[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 6 points 9 hours ago

Same as with rotting corpses and smell. A dead landlord in my living room may stink up the whole house but a dead politician sitting at the far end of an indoor stadium won't be noticeable.

[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

I did hear Arch is a bit more trouble, yeah. CachyOS was pretty straightforward from desktop environment to automatically detecting hardware and such. Pretty much the same features you see with Windows, just a lot faster.

[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

In the case I'm referencing, I was installing Windows 11 for a five year old gaming computer using the Windows 10 upgrade software, no USB or anything like that.

Technically I was going to use a custom USB made with Rufus to remove copilot, but by the time I got there they had already started the upgrade process. It really did take two hours, including the 15 minutes before I got there.

[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

Sure, and Internet speeds probably matter a bit too. The download part was a bit faster than I remember, but then it hung up on the later parts for a while. Lol

[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 80 points 14 hours ago

The most obvious bait to be was 1 hour install time. Windows 11 took 2 hours to install, CachyOS took like 5 minutes. I imagine Arch is similar, there is simply no way. Lol

[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago

Hehe, I mean I'm forced to teach by-hand statistics to undergraduates and we have to do... arithmetics. Multiplication. Division. Square roots!

It's a pretty established truth that we don't really do math. Lol

[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

And TIL you all get fries. Huh. Are they any good?

[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Obligatory shout out to the medical drama Wii game Trauma Team, which takes place in Portland, Maine, and somehow also involves disobeying a fascist US government near the end.

[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Statisticians in reality are programmers, typically using R or Python to run models. You only ever touch math in undergrad.*

There's a long tradition of skipping hard math, though-- ever have a stats class that has you looking at a t-table for a critical value? That's because it gives us a cutoff to use instead of calculating a p-value (which is hard).

*Note: statistics majors in PhD programs still need the hardcore math. Matrix algebra, calculus, etc. Who else is gonna make the packages we use?

[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I've seen it used very occasionally as a study tool, which is generally fine until it gets it wrong. Just like you can use Khan Academy (or I guess, YouTube but there's again a chance it's wrong lol). The craziest is when they use an AI delusional statistical theory that doesn't exist, lol.

[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Iirc, they put herbs and stuff in the nose of those things. They legit were PPE, lol.

[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

I've grappled with this before, and even before people were using AI, take home exams were always open-book by default because of course people will look things up. The irony is, since AI, I've had a lot worse essay submissions-- they simply get shit wrong a lot more relying on AI (especially in my statistics class).

And my stats class only needs to do basic stuff to show work; I let them use excel/sheets to check work. They can't even type in "=correl()" properly and would rather take a photo of the data and send it to ChatGPT. AI gives them wildly wrong steps and it's so obviously wrong...

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