I don't have Siri, but pretty much everything I've read about it indicates that it isn't reliable. Voice to text that works is going to beat speech recognition that doesn't work reliably any day of the week.
$60 a month is a lot of money, perhaps your independently wealthy, but for most people that is a lot of money that they could be using for other things. That's just about more than the cost of a voice plan around here.
That implies that we don't know how to teach most students, which really does requires some evidence to support. I've yet to see a set of tests that are used for that purpose that have any real world validity. Shanghai just beat out every other set of students in the world, they did it by doing homework 7 days a week and being in school 12 hours on weekdays. Yes, they outscored everybody else, but it isn't just a matter of the raw scores, there's opportunity costs that come from spending that much time in class and there's no compelling reason to believe that the success on that test will carry over into other areas of life. Students spend significantly less time learning than they did when I was a kid, and we spent significantly less time than my parents did. It's not that we did any less work, it's that we're more focused on learning how to take tests than they used to be.
As for the students, the schools have always been way too easy for the brightest students and that problem goes back at least 400 years and probably even further. If that weren't the case you wouldn't see folks like Hobbes going to college so early, even now it's not unusual for students to start college at 15 around here. When the normal age of entrance is 18 minimum.
More than that, there are better solutions, the boredom could be alleviated by spending more money on visual aids and developing engaging curriculum. I was bored out of my skull in classes as well, but it wasn't just a matter of the lack of difficulty, it was the lack of diversity in lesson planning. Going to class day in and day out and listening to lectures just isn't something that's particularly effective.
That's broadly true of most areas of education. For instance, language classes need to hit four domains with most lessons to be most effective. That is to say reading, writing, listening and speaking, the problem being that a site like the Khan Acadamy isn't going to be well suited to the writing and speaking components, and be very heavy on the reading and listening components. One can still learn like that, but it's a much slower process.
To an extent that applies to other subjects as well, you'd be surprised how much you can learn doing problems, even if you've done one or two like it before, the results add up over time, but if you don't have somebody to check your work or show you how to do it, you're going to take a lot longer to learn it, assuming you do in the first place.
Indeed, as a supplement, I think the Khan Academy is really useful. The way it's laid out really supports its use as a supplemental resource. But, it's not set up in a way that's going to replace anybody's classroom. Taking a quick look at the algebra section, there's a few lessons, but there isn't any obvious ordering to it, aside from not doing the part 2 lessons before the part 1 ones.
I would personally have to spend a substantial amount of time going through the lessons to decide the order and combination if I was going to use the materials exclusively to teach with. If I just need a lesson or two, it's not really that difficult, but the whole set up is not one that's going to be useful for somebody that doesn't know anything about how to create lesson plans.
As far as retention goes, if you don't use it within about the first 20 minutes or so of encountering it, the likelihood of retaining the knowledge significantly drops for most people.
It's $5m in grant money, that's really not that much, even for a small school. It might last them a couple years, but even that's doubtful, it costs a lot of money to start a school and I doubt that will hold them over for a year or two.
It's more than that, the more connections you have between facts the more likely they are to be retained. A good class will involve more than just one modality of involvement by the students, and online classes of any sort really haven't managed to master that yet. Khan probably being even worse as there's no possibility of meeting off line and the tests being somewhat less vigorous than normal.
I'm sure folks do learn from it, I just doubt very much that it's going to advance education much more than the encyclopedia did.
That's not just going to happen if you're doing some research. Plus, European data protection laws don't apply to people that are living in the US. The EU can't enforce a judgment against a company with no presence in the EU, no matter how much they might want to. They would have to file suit in the US, where their data protection laws don't apply. Otherwise they would end up in a situation where they have a judgment that they can't collect on, assuming that the court rules they have jurisdiction in the first place.
EBay doesn't have a reputation system. A reputation system requires that parties be able to add or subtract from the feedback based upon their views. There will be a few that don't match or are wrong, but over time the values will tend to reflect reality.
With eBay, they don't let sellers leave negative feedback anymore and as a result the whole system is badly flawed and tends to just reward bad behavior by buyers.
The story is unchanged, but the quality discs have all sorts of features, like they did with DVDs, but more extensive. The Princess Bride, for instance, had not just a remastered film, but a game and several rather long featurettes about how the film came to be.
Unlike in your example, you can definitely tell that it's higher def, assuming that it was done by technicians. With the MP3s, you'd never notice the difference regardless of how well the technicians did their job.
Except that most of the time when data is stored it's not been through the cloud, it's because a laptop has been lost, or there was a burglary. The cloud isn't really any substantial increase in risk, if you encrypt the data before it's stored on the cloud and go through the appropriate measures to ensure that the keys are protected from unauthorized use.
Exactly, I can encrypt my data, but all that means is that if there is a match, which is definitely possible, I end up losing the entire volume rather than just a portion of it. Neither possibility is acceptable for a service of this type. The likelihood increases substantially when you start matching everybody's blocks to everybody elses blocks. It's unlikely that you'd have two such blocks within a particular customers data, but when you deal with all the customers' data...
I take it you're being sarcastic, but I for one don't have hundreds of dollars to spend on attorneys fees each time somebody wants me to agree to their ToS. That would literally require me to have an attorney on retainer for each end every single site I do business with.
At some point, we need to just admit that the whole thing has gone ridiculously far out of control and needs to be fixed.
Up until relatively recently you had to buy a new copy for technological reasons. At least when they went from DVD to BluRay they tended to give something extra. The ones that don't get extras end up not being purchased by me.
I read the link and if you look at the spec sheets those cheaper ones aren't as good. GPS is hardly a must have feature, same goes with camera. But, on top of that you're having to make due with less RAM, less processing power and less storage space.
Punishment behind closed doors isn't punishment. The problem with applying privacy laws to this sort of thing is it ensures that people filing complaints never receive justice. They have no means of appealing if the decision isn't right and they don't know if the complaints were even taken seriously.
Really, whenever a boss or individual in power is accused of such things the person making the accusation needs to be informed at least of whether or not any action was taken.
It's the pottery barn rule, you broke it you bought it.
As for refusing to take care of herself. That's just plain ignorant, more likely he conditioned her to be dependent upon him. Which is probably a large factor in why it took so long for the tape to be made public. If she really refused to take care of herself, she probably could have gotten most of his money suing him in court for the damages.
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I don't have Siri, but pretty much everything I've read about it indicates that it isn't reliable. Voice to text that works is going to beat speech recognition that doesn't work reliably any day of the week.
$60 a month is a lot of money, perhaps your independently wealthy, but for most people that is a lot of money that they could be using for other things. That's just about more than the cost of a voice plan around here.
That implies that we don't know how to teach most students, which really does requires some evidence to support. I've yet to see a set of tests that are used for that purpose that have any real world validity. Shanghai just beat out every other set of students in the world, they did it by doing homework 7 days a week and being in school 12 hours on weekdays. Yes, they outscored everybody else, but it isn't just a matter of the raw scores, there's opportunity costs that come from spending that much time in class and there's no compelling reason to believe that the success on that test will carry over into other areas of life. Students spend significantly less time learning than they did when I was a kid, and we spent significantly less time than my parents did. It's not that we did any less work, it's that we're more focused on learning how to take tests than they used to be.
As for the students, the schools have always been way too easy for the brightest students and that problem goes back at least 400 years and probably even further. If that weren't the case you wouldn't see folks like Hobbes going to college so early, even now it's not unusual for students to start college at 15 around here. When the normal age of entrance is 18 minimum.
More than that, there are better solutions, the boredom could be alleviated by spending more money on visual aids and developing engaging curriculum. I was bored out of my skull in classes as well, but it wasn't just a matter of the lack of difficulty, it was the lack of diversity in lesson planning. Going to class day in and day out and listening to lectures just isn't something that's particularly effective.
That's broadly true of most areas of education. For instance, language classes need to hit four domains with most lessons to be most effective. That is to say reading, writing, listening and speaking, the problem being that a site like the Khan Acadamy isn't going to be well suited to the writing and speaking components, and be very heavy on the reading and listening components. One can still learn like that, but it's a much slower process.
To an extent that applies to other subjects as well, you'd be surprised how much you can learn doing problems, even if you've done one or two like it before, the results add up over time, but if you don't have somebody to check your work or show you how to do it, you're going to take a lot longer to learn it, assuming you do in the first place.
Indeed, as a supplement, I think the Khan Academy is really useful. The way it's laid out really supports its use as a supplemental resource. But, it's not set up in a way that's going to replace anybody's classroom. Taking a quick look at the algebra section, there's a few lessons, but there isn't any obvious ordering to it, aside from not doing the part 2 lessons before the part 1 ones.
I would personally have to spend a substantial amount of time going through the lessons to decide the order and combination if I was going to use the materials exclusively to teach with. If I just need a lesson or two, it's not really that difficult, but the whole set up is not one that's going to be useful for somebody that doesn't know anything about how to create lesson plans.
As far as retention goes, if you don't use it within about the first 20 minutes or so of encountering it, the likelihood of retaining the knowledge significantly drops for most people.
It's $5m in grant money, that's really not that much, even for a small school. It might last them a couple years, but even that's doubtful, it costs a lot of money to start a school and I doubt that will hold them over for a year or two.
It's more than that, the more connections you have between facts the more likely they are to be retained. A good class will involve more than just one modality of involvement by the students, and online classes of any sort really haven't managed to master that yet. Khan probably being even worse as there's no possibility of meeting off line and the tests being somewhat less vigorous than normal.
I'm sure folks do learn from it, I just doubt very much that it's going to advance education much more than the encyclopedia did.
That's not just going to happen if you're doing some research. Plus, European data protection laws don't apply to people that are living in the US. The EU can't enforce a judgment against a company with no presence in the EU, no matter how much they might want to. They would have to file suit in the US, where their data protection laws don't apply. Otherwise they would end up in a situation where they have a judgment that they can't collect on, assuming that the court rules they have jurisdiction in the first place.
That presupposes that the Khan Academy is an acceptable replacement for a traditional school, which it isn't.
EBay doesn't have a reputation system. A reputation system requires that parties be able to add or subtract from the feedback based upon their views. There will be a few that don't match or are wrong, but over time the values will tend to reflect reality.
With eBay, they don't let sellers leave negative feedback anymore and as a result the whole system is badly flawed and tends to just reward bad behavior by buyers.
The story is unchanged, but the quality discs have all sorts of features, like they did with DVDs, but more extensive. The Princess Bride, for instance, had not just a remastered film, but a game and several rather long featurettes about how the film came to be.
Unlike in your example, you can definitely tell that it's higher def, assuming that it was done by technicians. With the MP3s, you'd never notice the difference regardless of how well the technicians did their job.
Except that most of the time when data is stored it's not been through the cloud, it's because a laptop has been lost, or there was a burglary. The cloud isn't really any substantial increase in risk, if you encrypt the data before it's stored on the cloud and go through the appropriate measures to ensure that the keys are protected from unauthorized use.
Exactly, I can encrypt my data, but all that means is that if there is a match, which is definitely possible, I end up losing the entire volume rather than just a portion of it. Neither possibility is acceptable for a service of this type. The likelihood increases substantially when you start matching everybody's blocks to everybody elses blocks. It's unlikely that you'd have two such blocks within a particular customers data, but when you deal with all the customers' data...
Yes, businesses that need PCI, HIPAA or SarbOx compliance ought to be directly asking, that's no excuse for not posting it in a prominent place.
I'd personally be more concerned with the possibility of having some of my data clobbered if there's a collision with a hash for somebody elses file.
That's rather a random task to take on as an odd job.
I take it you're being sarcastic, but I for one don't have hundreds of dollars to spend on attorneys fees each time somebody wants me to agree to their ToS. That would literally require me to have an attorney on retainer for each end every single site I do business with.
At some point, we need to just admit that the whole thing has gone ridiculously far out of control and needs to be fixed.
Up until relatively recently you had to buy a new copy for technological reasons. At least when they went from DVD to BluRay they tended to give something extra. The ones that don't get extras end up not being purchased by me.
USB sticks don't have the ability to set recording speed. I rarely if ever have trouble with CDROMS, but that stupid USB utility never works reliably.
I read the link and if you look at the spec sheets those cheaper ones aren't as good. GPS is hardly a must have feature, same goes with camera. But, on top of that you're having to make due with less RAM, less processing power and less storage space.
I think the suggestion is that by beating his child he'd be in violation of the terms of employment that judges have to meet to be allowed to serve.
Allowing people that are known to have engaged in domestic violence on the bench would set a disastrous precedence for future judicial proceedings.
Punishment behind closed doors isn't punishment. The problem with applying privacy laws to this sort of thing is it ensures that people filing complaints never receive justice. They have no means of appealing if the decision isn't right and they don't know if the complaints were even taken seriously.
Really, whenever a boss or individual in power is accused of such things the person making the accusation needs to be informed at least of whether or not any action was taken.
It's the pottery barn rule, you broke it you bought it.
As for refusing to take care of herself. That's just plain ignorant, more likely he conditioned her to be dependent upon him. Which is probably a large factor in why it took so long for the tape to be made public. If she really refused to take care of herself, she probably could have gotten most of his money suing him in court for the damages.
Technically he should have recused himself whenever the issue of child abuse or domestic violence came up.
You should reread both posts, creating the initial ebooks isn't necessarily any cheaper than creating the first hard copy.
I'm pretty sure saying SCOX at school can get you that reaction right now.
I think you're being hasty. I say we bury him alive and see if he rises from the dead. Worst case scenario you then have to behead him.