New math isn't the problem -- new math was never the problem. Standards are the problem.

You do realize the young people aren't choosing their own education, right? Its the previous generations making those changes.

You're likely falling into the logical thinking word problem portion of those students.

I have a hard time seeing how this could possibly succeed as well. Yes, it feels unfair to the consumer, but also yes the seller agreed to it in exchange for being on such a huge platform.
Should we make such contracts illegal? yes. Are they already? no.

You mean Andy right? Since he replaced Bezos as CEO a while back...

Wow. I'm amazed anyone who's spent any time looking into the lives of people in Europe and Asia could believe this. Oh wait, you've never done that, have you?

Please keep sharing anything you observe as it happens.

The last thing any of us should want is for OpenAI to take over from Google.

I really don't understand this decision that Google should be broken up as though its 'monopoly' in search isn't entirely based on skill and talent. But if we *are* going to force companies to break up into components, can we make sure new monoliths aren't just created as a result?

This, entirely this.

Its just mildly more difficult to print the source code to Linux on a T-shirt ... or to include its entirety in your E-mail signature.

May I note that the person who disliked my reply and labelled it trolling is hilarious?
How is disagreeing with someone and citing sources trolling? smh.

I am simply responding to a proposed *impossibility* -- the potentially low probability that "facts" are used to reinforce a data set does not change is *possibility*.
Your argument also seems to ignore the difference between initial training and reinforcement.

Index investing ftw. That's all. Good rant.

Actually they basically can with feedback reinforcement.
https://arxiv.org/html/2404.17...

Unaware? How could you be unaware? The use of open source systems to create special effects has been well documented back to Titanic's wave effects at least.