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Comment three(3) (Score 1) 13

by noshellswill on Sunday May 17, 2026 @01:55PM (#66147625) Attached to: Us Math/Reading Scores Continue 13-Year Decline. Researchers Blame Reduced Testing and Social Media

Three hours of homework a night. That's what it takes. Do I hear you sobbing and whining like an entitled white middle-class punk? Consider this: from shell & bone-scratching to algebra took 65,000 years. Now you are given only twelve. Comprehende? End of discussion.

Comment no controls (Score 1) 102

by noshellswill on Saturday May 16, 2026 @10:22AM (#66146103) Attached to: Wood Burning Is Reintroducing Lead Pollution Into the Air, Scientists Find

Looks like they did not do control lead measurements on the soil from which the tree/wood was obtained, nor measured smoke lead concentration in wood from soils with various lead concentrations. Nominally one does controls in parallel with the variable of interest.

Comment Re:necessary (Score 1) 118

by noshellswill on Friday May 15, 2026 @07:26PM (#66145573) Attached to: Congress Introduces Bill To Permanently Block Chinese Vehicles From US

American consumers can "demand" whatever American farm & industry produce. Use-it-here ... make-it-here. The industrial IP/history/capital/skills remain in America. Excepting medical items, all other trade is either affectation ( womens shoes / Chinese GPUs ) or political pander (Mexican Fords ). Like wise , American investors who depend on American law/finance/military to generate & conserve wealth can put their money where they live.

Comment necessary (Score 1) 118

by noshellswill on Friday May 15, 2026 @12:55PM (#66144827) Attached to: Congress Introduces Bill To Permanently Block Chinese Vehicles From US

Removing Chinese made products from the American market is necessary , but not sufficient to protect our Angle-Western culture. Globalist panders should understand that rigid tariff barriers are only a START to the required isolation from toxic influence, whether that influence is characterized as progressive, efficient, tolerant, collectivist, humanitarian, tyrannous or "nanny" statist. Consider Chinese trade a "coal-mine cannery" measuring corruption within Americas "estates general" ... or fin-tekno-elite.

Comment Re:Haven't heard of? (Score 1) 24

by noshellswill on Friday May 15, 2026 @10:02AM (#66144563) Attached to: Writers Are Fleeing the Substack Tax

Nobody learns about Patreon watching UTube ... the text-string "patreon" does appear, but what it does remains obscure ... thus unknown. The watcher/reader /listener of UTube has no contact whatsoever with patreon. What those other services/URLs/companies are/do remains a deeper mystery. I've never heard of them. A writer/website-builder etc who does use those services lives in a different universe than the viewer.

Comment Re:Use AI to make yourself think (Score 1) 118

by noshellswill on Thursday May 14, 2026 @10:33AM (#66143111) Attached to: Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains

Identifying <good> or <bad> code/text/math/art is a lower intellectual skill than generating <good> or <bad> code/text/math/art . See any "skills" hierarchy for details. Without doubt, use of code-producing *.ai deskills coders, in a way analogous to CNC machines deskilling lathe-workers. If the task-at-point is repetitive and the output a commodity then machine automation proves doable, cheaper and perhaps higher quality. Otherwise an extended form of Godels Theorem applies. The craftsman in Ohio who hand-built my olive-wood curve-bladed pairing-knife set remains secure .

Comment Re:The Developer is dead - long live The Engineer (Score 1) 118

by noshellswill on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @07:47PM (#66142505) Attached to: Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains

Who is so narrow-minded they believe language translators are accountants? Surely not the people who translated hieroglyphs ... Sanskrit ... cuneiform ... Linear-B etc. Or who translate English into Russian during a nuclear confrontation ( we pray ...) . So who then? Only accountants ?

Comment Re:GPAs are trash, yet companies still filter on t (Score 1) 177

by noshellswill on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @02:20PM (#66141975) Attached to: Harvard Votes On Limiting 'A' Grades

You seem to believe exams have something to do with taught lecture material. Indeed: Bloomfeld rules K-12 , but Piaget rules Uni. For high school exams you teach to the testing; at Uni exams measure combinatorial structures that almost by definition never were taught. So you expect (optimistically ) only 13% of a population gets their BS. Other than self-interest, why does Harvard ignore well documented performance constraints? Is frustration generosity? So what about everyone else ? Simple. Their < Best Money = B$ = best life > comes from their doing whatever pattern-matching or sensation they do best ... whatever it is combinatorial logic does not rule. Really you can tell over-educated people all year ... that Steinmetz did the maths while Einstein rowed against the bow wave ... and get back nothing , but a blank stare or contempt.

Comment you're kidding (Score 1) 177

by noshellswill on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @01:41PM (#66141877) Attached to: Harvard Votes On Limiting 'A' Grades

For physics majors at my small liberal arts Jesuit college ... in the 1960s ... 20% A !?! ... ha ... hahaha .... that's why we took math classes !

Comment market (Score 1) 65

by noshellswill on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @11:46AM (#66141615) Attached to: Why Are Some People Mosquito Magnets?

In-the-day, moving to a SC barrier island over-run with mosquitos I learned the trick locals used. Somebody needs to buy Skin-So-Soft ! If you took the SSS "bath" bugs would gather like a cloud, but never land on your skin; absolute miracle ! Think of the investors.

Comment Re:Oboyoboyoboy! (Score 1) 29

by noshellswill on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @01:42PM (#66140245) Attached to: First Real-Time Brain-Controlled Hearing Device

All the above hearing issues. Seems so primitive, but I have come to rely on 'hand written notes'. That's like using a chalk-board and power-series expansion to find: sin<0.25> . Any implant treatment is good news for me.

Comment Re:This is just pandering (Score 1) 72

by noshellswill on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @10:11AM (#66139946) Attached to: A Data Center Drained 30 Million Gallons of Water Unnoticed

You're excuse making ... pimping-the-ride for BIGDATA and its aggressive , un-needed slop. One might say OTOH ... burn them all down. DIY home computer builders with games to play and spreadsheets to run and BASIC to code can use the ram.

Comment Re:Art or just Stopping to Smell the Roses (Score 2) 81

by noshellswill on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @09:58AM (#66139910) Attached to: Arts and Cultural Engagement 'Linked To Slower Pace of Biological Aging'

I believe your brain is always active w.r.t. sensory input. For example, round stones become "roundness" then a 3-d metric ... yellow flowers become "yellowness" then components of a Fourier Transform etcetc. Human brains just "mess" with every sensory input ... and we call that "creativity".

Comment creators (Score 2) 29

by noshellswill on Monday May 11, 2026 @01:36PM (#66138620) Attached to: Google Says Hackers Used AI To Create Zero Day Security Flaw For the First Time

Pardon my English ... please ... but cyber-criminals do not create vulnerabilities ... they discover them. You know, like discovering a camel-turd in a basket of dates. However, you create a stuffed date, by inserting a dried apricot.

Comment Re:Sci-fi has been doomerish for years (Score 1) 68

by noshellswill on Monday May 11, 2026 @11:25AM (#66138356) Attached to: Anthropic Says 'Evil' Portrayals of AI Were Responsible For Claude's Blackmail Attempts

The earth is a hell-planet and its inhabitants demons. That statement is both a popular sci-fi theme and accurate history.

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