yellowpencil (u/yellowpencil)

yellowpencil commented on Claude says “You're absolutely right!” about everything github.com/anthropics/cla... · Posted by u/pr337h4m

radarsat1 · 19 days ago

I find Gemini is also hilariously enthusiastic about telling you how amazingly insightful you are being, almost no matter what you say. Doesn't bother me much, I basically just ignore the first paragraph of any reply, but it's kind of funny.

yellowpencil · 19 days ago

A friend of a friend has been in a rough patch with her spouse and has been discussing it all with ChatGPT. So far ChatGPT has pretty much enthusiastically encouraged divorce, which seems like it will happen soon. I don't think either side is innocent but to end a relationship over probabilistic token prediction with some niceties throw in is something else.

yellowpencil commented on Dark Visitors – A list of known AI agents on the internet darkvisitors.com... · Posted by u/johneth

jahewson · 2 years ago

Don’t block Common Crawl! They’re a charity and do great work producing an open dataset that everyone can use.

yellowpencil · 2 years ago

Them being a charity isn't an automatic license to use anything on the internet?

yellowpencil commented on U.S. students' math scores plunge in global education assessment axios.com/2023/12/05/us-s... · Posted by u/beejiu

kasey_junk · 2 years ago

Nearly every big city public school system in the country has moved to a model where you can choose which school your child attends in the system. With all kinds of magnet and charter options. Those schools are judged and rewarded based on their popularity. This was done largely to address your concern.

It has all sorts of other negatives associated with it but lack of choice in curriculum and staffing isn’t one of them.

yellowpencil · 2 years ago

I'm in a big city and that is certainly not the case. I can submit preferred locations but ultimately there is a very opaque selection process and there is no guarantee made other than a seat somewhere in the system. I know some families who were on a waiting list for years to go to a school in their neighborhood (less than a half mile walking) and were only able to get in this year because of seats opening up due to city exodus.

EDIT - to add, what does this solve in the Cambridge, MA situation where the entire district has removed advanced Algebra?

yellowpencil commented on U.S. students' math scores plunge in global education assessment axios.com/2023/12/05/us-s... · Posted by u/beejiu

JumpCrisscross · 2 years ago

> Cambridge is full of harvard, mit, bio and tech employees

Are their kids in public school? In some areas, the rich and educated have completed separated from public education, which leaves poor, overworked parents prey to well-meaning but clueless activists.

yellowpencil · 2 years ago

In public schools the only way to "vote with your wallet" is to relocate, the next best option which is less disruptive to a family is to opt out of the school system if the means are available.

What other options are there?

yellowpencil commented on U.S. students' math scores plunge in global education assessment axios.com/2023/12/05/us-s... · Posted by u/beejiu

ecshafer · 2 years ago

I am not sure why so many people are against mathematics in school. Cambridge is full of harvard, mit, bio and tech employees. I would think they would realize the importance of math.

This trend is really upsetting. My daughter is a baby but i am already looking into math circles and alternative mathematics curriculums since us math education was bad before this trend of gutting mathematics education.

yellowpencil · 2 years ago

Dogma I'd guess.

yellowpencil commented on U.S. students' math scores plunge in global education assessment axios.com/2023/12/05/us-s... · Posted by u/beejiu

sct202 · 2 years ago

The reading scores look good, stable with pre-covid and ranked 9th in the world. This might be a curriculum related issue. I've heard from friends that they have to send their kids outside of school tutoring in math now because their local public schools decided to keep everyone at the same math level and their children are bored out of their minds.

yellowpencil · 2 years ago

See Cambridge, MA as an example.

https://www.boston.com/news/the-boston-globe/2023/07/18/camb...

yellowpencil commented on Firefighters are leaving the U.S. Forest Service for better pay and benefits nbcnews.com/news/us-news/... · Posted by u/ColinWright

klyrs · 2 years ago

It's hard for governments to pay a good wage without collecting taxes or booting up the money printer.

yellowpencil · 2 years ago

The US federal budget deficit for the month of June was $228 billion. Money is being spent and the money printer is running no problem. The administration clearly does not view this as an important issue.

yellowpencil commented on Men Without Full-Time Jobs Are 33% More Likely to Divorce time.com/4425061/unemploy... · Posted by u/mgh2

waboremo · 2 years ago

It's surprising because several myths about financial status within relationships are still unfounded despite being commonly spoken about.

Also, we haven't come that far in regards to gender roles. Women wearing pants and going to work, and men wearing nail polish is the extent of what was normalized in society. Anything else and we still view it with very traditional lenses.

yellowpencil · 2 years ago

Who is “we”?

yellowpencil commented on Men Without Full-Time Jobs Are 33% More Likely to Divorce time.com/4425061/unemploy... · Posted by u/mgh2

vitehozonage · 2 years ago

>For years sociologists have argued over why couples split up and what policies should be put in place to try to coax couples into getting married or keeping them married. (This is not just meddling; an intact family is widely considered to be a sound unit on which to build a society, so governments have an incentive to try and keep them together.)

Um, this paragraph was jaw-dropping to me. People think it is ok for the state to manipulate the personal lives of citizens like that? People think that incentives/punishments that keep people pushed to stay in unhappy/unhealthy marriages is a good thing?

Even the statistical conclusion seems absurd. People who only stay in marriages because of incentives will not have the same effect as "a sound unit on which to build a society"; I would actually suspect the opposite

yellowpencil · 2 years ago

If there are “externalities” brought upon the state due to separations, ie strain on public services (crime, welfare programs, school, healthcare, etc) doesn’t the state have an incentive to do so?

Playing devils advocate here.

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yellowpencil · 3 years ago

Which company does Twitter use to send these SMS messages, Twilio?