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In most other teaching contexts I've always been trapped teaching the most advanced topics since I was one of a few people who *could* ... having teachers with deep math experience from a young age makes a big difference.

And when I'm working with them outside of their regular class I can work on teaching something that doesn't fit well into a "standard" ... how to *play* at mathematics.

And the students really do need it.

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I teach at a very academically rigorous school. But, there are a few things this school does that might surprise people:

1. Many teachers teach a wide range of grade levels. So you could have a teacher who *could* teach Linear Algebra teaching you in 4th grade math.

2. The school makes time for creative math and CS in addition to the regular class. So I get to work with students without pressure to get them past any particular test or goal posts.

I pushed out a minor CSS/HTML fix to the death generator. It's now got a dark mode! It inherits it from your browser, so if your browser is set to dark mode (or your OS is, and your browser is respecting that), you'll get a darkmode Death Generator.

deathgenerator.com/

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Are systemd-timers running just enable/disable on other timers turing-complete?

#RikerGoogling

Imagine wondering “When’s the next time that Christmas will be a Tuesday/Wednesday, for those sweet optimal public holidays (Jan 1st being exactly a week later)?”

Now imagine asking, idk, google or Siri or god forbid an actual calendar, instead of turning to the best tool for the job: systemd.

#systemd #linuxadmin #linux #systemd

autocaptioning is just a perfect example of overfitting data tbh

it thinks that Al Cove is something that someone is likely to say because Al and Cove separately are more commonly said than alcove, even though Al Cove is just a nonsense transcription

Why is it that the feeling of 'no, I'm not going to sleep just closing my eyes for a bit' feels so good?

@heatherhorns_lite my favorite is when you google a question and it leads you to a forum thread where some asshole is like "ummmm just google it???"

yeah i, i did. that's how i got here

PSA: You're not allowed to mock people for asking a question instead of using Google now. Maybe they want a quick and correct answer, you know?

It's well hidden, but the relay system is the centralised part.

The posts you see come from the AppView. The AppView gets its data from the Relay. The Relay gets its stuff rom the PDSes. So you always go through the relay. No direct connection from AppView to PDS. Yes, they promise that in future you might be able to run your won relay. But right now and since its inception, Bluesky rund the only relay system you can connect to. I call that centralised.

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#BlueSky isn't decentralised or federated. The outage yesterday is the obvious proof. It may *look* decentralised and they definitely love to outsource traffic and storage costs by claiming that running your own PDS (Personal Data Server) is somehow something federated, but that's all smoke and mirrors. You have to go deep on [1] to find "networking through Relays instead of server-to-server" as their current implementation choice. THEY run the relays. No one else.

[1] bsky.social/about/blog/5-5-202

stop calling it "AI" when it's a large learning model.

yes, it's artificial, but LLMs are *provably* not intelligent.

yeah i did the numbers for real now. if i exclude one specific impulse purchase that i'm likely to sell off, a maxed-out m1 macbook air literally would've cost me more than twice the price of my entire music gear collection combined. i know which spending choice i'm happier with

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Why is it that the feeling of 'no, I'm not going to sleep just closing my eyes for a bit' feels so good?

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