That reminds me a lot of a QR code, but extended. At which point, I have to ask: Why not just use QR codes? They have the advantage of being ubiquitous, although I'm very open to the idea that they have disadvantages or leave improvements on the table.
The main advantage is information density. QR codes dedicate a lot of real estate to error correction, but the protocol is really optimized for a few words, not kilobytes at a time.
It's also a problem if you need to segment your datastream onto multiple pages You've got to define a protocol for your stack of QR codes with that new encoding
These founders are careless and weirdly cruel. It's wildly unethical, immoral, wrong to do this to children.
"My investigation into Alpha School also reveals that the massive amounts of data the company collects on students, including videos of them, is stored in a Google Drive folder that anyone with the link—even if they’ve left the company, or if it was sent to them—could access."
>These founders are careless and weirdly cruel. It's wildly unethical, immoral, wrong to do this to children.
For lax security, or monitoring students at all? I don't think you'll find anyone opposing the former, but what's the alternative to the latter? At the end of the day, they're kids, and they need supervision to keep them on task. I think remote schooling during covid showed that kids can't really be left to their own devices. The alternatives I can think of aren't great:
1. individual human tutors: insanely expensive, out of reach for even well paid programmers, or you have to home school
2. ed tech, without the monitoring: won't work because kids get distracted, and you can't expect the parents to do that when they have jobs
3. traditional schooling, with maybe small class sizes: see the review in my other posts. Seems like even with well funded private schools, the lesson plan isn't really individualized so you're catering to the lowest common denominator
For conducting unethical experiments on children. For criminally negligent protection of student data.
FERPA is no joke, and a competent administration would successfully prosecute people, sending them to big-boy jail for severe violations of students' personal data.
What are the alternatives? Almost anything else. Not breaking the law. You can buy a lot of traditional schooling for $65k/yr.
>I don't think you'll find anyone opposing the former, but what's the alternative to the latter?
If parents want to pay 65k per year to have some corporate entity track their child's every keystroke, I guess that's not my place to pry. I will call them stupid, though. This isn't 2007 anymore; we know what they can, have, and will do with such data.
> individual human tutors: insanely expensive, out of reach for even well paid programmers, or you have to home school
again, they're paying 65k for this curriculum. I'd wager public school and 600 hours of private tutoring @100/hr (as a high ball) would work out much better
>This isn't 2007 anymore; we know what they can, have, and will do with such data.
So sounds like your objections are over data governance?
>again, they're paying 65k for this curriculum. I'd wager public school and 600 hours of private tutoring @100/hr (as a high ball) would work out much better
The problem with this setup is that you still have public school eating up 6-8 hours of your kid's time per day. If you add after school tutoring afterwards that doesn't leave a lot of free time. The value prop, at least according to one of the parents who has his kids there[1] is that you get through the standard curriculum stuff in a fraction of the time, so you can spend the rest of the time on whatever your kid's interested in.
>sounds like your objections are over data governance?
Primarily, yes. Teachers don't need the kind of oversight they employ, and any reasons for that are purely financial, not "to make sure they aren't distracted".
>still have public school eating up 6-8 hours of your kid's time per day.
Yes. And many parents call that a feature. We structured school times around when parents are expected to work.
It's hard to cut those hours without cutting worker hours or otherwise structuring schools to have longer recess periods. I'm fine with either, but AI doesn't really come into play there.
>so you can spend the rest of the time on whatever your kid's interested in.
And who's watching them? Works fine with one stay at home parent. Or even a private tutor being there in person. Not so much with a remote education.
I'm not against more free time. But this addresses none of the bigger reasons this hasn't been experimented with seriously.
That just means that Stockfish doesn't get stronger with more than 1 minute per move on a modern computer. It doesn't say anything about other engines.
Stockfish with 1000 minutes per move is an approximation of a perfect chess player. So if Stockfish with 1 minute per move will never lose against a perfect player, it is unbeatable by any chess engine.
You must be new the internet was toxic before their was an internet. I've seen BBS fights where people would find out where someone lived and shoot up the place, set it on fire or attack another person. Some BBS scenes attracted some shady characters.
The ways that data has been weaponized to amplify insecure people's fear of social change and "others" in order to vote against their own economic interests are novel and fascinating. Yes, obviously the pattern has played out before the internet. But if you approach it with curiosity rather than writing it off because it looks similar on the surface to something you've seen before, it's actually very interesting.
And worse here, the very worst have figured out how to keep making reality pay attention to the absolute garbage misery show. A newsgroup dust-up might have caught some small coverage, but the way the troll-forces of the world have mobilized and radicalized their shitizens at scale, and the stochastic terror they have focused on creating: it keeps the rest of reality all too glued to the sick farce programming the aggressor forces against the world anti-campaign on.
Someone who is clutching pearls at trolling shouldn't be trolling others. It makes you look silly and makes your point moot. If trolling is the worst thing then why troll? It sounds like you are fighting a battle within yourself.
like, a good looking person will get the occasional comp on the basis of that, but you'll never be friends with the staff on the basis of that. whereas anyone can be friends with the staff, if they are friendly and earnest about it.
Luck is when preparation meets opportunity.
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