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Comment Re:The problem is the education system (Score 1) 106

Sorry, but "multiplication tables" and doing basic algebra in your head is not Math. It is bullshit make-work. You can carry a calculator (most of us do), a slide-rule or pen and paper. What counts is whether you know what multiplication does and how it works, not some rote memorization. I say that as a PhD-level engineer.

Comment Re:Maybe stop graduating students who aren't (Score 1) 106

Indeed. When everybody graduates, the degree becomes a complete joke. And that is really bad for society, with long-term effects.

The reasons are typically too many people incapable to admit things are broken (and here: admitting that their kids may not be so smart). Denial kills everything because it kills feedback loops.

Comment Re:Testing? (Score 1) 43

Naa, that would have been competent. AI people do not do competent. The ones that did renamed their occupation to other things, like cognitive systems, automated reasoning, robotics, etc. The ones that still claim to be doing "AI" are the hacks that are in it for the money.

Comment Amateurs (Score 2) 43

The proper way to do this is 1) fake it and 2) when queried, lie about it. I mean, this has been the traditional approach in all things AI and at least the LLM pushers know how to do it. I would have thought that Russians, off all people, understand this approach in a more general way. Apparently not. Some people will probably get an extensive "vacation" sponsored by the state now.

Comment Samsung is the only one you have a prayer (Score 1) 66

Of getting a battery for. You can get a cheaper off-brand Chinese one but good luck getting a replacement battery when the battery inevitably goes. You basically have a slab of ewaste at that point unless you're going to play around with the electronics of it and wire up your own power supply.

As far as the rest of it make sure you have at least 8 GB of RAM and they're all basically the same at that point. You might want to get a high density display which I think Samsung has a model for if you're going to do stuff like play vector games on it

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