SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
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SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
11hr ago
Who the hell is pushing for higher standards and more rigor at universities?
Based on this thread, roughly two people on this entire site while two dozen think an attempt at doing that was grounds for dismissal. I”d liike to say I’m shocked but this isn’t the exactly the first or even the twentieth time people here have argued in simular vein.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
18hr ago
Mankind was not meant to know some things…
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
22hr ago
For me quite significantly because aux cords were never a thing in regular car radios here. Given that radio has played pure shit for the last 20+ years, being able to conveniently play my own playlists is a rather significant feature.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1d ago
actual advanced math I'd tend to just bounce off the notation and terminology, which there's so much of.
I'm pretty sure I have some sort of math "symbol blindness". If you wrote equations using regular letters and abbreviations, I'd say "Yeah, that's tricky but not too horrible" while using greek letters and math symbols would immediately result in "WTF is this shit I can't even...".
It's all fun and games until you get to the physics for physicists and the are no numbers.
Hell, by the time I passed the last mandatory EE math course in university, the only numbers in the formulae were single digits. We were allowed to use regular non-graphical calculators but were (correctly) told that we weren't going to need them for anything in the exam.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1d ago
kindness to one person is often unkindness to another
Not necessarily.
Some comments above I wrote some suggested accommodations in school where one is being allowed to return assignments late but reducing significant amount of points for that. How is that unkind to people who return theirs in time? They get better grade while in turn the late returner doesn't get an automatic fail.
Kindness to one person may be unkindness to another but this isn't remotely axiomatic like it's treated here.
at whose feet should we lay the blame for this state of affairs? The administrators? Legislators? Assorted departments of education?
The ones who mandate that schools provide such obvious performance improving ”accommodations” in the first place. I don’t really see how actually meaningful true accommodations would significantly improve performance for regular students.
Say someone is dyslexic and requires accommodation? No problem, don’t grade anyone on irrelevant typos (outside core writing courses in elementary / high school)
Another person has adhd with faulty executive function and requires extra time to return an assignment? Again no problem, they get to return it a day or two late but with a third of the max points subtracted (or similar significant but not immediately ruinous amount).
A person can’t handle doing the exam with distractions around them? They get to do it in a sparse room under TA surveillance.
Someone's "not a good test taker" and needs to redo? Again, simple. Everyone gets say one redo attempt and anyone needing more than that has to return an extra 20 solved problems before being allowed to retake. The catch: said problems are hard level and simply being able to solve them at all essentially guarantees that you've studied enough to pass with a good grade (this is how I passed Circuit Theory 2 with all the Laplace stuff and transmission lines).
The point is that those accommodations only help against actual problems but don’t provide any meaningful benefit for someone who doesn’t truly require them (and in some cases outright reduce their grade / require significant extra work).
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1d ago
That sounds a bit like what they call "university of applied sciences" here which are basically souped up community colleges and have the reputation to go with that.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1d ago
You should have known better than to go to engineering school. Stick with CS
Alas, that wouldn't have helped what with requiring more formal math and logic theory in turn. I already only passed the one required logic course by bribing my ex-gf to do the mandatory course project for me.
<whatever you do, DON'T TAKE DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIO<NS, and you can get by with much less effort.
Ah, see... Things didn't (and still don't) work like that over here. The basic math courses and physics courses were largely the same and the difference was more complex analysis for EE vs more formal stuff for CE/CS and that isn't even getting into the horrors of discrete mathematics. So I did the only thing a reasonable person could do and passed most of the maths courses with the minimum passing grade (mostly on second try) and put it all behind me by burning the course book the next summer (Adams' Calculus, gods I hated that book). Pro tip: Make sure you have enough lighter fluid because those books are really hard to burn.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1d ago
Yeah, university is a complete joke. Effort required was very low even prior to modern AI.
Just what sorts of universities did you people attend?
Because I can say that having to study things like calculus on the complex plane, Laplace transforms (I still shudder from thinking of the nearly 10 page long calculations for just a single problem), electromagnetic field theory or multirate filterbanks certainly didn’t feel ”very low effort” to me!
she is better artist than vast majority on Spotify.
This but for real. The vast majority of modern music is such utter crap that such a middle of the road fairly cliche AI generated track can easily accomplish that.
In the video comments someone said "The AI created a song that has influences of The Cranberries, Enya, The Corrs and The Cardigans, and a dash of Whigfield." and my first thought was that even The Corrs had more personality. There is however one artist that immediately comes to mind as a comparison: Hillsong United with Oceans (Where feet may fall). It's fitting in an ironic way that IMO the closest "real" artist is a rather cringe intentionally crafted, overpolished and smoothed worship band straight out of a Christian megachurch.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
3d ago
Everyone is missing the forest for the trees
Are they? CNN is quoting Trump saying land strikes will begin soon. That’s Iraq 2.0 right there in the major news outlets.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
6d ago
it could also mean that he forgot he'd signed it
In case people think this is only something the elderly do, I was just notified that a fairly popular concept in a subfield I’ve worked in was in fact published by my professor and myself, not by my successor. And sure enough, the paper I remember writing with my prof does have a section just on that concept. Thing is, I’ve spent the last 15 years absolutely convinced I had nothing to do with the concept and it was only my successor and professor who were involved. And I’m in my fourties.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
6d ago
Ah, the same factor which made the first two Transformers films watchable!
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
8d ago
I always thought that the anti corruption services were EU puppets and US, so not sure what and why is behind it, and why exactly in this moment.
If they're US puppets, this is pretty much something you'd expect given [people in US administration have been explicitly advising Putin aides how to get the most favorable response from Trump.
Are people here familiar with git frontends?
Having again lost a day's work to git deciding to delete files I hadn't committed yet (nor will I ever commit to the master), I'm now looking for a git frontend that doesn't completely suck balls. Is there anything that fits the following tenets:
- My local files are sacred. Under no circumstances can they be deleted without some way to undo it. No exceptions. If the files in the repo and my working copy differ, show it to me so I can choose what to do on a per-file / directory basis.
- The repo has only a single origin. I don't care if Linus needs twenty thousand different repos to pull and push things from. I use one. The tool shall treat every branch as always having that as origin.
- A submodule should only mean the short text file that contains the SHA hash. The contents of submodule directories should be completely ignored when pulling, merging, committing or pushing. Yes, I know the repo's submodule refers to a different set of files than the ones in my working copy. That is intentional.
- I don't want to ever have to see or care about staged files. My files are either being worked on or have been committed. There is no such thing as a staged file.
- No operation should leave things halfway, something staged or any ><!¤#"¤#% characters in files. It either completes succesfully or leaves the working copy as it was before. Not some quantum Schrödinger's halfway state.
It gets really laborous having to have the actual working copy, the one git wants to see and the authorative origin/master and manually trying to manage them without git completely fucking up my working copy just because a branch pointer was changed somewhere.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
18d ago
It's incredible how common this is on this particular site.
I'm fairly convinced much of the "never give out any details about your personal life"-advice some people here give is mostly related to this pathology instead of any actual concern about doxxing and canceling.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
19d ago
Yup. I already knew it was going to be Amadan before even clicking the link. Most mod work is trivial janitorial duties and some mods should really be forbidden from doing any other type.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
20d ago
Curious why folks jump through so many hoops to avoid either ads or paying for a subscription.
Because the hoops are minor (install noscript and ublock origin which you have to do anyway) and the platform has been enshittified to hell even without the ads.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
20d ago
Getting stuff actually done instead of fighting with UI that is even worse than Windows.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
23d ago
The sheer amount of idiocy (even for a teen!) that Harry consistently exhibits is not the kind to go away with age. He’d grow more tired but not much wiser.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
23d ago
Old people made fun of me for knowing nothing about cars or the civil war generals
This has to be some form of stupidity specific to that side of the atlantic. I’ve never heard of anyone being made fun of for knowing nothing about cars and I’m close to 50. I also don’t recall pretty much any form of ”kids these days don’t know anything” in the 90s when I was a teen and would have certainly paid attention to it.
When there is any such talk locally, it’s always linked to phones replacing basic computer skills and specific changes made into schools and admissions since the late 90s that have turned education into shit.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
26d ago
AI music is as good or better than the average country musician
Popularity of music and the skill of the musicians was divorced more or less completely around the turn of the millennium with the advent of the trend to quantize and pitch correct everything and for the producers in general to remove every single sign of life from the music to be replaced by lines drawn in the DAW. The correct question statement is then "AI music is as good oor better than the average country musician producer" to which the answer is quite clearly "Yes, it very much is". This of course says just as much or more about modern producers than about the state of AI.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
27d ago
Khajiit has fish if you have coin.
By which you (and I) of course mean that you're these days a self-righteous much older person.
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