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Comment Kids today (Score 1) 228

Anecdotally, kids these days are pretty dumb when it comes to basic computer skills, never mind "data science skills". Working with word processors and simple spreadsheets is challenging for them. Forget about asking them to delve into the file system.

Somewhere along the way, these kinds of skills went on the back burner as far as educational priorities are concerned. It makes no sense. I really cannot fathom why.

Comment Shows the value of wikipedia's model (Score 1) 218

The 'experts only' gatekeeper on the information entered into the system results in a relatively barren knowledge base. It doesn't parse natural language all that well (for example: "population of Austin Texas verse population of Dallas Texas produces no result). It's slow.

Not terribly useful outside of a few specific domains. I don't foresee myself using it often, maybe not at all.

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