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.
It's sometimes useful, it seems. But when and why it helps is unclear and understudied, and the text produced in the "reasoning trace" doesn't necessarily correspond to or predict the text produced in the main response (which, of course, actual reasoning would).
Boosters will often retreat to "I don't care if the thing actually thinks", but the whole industry is trading on anthropomorphic notions like "intelligence", "reasoning", "thinking", "expertise", even "hallucination", etc., in order to drive the engine of the hype train.
The massive amounts of capital wouldn't be here without all that.
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.
One thing that guy generally complements is interwar construction. Maybe a failing on his part for not recognizing it in KC, a probably a question of what portion of KC is from that time period and what portion is as pictured.
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.
Yes, the child care problem is huge. My kids' daycare is short-staffed due to staff being out sick, which means they have to combine the classrooms at times. Then when one child in a combined classroom tests positive for COVID, all of those kids--and all of the teachers--are sent home for the isolation period. This results in more short-staffing and more combined classrooms, which leads to even more opportunities for COVID exposure.
It's a cascading failure, and it doesn't stop there. The parents end up watching their own kids and have to call out of work themselves (or work remotely at greatly reduced capacity).
It's a policy failure. Government should've paid a parent to stay home and provide childcare for their kids until under 5s could be vaccinated, instead of what we have now, which is a broken, dysfunctional childcare system attempting to keep itself together (and failing, both due to wages being too low to make the work worthwhile, spread of COVID, etc).
I don't know how you convince anyone in the current environment to be a childcare provider or teacher, when there are robust alternative employment options available that pay more for a better work environment.
In the us we’re still a in 1950s Backwards mindset that a woman’s place is at home with the kids in the kitchen and our government services are based around that. At the same time it’s basically impossible to not be poor without two incomes.
The notion of closing a whole classroom due to a single positive case is ridiculous and counterproductive. We're all going to be exposed occasionally regardless of what protective measures we take. Fortunately CDC data clearly shows that on average COVID-19 is less dangerous to children than other common viruses like RSV.
And no, closing classrooms isn't necessary to protect teachers. They've been vaccinated for months now, and are free to wear PPE if they choose.
