minor quibble: but second education means High School to me. Which is tax payer funded in my country.
I assume you meant post-secondary education, higher education, or tertiary education?

A bit of rhetorical license on my part. Although at my work, we "steal" power point slides from each other. When you make a slide at my company, it's assumed that anyone else can repurpose them. The ownership is with the company and not with the individual.
In academics it's different. Although some departments at some colleges do follow a similar practice, I think it's pretty rare.

I draw a distinction between what is appropriate for staff and what is appropriate for students. The two do not share the same requirements and goals. People that work by different requirements would of course work under different rules.

The practice ended up costing me about $100 more per class for four of my non-elective liberal arts classes. One of them was a total scam because the book store would not sell used copies or take them back, so I ate the cost for a book that was worthless once I passed the class. I would compare this to my mathematics classes where I had two text books that I used through five classes and multiple semesters.

If you are doing college level mathematics, that you use a calculator or slide rule or do all arithmetic in your head isn't material. Because you should already know arithmetic when you're 19 years old.

I found out that doing arithmetic in your head is a handy skill when you're working a cash register. But it not that critical when doing some entry level Calculus course.

Theoretically you can learn to do trigonometric functions in your head. But why would you? The vast majority of people used tables for that (for hundreds of years?) and more recently, calculators.

I disagree with the first part, and agree with the second.
Creating teaching material yourself, at least from scratch, is not a prerequisite for teaching a subject effectively. And I think it's an arbitrary and unreasonable for students (the tuition-paying customer) to expect every lesson, lecture, slide deck, and textbook to be handcrafted by the professor.

The professors that can teach from their own memory are rare, or are deep in a very narrow subject matter. This is both impressive but a little problematic because it is difficult to reproduce or scale that class to a broader set of students.

I'm pretty old school when it comes to education. I feel that students get out only as much as they put in. Feeding their homework and some prompts into AI is going to hit them like a ton of bricks when exams come around. A professor faces a completely different set of constraints and goals than a student, so I don't believe in applying the same rules.

Letting an LLM do the heavy lifting for your coursework is terribly tempting for a student, but ultimately a disastrous choice. We humans learn by doing and by repetition. The entire point of getting an education, especially for undergrads, is to acquire a firm foundation of theory and practice for your chosen field. The ability to reason and think for yourself is not something you can simply will away with a few LLM prompts.

A professor, or any educator, doesn't need to practice the material. They can beg, borrow, or steal the lesson plan and course work and present it to the students and still be an effective educator. Most undergrad classes are taught with material that is purchased from publishers, and not developed by the professor themselves. And honestly, I don't really trust professors that write their own text books and force their students to buy them.

And if you have ever taught a class, you'll find that the school will give you the lesson plan and often won't like it if you deviate from it significantly. You're given some or all of the material up front, depending on what state your predecessor left things in.

Google doesn't care what you like, nor does it want to help you find something. It just wants to get you to click on more and more stuff.

Right, it's a ridiculous claim. Like calling Amazon a monopoly. Nobody is forced to buy from Amazon or on Steam. There are stores selling games other then Valve's just like you can buy from places other than Amazon. Obviously, controlling 74% of market share is well short of the 100% that is required by some definitions of monopoly.

And here I thought monopoly was primarily about identifying anti-competitive behavior. Learn something new every day.

You're probably right. but I still hope that AI ends up on the same list as 3D Blu-ray and Livestrong bracelets.

The strategy of Warner Bros. Discovery, that has changed little in nearly 40 years, is more likely to blame. Combined with unrealistic expectations for market growth in a market saturated with media.

A look how well that worked out for him. Trump is doing all of you a huge favor. And J.D. is asking that you at least say "thank you".

GM only wants to make BEV SUVs and trucks, or as they call it "EUV". The only interesting one is the Chevy BrightDrop, which is basically a small BEV delivery van that is quite customizable. ($45k, meaning folks can't even afford to live in a van down by the river)

You don't subtract debt from GDP.

Boeing 747-8 is a great plane with an excellent safety record. That model has no record of a fatal crash, and the entire series is quite safe considering the amount of air time it has collectively logged.

Now should a member of the US government, in a position that frequently needs to discuss state secrets on board an aircraft, ever get on a plane that could have been deeply compromised by foreign governments? If not the Saudis, then operatives of Iran or Russia. Potentially China or North Korea, although their reach isn't quite so great in Saudi Arabia.

The richest nation in the world, and we act like we can't afford aircraft built by our own nation. It's nucking futs, it makes all of us in the US look like we're ruled by the king of idiots.

What if a man had an IQ of 156 but was too lazy to give a shit?

actual Republicans are extinct.

I got a reproduction Model F (F77 Model F Keyboard from modelfkeyboards.com) and it's great. I think it is a tiny bit better than my original Model M or the Unicomp, but it was rather expensive and it is dangerously heavy.