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Comment Re:Before you rail on this... (Score 2) 124

Reasonable people understand that AI is a very powerful tool for a wide number of tasks that will substantially improve personal productivity. Reasonable people also know it's not taking anyone's job any time soon.

Reasonable people are not driving any of the conversations around AI right now.

Comment Re:Only one problem with this (Score 1) 100

Not excusing them. However, of all the awful things happening in the US state and local governments, this one doesn't really rate. Not many people can 3D print, and even fewer will choose to print guns. If those that want to print guns are mildly determined, they'll be able to get the files to do so. So this is a great evil, but microscopic impact. It needs to be fixed, but not at huge cost. if I had to bargain with the other side, I'd give this up in favor of something more important.

By comparison, allowing billionaires to keep breathing, depriving women of the right to abortion, marginalizing out-groups and merging the church and state are great evils which impact nearly everyone. These are the big ticket items worth betting all the dollars on.

Comment Re:Shouldn't have gotten rid of calculus (Score 4, Insightful) 113

This is the other part: not all computer science programs are equal. 25 years ago, my university basically created it as a "managing programmers and technologist education" concept, the idea being no one with a college degree was going to do any actual programming in the future. So it was very light on hard technology and very heavy on what was basically MBA prep. If you wanted to do information theory or data science, you were in ECE or a math major. You might touch on all the same concepts as a better program in another university, but you weren't going to be exploring them in depth, or advancing the field.

Other schools had different ideas, and CS was a very strong technical program. You learned to code as a side effect of having to do it so much to support the coursework, which needed programming to explore the concepts.

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