Kevin_P
9d ago
A few thoughts:
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Google Trends is about search traffic; content volume is a different product (ngrams). So this would be about people looking for "my framework", which wouldn't necessarily be linked to more people writing frameworks
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Possibly incompatible with the first point, but a post-AI uptick in a particular word/phrasing doesn't always translate to more discussion of the relevant concept. There are just some words that LLMs really seem to like using, and I wouldn't be surprised if "framework" was in that category
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When I think about the word "framework" I would usually associate it with coding rather than theories. So to the extent that it's really related to an increase in some activity, that could well be programming rather than theorising.
Kevin_P
2mo ago
A bit of a late reply but it includes all types of schools. If you dig into the data there's a division between academic and vocational streams. It doesn't include kids that have completely dropped out of school though, which is relevant for some countries.
Kevin_P
4mo ago
I remember a well-known poster here (Tracing Woodgrains? Not 100% sure) having the same plan, then they took longer than a traditional degree to graduate because a large part of the university experience is social pressure and the WGU experience doesn't provide that part.
I really don't like the narrative around this incident.
In particular, this:
a girl who studied economics in the U.S., with no prior medical background and minimal entrance exams, obtained an MD from China’s top medical school in just four years
.. seems completely normal to me. Lots of places have 4-year medical degrees if you start with a bachelor's. The intellectual ancestor of this forum is Scott Alexander, who did exactly that - undergraduate degree in philosophy followed by a 4-year graduate-entry medical degree.
The difference is only one less year vs a standard 5-year medical degree, and the 4-year program doesn't include compulsory courses like English, politics etc, so they're probably spending about the same amount of time on the actual medical training.
The comparison to a regular medical course as 5+3 years also seems misleading because graduates of 4-year degrees also need to do the same 3 years of residency training. It's not 4+4 vs 5+3, it's 4+4+3 vs 5+3
I'm not saying the story doesn't raise real concerns. But the thesis plagiarism and skipping two thirds of her residency are the real issues here, not graduate-entry medical degrees.
[Edit: And of course also the part where a surgeon left an anesthetized patient on the operating table for the best part of an hour while he chased after his lover. Focusing on Dong's academic credentials feels like fixing blame on the mistress rather than the actual guilty party.]
Kevin_P
5mo ago
We run into kids in the same uniform as the top school in China again at the market, furthering doubt that this isn't some universal high school uniform.
Not a universal uniform, but in recent years the government has been encouraging top schools to set up branches elsewhere. Some have set up quite a lot and they generally aren't on the same academic level as the original campus. So even if the uniforms say RenDaFuZhong or whatever, it might not be the "real" RDFZ.
Kevin_P
5mo ago
Getting a phone with a hardware shutter button is absolutely essential
The Volume Down button works for this on pretty much all recent phones.
Kevin_P
6mo ago
That distinction doesn't really exist anymore. Look on the Steam store page, Gathering Storm is under the DLC section.
Kevin_P
6mo ago
Kevin_P
6mo ago
It's included in the original grant amount. So you'd ask them for 155k, and the team at Prestigious University would ask for 170k for the same work, then the funder would theoretically take that into account when deciding where to spend their money. You also have to tell them how much is direct costs and how much is overheads, not just "we need 155k".
Kevin_P
7mo ago
British English already has a word for this: quango (from quasi-non-governmental organisation)
Kevin_P
8mo ago
Language courses are overwhelmingly female, even compared with the overall college population. And they usually include a year abroad which is a big driver of moving abroad more permanently.
Kevin_P
9mo ago
You're both overstating and understating the situation.
On one hand, it goes way beyond just literature and philosophy. Open up the STEM box and you'll find that it's only really the T and E parts that lead directly to careers. There might be more demand for PhD graduates in the sciences but the majority of students stop with a bachelors and there aren't really any more jobs that specifically need a degree in e.g. biology than those that need you to have studied history. High school teacher is basically the full list.
But on the other hand, you're missing the generic value of a degree. Pretty much all white collar jobs these days need you to have a degree and most aren't particularly picky about what you studied. Yes, maybe a lot of that is just signaling, but the signal is a real thing (earning a degree proves that you have some combination of intelligence and conscientiousness, which is also valuable to an employer) - so playing the game is rational for both students and companies.
Kevin_P
1yr ago
I would expect most young people to have at least a driver licence if not a passport
Tangential, but I wouldn't be surprised if passports were more common than driving licenses, especially among young people.
Kevin_P
1yr ago
Handheld whiteboard for character writing practice. I spent probably 30-60 minutes a day just repetitively writing and erasing.
I'd advise against this part, it's a whole lot of effort for very little gain. You'll hardly ever need to write characters by hand. 99%+ of the time you'll be typing instead which is based on pinyin - you just enter Latin letters and choose the right characters from a list based on the sound.
Much easier to just learn the basics of how stroke order works and then focus on reading and typing. Copy the characters from your phone on the rare occasions that you have to write anything on paper.
Kevin_P
1yr ago
Based on the page history at archive.org the "certain hospitalized patients" line was added in May 2020, with the "should only be used in a hospital or during clinical trials" part being added around a month later. At the time it seemed plausible that it would work.
Kevin_P
2yr ago
I think you might have misunderstood. The one that has to pay is the developer.
End users aren't being charged, so there's no reason for them to mess with firewalls or DNS settings. Maybe a tiny handful might try to support the devs by blocking Unity's tracking beacon, but 99%+ will just hit the Install button as usual.
Kevin_P
2yr ago
Latest scientific studies indicate that the share of gaming consoles owned by women (PDF, page 9) ranges from 42% to 52%.
I checked that PDF link and the data was 86% male which completely contradicts what you claimed.
Not sure if that was your point and you were trying to set up a contrast between "the science" and Nintendo's actual sales figures, but if so that didn't come through in the post.
Kevin_P
2yr ago
“Equality of opportunity is morally undesirable.” Pro
I'd be interested to hear where you're coming from on this one. Is this the "social mobility hollows out the working class" / "desegregation destroyed Black America" argument or something different?
Kevin_P
2yr ago
I can't find anything about Jewish attitudes specifically but here's something at least. +13% net favorability among the US general population (as of September 2022), broken down to 27% favorable / very favorable, 14% unfavorable / very unfavorable, 27% neutral and 32% unaware.
There are crosstabs by race, gender, political party etc, but nothing specifically for jews
Kevin_P
2yr ago
In Japan where I now live (I feel like I throw that into every post but here it's perhaps relevant) theres a term called 紅白 or kouhaku (literally "confession")
I know this is being a bit pedantic, but you're thinking of 告白 (kokuhaku). 紅白 is the red vs white singing competition at new year.
Kevin_P
2yr ago
I got 30,246 and also got avulse wrong. Maybe there are a handful of points for speed?
Kevin_P
2yr ago
Here's an inverse conspiracy theory that's also technically a conspiracy: Flat Earthers don't exist.
It's held up as the archetypical example of conspiracy theory believers, but I'm convinced that pretty much everyone who expresses support for Flat Earth theories - well over 99% - is knowingly playing along in a giant hoax, for a sense of community and the amusement of getting ridiculous stories published in serious newspapers. (Some of them don't actually realise this and think that only they themselves are roleplayers while the rest of their group are serious).
Sketch engine might be the most reliable option. Use the English Trends corpus, which is basically "everything we could scrape off the web". Instructions here
It also lets you see the most common words used together with your search term, which might be helpful to distinguish programming frameworks from theoretical ones.
It's a paid service but they have a 30 day free trial.
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