My partner attended the RCA recently. I'm their cohort of around 80 students, 60 of them were from China, and around 80 percent of whom had English so poor you couldn't hold a conversation. I don't mean to be rude it is true.
During safety briefing they'd, say, walk down a hall, then lecturer would say "turn right" and they'd turn left.
The remaining 20 were also international but had decent English.
Doesn't matter though because the only "teaching" that happens is lectures throughout the term. If you can whip out a good final assessment you get the degree all the same.
A British academic "rolling eyes" at efforts to decolonise their material. Yikes but also typical. Mathematics is a pure subject, and logic itself is not colonial. Of course. But academic institutions do retain aspects of colonialism in their teaching. It's not a wild idea to take a moment and consider how your department may be complicit.
Aided and abetted by putting a veneer of mathematics over the top. That is the important context for the idea of decolonizing math - that it doesn't actually take place in a vacuum.
You only hurt yourself by drawing a line between academic knowledge and work knowledge. Very few people are actual geniuses that just retain information. Rather, most people know about things because they use them every day, that's all. Professors and researchers know CS stuff because that's what they need to get a paycheck. You know K8s because that gets you a paycheck. The fact that the former is called "knowledge" and the latter a "skillset" is just a technicality that shouldn't bother you. All knowledge is equal. If you need to know more CS stuff you will learn it no doubt!
Instruments without frets don't have this problem. I played violin for many years. When you play a double stop (two strings at the same time), since there are no frets, you can play true 3rds, 6ths etc. The harmony is so "pure" that it causes a third harmonic to ring (which is how you know you're doing it right). My violin teacher always insisted that e-flat and d-sharp are not the same. When you're playing in different keys you have to put your finger in a slightly different place.
Right. I had this too, but because I never got the explanation this post provides, I had to live with "because it's a different key" - but could never quite understand why it made me out of tune with an accompanying pianist. Now I know... this is awesome!
When you eat your own dogfood (or rather, feed it to your own dogs), to demonstrate confidence in your product. You can experience things as your users do, which can help give you a better understanding of how people use your product and the issues they may find.
That was one of the unfortunate realities when developing Riak at Basho: while we used Riak, we didn’t need its massive scalability, so it was hard to find the problems that customers would eventually stumble upon.
The last company I worked for was essentially finance bros who had a no-code investment solution but wanted to sprinkle ML on top to get clients. Suddenly it needed to be able to run air-gapped on prem. Oh also on Ali cloud in china. Oh also on GCP and AWS hybrid. Business promised the clients it was ready before we even started building. 90% of the team was under 25. We tried our damned hardest. Used K8s to make the whole thing platform agnostic. It worked but it cost a lot. Business people are the worst.
Isn't a single binary the best fit in this case? Telling clients they need to build up a kubernetes cluster (especially in finance) won't always be the easiest decision.
Open shift : an unstable trailing-edge version of Kubernetes with too much security to the point of wasting everybody's time. Or so says my team which is still recovering from that unmitigated disaster ...
Agreed. To go further, I think people don't even want quality content. And on the internet, they just want the feed. They don't want reccomended videos to choose from. They don't need a comment section. The search bar doesn't even matter. Turns out the best way to engage people and get them to use any platform for hours is to just give them a feed. It's why TikTok, YouTube and most Meta products all have stories that just autoplay. That's the future
I don't think that's true in general. People do want good content, but good content is hard to find, and people just don't want to put in the effort of finding it.
They watch what the algorithms suggest because it's easy, not because they really want to watch that stuff.
I mean, look at me, scrolling HN and Reddit for hours. Do I think this is quality content? No. But it would take a lot of effort to find something to better spend my time, so I just don't bother.
I also think being shown what is popular to the majority is another part of the stimulation a feed can bring. Even if you feel the content is poor quality, you now know what content is popular and that is useful.
Your last point is why I use it. I think many don't know you can configure it to open apps, run commands, and open splits on start. Super helpful when projects get big!
My partner attended the RCA recently. I'm their cohort of around 80 students, 60 of them were from China, and around 80 percent of whom had English so poor you couldn't hold a conversation. I don't mean to be rude it is true.
During safety briefing they'd, say, walk down a hall, then lecturer would say "turn right" and they'd turn left.
The remaining 20 were also international but had decent English.
Doesn't matter though because the only "teaching" that happens is lectures throughout the term. If you can whip out a good final assessment you get the degree all the same.