@Andy_LCMD @sellingshovels @NathieVR I imagine GenAI tools can use a much weaker scan to get good enough to be able to generate a room with enough fidelity for background while riding a roller coaster.
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Jimmy L.
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Jimmy L.
@MediumJim
.@BigJim was taken already.
Miami, FL Katılım Eylül 2012
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@sellingshovels @NathieVR Since the roller coaster is virtual, there’s no camera on it. Generating the physical scene requires scanning the living room with a 3D scanner.
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@MiamiAJ4 @ONLYinDADE This is the American international concourse. They have an internal CBP/immigration check... it's not TSA as far as I understand.
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@ONLYinDADE How recent is this? MyTSA app shows 15-30 minutes wait times at MIA
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@KentMurphy The Marlins 2003 run was the definition of magical. From WC to this ending to the Bartman game (5 hours from elimination), to beating the Yanks in the WS.
Too bad @Marlins routinely blow any goodwill they create in the city.
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One of the craziest endings to a postseason series to ever 😱
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@BigElliesBraid @BecauseMiami They'll eventually get to all that was promised just look at Marlins' Park....oh. fuck.
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This stadium is gonna open w/o the promised pedestrian bridge connecting the Metrorail to the site, w/o the public park completed, w/o the bulk of retail promised, & w/o the “converted” park lands to offset the lost acreage even breaking ground @BecauseMiami
Joel Franco@OfficialJoelF
Recent photo of Nu Stadium at Miami Freedom Park. Race against the clock since this opens in just three weeks (April 4) 🔥
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@BrothersSt50612 @zoomiami She is. She called me 20 min ago but not seeing anything about it on the news yet.
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Our scientific paper was accepted in the journal Florida Entomologist. We describe for the first time how the Pine Rockland trapdoor spider possibly consumed the invasive New Guinea flatworm. We are beyond excited to continue learning and sharing our findings on #SaveASpiderDay
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@Mrryanjbrown @DanaPalubiak From watching my children, graphic novels are gateway books, you learn to like books.
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Like many things it kind of depends on what you're trying to assess as a teacher or what you're trying to build or improve as a reader
Some key skills that probably benefit from text-based books:
- Reading through long pieces of text with stamina, which is a skill that we are kind of losing these days.
- Being able to develop a mental image in your head.
- Getting used to longer syntax and trickier paragraphs.
- Reading without the support of images
While these aren't the only important parts, they are elements that we do have to think about and it might be better to frame things in a way that identifies that people who are dismissive of graphic novels and people who support them probably have really great points that are worth considering for literacy.
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Some adults worry that graphic novels and comics “don’t count” as reading.
But children reading them are practicing exactly what strong readers do:
Following narrative structure.
Interpreting visual information.
Connecting dialogue and context.
Comprehension is on every page.
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@DanaPalubiak I don't know if my son would be as voracious as he is, and his younger sister copying him if he had not stumbled into Cap't Underpants graphic books at a young age.
Now, he's in 4th grade, reads books like Ender's Game and anything else you throw at him.
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@InuitKodiak @thetimes No sense of ever having seen before
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My life explained by @thetimes. Speed reading causes face blindness. I read insanely fast. But recognise almost no one (usual apologies to everyone). Similar research from 2010 here. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
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@MediumJim @meatballtimes ankiweb.net
open-source old-school flashcard app, been around for 20 years
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after spending a year as a teacher, I am now convinced that the last ~50 years of education research was flat out wrong. like, "sun revolves around the earth" levels of wrong.
time to drop the epicycles and return to empiricism in education
Coors.@SYNESTHEIZURE
teaching degrees might be more justifiable if education departments were not liable to fall for every pop psychology scam that crosses their path.
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@shaedapk yeah spaced repetition literally solved memorization, it's been around for decades, and I've literally never heard of teachers using it in US schools
so much misery cramming for tests. complete waste of time. memorization is ~free with good anki decks. it's insanely dumb
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What movie sequel ruined the ending of its predecessor?
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@gryffonator @TheCinesthetic Not to mention some of the acting...which did get better by episode III
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The reevaluation of the Star Wars prequel trilogy is fascinating. They were mocked when they released, but after the newer era of The Force Awakens onward, many viewers began appreciating the prequels’ ambition, worldbuilding, and vision from George Lucas.
cinesthetic.@TheCinesthetic
What’s a movie you’ve seen public opinion shift on in your lifetime?
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@gryffonator @TheCinesthetic Ah yes, thrilling stuff: trade disputes over taxation of shipping lanes, endless Senate politics, and the Jedi just inheriting a mystery army. The prequels weren’t good stories told badly. They were bad stories made worse by bad acting and too much CGI.
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@TheCinesthetic The prequel trilogy was made up of good stories that were told badly.
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@karol @tally8076 @ChristinaPushaw But they are intertwined. Areaa are safer if there are kids around and about. Other kids being out is integral which is why Matt said it could be done, but it is difficult.
I live in an affluent area (Pinecrest/Palmetto Bay) and see a fraction of the kids out than early 90s.
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@tally8076 @ChristinaPushaw The second part of that is far more a challenge for us than the screens. My kids are 16, 13 and 10 and have a lot of interests and stuff they want to do and try. We balance best we can.
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I admit I find this entire thing perplexing every time it comes up. My kids were outdoors in the community even when we lived in Brooklyn and certainly since moving to Florida they’re outside year round with the kids on the block. Nothing is gone, you can say no to screens.
Matt Walsh@MattWalshBlog
It’s not just nostalgia. This was our childhood and it’s gone now. As a parent you can, through great effort, create the conditions for some version of this for your own children today. But the problem is that most of the other kids are screen addicted zombies who don’t really want to run around outside until the streetlights turn on. So an energetic, free spirited kid who’d rather climb a tree than stare at a screen ends up being kind of isolated. 30 years ago he’d have been the most popular kid in the neighborhood. Now the other kids in the neighborhood are home with the screen and he’s climbing the tree by himself.
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This was part of the early 2010s “selfie panic” where selfies were considered a vain act that people were in a panic over teenagers supposedly obsessed with “selfies”, and this was the downfall of civilization. Lots of celebrities taking “a selfie” together was big news
Pop Crave@PopCrave
The iconic Oscars selfie was taken 12 years ago today.
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@hilarym99 The educational world will do what it can to make money. Like anything else.
However where Chromebooks and iPads provided almost on value over a teacher, AI does.
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The problem with the educational world is that someone will use this, without pointing out the group they tested it on was 60 Taiwanese 14-year-olds taking chemistry, and use it to sell “personalized intervention” for like, struggling 8-year-olds with ADHD
Wendy@teachthemx3
Published today: Students using a structured AI coach significantly outperformed traditional teacher led instruction, with the biggest gains from those starting behind. Almost like individualized instruction works better than the one size fits all approach.
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I don't get the anti-"memorization" kick a lot of people go on, because at least in physics it's always seemed to me to happen naturally. I don't see how you make it to the end of intro mechanics without having "F=ma" and "9.8 N/m" deeply imprinted if you're doing the homework.
Julia McCoy@JuliaEMcCoy
We are sending our kids to school to memorize facts that AI can retrieve in 0.3 seconds. We're grading them on essays that AI writes better than their teachers. We're preparing them for jobs that won't exist by the time they graduate. The entire education system is training humans to compete with machines at what machines do best. That's not education. That's sabotage. The schools that survive will teach thinking, not memorizing. Creating, not repeating. Discerning, not obeying. Every other school is a museum that doesn't know it yet.
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@Kirsten3531 I mean, there's clearly tragedies and major issues but 99% fall into "this too shall pass" and generally faster than you'll realize.
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