“Today’s America has seen decades of the intentional conservative-led starving
and squeezing of public education … and also the devastation of newspapers,
journalism, and a vast misinformation campaign. All this adds up to preventing
many who are educable from becoming educated. Thomas Paine, and those I’m using
him to represent, would recognize this as a sabotage of their system.”
posted 11/20/2022 8:00pm ∞
“[T]he developers are testing it on Annie, Zach Adams' wife. After a failed
attempt with an earlier version, the latest tutorial took Annie far enough to
where she could ‘tunnel under a bog and drown her fortress.’ Presumably, that
is good.”
posted 10/30/2022 8:00pm ∞
“There are some who take organic chemistry to get into a Ph.D. program or
prepare for a career in chemistry, but they’re relatively rare. Most of the
students are pre-med, and for a lot of them, organic chemistry is a
dream-shattering experience.”
It seems to me like the professor at the center of this story was done a grave
disservice by NYU , set up to fail
(though surely not intentionally on anybody’s part) and then abandoned.
posted 10/26/2022 8:00pm ∞
“[M]ost of my callers realised that they can’t contribute to a field without
meeting today’s quality standard. … One of them might even publish a paper
soon. Not a proposal for a theory of everything, mind you, but a new way to
look at a known effect. A first step on a long journey.”
posted 9/13/2022 8:00pm ∞
“The next issue we tackled was setting up a custom video stream to play the
rickroll in real-time. We needed to broadcast multicast traffic, but only the
AvediaStream encoders or the AvediaServers could do this because of
ACL restrictions.”
posted 8/17/2022 8:00pm ∞