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tithe··on 1 in 4 U.S. Teachers Say AI Tools Do More Harm Than Good in K-12 Education
Super Munchers, Outnumbered, Operation Neptune, Wild Science Arcade, and Mario Teaches Typing

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tithe··on Deep Learning: Foundations and Concepts
$17 for the e-book looks like a good deal.

From the text's website[0], there's also a free-to-use online version: https://e.issuu.com/embed.html?d=deep_learning_ebook&u=cmb32...

[0] https://www.bishopbook.com/

tithe··on [dead]
Guilty on all 34 counts.
tithe··on Ask HN: What are your favourite websites that display a lot of data / tables?
The National Weather Service (NWS) has weather reports in tabular format: https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=29.7687&lon=-9...

The graphical tables are nice, too: https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=29.7687&lon=-9...

tithe··on Ask HN: Short term memorization strategies/techniques?
I second the "numpad" approach: for short numerical sequences (license plate numbers, addresses, etc.), I visualize a telephone dial-pad, and my fingers pressing the numbers. I feel the order my fingers make, visualize the blocks being pressed in sequence, and even the DTMF[0] frequencies, trying to incorporate multiple senses into the visualization.

For grocery shopping lists, I simply take the first two letters of each ingredient and try and make a nonsense (yet pronounceable) word out of it. The more strange / fantastic, the better, as it seems to be more memorable that way.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DTMF

tithe··on Ask HN: Ensuring Unseen Posts in Feed
> I do not want to show the user posts that the user has already seen.

OK, so like email with a "show only new messages" filter.

> more and more costly over time

If it's tolerable to have false positives (potentially showing a user a post that they have seen before), a Bloom filter [0] might be a good match.

If you use this structure as an index to record which posts the user has seen, then it might return a post the user has already seen before (it may answer the question "is this post ID in the set?" incorrectly), but it can for sure return a post the user has not seen before (in that it will answer "is this post ID definitely not in the set?" correctly).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_filter

(Edited for clarity.)

tithe··on Wiley shuts down 19 science journals and retracts 11,000 gobbledygook papers
"I arrange, design, and sell (decision) shrubberies!"
tithe··on Wiley shuts down 19 science journals and retracts 11,000 gobbledygook papers
It seems most of these are the result of a poor application of a thesaurus with no regard to context, but here are some tortured phrase gems from these "gobbledygook sandwiches" [0]:

"artificial intelligence" => "counterfeit consciousness" / "man-made brainpower" / "fake knowledge"

"mean square error" => "mean square blunder"

"sensitive data" => "touchy information"

"signal to noise" => "flag to clamor"

"breast cancer" => "bosom peril"

"big data" => "huge information"

"ant colony" => "underground creepy crawly region"

"Navier-Stokes" => "Navier-Stocks"

"NP-hard" => "NP-difficult"

"end-users" => "stop-customers"

"phising attack" => "phishing assault"

"emission of CO2" => "excretion of CO2"

"deep learning" => "profound education"

"decision tree" => "choice bush"

"system failure" => "framework disappointment"

"real time" => "genuine time"

"fuzzy logic" => "feathery rationale"

"child nodes" => "tyke hubs"

"state-of-the-art" => "United States of America-of-the-cleverness"

"directional (graph) axes" => "directional tomahawks"

"magic mushrooms" => "wizardry mushrooms"

"max pooling" => "Georgia home boy pooling" (!?)

"malicious parties" => "compromising get-togethers"

[0] https://dbrech.irit.fr/pls/apex/f?p=9999:5

tithe··on Netflix is removing offline downloads from its Windows app
"Microsoft PlayReady - complete client identity compromise": https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/May/5

HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40308261

tithe··on There are different types of hard work
“There are different types of hard work:

1. Outthinking (a better strategy, a shortcut)

2. Pure Effort (working longer, intensity)

3. Opportunistic (positioning yourself to take advantage of change)

4. Consistency (doing average things for longer)

5. Focus (saying no to distractions)

Each of these requires a different type of hard work.”

tithe··on Microsoft, Khan Academy Partner to Make Khanmigo Teaching Tool Free
AI is a hammer, so corporate is swinging it at everything they can.

I agree that messing with child development is a dangerous game, and adding LLMs into the mix raises my eyebrows a bit (especially when kids may not have the common sense to not eat rocks or put glue on a pizza [0]). But in this case, the teacher is still in the loop (for now).

Assuming Microsoft keeps its word and does not transfer learning material back to their servers, can we be reasonably certain that this isn't another CAPTCHA reverse-training exercise?

I'd be interested to see how teachers can use this as a high-speed curation tool. If I were a teacher though, I'd be cautious that in delegating some of the work to a machine, the imaginative/synthesizing part of my brain is now going to go soft (and personally, I'd protect that aspect of my thinking at all costs).

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd11gzejgz4o

tithe··on The Cognitive Design of Tools of Thought (2014) [pdf]
Direct PDF link: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.3758/BF03196322.pdf
tithe··on Google AI recommends adding Elmer's glue to pizza cheese after scanning Reddit
That the fundamentals have changed?
tithe··on Microsoft Paint's new AI image generator builds on your brushstrokes
Putting AI in MS Paint feels like putting a flux capacitor in a Geo Metro.
tithe··on Sam Altman is showing us who he really is
> You can’t copyright look and feel though, can you?

You can certainly patent it.

"In general terms, a “utility patent” protects the way an article is used and works (35 U.S.C. 101), while a “design patent” protects the way an article looks (35 U.S.C. 171)."

- https://www.uspto.gov/patents/basics/apply/design-patent

tithe··on Enlightenmentware
Shells, and how by scripting them you have programmatic access to the entire operating system.
tithe··on Ask HN: What are some interesting usecases/applications of Generative AI?
Manga-style comic generator, Shortbread!

https://shortbread.ai/

tithe··on Ask HN: Video streaming is expensive yet YouTube "seems" to do it for free. How?
Curious: was your distribution client-server or peer-to-peer?

Or both, similar to Skype's supernode model?

tithe··on Ask HN: Video streaming is expensive yet YouTube "seems" to do it for free. How?
Bandwidth/Transport costs for live streaming, especially in group conference call scenarios (where N streams needs to be broadcasted to N-1 participants) become prohibitively expensive after about 8 or so participants unless you can offload those bandwidth requirements to other places (e.g., like in a peer-to-peer architecture).

How Zoom manages to do this in a client-server fashion and is still financially solvent is also a question I've had for a while, but like others say, discounts on the transport and peering arrangements will be a key part in making those economics work, as compression and storage are relatively solved problems here.

tithe··on Bipartisan Senate group releases sweeping AI report
Report: https://www.young.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/Roadmap_Elec...
tithe··on Coronal mass ejection impact imminent, two more earth-directed CMEs
According to the SWPC[0], the "SPACE WEATHER CONDITIONS" section displays the pertinent information: as of 5/10/2024 at 6:00 CST, the "24-Hour Observed Maximums" list "R3 S2 G4". The "Latest Observed" section shows "R1 S1 G4".

According to NOAA Space Weather Scales [1], the effects of those events, their levels, and the corresponding hazards (including biological risks for the "S" category) are listed.

It is unclear to me what "high-flying" and "high latitudes" mean in these cases, and I would think that they would depend on the severity and location of the space weather event.

[0] https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/communities/space-weather-enthusia...

[1] https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/sites/default/files/images/NOAAsca...

tithe··on Coronal mass ejection impact imminent, two more earth-directed CMEs
One option is to do what quick-service restaurants (e.g., Subway) do for chips, cookies, drinks, etc.: keep a hefty supply of product on hand, but consume it first-in-first-out (FIFO, like a queue). During times of stability (when supplies are available), add new supplies to the "back" while you consume from the "front".
tithe··on Coronal mass ejection impact imminent, two more earth-directed CMEs
I wonder how Starlink is going to fare...
tithe··on Coronal mass ejection impact imminent, two more earth-directed CMEs
Implications!

- Power systems: Possible widespread voltage control problems and some protective systems will mistakenly trip out key assets from the grid.

- Spacecraft operations: May experience surface charging and tracking problems, corrections may be needed for orientation problems.

- Other systems: Induced pipeline currents affect preventive measures, HF radio propagation sporadic, satellite navigation degraded for hours, low-frequency radio navigation disrupted, and aurora has been seen as low as Alabama and northern California (typically 45° geomagnetic lat.).

https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/

tithe··on Microsoft PlayReady – Complete Client Identity Compromise
> ...unless your entire computer is locked down and "verified"...

This is exactly what the WEI (Web Environment Integrity)[0] specification sought to achieve, but at the browser level.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Environment_Integrity

tithe··on Show HN: An open source alternative to some of Slack AI's premium features
As far as "Show HN" goes, this is called "burying the lede".
tithe··on John Carmack's 'Different Path' to Artificial General Intelligence (2023)
"And he gave me a list of like 40 research papers and said, ‘If you really learn all of these, you’ll know 90% of what matters today.’"

That alleged reading list given to Carmack by Sutskever is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40297984

tithe··on I Quit Being a Restaurant Server to Become a 6 Figure SaaS Content Marketer
I imagine the skills that make for a successful server (openness, empathy, attentiveness) would serve you well in content marketing.

Reminds me of some of the best software developers I've worked with had (seemingly) unrelated backgrounds: law, music, and even archaeology!

tithe··on Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose
DHCP is a client-server protocol, so it "runs" both on the router (as a server program vending available IP addresses) and the local machine (as a client program initiating the request for an IP address, and ultimately accepting the given IP address from the DHCP server on the router).
tithe··on Center for Advanced Hindsight
I thought one of the researchers looked familiar: Dan Ariely, who did a TEDx talk on self-control -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPQhj6ktYSo
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