I think I understand what you mean. Those course descriptions are deceptive when the content is weak, watered down dreck.
I mean, werent the ancient mesopotamians the first culture in the world to standardize and use common currency or something?
They were one of many cultures we covered.
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See, thats a subject where they could have really delivered the goods, but instead end up just sucking their own farts.
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I think a part of the issue, from my pov, is that one course in a subject is basically useless. You could study Mesopotamia for years, we spent a week on it. I was required to take a biology class, that’s a major that normally requires getting a graduate or higher degree…
I just don’t see the point in forcing students to dip their toe into a subject that is not what they are going to college for. Accounting is the same way. You learn very little in principles of accounting. To earn a BS you need 2 principles of accounting, 3 intermediate accounting, 1 advance accounting class, and then multiple specialization courses (tax, audit, cost, etc…). Why would you force anyone outside of the school of business to learn basic accounting? No one uses it other than accountants…
More broadly, I think we just get entrenched in these ideas/institutions and we just can’t fathom how much better they could be.
The University system status quo is broken. Like what was mentioned above, there are so many alternatives now it’s hard to even fathom spending $80k on an undergrad degree.
I’m about to sign up for a certificate in Data Analytics from Google via Coursera (my company is paying for it). It’s supposed to take 6-months at about $300.
How does the current system compete with that?
I could use a few courses since I became employment kryptonite and started doing my own thing, but that becomes a hybridization of technical trade/business- not coincidentally where most little guys fail.
Good luck telling somebody that wants to work with their hands that they have to use their head though.
That is a good point, but I’d temper it with the fact that application is the students job.
Once again, stories from the trenches- a lot of guys I worked with were either old school or young immitations with no formal education what so ever, and thought “respirators are bullshit” and that I was a "stupid fuckin schoolboy"
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Until I pointed out that they are constantly exposing themselves to EXTREMELY high levels of hex chrome, manganese, vaporized zinc, etc and listed the known detrimental effects of chronic over exposure to these elements. That turned a couple heads!
Do they need a biology class or two to run a nice bead? Absolutely not.
Would they benefit from one? Absolutely.
As the one maths prof. Put it “Im going to teach you this. What you do with it after that is on you.”.
To nursing students who were going to be administering deadly drugs on a daily basis.
It certainly wouldn’t hurt for your situation. I’d suggest checking out LinkedIn Learning or Coursera, though.
There are a lot of courses on intro accounting or even bookkeeping for a fraction of even a CC course.
100%.
Meh, would depend on what was actually covered in the course. There are so many resources outside universities, I just don’t see the need for a college course, though. LinkedIn has a PPE courses for example (it’s $45).
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State of academia aside, I’m learning a thing or two from this.
Thanks! 
Edit: And glad you’re back man! This is way better than kicking somebody in the teeth on PWI. 
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It feels good being back I just have to try and keep myself from being an asshole to a umm certain poster…
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I don’t find that surprising if you’re out-sourcing your essay-writing to this retarded first generation of pseudo-AI.
At least you’re not downloading apps on the tik-tok.
I’m not, I’m saying i don’t blame students for doing so when it’s not relevant to their degree or career path.
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I’m saying you should blame those students. You fools are paying top dollar for some educator to assign you this essay, whatever the topic may be. Make the most of the opportunity.
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My Bachelors is in Computer Information Systems with an Associates in Information Technology and certificate in Programming Fundamentals.
Tell me more about how my forced class in Environmental Racism (where the dipshit professor only wants you to parrot her opinion) is relevant to my degree, and why I should be soaking in the information contained within it.
Listen @twojarslave, i like you a lot, but i think you’re out of touch regarding what’s happening in colleges if you think EVERY class needs your full attention, even the bullshit Equity-Driven filler classes.
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It’s not a psuedo AI bro…
But you’re right in the fact that he’s training the model to write the essay
*context: gpt3 is task agnostic.
Improving Model Performance with Hyper-parameter Tuning Techniques - GPT AI Power
The prompts go into the dataset
How ChatGPT actually works (assemblyai.com)
Illustrating Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) (huggingface.co)
Is Self-Supervised Learning the Key to Artificial General Intelligence? (aiperspectives.com)
See? This is why I went through so much shit to make my people utilize a simple KANBAN BOARD lol.
I don’t know what kind of essays you’re referring to so IMHO, the key is having a higher level understanding of the concepts required in the essay. So, it goes back to what I was saying in my first post about telling the bot in steps what to do and you need to know what to tell it in each step so it builds to what you are specifically asking it to.
This is all an abstraction.
Someone like @doogie who has studied law will get that to qualify an utterance as a statement to establish hearsay, intent - the state of mind - from the words uttered has to be first established. Likewise, a verdict is a binary decision based the intent - state of mind and action occuring concurrently. Don’t need a data analyst nor a CS major to get the concept and apply it to effectively utilizing the AI agent. Likewise, a seasoned car salesman will be able to infer whether your intent is to purchase the car by piecing together the words and mapping them to steps in a buying process to identify whether you are going to make an actual purchase. If the thought of buying a car does not coincide with an act -step - in the process, it nullifies intent. The salesman, which is like the AGENT in AI, makes an action to change it’s STATE.
So, it brings me back to why I fucking went months getting my guys to use a kanban board lololol. Because I have to manage different remote freelances and inhouse people that aren’t mostly programmers but the steps must align with the BUSINESS PROCESS.
It’s basically why the major cloud data models are conceptual models which are abstractions of organizational hierarchies.
- I am not a programmer. I just know this shit because I’ve gone near FUCKING CRAZY having to go back and forth articulating all these abstract concepts to different people in a manner that they will understand I need to coordinate and devise a way to get them to be able to communicate with each other but ensure they don’t fucking get shit misunderstood. You deal with a fucking computer engineer and forward simple guidelines from a designer and see how many ways he can infer and overthink the requirements and the next thing you know a BUTTON on the UI in a view, you get a 1 week delay that you don’t notice because you’re focussed on lots of other shit and when you get a notification from the designer that she needs the shit needed from the engineer which obviously has to be submitted to you, you get an email with a fucking detailed database schema with tables and objects and shit for the button for the UX.
Which is why I wanted my fucking kanban board.
What have you been learning in that class, sounds kind of interesting?
Well, the instructor wanted everyone to parrot her opinions and got particularly shitty with me when I told her that this isn’t even on the top 50 of most important crises happening today (when compared with genocides, active slave auctions in Syria, brink of nuclear war, economic hemorrhaging, widening extremes of the left and right in the US, among others).
The term you’d want to search for is “environmental sociology”. TL;DR: the progressive laws enacted to help prevent environmental damages end up causing disproportionately poor health outcomes for predominantly black inner city families. I pointed my writing directly at the root issue, which was that the govt could either:
a) work on legislation/policy to stop the disproportionate health outcomes for inner city families OR
b) work on legislation to help fight climate change
But not both.
All of these disproportionate health outcomes were a direct result on legislation that was intended to reduce ‘our’ impact on global warming… That’s what people get for voting with their feelings and swallowing a narrative without critically looking at the information available (which is far too often flawed).
I knew I wanted to piss off the instructor when the course material said specifically “research environmental health concerns that disproportionately affect BIPOC”. So basically, climate change, healthcare for all, and equity all wrapped up into one neat bundle for school to shove down idiot teenager’s throats.
^She didn’t like when I wrote a short essay on the disproportionate health outcomes for the predominantly white poor folks in West Virginia mining towns. Couldn’t imagine why.
You’re welcome to read into this stuff on your own, but I’m still at my limits with the course material so I’d rather not discuss further. She only wanted kids to say “environmental racism bad”, not look into why these things happened. Couldn’t imagine why that is either.
Sorry, I have beef with folks that use BIPOC as if it were an inclusive term, which is what this course was all about.
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I’m sure this won’t be used against anyone.
Much broader implications with this
As someone whose wife is Chinese and having been there a bunch of times, I think you’re correct. Her family is wealthy, but the party always takes precedence.
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