This must be the standard distance learning process because both my son and my wife (working on her masters) have to write a post and then respond to 2 other posts. It seems like fake discourse to me, all comments are written for the instructor to read and not for the OP. There is never a response to a response, thus no real discussion.
My wife teaches second grade and for some time they had a common-core math curriculum that encouraged writing about math, how you solved this problem, and discussing that with the class. It was interesting to me to see this in person, because children often solve problems in different ways which work for them, discussing it as a class disseminated that knowledge to someone else who may find it useful. The end result is second graders who are good at math but also understand why X+Y=Z, not just that it does.
It is hard to teach this and requires a lot of work from the teacher's side to become good at it and to pull the right information from the children. In a state that criminally underfunds public education, many teachers didn't want to learn this and when the time came, discontinued this curriculum for something that required no writing (also a mandate from our worthless state department of education) and did offer more color-by-numbers, which my wife describes as "pre-k stuff".
Rant aside, I was astounded to watch how much 2nd graders understood about math when given the opportunity to approach problems like this.
I feel the same. I work on a huge meandering system and most of the issues we encounter are caused by the interactions between modules, as you say. I've taken to writing and running "end to end" tests which test the whole process end to end and verify the outputs. Wherever it makes sense to add unit tests for specific contained logic, we do that too.
interestingly where I live, unit price is on all price tags for food. but tasks like that would be perfect, combined with AI so you wouldn't have to pull up a calculator app etc, instead just say "what's the unit price for this?" or "see any better deals for k-cups?"
That's correct, distance plays a role in the estimate somehow so they limit it to when they can verify via GPS. They don't seem confidant on their distance relative to running on a treadmill. I find my watch is pretty close to the treadmill readout most of the time except when I start getting tired and holding onto the handles, then it begins to diverge.
I just bought a Tacoma in November of last year. Coming from a Jeep that had nothing but problems, I was looking for something I could make Home Depot runs in and that I wouldn't need to dump money into, so reliability was #1. I wanted to compare with a Ranger but there were literally 0 Rangers or Mavericks in my city to look at, and Tacomas were going and going from the lots every day. They were cheaper too, though the new 24s seem outrageously priced against the Ford.
It is really hard to find a "world" that has people in it, that you actually want to talk to. I have had some great experiences there though, some regular people that hang out in worlds and talk about stuff. It's kind of cool when it happens but it is hit and miss. And there is something missing with the kinds of things you can do, Super Rumble feels like a real game, but most worlds are aesthetic in nature, a place to sit and look at stuff. It feels like it needs to mature.
I think it all depends on context. It is lonely if you are the type of person who wants to interact physically. I work at home, and it can get kind of lonely here physically but there are some guys on Horizon I chat with from time to time as a break from work, in that sense it's the opposite of lonely.
