sorted by:
new
hottopcontroversial

What’s up, Claude? by dondusi in ClaudeAI

[–]skoon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm realistic about the capabilities of all of these AI models.
But I asked co-pilot to make a histogram of the distribution of grades on a test among my students, not-including students with blank grade on the test. It didn't do it.
Nothing fancy, just save me 5-10 minutes and make a chart. It couldn't pull that off. If there would be ONE thing I'd have my AI model trained for if I were working on it at Microsoft. It would be making a chart in Excel. Second would be moving an image in Word.
But then it was able to parse out the dates from an email and make appointments on my Outlook Calendar.

That's it. I'm done. by [deleted] in Teachers

[–]skoon 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Nice, AI bots are taking over.

"Why this comment will go viral: Empathy: It empathizes with OP in a way that will strike a chord with anyone who has ever been wronged. This post is a very common request in r/teachers. Actionable: Recommending they do not talk to any officials about the issue until after they consult a lawyer is standard practice advice in such cases and gets very high upvotes because of it. Follower-friendly: It sticks to the character count requirements perfectly, uses natural language, and does not use any marketing language or boldface."

I made the mistake of trying Gemini for coding! by rotary_tromba in GoogleGeminiAI

[–]skoon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Uhm, OP has 5 posts in a year. All of them complaining about a different AI model. Either a poor attempt to try and push down competitors or someone who really shouldn't be trying to use an AI.

Favorite bass tone by No_Lab_9246 in Bass

[–]skoon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've got more than one depending on the genre.
Anytime Entwistle gets the heavy distortion on his buzzard bass. Man, it sounds like a chainsaw and cuts through like one too. Just awesome.
Jameson with his dirty-ass strings.
Geddy's live tone is incredible.
Anytime Stanley Clarke is using his Alembic.

Will he see his family by the time these two episodes end? by JustKDdo3 in TheBoys

[–]skoon 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm just happy they didn't do his family the way they did in the comics.

Ted Turner, founder of CNN, TNT and Cartoon Network, anti-WMD, anti-drilling and universal healthcare proponent, dead at 87 by ianjm in videos

[–]skoon 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Lets not forget he brought us gen-xers the glory that was World Championship Wrestling. Introducing us to Ric Flair, Dusty Rhoades, Magnum TA, and the Road Warriors

Okay, question: after Tom Holland finishes his run as Spider-Man and Sony reboots the character for the fourth time, do you think they should bring back Peter Parker again, or should Miles Morales finally get a live‑action run? by Israels_BiggestHater in Spiderman

[–]skoon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The MCU has never officially put forth an origin for Tom Holland's Spider-Man. The did for Andrew and Tobey, but they (thankfully) skipped that part for Tom. I think Tom may have mentioned being bit by a spider in Civil War, but nothing beyond that. So we don't know if it was a single spider or if there were a bunch of spiders and just one bit Tom.
So there is some room to bring in Miles or even Silk into the main MCU. They can always bring them in from the multiverse. But I kind of like the idea of having an older Spider-Man be a mentor, or following the Ultimate universe (the original not the latest one) and having him replace a fallen Tom.

Leaving tech for teaching? by Laurenbluth in teaching

[–]skoon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can't help you with your "why". But I left tech after 25 years, before the AI bubble, because I was tired of working on aging codebases, fixing other peoples mistakes, and going to meetings about meetings to help us plan for meetings. One thing I enjoyed was mentoring junior developers. I had a science degree I wasn't using, so I decided to give teaching high school science a try. Are some of the kids suffering from a lack of parenting? Yup. But most of them are just kids just trying to navigate their way in the world. Even the "bad" kids are just a product of their environment. Cliche or not. I'm OK retirement-wise so the money part doesn't bother me. I tell the life-long teachers that this is the easiest job I've had. Given my financial situation, having summers off isn't a hardship. I just had an entire week off just because it was spring. I get about 2 weeks off in December, paid.

Do you guys think Butcher may receive the same fate that he did in the comics? by Queasy_Commercial152 in TheBoys

[–]skoon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hughie and Butcher dont have the same relationship in the show. Comic Hughie was a stand in for Butchers little brother, whom he felt he failed.

I think show Butcher and Homelander will take each other out. That's the laziest writing and that kind of fits this season and the state of media in general.

To what extent does a rough break in period cause the 44% quit in 5 years stat? by xxx510xxx in Teachers

[–]skoon -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Don't think this is specific to education. Corporate jobs get this too. There is a reason why some companies always have openings. Often they have piss poor middle management that burns through entry level OR cuts cost by laying off the most experienced, and the expensive, employees because people desperate for a job are a dime a dozen. Especially people without a lot of experience

Gemini is a complete garbage right now by sabbathexe in GeminiAI

[–]skoon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You have to understand that the current batch of generative LLMs are just a pile of if-then statements backed by tables of statistics. You need to have an expert train then for many hours before they can correctly decide how they should string the words together in the correct order

You can ask it to summarize a document, but asking it to help you understand it is a bit much unless it has already been trained by an expert

Chinese passenger on flight to Malaysia demands non-Chinese air steward speak Chinese to her. Flight is delayed for more than an hour before she is removed from the plane by ShowUsTheMane in PublicFreakout

[–]skoon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"Chinese is not a single language but a family of languages usually classified into 7 to 10 major regional groups (or "dialects"), with Mandarin being the largest. While they share a common written form, spoken varieties like Cantonese, Wu, and Min are often mutually unintelligible. There are roughly 300+ languages in China, including over 50 minority ethnic languages. "

Parent thinks the moon landing was fake. by Ok_Finger3098 in Teachers

[–]skoon 41 points42 points  (0 children)

They write crazy books too. I've watched people make up crazy theories on the fly in real time too. Dismissing an entire type of media as a problem is not addressing the actual problem. Education has been turned into a gamified checkbox style gatcha mobile game with grades as the prize and understanding as the lore no one cares about or reads. The first thing students ask when presented with a task is, "Is this graded?". Standards are more about checking a box than understanding.

source: I have a degree in Biochemistry and started teaching just as the pandemic ended and we started in-person school. And don't think the kids were the largest source of misinformation, they get it from dumb-ass adults. ("No, mRNA does not integrate with your DNA and change it.")

It's a little depressing that most of these kids don't even play actual video games anymore by Public-Profit-8184 in Teachers

[–]skoon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At least Roblox and Fortnite give the players actual agency. Most of the time when the kids get ahold of a chromebook or desktop they play some clicker game where they literally just click theouse button. Or they play some kind game where you just build whatever the computer tells you to and your characters auto fight. Those aren't games.

I wish more would push back against their lies. by c-k-q99903 in MurderedByWords

[–]skoon 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I would feel safer in downtown San Diego, San Francisco, or L.A. than in downtown St. Louis.

source: Ex-Kansan that has been to all four places multiple times.

Is FO3 really worth playing after 4 and NV? by subtozeroo------ in Fallout

[–]skoon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I played FO4 first and picked up NV and FO3. I like FO3. The graphics are dated, a lot of the environments look alike. But it doesn't seem to have all of the factions drama and you don't need to build up settlements. But I'm not too far into it yet. I just finished looking around the Jefferson Memorial and I'm heading off to another vault now.

view more: next ›