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Comment CS Education (Score 1) 55

the value of CS education is shifting, from writing perfect code to shaping systems, telling stories through logic

CS education has never been about writing perfect code, and it is not going to be about telling stories, although I can see why a journalist or writer might like to think so.

"All you have to do is tell a story to the computer, and it will do what you want." It's the author's version of wanting to program embedded systems in Javascript, because Javascript is what you know.

Comment Re:Are we part of Israel now? (Score 1) 173

"Literally" has taken up a meaning as a signal of linguistic register. It doesn't mean "figuratively." In this meaning the register is the tone of someone who wants to appear smart, without actually having knowledge. The word is used without regard for the metaphorical character of the phrase, so it's more appropriate to use the word "obvious" as a definition, rather than "figurative." The user is usually unable distinguish between literal and figurative. The use of this register has risen recently as people who are smart appear to have higher status.

Whereas you are able to distinguish whether a statement is literal and figurative. Your use of the word is because you want to fit in, not because you want to appear smart (because you actually are smart). Thus, when you use it, you aren't even achieving the correct register.

Your analysis of Nazis is a polemic rant, filled with motivated reasoning, which is altogether below your capability; inasmuch as you are actually capable of analyzing a situation in a scientific way, searching for facts to disprove your own hypotheses. For example.

Don't be an idiot. Republicans are idiots.

Comment Re:Need a new name - Artificial skill? knowledge? (Score 1) 71

The strong do as they will. The weak do as they must. 5-th Century BC Athenian commons vs Militians

The quote is "the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must," and it was the Melians not the Militians, and it wasn't Athenian commons, it was an Athenian commander.

Comment Re:ChatGPT is not a chess engine (Score 1) 139

ok, here is the sentence you seem to have had a problem with:

Chess is a problem where you need to be able to tell the machine "these are the rules" and have it follow them. Humans can do that, the LLM can't.

I don't know why you have a problem with that, but I think you are an idiot.

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