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foreigner comes to US to buy STEM education

completes it, leaves


Not every STEM grad student is a CS masters

Academia is more than a transaction. It's a social good. One that's also subsidized by the US taxpayer.

If we were to compare it to a transaction, I think something like California exporting alfalfa to Saudi Arabia might make more sense. We've only but so much water to use and it's far from absurd to question if it makes sense to let our limited resources get drained for exporting things elsewhere.

if it didnt make sense, woupdnt the water be going to something else?

the incentives might not be set up for the best market, but Saudi Arabia im sure is willing to outbid just about any other use for that water


Are you referring to the taxpayer support of state (not private) colleges, which subsidizes the tuition of in-state students? Foreign student don't get that subsidized rate.

Or do you mean the taxpayer-supported research - that anyone with an internet connection can download the results of, from anywhere in the world, without paying a penny of tuition?


You think multiple localised heat centres are more efficient than centralised managed heat centres. Why don't we all just have a coal-fired power station in our back garden?

"they" - which ones ?

ChatGPT for one.

I just asked it about vibe coding, and it happily generated numerous paragraphs and bulleted list on the subject.

That is not my experience, at least when I tried it just now.

Share a screenshot of what you're seeing because it seems like everyone else is seeing something radically different.


You're not giving us any evidence of this. You're just asserting it.

Claude will happily talk about vibe coding as much as you want.

One of its active working prompts is "vibing".

It wasn't a popular term until early 2025.

https://x.com/karpathy/status/1886192184808149383

> There's a new kind of coding I call "vibe coding", where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists. It's possible because the LLMs (e.g. Cursor Composer w Sonnet) are getting too good. ...

11:17 pm · 2 Feb 2025 5.2M Views


I asked Claude to give me the pros and cons of "vibe coding" and it did so without confusion.


So it's neither ignorant nor reluctant to tell you about vibe coding.

It didn't know what it was at the beginning of the conversation.

When you say:

"Should schools have a chess variant class where students invent and vibe code novel chess variants and play each other's variants?"

I don't know what you are saying. Sounds more like your objective is to have students brainstorm new ways to play chess. Why is there any indication that the LLM should assume this is a programming question?

In fact, it has divined that programming might be involved and offered that certain python libraries might be leveraged. You frame your input as a question about schools offering a certain class and the LLM responded by assuming that is what your objective was and started to help build such a curriculum.

Did you expect with your input that the LLM would simply jump into writing some kind of code? Should it have written a multi user chess playground? Should it have written a python chess variant? I personally think it did the reasonable thing and from the context you provided assumed your task was to build such a class pedagogically not produce some python code.

If you are focused on chatGPT lumping other forms of "hacking" or "cowboy coding" into the same bucket as "LLM Assist" and calling it all "Vibe Coding" I personally don't have an issue with that. They all fall into the bucket of fast and loose coding techniques. That is just my take on it though.


To an LLM all coding it does is vibe coding.

In this case you’re asking it a closed question with a {yes, no, maybe} answer set.

It tries its hardest to give you more than that.

You’re asking a machine to have an opinion. If someone asked you that question, what would your answer be?

Think about your goals and state them more clearly.

“What are the pros and cons of …”


Or his dad at Planned Parenthood

Naw, that’s not nice. :(

Maybe you mis-understood. His dad was on the board of PP and it shaped Bill’s population control views and his “philanthropy”.

That’s not a maybe, he’s talked about it in interviews.


And you think that changed the world as much as founding Microsoft did?

Maronite Christian.

https://x.com/EYakoby/status/2000261393434718514

who fled Lebanon during the The Lebanese Civil War cause by the PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organization) and armed Palestinian groups relocated their base of operations to Lebanon, bringing thousands of fighters.


weird because I am using Sonnet right now. I guess my time is limited

I've been using it through this and it occasionally stops with an error message saying something like "repeated 529 responses". Kind of annoying but it's fine.

Maybe you're just using the cached Sonnet.

By being engaged with my work.

There is no secret someone else can tell you, if you find yourself distracted all the time.


I haven't written any code in 6 months. But I can still remember how to code in 6502 machine code from the 1980s.

How can you be sure you remember if you aren’t actually doing it?

This is an important question I think. Gradually losing a skill to atrophy is not something you notice consciously.

Come on, I've been coding for 45 years. I don't forget so quickly.

I am sure you can still code, but there is no question that there are certain small bits that you no longer remember as well (or at all) as just 6 months ago.

I believe - but cannot prove - that the atrophy follows an S curve (decreasing with time), so that in the beginning not much happens but with time the rate of forgetting things increases.


There's a difference between forgetting the minutiae and still having the skills.

One doesn't forget how to learn. It's just that you've switched to learning something else.


I used to be a maintenance data analyst in a welding plant welding about 1 million units per month.

I was the only person in the factory who was a qualified welder.


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