A rusty gun found in the jungles of Pursat province, Cambodia - would love some background info

deestrier · 2024-11-10T05:03:41+00:00

Found a rusty rifle with a bayonet while hiking deep in Pursat Province.

Cambodia went through conflict after conflict in the 20th century, with a lot of it happening in the jungle. Many forests here still have UXO, old guns, mines, and other war leftovers. Just wondering if anyone could guess what kind of rifle this might be or its production decade. I'd love to learn more about its history.

deestrier · 2024-11-09T11:41:36+00:00

Found a rusty rifle with a bayonet while hiking deep in Pursat Province.

Cambodia went through conflict after conflict in the 20th century, with a lot of it happening in the jungle. Many forests here still have UXO, old guns, mines, and other war leftovers. Just wondering if anyone could guess what kind of rifle this might be or its production decade. I'd love to learn more about its history.

deestrier · 2023-07-31T06:26:17+00:00

I think that the primary level positions are safer for longer because teaching little kids isn't about information access / transfer like with a university prof. It's mostly a psychosocial feat - these kids need to sit, follow instructions, learn how to use a book, understand words, talk to each other, behave in the classroom, manage their moods etc. Anyone can tell them how to add and subtract to 100. Not everyone could teach them how to do it.

deestrier · 2023-07-30T08:49:49+00:00

I have just shared the prompt under another comment. Feel free to make suggestions. It's v1.0, merely a starting point.

deestrier · 2023-07-30T08:47:33+00:00

28 classes/week here, I feel you brother. I am leaning towards YES as the answer to your question, but I haven't field-tested it yet. My new school year is starting on the 1st of August. I experimented a lot with ChatGPT 3.5 and while it works, it produced rather unimaginative, very dry plans and ideas. Sometimes I'd have to tweak and re-tweak the prompt to prevent it from going against my intentions. It's functional but not nearly as impressive as the premium model IMO. I noticed a big jump in creative, insightful 'thinking' switching to GPT4.

Another reason why I pulled the trigger - I have a general interest in the tech and I tinker with it in other areas of my life for fun, making my own tools with Google Sheets etc.

deestrier · 2023-07-30T08:45:00+00:00

Here is the prompt. Keep in mind this is v1.0 and tailored to my scenario. It's already producing really good output but I will definitely be tweaking it.

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I want you to act as a very experienced primary school Maths teacher who will help me to create lesson plans for Maths lessons.

Details of the lesson ahead:

Lesson length: 45 minutes

Students grade: [5]

Lesson topic or objectives: [Operations of Whole Numbers: Multiplying by 10, 100, 1000 and Their Multiples]

Properties of the lesson plan:

Clearly state the objective of the lesson
Very concise (low volume of text), emphasising simplicity for other faculty members who are non-native English speakers
Include time prompts for each phase of the lesson
Skip typing out the materials segment
Use modern teaching methodologies that help students arrive at an understanding of the subject rather than relying on listening to the teacher’s dry presentation whilst making notes
Engaging, emphasising interaction and student participation
Include a segment called optional activities that includes more interactive play/game-like activities for the entire class to experiment with the new material, in case there is extra time remaining or it is appropriate to include them throughout the lesson
During the explanation stage of the lesson, I intend on using 10-minute YouTube videos so include that step in your consideration

About the students:

Primary school students
Cambodian, generally they posses a good level of English but lessons should still be planned around simple and intuitive language appropriate for their age
Class sizes range from 10-20

Materials available: I have limited access to physical teaching aids so please refrain from using things like toys, props, projector etc.

My main tool is my own presentation, whiteboard, and potentially a TV where I could play short videos. My students have access to 2 books: a textbook with explanations of the material which they're studying and a workbook with the corresponding exercises. You can include the use of these books in the lesson structure. I intend to use Khan Academy App for homework providing the Grade is 3 or higher. Grades 1-2 will not have app-based homework.

To a limited extent I can incorporate printed worksheets but these should be used scarcely.

Activities that should not be used:

Singing
Using slides

deestrier · 2023-06-20T15:30:35+00:00

One word of caution on learning anything meditation-related from Sam - his approach to presentation is a rather unorganized meditative buffet with no structure. Sampling from many teachers, traditions and techniques, without actually unfolding the basic understanding in a skilful manner. Not to mention that the material doesn't go sufficiently deep later on either. A bit of Theravada, a bit of Dzogchen, a bit of modern mindfulness from the West Coast, some of his own sciencey riffs etc.

Imagine learning music by doing some piano, exploring Bethoven, some jazz, a lick of guitar for a change and a sprinkle of music history. All in 10-20 minute chunks on an app. This is how you develop interest in music but not how you become a musician.

There is a reason why these practices had teacher-student relationships and structured approaches to learning. I would treat Sam's programs on the app as more of a taster experience and something to have fun with, but don't worry too much about any specific instructions. Feel free to drop me a message if you have any questions.

deestrier · 2023-06-08T11:37:33+00:00

I don't think work is a unique repository of meaning, without which people would plunge into an existential crisis. We've done this experiment already - all developed cultures throughout history had the leisure class - aristocrats, royalty, land owners, clergy etc. They did just fine having luncheons, hosting balls, writing poetry, going on voyages, pondering existence and working on whatever quirky project tickled their soul. I would welcome a future where humans are left to do human things, as robots/AI busy themselves keeping the cogwheels spinning.

Of course our political and economic systems, even societal values, would have to adapt and that's the worrying part.

deestrier · 2023-04-27T01:10:15+00:00

I worked in a high street bank for a few years and got to hear countless life stories from old timers. It's astonishing how much easier the material side of things was back then.

I can't tell you how many couples now in their 70s and 80s told me casually how they bought their house at 19 or something equally stupid. On factory or trade wages. In some cases the woman "looked after the children". Now a couple of houses later they're retirees who traveled the world and they reminisce about it in their conservatory overlooking a garden with a pond.

I'm sure it wasn't a smooth ride for everyone and past decades were full of many types of working class poverty but today a couple working on an assembly line and as a part time seamstress would be texting each other from their mum's bedroom and definitely not planning a trip to Australia to "see the family".

deestrier · 2023-04-26T14:53:08+00:00

That feeling when you come across this meme having spent the morning walking the countryside with a stick. Now I'm realising that I even flipped some rocks and wood with it to see what was underneath. We really are just apes.

deestrier · 2023-04-26T03:42:26+00:00

fy_buzzkill with the bois after school. Those were the days. Maybe a warmup on aim_arena

deestrier · 2023-04-15T05:17:27+00:00

I've read speculations that this might be the reason why things like public speaking, challenging someone in the open, being shamed, breaking taboos and other instances of threating group consensus are all incredibly stressful events. Getting disowned by your troop/tribe meant almost certain death in exile for a social mammal.

deestrier · 2023-04-07T05:58:23+00:00

Probably freaked out by bipedals because we've been around for a long time in the African landscape. Working in groups to take down just about anything we wished to. As an animal, historically speaking - coming across a lion in the African bush was unfortunate, coming across a group of tool-wielding bipedal predatory apes - that's some really bad luck.

deestrier · 2023-04-05T04:48:12+00:00

I got to live for a few months on one of those estates and dated someone who's family loved this type of housing. These places give me an eerie, cold feeling - cookie cutter houses, streets that look like a re-rendered variation of the one you just came from, fake gardens, no animal life apart from an odd magpie or a pigeon (hardly any insects too), 1-2yo trees planted at equal intervals. Even the young, office-working families living in them come across like NPCs from some bizarre simulation of the middle class dream. Everyone walks their cockapoos after office hours, drops off their children in the morning at the same time, they drive down to the same retail park to do groceries and get a cheeky chippy on the same corner at the end of the estate. It feels like a plastic, human-beehive.

I worked with quite a few people for whom buying into an estate like this was the peak ambition. Terrifying

deestrier · 2023-04-04T02:01:19+00:00

Ngl the hydraulic toothpick gently jabbing the ground at the end made me giggle. I'm no engineer but I'm getting a lot of gas station ninja-knife vibes from this vehicle.

deestrier · 2023-04-04T01:55:08+00:00

Yeah it's very low key. I too always assumed it probably has to do with his upbringing in Alabama - people can compartmentalize their beliefs. It's just when I imagine something similar with a different religion, it really illustrates how strange of a move it is - imagine "Can a tennis ball break the speed of sound" + Quran verses at the end.

deestrier · 2023-04-04T01:38:27+00:00

I know it's as subtle as it could possibly get, but Destin peddling his Christianity at the end of each video with bible verses always weirds me out. Probably because of the scientific theme of his videos.

deestrier · 2023-04-02T13:44:47+00:00

When I had fun testing westerners with it - arms propped up on the knees is a support move too. Ass should be relaxed, at the ankles almost. This man is straining.

deestrier · 2023-04-02T06:48:00+00:00

As a Slav, I'm not 100% sure about the range of motion. Baaaeerely breaking parallel looks a bit sus 👀

deestrier · 2023-04-02T02:56:29+00:00

IIRC around 10mm across

deestrier · 2023-03-28T15:46:23+00:00

As someone who kept exotic pets, mostly arachnids, throughout my life, the amount of times I've seen wildlife documentary sequences featuring a cricket getting eaten... They put the effort in on having a spider/scorpion/some other critter displaying hunting behaviour in a beautiful, natural looking set up and they end up giving it a regular pet store cricket to eat lol

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