relaytheurgency

I feel similarly. If you're working with some relatively niche APIs on services that don't get seen by the public, the AI isn't one-shotting anything. But I still find it helpful to generate some crap that I can then feel good about fixing.

Right. The "reasoning" is an illusion. It's another hype generation tool.

Very off putting. I hate to admit that I stopped reading afterward. I don't like to be that way, but there's a lot to read out here.

Maybe some STEM, maybe lower level courses. I went to a large school and there were maybe 14 people in most of my upper level classes for my degree.

I'm not sure if you're arguing for or against it, but for those who don't know, this is at its core sleep training. It doesn't require a parent to just throw their child into a crib, slam the door, and put in ear plugs. Anyone who ignores the needs of their child is cruel. That said, sometimes a child's needs are met and they just need to learn to go to sleep without someone patting their back.

I can't speak to a doctoral level of knowledge, it's probably not really formalized and will differ on your specialization. But just for my bachelor's degree I took the following courses: Calculus 1, Calculus 2, Vector Calculus, Elementary Linear Algebra, Differential Equations, Linear Algebra.

Those are just the courses specifically in the mathematics department. You also cover mathematics within the physics courses themselves of course. Especially in quantum mechanics and E&M. You also might be required to take more math depending on the structure of your degree program, I did a focus in chemistry as well so took more chemistry and less math than other students.

I also can't say how many hours I spent on this. But the overwhelming amount of my homework time, every night, was spent writing proofs and solving mathematical equations. To a lay person physics work probably looks no different than mathematics. It was all math all the time :) Sometimes I would have a homework assignment that was only a few "problems" that would take me a dozen hours to solve. As for aptitude, I was probably in the middle amongst other physics students, but that group overall was above average already.

This video had me laughing a bit. I live in Kansas City and will fully admit it's not a model for anything good. But the shot of a Home Depot parking lot off of the Grandview Triangle as an example of my city? It's bogus. I live in a completely walkable neighborhood in Kansas City that is, essentially, the kind of suburb this video claims to support. I can walk to a grocery store, several bars, coffee shops, restaurants, a library. All in five minutes. All from my 1930s construction home with a back yard and a two car garage.

What is the US doing exactly?

I don't think the opinion about the source is appropriate on Hacker News, but I can concur the child care problem is real and difficult.

My child's classroom closed for a week because of a positive case. My child tested negative, so she can still potentially get sick which would cause _another_ closure plus she would have to quarantine for 10 days. There are 8 kids in the classroom, so I could be looking at losing 7*5+10 days of child care before this is over.

Where are you getting the 8 hours from? A car that gets 30 mpg with a 14 gallon tank can _drive_ for nearly 8 hours at 60 mph. That same car may burn (on the highest end) 1/2 a gallon an hour idling which would be more than 24 hours of idling time.

I definitely agree with this. The one thing that I hoped would prove useful from these programs vs IRC was the idea of a persistent, searchable, history. However my experience has been not great. Searching history often just brings up unrelated snippets of conversations I didn't have any interst in, in channels I never chatted in. It's just more clutter.

My father in law developed a nasty necrotic wound that everyone assumed was a brown recluse bite. But it kept getting worse and worse no matter what treatment options they tried. Turned out he had leishmaniasis. Of course no one considered that because they were blinded by the common explanation.

Now, you could argue that maybe had the doctors known more about leishmaniasis he would have received a diagnosis faster. However, I imagine the situation played out about as well as one should hope. Certainly in Bolivia (where he picked up the disease) they should be more aware of the common causes of things than the uncommon. They should not be inspecting for brown recluse bites when there are rarely any just as we should not look at every necrotizing wound and investigate it as an uncommon case of leishmaniasis.

How many teachers are there in this country? Safe, seasonal work isn't exactly common but it's certainly not shirked due to not being busy for 3 months. A lot of teachers find that to be a benefit.