
I couldn't care less about the #eurovision.
Just cancel the whole thing or return to the basics.
I think the #eurovision is poisened by commercial greed, just like in many European football leagues.
@sergeant they throw obscene amounts of racketeered money out of the window to do an event almost no one is interested in anymore and put it full of virtue signalling. has long not been about music or entertainment anymore.
@mangeurdenuage thanks :) was nice taking a break, but it's nice to be back as well. maybe i just need some more word filters to only have cozy stuff in my feed :blobcathappy: