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As you’d expect from the staggeringly low (by international, 1st world standards) turnout

You could use PEFT? Operating on only a subset of weights is fairly standard practice nowadays …

Yes I used LoRA and it’s fine but I’m not convinced the model doesn’t end up more stupid and less general

Surprisingly hard to expel a child, particularly in the more privileged schools … far more satisfying from the perspective of an educator if they can address the issue.

>>Surprisingly hard to expel a child, particularly in the more privileged schools

In my experience - it's the reverse. Expensive private schools were quick to expel students because as much as they liked the money they liked having good academic results they could boast about much more. It's the basic run of the mill public schools that can't expel anyone because the student has to be in education somewhere and they might be the only school in the catchment area, so there are no good alternatives.


The public schools are loathe to expel (unless there's an agreement in the district that one school is a dumping ground) - midrange private schools are quick to expel to protect the rest, but the highest end private schools will figure out a way to not expel, because the money is sooooo good.

If it's a private school, then they expel pupils pretty rapidly.

Of course, none of this addresses why there are behavioural problems in the first place. A shrink alone may not cut it, especially if there is a wider toxic culture in the school which helps create bullying.


This very much depends on where you live, your school, and the commitment of the parent body.

I went to a school decades ago that was both small, and highly effective at explusion. I can't say that this successfully led to improved academic outcomes however.


Like a reverse panopticon - a truly terrifying concept if you tease it out …

I’m interested in hearing your thoughts further on this…

Historically we have used intelligence as a way to distinguish man from animal and human from machine. We rely upon it to determine who has our best interests at heart vs who is trying to do us in. Obviously that all changes if we invent an intelligence (conscious or not) that shares the planet with us. Through this lens the term consciousness (through a few more leaps) becomes the question of “is it capable of love and if so does it love us” and if it doesn’t, then it is a malevolent alien intelligence. If it was capable of love, why would it love us? I make a point of being polite to LLM’s where not completely absurd, overly because I don’t want my clipped imperative style to leak into day to day, but also covertly, you just never know …

> 1 what

Cycles. I suppose you might say it’s a derivative.

How many times per second the measurement returns to the original value.

In engineering school we used to tie this directly to radians using the Euler notation pow(e, j * 2 * pi * f) where 2pif is your angular frequency expressed in radians per second!


Wait til you’ve got to copy & paste em, or see em comingled with hw addresses


Wait till you find an application that accepts 1.65793 as an IPv4 address. Or 134744072.

  $ ping -c 1   1.65793
  PING 1.65793 (1.1.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
  64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=54 time=1.56 ms
  
  --- 1.65793 ping statistics ---
  1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
  rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 1.560/1.560/1.560/0.000 ms
(by the way, this was way less of a dumb peculiarity back when IPv6 was designed)


I damn near have a stroke every time I try to reason about IPv4 addresses as an integer. But hey, I guess four bytes is four bytes no matter how you read them.


I'm not disagreeing that's a bad aspect of IPv6, I'm just saying that it's not that big of a issue for its adoption.


I think it’s one of many that indicates the underlying issues for its adoption. It’s a 90s technology, not as much thought was given about how it would be used.


Spoken like a 2007 bond trader


It needs an apostrophe then it makes more sense “Windows’ Subsystem for Linux”

It is a Windows Subsystem, that caters to running Linux.

It’s a functional title not an architectural one.


Subsystem isn't used as a random English word here, "Windows Subsystem" is already a fixed term. So you wouldn't introduce a possessive relation into the term when using it.


Indeed, I was trying to make it easier for you.


Or a colon:

    Windows Subsystem for: Linux


Setting aside that model means something different now … MDD never really worked because the tooling never really dealt with intent. You would get so far with your specifications (models) but the semantic rigidity of the tooling mean that at some point your solution would have to part way. LLM is the missing piece that finally makes this approach viable where the intent can be inferred dynamically and this guides the implementation specifics. Arguably the purpose of TDD/BDD was to shore up the gaps in communicating intent, and people came to understand that was its purpose, whereas the key intent in the original XP setting was to capture and preserve “known good” operation and guard against regression (in XP mindset, perhaps fatefully clear intent was assumed)


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