Henry Merrilees

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

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Rust for Rustaceans is a good read. That is all.

Your stuff is so awesome! Inspired me to start using my plotter again!

My baby boy's first wonky media mention.
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They have Kahnmigo, which AFAICT does not claim any of these capabilities today. In the context of the interview (he’s on the podcast/interview circuit to sell his new book), i don’t want to speculate on what he thinks Kahn Academy will do in the future without reading it, which I probably won’t :/

And to address more directly, I agree completely that not all problems are software engineering problems. Especially here. But with regard to the initial claim about technical capability, that is a software engineering problem, though necessarily also invoking many other disciplines.

But “Kahn Academy is not well suited to realize these speculations, descriptively or ethically” is very different from “nobody will ever,” which was the initial claim.

I might be lost here but I thought this is just Sal Kahn speculating as to what could be done as opposed to any company making claims as to what they were going to do. I agree wholeheartedly if it were the latter, and for the former, I think his speculations are premature.

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Obviously this is extraordinarily difficult to get right and potentially misses a lot of what teachers do in a traditional classroom (including the bad stuff!) but my point is simply that evidence is needed to get from there to “no pathway.”

And then, they're able to distill all of that and communicate to the parents. It's not once a term. It's almost real time.

And then, they'll report back to the teacher and say, 'Hey, I noticed Katty is not as engaged as she was yesterday' or 'Sal's really engaged today. Did you know that he's really into baseball? Let's make the next example about that just for Sal!'…

Relevant section:

When class starts, those grad students, along with the teacher, are going to be able to walk around and help your children when they need it. They don't have to wait for that help….

Sal Kahn interview in which he is optimistic about AI in education and speculates about potential uses.

Incredibly low! Which can be readily admitted without at all conceding either “no pathway” (initial claim) or “no ethical or responsible way it can be done” (normative claim, distinct in my view but certainly worth addressing).

Any engagement metric could indeed be used to marginalize neurodivergence. Should be expected to, like you said. But these are conditions of our vocationally-oriented education system as it exists, not an ethical impossibility inherent to the technology that would justify “no pathway” as claimed.

I wasn’t clear enough, but my response was intended to hinge on that current tech does not have the capabilities you mentioned.

Feels like the goalposts are shifting quite a bit here. I can’t find reference to correction anywhere in the original interview.

Maybe this is a software-person take, but I wouldn’t read that as supposing anything beyond current capabilities with conventional tech, aside from natural language formatting.

“All those with the funding to pull this off have horrible incentives and can be assured to do it poorly and roll it out prematurely” is much much more credible than that it simply cannot be done. It’s not magic, it’s a software engineering problem.

The biggest gap in the task described is software engineering and cost. I have already seen LLM-based feedback working to great effect in an upper-div OS course! Not without significant work by the professor (surprise, she’s good at software engineering).

nobody talks about how atproto is fundamentally a CAR-driven platform #urbanism

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

what are you supposed to do when the "good" political party doesn't treat a dozen credible sexual harassment claims as disqualifying for a political candidate. how are you supposed to ignore that

Excited to be talking about async cancellation at #rustconf! Cancellation in general is a really difficult problem, and async Rust has powerful ways to deal with it. But it's also surprisingly error prone, as we've found at @oxide.computer, and deserves a lot of careful thought

Pulitzer Feeling Increasingly Out Of Place In Washington Post Office

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I really think Noem’s plans to “liberate” California from its democratically elected government with military force should not have gotten lost in the news cycle but that appears to be exactly what is happening

What a contrast:

On the one hand, one grandiose spectacle in the nation's capital, a panorama of propaganda put on by an aspiring autocrat.

On the other hand, thousands of assemblies of free citizens across the nation, authentic celebrations of the proposition that here the people rule.

tanks

"It's a republic, not a democracy," say the conservatives as they get very excited for a big display of military force moving across the river into the capital.

nervous to go to protests? Don’t be. They will be peaceful family affairs. Go with a group, peel off if anything makes you nervous, don’t stay to the bitter end.

This moment calls for all Americans to express their rights. And when some cannot, it’s important for others to stand in their place.