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avs733 commented on A school locked down after AI flagged a gun. It was a clarinet   washingtonpost.com/nation... · Posted by u/reaperducer
m4ck_ · 11 hours ago
On a long enough timeline, without any changes, this garbage is going to get a kid murdered by overzealous LEOs (or teachers in places where they want the carrying.)
avs733 · 11 hours ago
“School resource officers” shoot kids (and themselves) with terrifying frequency, the kids typically unarmed and often autistic/neurodivergent.

(The worlds laziest lit review) https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=school+resource+office+shoots...

avs733 commented on How wealth dies   surplusenergyeconomics.wo... · Posted by u/martinlaz
mwkaufma · 20 days ago
>> Rather, what we need to do is to calibrate the physical economy such that we can benchmark the monetary against the material. This enables us to avoid the futility of measuring the monetary only against itself.

Garden-variety Gold Standard quackery.

avs733 · 20 days ago
I kept having my bad vibes meter triggered by the italics so thanks for making the connection for me.
avs733 commented on Digital ID, a new way to create and present an ID in Apple Wallet   apple.com/newsroom/2025/1... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
teeray · a month ago
> and anyone requesting ID are required to accept them

This is the big one. I've seen a lot of states where digital drivers licenses are issued, but many retailers are like "lol no, we want the card." It needs to be legally enshrined as identical.

avs733 · a month ago
I've had state government (including both cops and clerks) refuse to acknowledge my digital ID in my state.
avs733 commented on The Department of War just shot the accountants and opted for speed   steveblank.com/2025/11/11... · Posted by u/ridruejo
aussieguy1234 · a month ago
Get ready for the Department Of Corruption
avs733 · a month ago
Tomato / tomato

Feature / bug

avs733 commented on LLMs are steroids for your Dunning-Kruger   bytesauna.com/post/dunnin... · Posted by u/gridentio
cluoma · a month ago
I used to get this same feeling during lectures in uni. Often the information was presented well and, along with some clear examples, everything seemed to make perfect sense.

It wasn't until working through practice problems later, on my own, did it become clear how much detail I was missing.

avs733 · a month ago
you are not the only one. There was a paper covering this exact topic in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences a few years back [0].

Passive learning (lecture) scored better on:

* Student Enjoyment

* Feeling of Learning

* Instructor effectiveness

* I wish all my courses where taught this way

Active Learning (i.e., not lecture) scored better on:

* Actual learning

The differences are not small.

[0] https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1821936116

avs733 commented on Collins Aerospace: Sending text messages to the cockpit with test:test   ccc.de/en/disclosure/coll... · Posted by u/hacka22
cactacea · 2 months ago
Interesting choice of tail number and date... https://www.faa.gov/lessons_learned/transport_airplane/accid...
avs733 · 2 months ago
I would guess it limits their ability to be accused of anythign to pick a plane, flight, and time that meets at least three criteria:

1) no passengers on board - you can't be accussed of endangering passengers

2) long past - you can't be accused of anything that happened recently

3) the plan literally no longer exists - you can't be accussed of damaging a plane

avs733 commented on Public Montessori programs strengthen learning outcomes at lower costs: study   phys.org/news/2025-10-nat... · Posted by u/strict9
avs733 · 2 months ago
As someone who has worked in education for about a decade now, I use this quote a lot:

You can’t understand Google unless you know that both Larry and Sergey were Montessori kids. — Marissa Mayer

avs733 commented on AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1   health.aws.amazon.com/hea... · Posted by u/kondro
ibejoeb · 2 months ago
This is just a silly anecdote, but every time a cloud provider blips, I'm reminded. The worst architecture I've ever encountered was a system that was distributed across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Whenever any one of them had a problem, the system went down. It also cost 3x more than it should.
avs733 · 2 months ago
i'll bet there are a large number of systems that are dependent on multiple cloud platforms being up without even knowing it. They run on AWS, but rely on a tool from someone else that runs on GCP or on Azure and they haven't tested what happens if that tools goes down...

Common Cause Failures and false redundancy are just all over the place.

avs733 commented on Did Space Debris Hit A United Flight Over The Rockies Thursday?   viewfromthewing.com/did-s... · Posted by u/sipofwater
imglorp · 2 months ago
The starlink satellites are designed to burn up in the atmosphere. They do this pretty often. But there's plenty of other space junk that's not designed to burn up and should have shown up on radar.
avs733 · 2 months ago
1) if this was big enough to get picked up on a 737 radar I think we would be having a very different conversation...

2) even if it did... rentry velocity is like miles per second, that would give you on the order of single digit seconds to recognize something on an intersecting trajectory and take action...

3) even then, I would bet that an object on this trajectory and speed would get filtered out as noise by aircraft radar because it is so antithetical to the types of things an airliner needs to inform pilots of.

avs733 commented on Legal Contracts Built for AI Agents   paid.ai/blog/ai-agents/pa... · Posted by u/arnon
tuesdaynight · 2 months ago
Probably a dumb question, but what do you mean with changing behavior over time? Contract with changing clauses? From my limited knowledge on the matter, the idea of a contract is getting rules that would not change without agreement from both parties.
avs733 · 2 months ago
I interpreted the comment as worrying about drift across many contracts not one contract changing.

Imagine I create a new agreement with a customer once a week. I’m no lawyer so might not notice the impact of small wording changes on the meaning or interpretation of each sequential contract.

Can I try and prompt engineer this out? Yeah sure. Do I as a non lawyer know I have fixed it - not to a high level of confidence.

u/avs733

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