bcrossman.bsky.social
Mainer, ex-banker, ex-distressed debt private equity, probably staring at a spreadsheet right now. Here's a little game I made http://reelationshipsgame.com
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Original post got deleted. Basically this bsky.app/profile/koja...
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Two areas worth reviewing are: a) how chess instruction adapted once computers surpassed masters (I'm not saying this is where LLMs are vs teachers but simply an extreme example of technology being far above student level), and b) how math education evolved to incorporate advanced calculators.
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I very much agree with the post. I'd state that teaching and learning will have to evolve in response to LLMs but my hypothesis is that after that evolution, we'll have far more individualized and beneficial learning. But we won't know how to involve without more research.
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This is what using an advanced calculator is like. If you give someone that doesn't know math a calculator and ask them to solve x^2 +1 =0 with the calculator, they will likely get an answer but one that doesn't make sense. Doesn't mean we don't use advanced calculators when teaching math.
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Out of curiosity, do you test your mathematics students similarly? I care a lot more of what someone is capable of doing with a tool than how good they are compared to the tool...
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My guess is that today's AP Stats and AP Calc students are doing math far beyond what was thought possible in high school a century ago, partly due to calculators. Humanities have to make the same uncomfortable leap by raising the bar of what students learn and produce with AI.
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I still think of ChatGPT like a calculator. When I was young, we learned math without calculators, but eventually being good at math meant doing advanced calculations with a calculator. This person's idea is like gathering college students in a room and having them multiply 4-digit numbers by hand.
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I'm only about half way through but this is great. Thank you.
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Related, could Mills beat Collins? Seems plausible after this.
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"George III is the legitimate heir to George II and many of his taxes and orders are legal. Some may even prove effective...."
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I haven't played fantasy baseball in about a decade, but every time I see Razzball pop up somewhere, it makes me happy.
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On this stuff, causal study or stuff it...
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I just went to find the quote and I see this as the second comment when I go to post.... Well done. Here's the quote anyway
"If General McClellan does not want to use the Army, I would like to borrow it for a time, provided I could see how it could be made to do something" - Abraham Lincoln
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One of Matt Yglesias' problems is he uses a simple heuristic that if x idea/platform doesn't sway a majority of "persuadable" economic focused voters, it's a bad platform but that's really not true and I actually think Trump proves that with policies that appeal to his base and the middle ignores.
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Obviously in any scenario you have only two options a) do nothing or b) launch nuclear bombs....
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This is absolutely correct. So many of the comments here assume this means voters disliked the Dems policies (Gaza or Trans rights) but the real answer they just didn't care about the Dems policies. You have to actively give people a reason to vote for you, not just against a shitty alternative.
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Markets can remain irrational .... at some point reality will hit
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Nothing against Canada but I still feel like UK can better accomplish this. I legitimately think the UK got the 10% tariff (vs 25%) because Trump knows that but they're poorly playing their hand by not seizing this moment.
globalnews.ca/video/111140...
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It's just depressing how far away that feels and also how much the Senate might still block.
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Why don't we just ban all foreign goods? Oh right, that's immensely stupid. This is some percent of "immensely stupid", which, as a quirk of math, is still "immensely stupid".
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I feel like the market is missing this. The brand is absolutely toxic and will infect purchase decisions across the entire Musk portfolio, incl consumer, govt or business focused. What liberal is going to feed info into xAI, take a TSLA robotaxi, buy starlink (or be happy if their government does).
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I see when that was announced
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What's the avg backlog time on deliveries? Do they report backlog figures? Deliveries might be a really lagging indicator (which would make this even worse data for TSLA).
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I'm not sure there has ever been a better chance for the UK to step back into the lead position uniting Canada, Europe, the Middle East and Asia in response to crazy US policy. Offer stability and businesses will choose it.
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It may be the most egalitarian invention since the printing press. And if people want to sue OpenAI, Google, et al and create an asbestos like trust system that pays out royalties, that also works for me. But this invention will be a major force for good in the world and people should see that.
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I hate when I post something, then scroll 2 inches and see someone else beat me to it.
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You also could have bought the stock back in the December of 2020 and you'd have seen no gain over the last 4.5 years...
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Pass this and reinstitute a golden visa program at the same time. You'd probably attract a fair number of liberal Americans.
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The fact that people attending this rally see two trans women athletes competing at the high school level and think "woah, that's way too many" instead of wondering why these young kids don't feel more comfortable competing is a big part of the problem.
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I can't wait until we bankrupt each of his companies one by one.
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This is how we know we found the pressure point.
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Already back to 7/1/2024 levels, on the road to 10/4/1929 with a stop over at 9/1/1939
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The way I look at the TSLA performance YTD is we're halfway done.
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The truth is that the "median voter" doesn't care about trans issues (or a lot of other social issues that don't impact them directly) and when I say "don't care", I mean they don't care. We won't win them over by flip-flopping on these issues and we aren't losing them by supporting them.