a_statistician

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a_statistician,

This move against TikTok predates the Hamas attacks and Israel’s military action. It’s insane that TikTok’s ban is because teens are more likely to be pro-palestine.

a_statistician,

Not a subreddit, exactly, but I'm going to miss /u/poem_for_your_sprog and /u/Schnoodle_Doodle_Do. They made browsing so much better - I loved unexpectedly coming across one of their poems.

a_statistician,

All of my lab’s data is available on public GitHub repos. My Chinese student doesn’t have a leg up on anyone with an internet connection. It’s insane to discriminate like that. I can sort of see issues with DoD funded work, but basic science?

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Javascript, perhaps?

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Eww

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A good chunk of the Midwest would be wiped out if the dams along the Missouri failed in sequence. There’s a ridiculous amount of water there.

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Columbia station load follows within a certain range set by nearby hydro. It can be done. The economics aren’t even that bad, as fuel is one of the cheaper inputs to the reactor.

a_statistician,

My dishes fucking sparkle, and that’s because I rinse them clean.

This is how I can tell you live in an area that doesn’t have hard water. Water spots all over my dishes, even though I rinse them… sometimes because I rinse them.

a_statistician,

NIST has abandoned them

Would that my IT department had gotten the memo. They think NIST is god-tier, even when our own CS department is like… yeah, no. And personally, having worked with NIST researchers in fields that aren’t IT policy, I wonder how good their IT policy docs really are. The whole organization is bureaucracy getting in the way of good science and common sense.

Will Corpos try to force all computing on the to cloud and make privately owned local storage illegal?

Seems like the next logical step. Most big games are always-online Games as a Service where your local storage is useless if the company server doesn’t handshake. A lot of business and productivity software already requires subscriptions and is partially online. Every single fucking company wants to have an app on your phone...

a_statistician,

I’ve never used vpn even in the US. Private trackers and encryption have been enough for me. Also, it seems like my ISP doesn’t care. Some basic caution is sufficient to avoid consequences.

Amouranth made a chatbot clone to outsource flirting — and protect herself (www.polygon.com)

there is... a lot going on here--and it's part of a broader trend which is probably not for the better and speaks to some deeper-seated issues we currently have in society. a choice moment from the article here on another influencer doing a similar thing earlier this year, and how that went:...

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You can also curate the training data so that it's not problematic, but then you are biasing the model in other ways.

What are the benefits to the US Electoral College system?

So I’m a New Zealander and I have a pretty good idea on how the electoral college system works but it honestly sounds like something that can be easily corrupted and it feels like it renders the popular vote absolutely useless unless I’m totally missing something obvious?...

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And, in a rural, agrarian society, not educated or up to date on recent events enough to vote in an informed way. Paternalistic, sure, but not completely unreasonable given the era.

a_statistician,

Start with the sl command, and you can do it now 😁

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Travis used to be brutal about this. Email headlines that were like “Still failing…”, one piled up after another when you were trying to tweak the CI process.

a_statistician,

What’s wrong with programming socks?

a_statistician,

Ah ok, I missed the joke, but then, both my husband and I have binary socks, and I have GitHub socks as well, so… I am the joke, I guess? :)

a_statistician,

I like to keep my work-related communities separate from my hobby-related communities. So Python/R/Data/Academia communities would be grouped under “work”, and Gardening/Bread/Crochet/3D printing would be “hobbies”, and then I might want a news group where I can see politics, local news, US news, world news, tech news, etc.

This would be really helpful to me for reducing distractions when I’m actually trying to get information about what’s going on in the (real) world or in my specific corner of the programming world.

a_statistician,

shit, scihub is easier to use than the library, so we're all grateful to her too.

a_statistician,

shit, guess I am eastern European despite never having left North America. My ISP just doesn't give a shit.

a_statistician,

Yep. Any course that I have control over, I try to switch to OERs to save students money. Unfortunately, it's a ton of investment to do that for our largest courses, where our TAs depend on the homework services that come integrated with the textbooks. And I don't have a clue how much that textbook costs, because it's embedded in their tuition. I just hate that they don't have access to it after the semester is over, which is why I casually mention not to use library genesis to acquire a PDF of the textbook for posterity's sake, because that violates copyright law.

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How on earth would that work with curriculum, planning, and actual teaching? I mean, fine for self guided computer school, but that's not the way kids actually learn.

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I am not as familiar with the K-12 system, as it's changed a lot since I went through it, but my college students seem to have gone through school with no deadlines and the ability to resubmit any and all work any time they want, with the expectation that they'll get at least 50% just for turning in the assignment (even without their name, lol). So while year-round school with absences whenever might be compatible with this system, it's not particularly compatible with a functioning educational system where the class is being taught as a unit and are more or less learning the same things at the same time.

Additionally, it only works if teachers are completely exchangeable, and are also allowed to take time off whenever. What is likely to actually happen is that teachers will be paid the same but expected to be on call year-round (they're already expected to be on call 24/7 during the year in a lot of places) with no breaks and limited ability to take even sick leave. I'm fully in support of year-round school - I think it's a great idea for a lot of reasons - but I would caution that this type of implementation might be a bit harder to pull off.

IMO, at least, education happens when there's an actual interpersonal relationship between the teacher and the class, as well as between members of the class. This doesn't happen with the app-driven schooling my nephews are completing, where everyone is in a different place and they just follow lessons on a computer all day with teachers as facilitators and not actual instructors. It's why we see massive declines in student motivation - they've lost the relationships that tend to motivate us as humans, and that's a really hard thing to get back. My best classes have been when there are meaningful relationships between me and students, but also between students in the class, and we are all tackling a problem/topic together. There's something about shared suffering, you know?

Megathread for Reddit Blackouts and News - Rest of the Week(?)

hey everyone. if you want to post links or discuss the Reddit blackout, its aftermath, and what's happening going forward, please localize it to this thread in order to keep things tidy! thanks! we'll see if we need to cycle the thread again before the end of this week, but i don't know that we'll need to

a_statistician,

Thank you so much!

a_statistician,

Empathy is definitely good. I think the other thing that has been critical to my classes is cultivating an attitude that errors aren't something to be embarrassed about, they're something to celebrate - especially when you get a new error - it's an opportunity to learn something.

This isn't a skill, exactly, but I've also found that it helps to spend a bit of time teaching them how to identify where/how they're confused. I've loved "The Programmer's Brain: What every programmer needs to know about cognition" for explaining this and I usually assign a chapter to read from it that basically explains the difference between lack of knowledge, lack of information, and lack of processing power. Essentially, lack of knowledge is not understanding what an operator or function's purpose is - essentially, unfamiliarity with the syntax. Lack of information is not understanding the inner workings of a method - the details of how the function works are abstracted away and you have to go digging to find them. Lack of processing power is not being able to keep everything necessary to understand a program in your head long enough to see how code works.

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