monk_e_boy

As an educator (UK) it's very hard to find people with experience to join us. The pay is SO crap and the workload is huge. Trying to teach complex, large systems is impossible, because we don't have them. We can't throw 1,000 files and 20,000 lines of code at a student and teach them how the system was engineered. We can show them toy systems.... which is fine if there is a work route that takes them and nutures them for 5 or so years. But without that pipeline, shrug not sure what we do about it

colleges are seeing apprentices placements drop - why train an apprentice for two years when ChatGPT will do the work for them?

All my students us it a lot. We use it a lot in the office - we have a lot of digital paperwork to do, ChatGPT is fine at doing it all.

It can write lectures, generate worksheets, come up with interesting quizzes, D&D stuff.

It's just a tool, some people will find it useful, some won't. A bit like a chainsaw.

You should give us educators a free license :) I'd use this in my classes if I could.

I'm keen to use it with c++ and rust

part if it is to extend my house - I have tiny rooms, in VR I am in a giant open world.

Same on the plane or train. I can wonder a beach or sail the ocean.

Have anyone who is in charge be someone who has X number of years teaching experience.

Or they should own at least half a brain

I don't know those people. I think averages that include London and other cities don't represent most of the country. Average salary for where I live is £10,000 less than the UK average (I just looked it up)

And who is hoovering up those expensive houses? Not the middle class.

Rich folk are investing in housing and renting it out. It's crazy.

Other than london and a couple of other cities, most of the country was already ranked as most deprived in Europe.

Throw in Brexit, cost of living and most normal people are fucked.

I'm a lecturer (5 yrs) and I'm struggling to pay my bills. We've been out on strike and nothing happened. NHS is struggling. Pay rises are around 0% for most people I know. Food inflation is around 16%. Foodbanks are struggling to feed families.

Companies are making record profits, these are distributed as dividends to shareholders (the rich) who then go on to buy more shares or other assets (e.g. houses)

Where I live most houses are Air B&B for a lot of the year, this has destroyed most villages by the coast. House prices have doubled or more. So a lot of those families have moved into towns, forced to rent rather than buy. Tons of money that used to go into mortgages (investments) is now funnelled to rich people who own the housing stock.

There's a lot of crazy stuff going on. The UK has a shrinking middle class. The middle class used to drive the economy. The rich poor divide is breaking the country.

A better TAX system would fix most of the problems. But our government is not interested.

When ChatGPT first came out I was asking it to draw pictures of goblins and wizards using Python and Turtle - it's pretty bloody good at it. You can ask it to make the goblin angry or happy or whatever.

There is some sort of magic in which the LLM is imagining what a goblin looks like, then converts those thoughts to turtle commands and then finally adds python. It's quite impressive.

For example, the eyes, head, hair, horns etc are all in the correct place.... how? Using imagination?

Fish is wildlife (mostly) so the sooner we stop taking it, the better.

Farmers ensure they have cattle for next year. The fishing industry doesn't take that care over next years stock.

Stop eating fish. Please. Just move to chicken or some other meat.

I know how to code and how regex works (I do teach it after all) so I'm pretty ok with what it wrote.

We all (students and staff) use it a lot. It'll write lectures, help think up interesting worksheet ideas, help students code, help them think of things to write about, how to structure assignments.

I needed a lecture on regex, ChatGPT wrote it for my in 30 seconds. Then I asked it for some problems for the students to solve and it wrote those too.

It may not be relevant to you, but for some of us it is changing the way we work. That hasn't happened since the dawn of the internet, or social media, or mobile phones.

The next generation are using it, and using it a lot.

As someone who works in education, we education nurses, the public services (think police, fire, army etc) IT, coding, space tech, brickies, chefs, etc etc etc .... so many lecturers have an exit plan, or are already gone.

The very foundadtions of the country are being removed. How do you run an economy when there's no one educated enough to do it? Even if we drop 1% of the future leaders, business owners, start up founders, and whatever .... what is the UK then? I don't think we'll be fine, we're slowly sinking and everyone is banging pots for the NHS and saying 'keep calm!' and selling their houses to AirBNB lettting agents and NOT VOTING and we still have the most stupid voting system on planet earth so nothing can change.

Wow - this will change education. "Teach me to code!" AI breaks it down into steps, then finds resources on each step and shows them to you

They had to move space down to meet Blue Origins rocket. At least SpaceX can get to orbit.

I surf and kitesurf. I guess the hardest thing to describe about the sea is how violent it can be. Getting a wave on the head (a wave of decent size) is colossal. Every part of your body is attacked, board shorts ripped off, arms flung around, head whipped back, legs hit your chest or back.

Big waves are crazy powerful.

Then there's the speed, wizzing over choppy water on a board feels like driving over a very pot holed dirt road, the chops SLAM into the board over and over again. You lean on the rail to turn and the board may just drop away into a hole or get slammed up by chop.

And if you fall, you don't penetrate the water, you just skim over it like a flat stone (or a rag doll in the mouth of a dog, shaking it from side to side)

Will we become like horses did over this century. Horses did a lot of the work and millions of them were needed.

Now we keep horses cos they are nice and fun to have, but we don't need millions of them.

Why would an AI need billions of people? I wonder what society will look like in 100 years time.

Also, AI cures aging.

A different job? Go travelling for a while? Travelling is a lot of fun and makes you realize that life is short and that you should make the most of it.

I changed careers and found the change fun. I may go back to coding at some point, I kinda miss the that deep thinking it requires .... but I can do that in my spare time if I really need to.

Or, if you need the money, just phone it in for a while.

Get into teaching. You'll be skint, but happy.

Same. And after a few days the "photos" app will post some AI enhanced versions of the good shots. Some are ok, some are not much better, but occasionally it makes the photo 100x better. It's pretty amazing.

The phone is pretty nice, good screen, long battery life ....

The king is worth billions, I doubt he gives a shit.

I print all the time. For students, a print out has a different flavour, texture, um ... feel to it.

For personal use - I tend to print out then cut the margins off and stick the pages together to get a better feel for the document.

Side note: why can't I get rid of the idea of pages in Word? Just let me type on an infinite white space. When things (tables, images, diagrams, paragraphs) get split over two "pages" it makes no sense. 99.9% of documents don't get printed.

The few races I watched were just silly. The tracks were so narrow and had too many 90 degree turns, it was just painful to watch. No flow. Nothing interesting happening.

I work in post 16 education. The number of young adults who have never had a drink is crazy high. A lot of them just don't drink, don't go out much and haven't ever been to a pub.

Covid. Lock down. Being fucking skint. Not having access to a car or bus service (remember the old days when a mate would drive 7 or 8 of you and your mates to a local for a skin full? Doesn't happen any more)

I work in educating young men and women, ages 16 up to around 60. Homeschooled kids almost never make a year in "normal" education. They fail to adjust to a small college, they are no longer the center of attention. They have to wait for others to catch up. They are not team players. It's really hard to watch.

I came here to say the same. My son (10) uses it a lot, he's figured it all out by just trying things.

The other day he had an issue with a slight echo in the audio. He mentioned it when we were out of the house. When we got home I had the idea that maybe he'd added the Audio Input Capture twice ... but I couldn't think of why that would happen.

When i mentioned it to him, he'd already figured it out and solved it. He had added two audio inputs when he was trying to capture his headset mic and his desktop mic (with phone taped to it, playing music) ... I dunno what the point of this story is ... OBS has a weird interface, but it reminds me of the good old days, when you just made it work and the users just figured it out.

I think the polished UI/UX we have these days makes us complacent. Afraid of poking and prodding.

Yes.

https://www.quora.com/In-movies-spaceships-often-accelerate-...

A school with working blinds? Where turning out the lights doesn't result in a riot. Giving students glass and expecting it back without cracks in it.

In my school all of that equipment was broken, lost or stolen years before I got there.

But blue titles? Blue for hyperlinks, surely. Also, the buttons don't look like buttons.