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Ok, this is interesting. I am skeptic about DC's in space, but I do appreciate people actually doing stuff. What is it computing up there. How did you get it up? How does one usually talk with their satellite. I guess you don't merely have a dish since it's probably not geostationary.

How are SMR's "gaslighting themodynamics"? I mean, sure, I can accept that they're not economical with current tech, but it's not a frigging' perpetuum mobile, it's feasible technology.

Well, at least he sold something. Only halfway joking. Because probably worse than knowing you put slop out is putting thing out nobody likes.

> Engineering has never been, nor will it ever be, about "repetition" or "memorization."

Having memory of how to do things and techniques and tools and patterns is absolutely important for solving problems. The very reason experienced engineers are just better at many classes of problems.

> This cleverness can't be augmented by AI, and it can't be rotted by AI: it's something that's innate to people

I argue "cleverness" is a learned and honed skill by exposure and exercise. I just reject the idea that some people are just incapable of original thought. They just didn't get the circumstances to flourish.

I think it's reductionist to say politicians are psychopaths.and it's completely dependent on how you structure your society. And, regardless, social coordination is absolutely necessary and you won't be able to do it without the state.

There is an image crisis. Yes, it's not a badly paid profession. But the perception that it's a dead end will lead to a sharp drop off in the student numbers.

I've had a guy once reply in an email with a bug report generated by ChatGPT telling me that some piece of software I wrote wasn't working. He just plopped right there the discussion he had with the confirmation bias machine confirming 100% that what he had in front was sending spurious messages. With all the information in the world at its disposal, the LLM did not consider informing the reporter that maybe his code should flush the serial device pipe before starting his processing. I stopped short from facetiously replying to him that maybe he should use another model, since his seems to be broken.

Because poor judgement leads to poor decisions.

They matter.

Ok, what is going on in the comments here? I get people liking the article but this many comments just to say they liked it is very un-HN to me. Smells like bots to me.

Yes, I agree that is not good. But that is a thing the people need to fight politically for to not be allowed. My main gripe is that OP's post sounded like screw the people who's lives that would improve because I wouldn't get paid for it.

You know what? Good. If there is something good in it they can have it. Probably not a whole lot in my case, but still, if this enables people to have better lives, let them go at it!

> lead to basically 0% Down Syndrome

Oh, the horror.

Listen, you have no idea what these people went through and judging them for not wanting to go through the same thing is shitty.

> That's the default assumption but in the new GPU+Memory constrained age isn't true.

Is it an age or a temporary situation?

For some reason, the uncanniness of the feature pictures are deeply unsettling for me. It just stirs intense unease. A bit amusing, to be honest.

> Okay, then by 2036 the curriculum and standards of teaching will have been updated too, the expectation of what teachers will be able to teach will have been updated too, the competence of students will have been updated, and the hidden expectation will still be that every teacher can do as well as the "gifted" teachers of 2036.

Yes? I don't understand what you're trying to argue here. Rising standards does shift expectations. But this all sounds good. So I really don't understand what you're trying to get at.

> if you believe that teacher performance is at all linked to student performance, then improving student test scores ought to draw from teachers getting better too, but that's not good enough

There are several confounding factors. It might be that teachers getting better led to better students, it might be that universal access to information led to better students. I think you're overreaching with the claim that if students get better, it means instructors got better. But, sure, let's imagine I agree. So? I am of the belief that there is a ton of room for improvement.

I think that your post stems from the belief of 2 things. That education is zero sum. And that education has a filtering function not a quality improvement function. Both of which, I deeply deeply disagree with.

I do agree in the abstract that the "human social ranking" will be just as stratified as today. But that does not preclude many many classes of improvements.

Again, sorry if I am reading too much into your position, but I feel as if you run on a set of assumption here that you expect I share with you and that to me, feel alien.

Mildly interesting, and highly likely related. A cluster of 5(?) Ukrainian marine drones wound up today outside and around of Constanta off the coast of Romania with one detonating in the port and the rest detonating... somewhere around. Que here noisy exposion in port:

https://youtu.be/Y8kdneBU_3Q?si=cr07TeMnxJTG-3TM&t=17

No significant damage.

The Ukrainans apparently lost control of the drones and they wound up there. My pet theory is that Russian EW jammed the control signals and guided the GPS jamming walking them to Constanta. I'll admit, if it was intentional (it seems so) it's pretty damn' impressive work from Russian EW.

Yes, as always, we like people to be good at their jobs instead of being bad at their jobs.

But, I think teaching skills, juuuust like any other skills can be taught and improved. So if we want good teachers and educators we need to build them up, not just relie on a few good ones to carry the day.

I personally reject the notion of competency in this as a matter of "giftedness", as something you either have or don't have. I think it's something you cam build. It's something you can teach. But you need to specifically aim for it.

You should look up "direct instruction" or mastery based learning. I was in agreement with you, mostly, but self-discovery has limits. I recently think this isn't the "optimal" way to teach, sometimes it's counterproductive. There might not _be_ an optimal way to teach and it might all be situational.

> People do not, as a general rule, "learn" stuff by people telling them stuff.

Yes. Recalling stuff and applying stuff is how we learn.

I strongly suggest you look into Math Academy and just bowse Justin Skycak's books on their method. I think they are right in many many aspects perhaps except the behavioral motivation ones. I think kids going through school need to either build self motivation or have someone build it for them, and I feel that is the gap in MA.

Thank you, this quip really cracked me up. :))

Nifty link, I learned something new today. I know it's much more convenient building pcb's the way we do today, but maybe there are certain advantages we could get by exploring non-conventional layout strategies at the PCB level. I remember seeing some interesting applications with strategically milled PCB's to get flex on the PCB to fit it some specific confines.

Which of the Moore's laws would that be? It seems people talk about Moore's law without actually specifying what the law says. Transistor per SQ mm? Transistor count in a chip overall? Transistors built in the world at all? General hand-wavy performance of compute?

You never know what the counterpart is saying when claiming it dead or alive and people seem to have _ wildly_ different concepts what it means.

The original quote seems to be: "The complexity for minimum component costs has increased at a rate of roughly a factor of two per year" - I think this held up pretty well.

Wikipedia says:

"Moore's law is the observation that the number of transistors in an integrated circuit (IC) doubles about every two years, with minimal increase in cost."

Notice nowhere any mention of area. It's more related to cost?

Yes, it's copy pasting but it's tedious and it adds up fast.

Even the doFoo to performBar is tedious because you need to catch all instances and your find/replace script strategy might have unintended victims.

In this case indeed, it's just much more convenient.

> My grades were OK (except in bio, where I refused to acknowledge young Earth creationism) but not amazing.

This is... Wild.

There are clearly things to understand more than just the immediate stuff you do for work. I think most people are thirsty for understanding, it's just... many times it's in other domains than you expect.

Recently launched, it seems to have the backing of some interesting players supporting open source silicon ecosystem.

Oh, yes, I remember these kinds of answers distinctly frustrating. But it was not singular to SO. Reddit had a similar vibe at times. I remember I was studying some C things back when and asked about speed and what was essentially loop unrolling. Tip answer was why do you care about speed. Bruh, I am trying to get a mental model of how this thing works.

Or he's just... ya'know... stupid.

The competitive advantage is having access to it.

No, but it they make a monthly subscription to the restaurant, they should get a mean before hand.