Male and female ... emotions are different

I'll bite. How?

IHBT HTH HAND

That is so masochistic I don't even know where to start.

ITYM mysoginistic. Though your one reads pretty entertainingly too.

And this is why we have sexism:

You won't find a male engineer that...

Apparently average diffrerences between genders mean you can make a generalization about every single member of a gender.

I mean FFS, it only says in the summary that the society of engineers without borders is 70% female. That's 30% male. Which means those MEN are also doing something which they consider to be a societal good.

So, please take your ill-formed opinions about me (just because I happen to be a man) and kindly shove them up your ass.

I didn't refuse to go into Comp Sci because the school wouldn't teach the stuff I was interested it.

So in other words you chose a course which was completely of no iterest to you but you did it anyway?

Or perhaps universities should make the courses as boring as possible because why bother trying to interest students at all?

Or perhaps universities should only offer courses that you have personally approved???

It was/is my job to use and extend what the University taught so as to *then* do what I want.

That's your actual job description?

So all we have to do is get men to stop being pigs

Nope: the article says nothing about that.

selectively recruit women

Nope, the article says nothing about that.

completely chance the workplace,

Nope the article says nothing about that.

and for the coup de grace, only work on things that women might want to work on so we have more women to work on the things they want to work on because the things men will work on do not suit women?

Nope. The article says nothing about only working on only those things.

If you believe this article.

Nope, if we're to believe your non-reading rant about the article. Pro tip: if you want to complain about the article, read it first otherwise you look like a right plonker.

Be "that guy",

I have no idea what you're talking about, but I can rant about Axe (or Lynx as it's called here). I, too, as a young man bought into the marketing.

But seriously that stuff is lung-searingly vile. Apparently dousing yourslef in something so obnoxious it's as likely to melt the victim's throat as anything else is not beyond the ability of the truly skilled to be able to market.

One has to take one's hat off to whoever managed to figure out how to sell that stuff. I mean it's not just bad, it's wildly, ridiculously awful. I think it must knock out the sense of smell of the user allowing them to freely nasally assult more or less anyone within a few hundred meters (possibly kilometers if you're unlucky enough to be down wind).

This bias can obviously be blamed on an ingrained bias dating to the male hunter/female gatherer sexism of early hominids.

Not sure if satire or stupidity. Seriously help me out here, is this genuine, or a victim of Poe's law?

Because the US has some insane fascination with everyone being equal, no matter their own personal interests.

So, are you claiming that universities shouldn't do courses which cater to different interests?

Because that's what this is about: changing the emphasis of the course means that people interested in the new emphasis will enrole because they find it interesting.

In most sane countries you are required to keep a distance long enough that the car in front can perform an emergency stop without you hitting it. If you do hit it, you've caused the accident (and in Oz, will get hit with a negligent/careless driving charge).

Pff. I'd say the UK is a sane country, and we have very safe roads compared to most countries. We generally have decent drivers: the safety level is despite the relatively high density. But...

Well, I tried maintaining a safe distance on the M25 once and it was simply impossible. I mean literally impossible. You can slow down until the gap in front of you widens and once it's big enough, someone zips into it. Then what are you meant to do? Well, you can keep up the process in which case, people keep zipping into the nice gap. If you keep on slowing down people will STILL keep going into the gap and you'll present a hazard.

I ended up just giving up and going at the same speed as the surrounding traffic (the M25, so that's about 20 mph, amirite?).

Keeping a safe distance is one of the simplest things I can do.
There are two points: Firstly if the roads are sufficiently empty, but on crowded roads even with basically everyone driving decently it becomes more or less impossible.

Secondly, you can't control the idiot behind you who insists on not keeping a safe distance.

Did you actually read my post which was about a very specific point about binary versus text versus INDEXED text log files and decide to post an irrelevant rant on complete nonsequiteurs, or did you decided to post the nonsequiteurs without reading my post.

You really are uniformed about systemd's journal; its structure and layout and API have been fully documented and is stable. That means you can read any journal with any systemd version.

Well if so, that's new. It never used to be the case that the binary format was stable. So, I'm going to ask you to provide a link to the description of the binary structure.

The current journal file format, which is basically an appended text file with index, is a great compromise between having unstructured, unindexed text logs with no meta-data, and running a full sql-server.

Jesus fucking H. Christ on a stick what is wrong with you? I specifically went into detail about how noisy the pro-systemd people like you insist on a dichotomy between unstructured text files and binary file formats. There is no fucking dichotomy you moron. If you actually read my sodding post instead of going off on a rant then you would actually become marginally more informed and stop spouting the same old shit repeatedly.

As I mentioned in my first post, I think a tipping point will be hit once we have technology a generation or two better than Watson in each student's laptop. Or at least cloud based versions of Watson accessible by each student. Just like all attempts at commercializing digital tablets failed in the 90's and early 2000's were forgotten once technology advanced enough to give us the iPad, the failures of the past 20 years to bring technology to the classroom will be long forgotten in the near future.

More like failures of the last 100 years. Just about everything capable of recording people in some form has been touted and tried as a replacement for teachers, so far with no success.

I also think you're optimistic in that a generation or two past Watson will essentially yield strong AI: I disagree that strong AI is not needed.

Machine learning and NLP can create amazing results without the computer assistants of the future needing what we would consider "true" creativity and problem solving.

Not really. I work in machine learning some of the time. It's pretty good, but it's so far from being able to replace general human intelligence that it's not even funny. And NLP has kind of hit a bit of a brick wall of diminishing returns recently.

The problem is that the AI system doesn't just need to be able to understand the student's question (already very hard) and then look up the answer in a database. It has to figure out what the student is failing to grasp and then craft an answer to fill the gap. When that inevitably doesn't work, it has to then use feedback to guage why it doesn't work, where the gap has shifted to then iterate until the student does understant.

I haven't seen anything even beginning to think about attempting that sort of problem.

Sure tha's perhaps not strong AI, but compared to what we have now, it's awfully close.

And since the systemd-opponents party line is is that binary log files are always bad, they won't make such an alternative.

I'm not even going to get into a pro/anti systemd argument becauser that's actually not relevant here, but this is why people get annoyed with the systemd folks, because of the mindless zealotry/ignorance. No offence, but solutions to this have existed for YEARS and have been implemeted in plenty of other systems.

You have a text based log file, which just works with everything. You also have a separate binary index which indexes the textual log file. You get the benefit of fast lookup if you use the index and it will just work no another machine if the original tanks and you don't have the right version of systemd on the new machine.

There are more than "text-only sysV style log files" and "opaque windows style binary ones". The systemd folks pretending that this dichotomy are the only options is just plain annoying.

It's possible that Michael Larabel didn't get his facts wrong this time, but he has a history of (a) sloppy reporting and (b) completely ignoring requests for making corrections. Considering the number of times his mistake was pointed out in this one case (https://twitter.com/phoronix/status/575005596501590016, http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?115543-An-LGPL-Licensed-Larrabee-Inspired-GPGPU-Processor/page2), I think he does it on purpose just to fuck with people.

Right because there's complete equivalence between fans of a genre actively seeking entertainment and a bunch of kids who have no choice being sat down and told to watch a broadcast.

Broadcast based teaching has been tried time and time again since the invention of movies with sound, pretty much. It's tanked completely every single time.

Technology is bobbling on at a fine old rate, just as it was from 1975 until now.

But though the tech world is so very different from 1975, why hasn't it already dominated the classroom? Most tech-in-classroom things have turned out to be expensive failures.

I think an important thing that people forget is not everything is advancing at the same rate. Kids' brains are the single central most important part of education in this context (pretty much by definition) aren't actually changing at all. We've also had a fre thousand years to figure pretty decent ways of getting information in to them (with a whole lot of abject missteps).

We've pretty much figured out education is best when the teacher is decently knowledgable and provides actual proper individualised education. Those are difficult, labour intensive and ultimately expensive.

Can technology help? Undoubtedly so. But they key is not an even larger "one size fits all" solution that makes a pretense of individualisation by using "analytics". The system you're proposing seems more based around the existence of strong AI. I'm an optimist and I believe we will get there eventually, but I don't think we will in 30 or even 40 years. What you're proposing is a system which is better at interacting with humans than humans. The problem with that is that we're competing with the last million or so years of evoloution which has been fine-tuning our brain and we've got an awful lot of catching up to do.