whats in it for the usa to provide financial assistance i wonder? weaken russia? funnel money to their defense bros? probably both, certainly not out of the goodness of their heart. britain is no different.
what should have happened is countries form a coalition of troops under a non-nato banner and go in and help with the fighting... if they really wanted to help ukraine that is.
As a kid I was also terrible at maths, then later became obsessed with it as an adult because I didn't understand it, just like OP. It was the (second) best thing I've ever done! The world becomes a lot more interesting.
My best friend was like that. Couldn't see the practicality until he got bit by a geology and water science bug. He went from calling me to get help figuring out percentages to doing chemistry equations in his head because he "got" the applicability.
My brother's mom tutors math. One of her insights with a former student was that they were in need of forming some number sense. She started by walking them both out to the street: "how many tires are there on this street of parked cars?" The student, already flummoxed, started panic guessing. So she started with counting.
For times tables, have you developed any intuition around it? For me, times tables are rectangles composed of unit squares and that helps with my intuition. Modern Common Core standards in the US focuses a lot on exposing different mental models to students. And after seeing the same 4x6 enough times your brain will automatically associate that with its solution. Instead of calculating, it is memorized.
My brain doesn't require car tires, geology, or other practical needs: it likes puzzles. I struggle with medical stuff and I can feel my brain switching to meh-mode and hardly anything sticks. I don't know how many times I have been told about the different kinds of sugar and how your body uses that energy and I would still have to look it up.
> However I was unable to visual how 2/3 is more than 1/2 when 1/2 is half a pint, or half a glass.
Maybe visualize splitting a pint with a friend. If you split the pint into 2 equal parts and each of you gets 1 of those 2 parts you each get the same amount.
Then visualize splitting it instead into 3 equal parts. You get 1 of those parts and your buddy gets 2. There's no fractions there so it should be easier to visualize that your buddy got twice as much as you did.
Comparing those two visualizations might make it easier to see that someone who gets 2/3 of a pint gets more than someone who gets 1/2 of a pint.
Generative AI is not autonomous, it's wielded by a user just as a brush is, prompted and tweaked by a human being, a new tool in the artist's tackle box, like acrylic paint, Photoshop, "content-aware fill" etc.
Not really. "AI era" is adding a flood of new crap to the world already drowned in slop. The last couple decades marked the time where everyone could publish books, videos and music, and a lot of people did, creating more content every day than any human could consume in a lifetime. And that's discounting the orders of magnitude more useless garbage that advertising industry has been mass-producing for like a century now.
Adding AI to the mix makes zero actual difference at this point.
You say that, and yes I agree with you. But a human saying these words to a person can be charged and go to jail. There is a fine line here that many people just wont understand.
That's the whole point, it's not a human. you're rolling dice and interpreting a specific arrangement. The misleading thing here is the use of the term "AI", there is no intelligence or intent involved. it isn't some sentient computer writing those words.
this is why managers get a bad rap. what proportion think like this? hopefully not a large one but i do worry. ultimately if the team sucks its because of the management. theyre the ones with the greatest power to change things for the better.
Did you mean single player? Although perhaps I'm just old and thinking about this in a strange way.
And can I clarify.. your scrabble app is web based already right? connecting to a rust web server for the game logic? And you want to embed that server by compiling to wasm? I probably should go read up on how this works.
Not the OP, but most web-based multiplayer games use a server backend to communicate between the multiple players.
> connecting to a rust web server for the game logic? And you want to embed that server by compiling to wasm?
I would assume so, and it being in WASM means they can use the exact same binary code on the server and in the webbrowser.
You could of course do the same thing by writing in Javascript (running in Node on the server or in the browser) but then you are in JS instead of Rust.
what should have happened is countries form a coalition of troops under a non-nato banner and go in and help with the fighting... if they really wanted to help ukraine that is.
what we see atm is all just money money money.
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