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Comment Re:Visibility (Score 1) 51

Obviously backup cameras work, so what we need literally now is forward cameras. Hard to keep your eyes on the road while also keeping your eyes on the forward camera, but with time drivers will adjust. We may even as a species eventually develop a third eye to look at the forward camera, as evolutionary pressures prune those who can't keep up.

Comment Re:CS Education (Score 1) 58

Indeed. (Applied) CS has still a long way to go and that way will eventually make it a respected engineering discipline.

Actually it's kind of interesting to think what it would take to get there. I don't think we're actually 50 years away, if we wanted to get there. What would students be expected to know to be an actual software engineer?

The first level is easy: the students need to be able to get the computer to do what they want. This is the first level, and when I do job interviews, I am trying to figure out if the candidate can reliably get the computer to do what they want or not (mainly using programming problems like on leetcode, since those are short and fast. Although I make up my own questions, they're basically in the same class). Unfortunately that level often takes students 4 years to achieve, if they achieve it at all.

IF you could speed up that knowledge acquisition (which would largely be done by having students do a lot of programming), then moving on to the next step, I know there are things I wish software engineers knew, but I don't know how to organize it into a teaching system. I teach it to other engineers at work in an ad-hoc way.

Comment Re: Duh (Score 1) 167

The burning desire to correct someone when they are wrong has nothing to do with intelligence.

It also used to be much more important. Now anyone can look up any fact at any time, having an encyclopedic store of facts in your brain is rather less useful than before (still useful, but in the same way being able to do mental math is useful. It helps you see connections and move fast. But anyone can use a calculator or Wikipedia).

Incidentally, I've noticed that one reason ChatGPT is so popular as a source for answering questions is because a lot of people don't know how to use Wikipedia.

Comment Re:Gardeners and Nannys are modern slaves (Score 1) 129

Pay illegal immigrants far below the min wage for the "untouchable" jobs, Nanny, Gardener, the less than automated parts of food production.

None of those are untouchable jobs. I know American Citizens who have done all those jobs, and enjoyed it. The only reason Americans aren't lining up to do those jobs is because the pay is low.

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