A good tutor needs to understand how the student thinks. That’s also how you come up with plausible but wrong answers to mcqs

Sure but there are more fundamental problems. AI isn’t good at writing multiple choice questions - it picks distractors that are too obviously wrong because it has little data on student errors and no model of what causes student errors

Sad news: Melvyn Bragg stepping down from In Our Time.

We should have a constitutional amendment that says that emergency powers given to the president shall last 60 days, unless extended by congress, which can extend for a period no longer than a year.

That’s fair. I had it write a computer algebra system. It’s just math, so I can give it lots of test cases. Letting it loose on data is riskier because test data may not replicate characteristics of the real data.

You’re anthropomorphizing it. If it were human, yeah, I’d fire it. It lies about having fixed the bug, lies about the algorithms it’s using, takes stupid shortcuts and says I’m a genius for pointing out the obvious. But it works quickly and if you can give it lots of test cases, it works.

My AI powered summary of the group chat: you didn’t miss anything

Elon Musk is now older than Bill Gates was when he started the Gates Foundation. If he really wants to rehab his reputation, his path is clear.

Freedom of speech!

If only her teleprompter used a serif font😀

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Our secretary of education confusing AI with steak sauce:

www.youtube.com/live/lxrg28z...

It’s a shell game. Republicans want to raise tariffs so they can lower income taxes. Tariffs are paid by everyone. Income taxes fall more heavily on the wealthy. So this shifts taxes from the rich to the poor. The rest (DOGE especially) is a distraction.

Trump Administration Is Sued Over Push to Dismantle Education Department The lawsuit accuses the government of dismantling the department by executive fiat without the required approval of Congress.

I stand with the Massachusetts educators suing the Trump administration to stop the dismantling of the Department of Education.

This is a fight for an America where it's not just rich kids who get a quality education—but every kid.

So DOGE pretends to be about reducing the debt but it’ll increase it by half a trillion through cuts to the IRS. And the real goal is to justify 4 trillion in tax cuts.

This law applies to both public and private institutions. Trump’s demands are clearly illegal.

Law/3: or to require the assignment or transportation of students or teachers in order to overcome racial imbalance.

20 USC 1232a

Law/2: of any educational institution, school, or school system , or over the selection of library resources, textbooks, or other printed or published instructional materials by any educational institution or school system

Law/1: No provision of any applicable program shall be construed to authorize any department, agency, officer, or employee of the United States to exercise any direction, supervision, or control over the curriculum, program of instruction, administration, or personnel…

There’s a difference between criticizing DEI programs for being ineffective and criticizing DEI because you don’t value diversity, equity or inclusion.

Better yet, this should be the start of a sting of bills focusing on good government. No direct investment in stocks by congress - only blind trusts or broad indexes, for example. Make this the Dem brand.

The You You Are = UUR = WR but that’s all I’ve got #severance

It’s clearly illegal. The federal government is not allowed to control any program of instruction or materials.

Does McMahon know that the federal government is forbidden from dictating curriculum? She can’t forbid a Black History class (or a class on DEI)

YouTube video by Blazing Catfur Dictator

For some reason, I keep thinking of this.

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Great post

As of 5 minutes ago - zero. They need “at least a week” to get new guidance together. Not really surprising but it’ll be at least a month before they’ll find a time to get the panel back together.

Hmm. NSF review panel cancelled today. There’s some chance they’ll let us meet tomorrow.

Both Severance and Silo have the main characters working on ancient computers in a world where there is clearly very advanced technology. Is Apple trying to tell us something?

Skied #winterpark today - negative 17 at the top but it felt like only -5

Probably want hard boiled eggs