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@justinskycak I guess it depends on whether or not you care if students are able to understand the correctness of the algorithm they are using. Some alternatives also help to strengthen students' number sense.

Should you teach alternative multiplication algorithms like the lattice method? Personally, I would be very cautious when introducing any algorithms other than the standard methods. The standard algorithms are standard for a reason: they're easy to set up and they're hard to mess up. The lattice method, for instance, it's hard to set up. It takes a lot of time and effort to draw the entire grid with the diagonals, And it's easy to mess up. I mean, I've seen this happen so many times where a student draws a sloppy grid with misaligned diagonals and then screws up the calculation as a result. But the biggest issue is probably that kids will often latch on to whatever method they like best, and their incentives are often misaligned. For instance, I've tutored students who straight up told me that they preferred the lattice they liked being able to take a break from the math to draw. And believe me, they took their sweet time drawing the grid and making it perfect. Of course, it took these students forever to complete their problems because they were working with incredibly low efficiency, and that frustrated them. But another factor leading them to resist switching to the more efficient standard method was that they had completely forgotten it. Why? Because they were using the lattice method for so long, not practicing the standard method. So they got into a situation where relearning the standard require some additional upfront time and effort on top of what they already an overwhelming workload. I mean, listen, if the alternative method is just as efficient and just as general, mean, sure, introduce it. But if not, then I wouldn't introduce it because students who latch onto it and resist letting go are going to be in for a world of hurt. Even if you try to introduce that alternative method as a fun, temporary vacation away from standard techniques, some students will try to stay on that vacation forever.

@r0ktech Why is the right parenthesis higher than the left?

what is the output ?

@LuckFoxo33 dedogatory

How it feels to be a dog 🐶

@kayareyouokay_ I'm a quantum computing scientist with a PhD and my personal webpage is a Google sites webpage ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

CS students will spend 4 years studying and still not know how to deploy a website.

@ItsmeRadley I'm 32 and this is my pokesona

Absolutely no hate to anyone, but I feel like I need more 30 and older Pokemon moots. Yall have me feeling so old lately 🥲

@DavidToons_ I think I won 50 cheeseburgers? It says they're arriving in 13 minutes.

@benguino No-NO—

Piplup, I DONT have any games on my phone dude.

@DavidToons_ I found DoorDash, can I play that?

@benguino CHECK MY PHONE YOURSELF >:(

@clickbait_sammy I love karaoke! I need more friends to sing with n.n

@segun_os_ I'm aware this doesn't necessarily prove or disprove the claim given by the OP. I just wanted to share my experience.

@segun_os_ I'm a computer scientist working on quantum computing. I still code, but I have little interest in stuff like modern web development. If I needed to, I could probably pick it up quickly, but it would not be as scientifically fulfilling as the work I'm doing now.

a computer scientist working on quantum computing who can’t code would be dismissed by man"y people as “not a real computer scientist. when people hear computer scientist, they usually expect someone with strong developer skills, but that’s like expecting a theoretical physicist to have the same skill set as an engineer.

every unknown prime number is of the form n

Pokemon fans create fan art and whole ass plushies of the new starters in like 5 minutes; meanwhile, some artists still haven't completed a sketch someone commissioned over 2 years ago.

@TOEwithCurt While true, this does not function very well as a definition. In order for it to work, you would need to already have a definition of "finite", but, if you already had such definition, you would simply define "infinite" as "not finite".

“Something is infinite if you can take a finite amount away from it and it doesn’t change size.” This is my favorite definition in all of math. Many people think infinity means “unending.” It doesn’t. This is the actual definition (Dedekind, 1888). Remove a finite piece, and the size doesn’t budge. It sounds like a glitch, but it’s actually the whole point. PS: Of course, I shouldn't say this is “the” definition, but rather “a” definition. It's the one that I like the most, because it can be said with words. At the level I’ve written above, it’s not rigorous, because you have to define what “size” means and what it means to “take away,” etc.

@AdsoOfBelk Example: ran -> rangoon

The rise of Clavicular-speak makes me think that every suffix was at one point an incredibly funny meme term that got overapplied until its original meaning was lost. 1000 years from now in a classroom children learning that -goon is the standard form to transform noun into verb

@wonder3mporium I have a PhD but no drawing skills. Thank you for your service 🫡

Being a furry artist is hard because there's always someone better than you *and* they have a PhD in astrophysics or is a heart surgeon

@corsaren x.com/i/status/20126…

What a lot of “AI won’t take the jobs” people don’t seem to understand is the degree to which white collar orgs are essentially structured to solve this chart. Imagine that each node is a person who actually does stuff (engineering, writing marking copy, drafting contracts, selling to customers). These jobs are getting automated by AI, but yes, you do need a human in the loop because someone ultimately has to sign off and take responsibility for the output. However, every edge in this graph is a relationship, communication pathway, or dependency, and as an organization grows, these edges explode exponentially and become so numerous that they require their own systems and personnel to manage. Fundamentally, this is what management is: lubricating the edges. Gaze upon the face of bureaucracy and tremble. Except, not anymore. Imo, these jobs are going to be absolutely decimated by AI, because: 1. The number of nodes will decrease, and just as a linear increase in nodes results in an exponential increase in edges, so too does a linear decrease in nodes cause an exponential decrease in edges. And the quantity of middle management personnel is a function of the number of edges. 2. AI is really really good at managing this sort of stuff. I’ll link to an article below from an OAI researcher, but he shows that the availability of a personal bot that can answer arbitrary questions about other people’s work means that suddenly these lines can be self-managed. Point is: so much white collar work is overhead, and so much overhead is just endless 15 minute calls and emails to “sync up”, “close the loop”, and “align” various stakeholders. Bitch all you want about your PM and disparage all those “stupid do-nothing email jobs”, but this stuff is really hard! The mathematics of social graphs has born countless legions of consultants, MBAs, and desk jockeys whose sole job is to Lubricate the Lines. That their work is based in social skills does not constitute a defense against AI, because even if AI cannot do their job directly (itself a dubious claim), they will largely eliminate the need for it. A few will survive as P&L owners + their trusted sergeants, but many many layers will be thrown out. It may take a while, but it’ll happen.

@miniapeur I (effectively) made this same tweet, but got zero likes 🥲 x.com/i/status/20126…

Hmm..some vore fetishists actually have more in common with caves than with cave divers 🤔

@CG0ld_ Next question: What would you do if you had FOUR labubus?

Been playing vr chat recently and yeah, I definitely have no social skills. I HAD TO ASK SOME DUDES WHAT THEY WOULD DO IF THEY HAD 3 LABUBUS cuz i don't know what normal people talk about 😭