MarcScott

I was walking to my classroom last Thursday, and a kid pushed another kid down the stairs, right into me. I went ballistic, and sorted it all out, but there is no way an online AI tutor can deal with that kind of behavior. So if you want social education, you need physically present teachers. If you want online education, then parents are going to have their work cut out.

> In my experience, most people, the world over, are in fact self motivated.

In your experience? The world over? Can you tell me your experience. I've been a teacher for a long time. I've worked in the UK, the USA, PNG, and Kenya.

The vast majority of kids in the developed world don't really care about education. A few do, and they get great grades. Most care more about social status, their cliques, or just surviving the jungle that is school.

School is important. It teaches you how to deal with other people. It teaches you how to deal with people in authority. You can't get that at home, in front of a screen. Learning stuff is secondary. I'm sure there are plenty of people here that are not working in whatever they majored at.

I think teaching is one of the few roles that can't be replaced by AI. If you're a self-motivated learner, eager to gain new skills, then AI is perfect for you. Having a virtual Feynman coach you through a Physics course is perfect.

Most learners, the world over, are not self-motivated. The pandemic showed us exactly what children would prefer to do, when they don't have a physical teacher standing over them, which is bugger all. We send kids to school, in the hope they get some education, but the reality is that we use schools for free childcare while we work. If parents have to additionally monitor their child's learning, it breaks down pretty quickly.

I see AI being more of a teaching assistant, rather than a replacement for teachers. Having been in the education game for over twenty five years, I know the difference in impact when comparing virtual learning to in-person training.

I've run it on a Pi 5 with 8Gb, and get about a token a second

I fondly remember watching kids in physics exams trying to answer questions using Felming's left hand rule. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleming's_left-hand_rule_for_m...

You could watch them hold up both hands, wondering which one to use, then trying to dislocate their wrists as they aligned fingers and thumb with the diagram on the exam paper.

They really are good as well. I insure my car and the DVLA knows about it. I MOT my car and the DVLA knows about it. Then I hop online and pay £0 to tax my car as it is a low emission vehicle.

I used to have to collect all my certificates and physically present them at the PO, but not any more.

I've taught kids to make line-following robots, with very little code. They are slow, don't handle crossing lines very well, and can often just flip out and do their own thing.

I'm not teaching the kids to compete in line-following competitions with robots that can run a course in seconds though. I'm not teaching them to handle multiple crossovers in their code.

What I am doing is developing a passion for robotics and programming, and hoping that a handfull go on from there. If they are inspired, they can ditch the simple APIs and move on to the more complex and powerfull stuff.

> I felt exactly how you would feel if you were getting ready to launch and knew you were sitting on top of 2 million parts — all built by the lowest bidder on a government contract.

John Glenn

Most of my family use my brother's Matrix server, but it's the Element app that makes it appealing to us all. Client side scanning could be enforced in the app, regardless of the server's protections.

> 73% of individuals in America earn less than the average teacher's salary of $69k.

And around 95% of degree holding individuals do less work than the average teacher, and almost all of that 73% are less qualified and probably in less debt from degree courses.

My son is currently choosing what he's going to move on to after he finishes school, and I'm honestly recommending military service over teaching.

It's a hard job, with working hours that are beyond ridiculous, and you end up spending some of your salary on school supplies for your classroom and for your kids. Not to mention keeping your desk drawer stocked with snacks for the kids that don't have food.

We need to wake up. If we want our children to be babysat, then keep things as they are. If we want our children to be educated, then we need to attract the best to the profession. "If you can't do, teach" needs to be reversed.

I'm pretty sure Brave has been doing this for awhile now, and it's certainly available outside of the US. It often saves me a click, which I appreciate.

We're close to the 2% inflation target, thanks to energy prices dropping. The Bank of England will probably drop interest rates soon, and anyone with a mortgage will be thankfull. I suspect that this is why the Conservatives are calling it early.

Why would you have a site with a whole load of videos on it, with all of them set to autoplay and constantly loop? I was watching a video on my second screen, and it stutters each time I try to visit the site.

Isn't that a little like saying archaeologists seem to find a suspiciously large number of historical objects, or tornado hunters seem to have a suspiciously large number of tornado sightings?

It wouldn't surprise me if there were a large enough population in the UK to be sustainable. I've been hearing stories about black leopard sightings since I was a kid, and geographically they are quite far apart.

These animals are pretty shy and mostly hunt at night. It was only recently that we managed to obtain footage of them hunting at night in an area of the world where they are fairly common.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/science-environment-68665332

I think you're confusing Trading with the Foundation. Go and have a look at the websites to educate yourself on the difference.

https://www.raspberrypi.com

https://www.raspberrypi.org

There's pleanty of information in the 'about' pages.

I take it you live in an area with good public transportation, or maybe you work from home and have shops within cycling distance of where you live.

Workers need to get to work, and there are tradeoffs. Unless you want your local sewage treatment plant, the fat rendering factory, or the refuse landfill within walking distance of your house.

I'm okay with watching the majority of action movies, but I distinctly remember watching this fight scene in a Bourne movie and not having a clue what was going on. The constant camera changes, short shot length, and shaky cam, just confused the hell out of me.

https://youtu.be/uLt7lXDCHQ0?si=JnVMjmu0WgN5Jr5e&t=70

You could look into setting up a Code Club.

https://codeclub.org/en/

And we have a tonne of resources at https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en

Playing around with teachable machine is also a tonne of fun for kids, and MIT have a platform called RAISE playground that has Scratch with teachable machine extensions

That was such a faithful adaption of Scanner Darkly, it was like reading the book again. I agree that a similar adaption of Do androids dream of electic sheep would be amazing. I'd also like to see the same care and attention given to some of Dick's other novels and shorts. No one has quite been able to capture We can remember it for you wholesale, and the twist at the end. I enjoyed Minority Report, but it wasn't quite up there with the story.

I have a street in a town near me which grammatically should be called St. Thomas' road. However, the street signs call it St. Thomas road at the north end and St. Thomas's road at the south end.

In training a couple of weeks ago, my son accidently delivered a straight right to my forehead, with significant power.

It took me a few seconds to recover, but when I did it was to check his hand was okay, as we weren't wearing gloves.

He was fine. I had a headache for two days.

In my experience, most martial arts tests don't require you to actually break the thing you are hitting.

The examiner is just watching to make sure you hit with the correct technique and to hit hard.

She should just focus on that, and not be disappointed if she doesn't break.

Breaking in on my Tang Soo Do sylabus at every belt grading. We do use plastic break boards rather than natural wood or concrete though.

Your board holders also have a significant input on your success. If they hold the board, but let their arms flex, then they absorb too much of the energy of the strike. They can make it easier for you as well, by flexing the board inwards towards them.

I've gone through boards with a one inch punch with barely any effort, and also failed several times, and it has always been down to the person or persons holding the board for me.

> Your vision is a site for the lifting community

Is that mentioned explicitly somewhere on the site?

I'm into martial arts and never want to set foot inside a gym; I also have no equipment at home. Picking things up and then putting them down again has no interest for me.

I want exercises that use only body weight and allow me to focus on the muscle groups where I want to increase strength (I have no interest in aesthetics; I just want to punch and kick hard).

It's early days on the site, but it has already given me a bunch of exercises that do exactly what I want.

These lasers mean that the watches that Q gave to James Bond will finally become a reality.

LLMs and self-driving cars mean that KITT from Knight Rider will finally become a reality.

All I need is for Webb to discover a planet a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far, away, and my childhood fictions will have been realised.

I can't remember if it was descent or descent 2 but I remember there being a bug on the final level when flying down a super long corridor that caused a 15 minute or so reload time each time you died. Took me hours to complete and I drank so much tea while waiting.

I want Dang's search tools.

I didn't like either of them very much, but I've really enjoyed other books of his.

- The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.

- Seveneves

- Cryptonomicon

- Anathem

- Reamde

- Fall; or, Dodge in Hell (Although the metaworld parts in that get a little tiresome)