It's 9 in the morning and I'm on my way back home because a tree fell on the tracks. I'm pretty happy I now have a job that allows that.
Nice
Not bad so far. It's my day off so I'm still in bed at 1130am. I woke up from a dream where I was having sex with Josh Holloway. I was on top and he was sucking on my toes and it was freaking me out because my feet had been in my work boots all day. So afterwards I decided to taste my own toe to see if it was bad, and to my great relief it smelled and tasted like nothing. A passerby saw me tasting my own toe so I had to explain why I was doing it.
I'll be getting up soon and spending the day doing school work.
How are you doing?
Tutoring finally broke me.
Most are fine but there is a small minority that just mimic and parrot their way through life having no understanding of why they do what they do. They only know how to solve problems that are exactly like problems they have seen before but the moment they run into one that is even a tiny bit novel they can not do it. And it is almost always students that failed to learn a very fundamental concept 5 to 10 years ago and have been limping along since then. The damage compounds because anything that is based on something they do not understand gets added to the pile of things they do not understand until eventually they end up asking for help.
I was a math tutor for a couple of years in college. It is difficult, but this can be corrected (assuming the student is willing to put in the work).
I had gaps in my knowledge when I started tutoring as well. Factoring polynomials was always a struggle for me. I would pretty much guess and check until I got it right, and that was good enough for me to pass all of the tests in high school. Of course, until I got to multivariate calculus and I needed to factor more complicated polynomials as part of a much bigger problem. As you said, it compounded. Did I learn my lesson? No. I bought a calculator with a CAS to do that part for me. But when I started tutoring, I felt that it was unfair to my students to not know how to do something correctly, so I forced myself to learn it properly.
I just got access to an AI code generation tool through my work. I have been cynical and hesitant about using AI thus far because I feel like most of the time these types of things are overblown.
But Holy. Fucking. Shit.
It can quite literally do most of my job for me. A big part of my job includes doing repetitive tasks for deploying my code changes to the product. I usually script these things, but that requires time to write the script and time to maintain the script. Well, I just got moved to a new project, and I decided to have it start writing a few scripts for me. It probably already did a days worth of work in 10 minutes.
It's 9 in the morning and I'm on my way back home because a tree fell on the tracks. I'm pretty happy I now have a job that allows that.
Nice
Not bad so far. It's my day off so I'm still in bed at 1130am. I woke up from a dream where I was having sex with Josh Holloway. I was on top and he was sucking on my toes and it was freaking me out because my feet had been in my work boots all day. So afterwards I decided to taste my own toe to see if it was bad, and to my great relief it smelled and tasted like nothing. A passerby saw me tasting my own toe so I had to explain why I was doing it.
I'll be getting up soon and spending the day doing school work.
How are you doing?
Tutoring finally broke me.
Most are fine but there is a small minority that just mimic and parrot their way through life having no understanding of why they do what they do. They only know how to solve problems that are exactly like problems they have seen before but the moment they run into one that is even a tiny bit novel they can not do it. And it is almost always students that failed to learn a very fundamental concept 5 to 10 years ago and have been limping along since then. The damage compounds because anything that is based on something they do not understand gets added to the pile of things they do not understand until eventually they end up asking for help.
I was a math tutor for a couple of years in college. It is difficult, but this can be corrected (assuming the student is willing to put in the work).
I had gaps in my knowledge when I started tutoring as well. Factoring polynomials was always a struggle for me. I would pretty much guess and check until I got it right, and that was good enough for me to pass all of the tests in high school. Of course, until I got to multivariate calculus and I needed to factor more complicated polynomials as part of a much bigger problem. As you said, it compounded. Did I learn my lesson? No. I bought a calculator with a CAS to do that part for me. But when I started tutoring, I felt that it was unfair to my students to not know how to do something correctly, so I forced myself to learn it properly.
I just got access to an AI code generation tool through my work. I have been cynical and hesitant about using AI thus far because I feel like most of the time these types of things are overblown.
But Holy. Fucking. Shit.
It can quite literally do most of my job for me. A big part of my job includes doing repetitive tasks for deploying my code changes to the product. I usually script these things, but that requires time to write the script and time to maintain the script. Well, I just got moved to a new project, and I decided to have it start writing a few scripts for me. It probably already did a days worth of work in 10 minutes.
Impressive