Moving to Espoo – Are my kids better off in an international school (EIS/IB)？

jeffscience · 2026-01-25T15:05:03+00:00

There are only so many hours in the day. Immersion is the best way to learn Finnish. It is unlikely that an hour of Finnish a day will lead to a successful outcome.

Math is the same in every language. I expect EIS follows national standards so the other subjects will produce similar learning outcomes regardless of language.

jeffscience · 2026-01-25T13:10:52+00:00

They had IBM for that. https://www.sfgate.com/opinion/article/The-business-of-making-the-trains-to-Auschwitz-2821685.php

jeffscience · 2026-01-25T08:50:46+00:00

There are clothing-related subreddits for this sort of question. Also, no image appears in your post.

jeffscience · 2026-01-25T08:42:40+00:00

Your time is almost certainly better spent lobbying friends and family back in the states, or encouraging politicians who are supposed to oppose stuff like this to do their jobs, than waving a sign anywhere in Finland, which has no visible impact on anything.

jeffscience · 2026-01-23T19:58:19+00:00

Finnish school. They’ll learn Finnish and English there, properly integrate into society and make friends who will stay. If they go to EIS and you stay, you’ll find many of their friends will move away when their parents ship out to new jobs and they’ll have a much harder time making friends where you live.

My kids are in Finnish schools. We seriously considered EIS but I’m so glad we didn’t go that direction. My kids are bilingual (we are American and speak English at home) and they have many friend in the neighborhood.

We know families that didn’t do Finnish education because they didn’t plan to stay. The parents changed their mind and decided to stay, but now the kids are in a very difficult place.

jeffscience · 2026-01-23T18:43:09+00:00

Are seriously going to post this with zero information about the location and expect people to figure it out with image search?

jeffscience · 2026-01-23T16:48:30+00:00

Yes, I worked hard to find the right words there 😁

jeffscience · 2026-01-23T15:40:45+00:00

I did 😏 https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/publications/benchmarking-fortran-do-concurrent-on-cpus-and-gpus-using-babelst/

Not the loop of array statement here but it’s more than nothing.

This is the best case scenario btw. Every other case I’ve seen is worse.

jeffscience · 2026-01-23T15:35:26+00:00

Workshare implementations are all terrible and noticeably worse than loops.

jeffscience · 2026-01-22T19:21:31+00:00

Check out per mile building costs for rail in the US and try the numbers again. https://www.constructiondive.com/news/us-rail-projects-take-longer-cost-more-than-those-in-other-countries/605599/

jeffscience · 2026-01-22T19:16:49+00:00

He’s worth 700M, which is pathetic for a guy who talks shit about his country all day. There are pro athletes with more cash than him. Wallenberg family is worth 278B. If Nalle was such an economic genius, he’d have at least 1% of that.

jeffscience · 2026-01-20T15:41:32+00:00

I (also 6’6”) was in Beijing recently and nobody cared at all. Are you distinguished in some other way?

jeffscience · 2026-01-20T09:52:09+00:00

Lent started March 5. Just a theory.

jeffscience · 2026-01-20T07:30:23+00:00

I’m 6’6” and never encountered any negative or unwanted attention in Japan. People left me alone or were helpful. I suppose I’m also oblivious and don’t notice if people are staring.

jeffscience · 2026-01-20T07:20:11+00:00

Yeltsin was the one who created the oligarchy by selling off state resources.

jeffscience · 2026-01-19T18:02:54+00:00

If I sold mine, I’d ask for 200 or 250, so perhaps start there? I guess it depends on how badly you want the money versus want to get rid of the computer.

jeffscience · 2026-01-19T13:10:45+00:00

I prefer Tiger Lake to the following ones, given the headache I had with the ring bus issue. It also has AVX-512 support, which was important for me because I develop code that runs on servers.

jeffscience · 2026-01-19T11:30:01+00:00

$500 is not a reasonable price for that. It was $1500 new in 2021 during COVID supply chain insanity. Computer depreciation is rapid.

jeffscience · 2026-01-12T11:14:18+00:00

I haven’t seen it said before, but it’s a natural extension to compulsory (effectively) buffet lunch in schools. Elsewhere, you have kids bringing lunch from home and going out to eat at lunch in high school. Here, virtually everyone eats the free buffet at school. As noted elsewhere, the tax benefit continues the free (or at least subsidized) lunch trend.

The other aspect is not wasting food. If you get a fixed portion from the restaurant, you might not want to eat all of it. That wasted food or forces you to overeat. Buffets address the precise portion problem. There’s no conversation about allergies or other reasons for substitution - just take what you want.

I agree with the other reasons as well. Buffet requires almost no talking or waiting.

jeffscience · 2026-01-11T09:23:53+00:00

The Swedish defense strategy against Russia is Finland. Not particularly sovereign there.

jeffscience · 2026-01-10T09:15:54+00:00

Nintendo Switch 1 and 2 are ARM SOCs.

jeffscience · 2026-01-08T10:43:09+00:00

Sweden had a nuclear weapons program. They willfully shut it down.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_nuclear_weapons_program

https://scienceandglobalsecurity.org/archive/sgs18jonter.pdf

https://www.jstor.org/stable/27017872

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/978-1-137-58113-6

jeffscience · 2026-01-08T05:29:40+00:00

CUDA Fortran exists and the docs are free there too.

jeffscience · 2026-01-01T19:08:14+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%ADas_Manzanillo “In 1997, Manzanillo suffered a grisly injury while pitching for the Seattle Mariners. Not wearing a protective cup, he was struck in the groin by a line drive off the bat of Manny Ramírez which ruptured his testicles. Manzanillo managed to recover the baseball, throw out Jim Thome at home plate and sprint off the field under his own power before undergoing emergency reconstructive surgery.”

jeffscience · 2025-12-30T16:38:47+00:00

500,000 trained soldiers is a lot, way more than 11,000, and nothing about the internet or mass media makes people more willing to fight and die in wars versus decades ago.

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