mtmickush (u/mtmickush)

mtmickush commented on The language brain matters more for programming than the math brain? (2020) massivesci.com/articles/p... · Posted by u/smusamashah

mtmickush · 4 months ago

I don't find this too surprising. The study itself was primarily just testing a students ability to identify syntax and remember what various functions do. I wouldn't expect math proficiency to help much in this area vs I would very much expect language to.

It'd be interesting to see correlations (language brain vs math brain) for how easy or hard it is for people to solve new problems with language after they already know the basics.

mtmickush commented on TikTok is back in the App Store theverge.com/news/612768/... · Posted by u/scarface_74

Andaith · 7 months ago

Apple is breaking the law. Clearly defined by Congress, and upheld by the Supreme Court. Just because the president said "Yeah no worries".

I feel like this is a huge risk for Apple. The president can change his mind, you can have a new president, Congress or the supreme court could decide they actually wanted that law enforced.

Also, If it comes out that sensitive data was exfiltrated from the US via tiktok, or whatever natsec concern saw it banned realizes, then Apple's position is suddenly even worse because the president can say "Apples clearly breaking the law! Lets throw the book at them".

I don't understand the risk/reward calculations Apple did that came up with this decision.

mtmickush · 7 months ago

Congress and the Supreme Court already decided they wanted the law enforced. It's up to the executive branch to enforce it and if they decide not to there isn't much the others can do.

mtmickush commented on OpenAI's o1 Playing Codenames suveenellawela.com/though... · Posted by u/suveen_ellawela

groggo · 8 months ago

Can you elaborate on some of the more advanced tactics?

When I play, it's mostly about getting a good 2 clue each time. Then if you can opportunistically get a 3 or 4, that's awesome.

Some tactics come in for choosing the right pairs of 2's so you don't end up mismatched, or leaving clues that might be ambiguous with your opponent's... But that's mostly it.

It'll be fun for multiplayer! Just like how in other online games you can add in a AI to play as one of the players.

mtmickush · 8 months ago

Other advanced tactics involve giving a broad clue that matches 3-4 of your own and just one other (either your opponents or a civilian). Your team can pick up all the matches across several turns and the one off doesn't hurt as much as the plus four helps

mtmickush commented on Kids who use ChatGPT as a study assistant do worse on tests hechingerreport.org/kids-... · Posted by u/notamy

hi_hi · a year ago

Story time. I always struggled with math as a kid. School to high school, then didn't touch it much until Uni. Teachers typically couldn't explain things in a way I "got it" in a school setting. I had some success with a private tutor to get me over the line in high school.

Then at Uni I'm doing Computer Graphics, which included advanced (for me) math. I was panicked, and initially struggled until one of my good friends who was also studying the same course, and is VERY good at math, was able to answer my vague "I don't get it" questions, or at least guide me to more specific questions.

I think I'm quite a visual learner, I don't think at that time there was a concept of people learning "differently". Luckily my good friend was also a visual learner, along with also being very good at math. It was like someone was able to see how my brain worked and feed me information in a way it could compile. I became quite good at math after that.

You really need to learn how to learn. Its fascinating, but also horrifying when I now consider all the lives that have been negatively impacted because this wasn't understood, and people were led to believe they couldn't do something which maybe then really wanted to be able to do.

If GenAI can help with that, I'm all in.

mtmickush · a year ago

Glad to hear you were able to find a mechanism that clicked and stuck with it after that! The concept of learning styles for individuals though is a common myth

https://onlineteaching.umich.edu/articles/the-myth-of-learni...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhgwIhB58PA&t=2s

There isn't any evidence that individuals learn best to a single style and generally approaching learning from multiple facets is the best way for everyone to learn!

mtmickush commented on China promised climate action. Its emissions topped US, EU, India combined aljazeera.com/economy/202... · Posted by u/nradov

Georgelemental · 2 years ago

US + EU + India is a much higher population than China.

mtmickush · 2 years ago

This is true but largely it is India that is pulling down the EU and an even larger extent the US per capital pollution rate

mtmickush commented on EU’s plan to digitising travel documents might affect you edri.org/our-work/how-eus... · Posted by u/type0

mtmickush · 2 years ago

"Travellers who don’t use digital travel credentials must not be discriminated against. This condition includes that border controls for travellers with physical documents must be equally accessible and sufficiently staffed to enable travel checks in a reasonable amount of time."

Is it a reasonable amount of time today? If digital documents allows someone else to go faster is that discrimination?

mtmickush commented on Aspartame sweetener to be declared possible cancer risk by WHO, say reports theguardian.com/society/2... · Posted by u/sandebert

Nathanba · 2 years ago

40% is definitely near 50%

mtmickush · 2 years ago

"will have" infers a future present though. 40% will have at some point in their life is substantively different than 50% having at a single moment in time

mtmickush commented on Waymo One doubles service area in Phoenix, continues growing in SF blog.waymo.com/2023/05/wa... · Posted by u/ra7

bushbaba · 2 years ago

It’s not really when you consider their burn rate. Say each of those trips gross 10$. That’s just 100k/week or $5.2 million/year. They’d need to likely 10,000x the ride volume to even be close to profitability.

Uber does 7.64 billion rides per year. And they are not profitable. The waymo cars sure ain’t cheap, and scale of operations will take a ton of cash. I wonder if waymo would ever be profitable.

mtmickush · 2 years ago

$5.2 million/year * 10,000 = $52 Billion / year if I'm understanding you correctly. That seems on the high side to me?

mtmickush commented on It's A(door)able ncase.me/door/... · Posted by u/michaelbrooks

phoe-krk · 2 years ago

Adding the time limit and actually making the clock go faster when a player is (purposefully) going off the rails is a sinister trick to ensure that players get the expected ending message. Clever that the programmer throught of these cases.

mtmickush · 2 years ago

There's just barely enough time on the middle and last levels to double back even with the faster clock movement for going the wrong direction. Fun little challenge

mtmickush commented on A growing number of scientists are convinced the future influences the past vice.com/en/article/epvgj... · Posted by u/myth_drannon

echelon · 2 years ago

I just need retrocausal information on the stock market, world events, and any threats to myself or my monopoly on retrocausal information access. That's all.

mtmickush · 2 years ago

If the information is truly retrocausal you won't be able to leverage it to alter the future :'(.