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I would also like to know. Surely some people here have at least second-hand knowledge, and silence can sometimes be deafening.

The first appendix to the Common Core text for the English Language Arts contains some very interesting discussion of the role of advanced literacy outside the confines of academia. It is worth a read.

I was raised in a working-class family in Greece in the 1980s. We lived in what the average US person would describe as "squalor". Cockroaches crawling on our faces style.

My parents made only a few luxury expenses: encyclopedias for us children, and especially books about space and the cosmos. So please speak for yourself when talking about the interests of struggling people.

It's AIive!

Perhaps. For now, one of my one-on-one tutoring sessions (in real analysis) this semester consisted mostly on un-teaching a student a bunch of wrong crap they "learned" from ChatGPT.

Ok this is your second comment that reads like pure rage bait, is there a way to notify the mods?

For easy access: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PU4gBzEnQ6M

Statements like that one deserve all the ridicule we can pile upon them.

>bioluminescent individuals

Brilliant.

But I thought crime---

- He said thought crime! bots start firing the machine guns

Yep, that's exactly right.

"So you're implying..."

No.

The technology isn't there yet (｡•́︿•̀｡)

I don't have a stake in this thread, but I am stealing "maladjusted weaklings" (≧▽≦)

Yes. Yes, it would. This is so tiring.

Damn, those poor and homeless are really living it up.

Jesus Christ.

Oh yes, a very unfortunate side-effect that companies are implementing with tears in their eyes, tearing their clothes apart.

Unnecessary emphasis can get... quite comical... indeed.

Is that a genuine "he could lose", or "he could lose" the way Erdogan "could lose"?

Don't spread the misery?? Wow, fucking thanks.

I read shakes dice as a Latin term and had a good laugh. "Ah, if they bomb us, we will retaliate on Ecuador shakes dice."

>Vote for better politicians.

I cannot. I can only vote better politicians if they are there. That is without even going into the minefield of what is "better". My implication is that I have no confidence whatsoever in any current politician in my state.

> Donate money to causes that you think are important.

I have no money.

> If you think you can do it better, and this isn't meant to be facetious, run for political office.

I have no money, no visibility and no connections. Even if I was magically given tons of money, I would still need a strong network to attempt any real change, even without taking into consideration the strong networks already in place preventing it.

Telling random citizens "run for office" is facetious, whether you mean it or not.

"That's Larry; he does most of the work around here."

I agree. I wish I could be more optimistic.

I am sorry, but under the current circumstances in the US, your second paragraph sounds like satire, and I actually laughed out loud.

I have often heard this story. To my ears, inexperienced in the tech industry, but experienced in others, it sounds absurd. If a modification improves performance even in the slightest perceptible way (of course it needs to be perceptible by the user), it is the job of the sales team to hype it up to the heavens.

To me, these stories sound like a ridiculous failure of the sales team or of the executive team to communicate the change to the sales team.

I got worried when I read the title, so I asked ChatGPT if I have fallen into this trap and it guaranteed I have not; that was a relief!

Yes, too many people here do not understand the distance between the problems the article is discussing (and LLMs have solved) and the big problems in math and CS.

What an utter piece of shit comment. I have had friends (research mathematicians) who were harassed at the border and you have the temerity to do the "cite your sources" shitcrap for "data" which is available with a single click of the mouse -- as the very gracious sibling comment showed, doing your work for you.

Soon they will replace all the iron railings with maiden.