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LLMs have proven to be quite good at evaluating their own output. Think of things like "Think step by step" and how that improves output.
Also watch Will prowse on YouTube.
I lead a software development team made up of NOT very experienced software developers that I want trained on some very specific topics.
- The trainings will be over Google Meet/Zoom and recorded so we can reuse them.
- Lessons will be over a number of hours say 5-10 hours each and delivered over a couple of days.
- Of course we can find similar content online, but we want lessons specific to what work we are doing and using examples from our codebases and using challenges we are facing.
- Lessons will be very interactive and expect questions.
Topics
Superset - setup, configuration and definition of graphs including some lesson on queries.
Git and GitHub - Day to day use, advanced usage and how to unscrew oneself. Suggest other topics.
Debugging - Especially around Java/Android. Tools and methods
Budget Our total budget is about $5000 and can be broken up across different trainers if needed.
To apply: Send resume and some example/proof of why you are the best fit for the particular training topic. We need deeply experienced people, not someone who will just Google things.
Application email: jobs@bluecodeltd.com with title: "Training"
Information including:
1. Speed limit for the area/road I am in.
2. Real time radar report telling me how many cars/pedestrians e.t.c are around me.
3. Information on common accident types in the area I am driving in.
4. For my corner of the world, it will be good to get a report on road status before I take the route - something like gravel, cratered e.t.c
I suspect that something like this would sell like crazy for existing cars. Basically a thing were I install a camera/sensor that is hooked to such a device.
For reference, I buy my niece some nice books for $1 each. These last the who year and are available everywhere.
My central point is that superstition is not the cause of our relative backwardness in world standards of wealth/health and equality, neither is it a contributing factor. It's merely a symptom.
Superstition is a symptom of poor means, not a cause of them. Therefore the central point of your statement being that "If we can remove one or two of these superstitions, then uplifting African society will be so much easier" is ridiculous.
Take any African child, give him food, shelter and an education (Hello Maslow). See how fast he will drop his belief that his uncle or grandfather bewitched him. I wish I had a better argument to make than saying that I am a product of that transition and I see it playing out everyday in every corner of my country and the neighboring countries with the same start and end.
To expand a little on that, we do not need "truth". An African child in my experience needs food first, then shelter, then books and pencils which in my corner of the world cost $10 for one child for a year. When that child has the basics of education pat down, he will now seek knowledge(truth?), he will now have use and time for the latest rasberry pi powered widget and so on.
One of the best things I have seen to work wonders around these parts are the school feeding programs we have in very few locations. You see these programs take care of the food aspect and the poorest of parents are inspired to take their children to school, chiefly because the child can now have food (priority 1) while also learning (priority x based on the parent's education level/social beliefs and so on).
OLPC atleast from my take on it is the equivalent of throwing a suitcase of money to a drowning man. Yes, once he is out of the water he will love it, but it is of little utility when his priority is just the next breath or the next day in the lives of African kids.
The superstition that is prevalent is one person believing neighbors and relatives are bewitching them or using them somehow to fuel their success. Having come from such a background, that has not stopped my education. Secondly if you spent 1 hour in any African village, you would realize how highly people think of their own governments, white people and people from towns. The challenge we have is that due to corruption by our own people (who the multitude trust) who fail to bring us the books, pens and pencils, we fall victim to the west's kindness and sometimes propensity for such uninformed nonsense as you have written above.
Also, absolutely no one would take any of those South African students seriously, it's a joke. We are not as backwards as you think. Unless you also believe thoughts and prayers will stop your mass shootings.
Lastly, the west's general belief in the superstitution of praying to a guy who was nailed to a cross then resurrected after 3 days seems NOT to have had a negative bearing on your development. How do you suppose witchcraft has held back Africans?
Essentially I found that I could tackle any task, but on the first flash of some other more exciting idea, feeling or sensation, I would drift off.
The book boils doing to finding your own Antecedents that Lead to Particular Behaviors that you want to change.