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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 22:09:54 JST nixCraft 🐧

   If anyone, especially the Nvidia CEO, tells you not to teach your kids maths, science, coding, art, or personal finance. Ignore him and do the opposite of what he is saying. Teach your kids the skills they need to thrive. Embrace education for all kids. By encouraging critical thinking and a love of learning, you give your kids powerful tools to shape their futures, which also helps build strong nations.

   • nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 22:15:31 JST nixCraft 🐧

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     • Håkon Alstadheim

     @hakona Please see https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/112005732639072195

   • Håkon Alstadheim (hakona@im.alstadheim.no)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 22:15:33 JST Håkon Alstadheim

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     @nixCraft
     ????????? Fill me in please?

   • Eugenia L (eugenialoli@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 22:24:35 JST Eugenia L

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     @nixCraft He didn't say to not teach kids math or science. He specifically said to not teach kids coding. I'm an ex-programmer myself, and I agree with him in this day and age.

     "Teach your kids the skills they need to thrive."

     Exactly. And that can't be done with coding in the age of AI. Not anymore. 20 years ago, yes, I'd say go for it. But not today.

     Today, you need to pick careers that AI won't touch for another 20 years. After that time, all bets are off anyway, as robotics is coming too.

   • Freevolt (freevolt24@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 22:24:57 JST Freevolt

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     @nixCraft Before accepting advice from someone, consider if that person wants you to be better or dumb.

   • 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 🐧 🥦 (methylcobalamin@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 23:25:30 JST 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 🐧 🥦

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     @nixCraft

     The Nvidia CEO is telling people not to teach their kids STEM, art, and personal finance?

   • Javier V. (javiervg@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 29-Feb-2024 02:17:15 JST Javier V.

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     @nixCraft It is insane how much people listen and repeat notorious people without thinking of the biases of their comments. He has been hyping the nvda/ai bubble for years and made himself very rich on the way.

   • Tony Wells (tonyjwells@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 29-Feb-2024 03:19:26 JST Tony Wells

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     @nixCraft

     Nvidia : Learn farming, not programming.
     Farmer : [Jailbreaks tractor] Ok, now I can actually use it properly.

   • mmphosis (mmphosis@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 29-Feb-2024 03:29:44 JST mmphosis

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     @nixCraft AI is doing nothing to help with the loud spinning fan noise and crashing proprietary driver.

     “I myself shall certainly continue to leave such research to others, and to devote my time to developing concepts that are authentic and trustworthy. And I hope you do the same.”

     —Don Knuth https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/chatGPT20.txt #donknuth

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 29-Feb-2024 04:47:34 JST Aral Balkan

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     @nixCraft “Do the opposite of what a CEO says” should be thought in primary school.

   • FeralRobots (feralrobots@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Mar-2024 19:49:07 JST FeralRobots

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     @nixCraft I tell this story a lot, but:
     my dad was a designer of naval nuclear reactor shielding (& later manager of a shielding group). Recruited a lot of people, mostly mathematicians, over the years. & he came to believe the best candidates were from small 4 yr schools with strong distribution requirements. Engineering school ("schools with letters for names - MIT, RPI, etc) grads 'don't think as well' as kids from, say, Sienna College.