Disclaimer: I’m going to present on Using Gen-AI tools to enhance English teaching and learning to fellow educators next Monday. Suffice it to say that I embrace the invasion of Gen-AI tools.
Preparing for the presentation reminded me of how Hayao Miyazaki famously declared his disdain for Gen-Ai tools. Aside from his exceptional talent and unparalleled work ethics, I do think that he is in a privileged position to let nature run its course, have ideas slowly germinate and marinate inside his mind, and embark on drafts and revisions before he is satisfied with his final product. Which will be top-notch and perhaps groundbreaking, that goes without saying.
Did you know that your child’s report card remarks may not be completely written by his or her teachers anymore? Platforms like Magic School help busy teachers churn out remarks in a jiffy. More motivated ones will adapt these remarks to add a personal touch; their stressed-out counterparts will probably copy and paste these remarks on the school management portal.
Because these remarks are good enough. I don’t think that many teachers lack the will to come up with personalised remarks, but given that we wear multiple hats and fulfill a multitude of tasks every day, we might not have the cognitive energy required to come up with heart-felt and insightful remarks. Insight is a time-consuming process, but time is the commodity that teachers lack.
So, sometimes I only have 15 mins before the next lesson. I could be more efficient, I guess. I may succumb to dillydallying after a lesson and only waking up my idea when time tightens its suffocating grip on me. Though I argue that I’m just human and need to decompress after an exhausting lesson and just lay back and eat something. Other times, I get dragged into conversations I may not particularly care for, but my colleagues may need help, so I will be there for them. However, these disruptions mean that I settle for good enough.
So, I use Gamma to generate PPT slides, as well as Magic School to generate worksheets. I hastily scan through AI’s work, make a few crucial changes, hit ‘Send’, and rush my way to class. I do my best with the materials I churn out. Sometimes, I’m even an effective teacher because some students remember what I say and learn to apply the strategies taught on the next assignment.
Not sure where I’m going with this. Maybe because I have no resolution in mind. I guess I envy the likes of Hayao Miyazaki who not only know what they want, but have also carved out a conducive environment for them to pursue wholeheartedly their vision, heedless of time’s march and money’s pressures.
Thanks for the nice response.
This is tangentially related, maybe, but I'm very intrigued, in a systems-builder type of way, in how big undertakings (like your codebase) can be rendered maximally approachable to someone. Put another way: for whatever complicated system you inhabit, how can you lower the bar as much as possible for someone else to contribute to it meaningfully?
This extends to social systems, too. I may have posted about this before, but this example from Irina Krush during the Kasparov vs the world chess extravaganza is kind of my go to for what this means. Here's an excerpt from Michael Nielsen:
(Some similar examples come to mind from Audrey Tang, though I don't have any ready to hand. Similar energy in her activism, though.)
I'm obsessed with this idea in the btc ecosystem, which is why I'm such a snarky bitch sometimes. What would the Irina Krush / Audrey Tang of btc look like? If you're holding a billion dollar bag, is there a relatively low-cost but super high-leverage Irina Krush-style person who could fills all those invisible cracks and bridge the bridgeless gaps? It's fun to think about. I've written about it before but am too lazy to unearth any of it.
Anyhoo, your setup for the trial made me think of it. I bet the work you're doing now will add a ton of value outside of the value it adds in helping you hire someone. Innovating as per usual.
Litecoin and Ethereum shortly before I came to ₿esus.
To be totally transparent, I also occasionally play coinbase earn on the toilet because I'm kind of curious if they'll ever improve the game mechanics + I want to see what kind of "inventions" are coming out ... (which yields coins that I covert to bitcoin).
From a cybersecurity perspective, what do you think is better to use for a bitcoin wallet: dedicated GrapheneOS device or mainstream hardware wallet (Ledger/Trezor)?
I was recently in NYC thought about going to pubkey but didn’t have time.
It looks like an awesome place but the crowd I’ll pass on. Definitely need more women.
The lack of BTC payments are odd. I don’t buy this explanation:
I think this IRS rule stuff is a cop-out for poor transaction volume in Bitcoin. People do stuff all the time and don’t think twice about the IRS. I think it’s better to just say people don’t want to spend Bitcoin then use this IRS boogeyman.
Maybe next time I am in NYC I will go to pubkey and buy drinks with my Zeus wallet and if tor is down I’ll use my Munity wallet.
Yes. The balance on LNBits is just a promise. It's just a db entry saying "this user has the right to spend xxx sats". It's not the sats themselves.
If he loses the wallet id, you can simply go to the LNBits internal database and look for it. Or open a new wallet and credit him the sats.
My parents did a lot of drugs around me growing up but always lied about them. They were sharing "cigarettes," snorting nasal medicine, the little mirrors were for applying makeup, and they went into the bathroom with groups of their friends for long periods of time for protection. My weekend sporting events always culminated in a huge rager at one of the coach's houses (where at some point late in the night the head coach's wife would lick my eyeballs, Bert would put slugs up his nose to sneeze them out in front of us kids, and I'd wind up locked in a closet as the youngest teammate).
In some ways I'm glad I didn't know what was going on, especially with the harder drugs. Although, it was confusing for me and admitting it might've been the best thing for my parents. The accountability might've saved them from divorce, the loneliness they find themselves living now, and their continued addictions.
I smoked pot for the first time at 12 out of a pipe my friends made out of tinfoil. One day before school at 14, I drank so much tequila I puked on the bus, blacked out in a bush before class, then was wheeled to the middle of principal's office where I puked again and finally put in an ambulance. In high school, I'd steal pot from my dad during our monthly visits passing over the powders in plastic bags. I started growing pot at 16, reading a book about growing in my classes (I had fashioned a cover for it). My mom lived with her boyfriend when she wasn't getting arrested or entering and exiting rehab, and my younger sister lived with my aunt, so I was mostly left alone and had drunken get togethers with a small group of friends most weekends. I flunked out of high school at 17 and moved out.
I'd only do things around my children I wouldn't mind them doing.
Many or most -- AFAICT -- big custodians who are likely using actually-physical-hardware-based HSMs use legacy addresses rather than HD wallets. Possibly there exists already battle-tested software that is shared or shopped around in this sphere.
It would be great if it did that. But it doesnt, at least, not in its current form.
The weakness of the system is that the whole monetary base is predicated upon lending your coins to miners. Those miners may not give those coins back. In fact, in any game theory simulation, the miners should wipe out the lenders, because they are making bad choices.
This kind of weak security cannot compete with alts, let alone gold.
If we can find a way to remove the potential, or even inevitable, security holes, the concept could be a good one. But more thought is required.