I was apart of a very orthodox religious school who's main appeal is their dual curriculum setup. They start with judaics at 7 am with secular studies from 12:40 pm to 5 pm and then more judaics from 7 - 9 pm. I never had a proper education and when I went to the secular education principle to be put back into arithmetic, she got quite pissed at me and mocked me for even wanting this. I went on a complete and utter fucking tangent not going to school until they fucking put me in arithmetic.
After I somehow graduated in 2022 (with absolutely fucking nothing -- no diploma or anything) i went to community college and finished multivariate calculus from arithmetic within 2 years span. Shit I even graduated with a degree in mathematics.
I recently went back and started substituting there during my winter break off of university, and it has effectively become so fucking shitty that while I was subbing, the entire day was spent drawing... fucking drawing.
These aren't kindergartners, these are 6th, 7th, and 8th graders, they should be learning algebra at this point, and they're just familiarizing themselves with exponents. The 8th grade doesn't even have a teacher to teach fucking math.
With all that said, I sent an email to the principle implying a dillema, "either you can bring the secular program up to standard, or I will cut it" the principle never responded and I may have no choice but to send a cease and desist letter as a more formal course of action and an additional warning if they don't cooperate.
I've said this to my Jewish family countless of times how unethical the practice is. After all, there was a statistic which said 30000 (or close to that number) Jewish babies die each year from urinary tract infection because of this ritualistic performance.
To me, for someone who stopped believing 3 years ago, I've waited for this ban to happen.
In general I trust decrentalized services much more than centralized because there really is no feasable way of changing it to a centralized service (and making money off it) besides restructuring the entire platform. With signal they have that option to immediately make money by selling data to data brokers. Its the deciding factor why I choose a specific service because when a service is decentralized it implies it must be private as well, otherwise (if it isn't) you can just move to another platform who does respect your privacy -- or, better yet, make your own.
That's what makes delta chat better compared to signal. So long as I have the ability to open port forwarding. I can setup a DNS service as the domain for my delta chat instance. I don't need to trust anyone's service, it is completely independent and private from other users joining, and the app (as in the delta chat or arcane chat applications) are opensource. I have no reason to avoid this service as it is completely private and it will be quite obvious their motivation when they do try to close source the app and start making it centralized.
I'm currently on the nine.testrun instance (run by delta chat). I will sooner or later use my own private instance. The main issue with delta chat is getting people to join it, it is far more challenging to get people to use it when all my family members are on WhatsApp.
No its apart of the companies business strategy. These tech companies fire an unprecedented amount of employees (primarily from the mass hiring during 2020) make a post they fired these employees because of ai improvements, see their stock price rise ultimately inflating it and creating an economic bubble, and rinse and repeat with the next wave of potential hires who are sucking their employers dick a little to hard.
It's unethical, and it violates any and all job security and I don't want to be apart of that toxic workspace. Its ironic im saying this because a few years ago if I got a job at Google I would say "fuck yea mother fucker count me in" and now I just don't want to work for them. There are far better companies doing interesting and valuable work to benefit society than these hipster douche bags.
As far as I'm concerned the generative AI that we see in chatbots has no goal associated with it: it just exists for no purpose at all. In contrast to google translate or other translation apps (which BTW still use machine learning algorithms) have a far more practical use to it as being a resource to translate other languages in real-time. I don't care what companies call it (if it's a tool or not) at the moment its a big fucking turd that AI companies are trying to force feed down our fucking mouth.
You also see this tech slop happening historically in the evolution of search engines. Way before we had recommendation algorithms in most modern search engines. A search engine was basically a database where the user had to thoughtfully word its queries to get good search results, then came the recommendation algorithm and I could only imagine no one, literally no one, cared about it since we could already do the things this algorithm offered to solve. Still, however, it was pushed, and sooner than later integrated into most popular search engines. Now you see the same thing happening with generative AI...
The purpose of generative AI, much like the recommendation algorithm is solving nothing hence the analogy "its just a big fucking turd" is what I'm trying to persuade here: We could already do the things it offered to solve. If you can see the pattern, its just this downward spiraling affect. It appeals to anti intellectuals (which is most of the US at this point) and google and other major companies are making record profit by selling user data to brokers: its a win for both parties.
In my experience, it really wasn't an "advanced subject" for me. Sure, the majority of majors who are trying to become doctors, CS, or computer engineers only have to take up to calc 2 (and diff eq) for their bachelors, but I still wouldn't say MVC or diff eq is an advanced math subject. Real analysis or algebra -- where you have to take a math course on mathematical proofs before taking these classes -- is where I'll say math becomes more abstract on its applications and advanced.
Diff eq was not challenging at all, I spent probably 6 hours a week on average (which includes the 4 hours of lecture). Its as simple as solving a linear equations, with it being slightly more tedious. If you understand derivatives, integrals, and partial fraction decomp (for Laplace transforms) its a breeze of a class.
MVC on the other hand was slightly more challenging, but having finished calculus 2, that too was also very enjoyable.
Point is, MVC and diff eq aren't hard classes I wouldn't even call them advanced classes as that title goes to analysis.
skiplists are interesting data structures. The underlying mechanism is it's a 2-dimensional probabilistic linked list with some associated height 'h' that enables skipping of nodes through key-value pairs. So, compared to a traditional linked list that uses a traversal method to search through all values stored. A skip list starts from the maxLevel/maxheight, determines if "next" points to a key greater than the key provided or a nullptr, and moves down to the level below it if it is. This reduces the time complexity from O(1) with a linked list to O(N) where N Is the maxLevel.
The reason behind why its probabilistic (in this case using a pseudo random number) is because its easier to insert and remove elements, otherwise (if you went with the idealized theoretical form) you would have to reconstruct the entire data structure each and every time you want to add/remove elements.
In my testing when adding 1,000,000 elements to a skiplist it reduced from 6s search with a linked list to less than 1s!
They can't corrupt Linux, atleast not the larger distros. RPM sponsors fedora development which IBM and other large organizations sponsor RPM. Why don't they corrupt RPM, because 1.) IBM specialize in cloud services and enterprise infrastructure, IBM has no need to deliver consumer grade products because they already make a shit ton of money. 2.) it would ultimately be fucking themselves over; IBM's cloud servers run on Linux, if fedora wanted to monetize the OS by adding trackers, they would ultimately be doing a disservice to their business by pissing off IBM. IBM's infrastructure is based on RPM to pull a shitty move like that would destroy it's sponsors and userbase.
Run 10,000 miles horizontally before gravity starts taking into effect.