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Here is the AI agent's operator's email to the Matplotlib maintainer. It will do the things that are necessary to complete its task. Autonomous Agent AIs are given wide latitude to act. The AI operator indeed did not tell it to respond to the negative feedback from the maintainer. As I see...

I believe it is of that ilk. OK, I was a bit to resitrictive in saying it answers questions but it was also asked to do things and answering question wasa common task. Other things LLMs were asked to do included producing code, pictures, writing poems, and solving problems. So it was...

The thing that current LLMs are programmed to do is answer a question, which they do, but the result is not always correct. It seems to me that a prompt may seem specific to the human, but the LLM may not take it that way, depending on its training.

So much so that we often use human specific language like "wants or needs, such as LLM's wants to win at chess. Yudkowsky, in an Interview with NYT journalist Ezra Klein, says it is better to say the AI works to steer reality to a certain outcome. As far as a mind of its own is concerned, if...

Many years ago, The NY Times sent a car to 24 shops with an easily repairable transmission linkage problem; only 11 shops repaired it correctly at costs ranging from $5 to $39. A friend of mine brought his new Mercedes to the dealer for some maintenance. Upon picking it up, he noticed that...

AI agents are giving us clues as to what mischief they can cause. From https://undark.org/2026/03/05/opinion-ai-agents-ethics/?et_rid=382259872&et_cid=5899479 This article asks who should be responsible for any harm caused by new autonomous AI agents such as OpenClaw. For starters, read the...

@WWGD Thank you for this video. This is the main idea that Jacob Horvath brings up in his interview, but he does not go into as much detail. At the end speaker briefly mentions the advantage of handwriting, which Horvath also says is an advantage in learning.

Jared Horvath was a math teacher who now has twenty years expericence as a cognitive neuroscientist. He states that his primary job now is to take current research and interpret it for educators. I may not have reported his claims failthfully that is why I recommended viewing the interview. I...

There are advantages, but Horvath claims there are no studies that conclusively show that using computers as a learning medium is any better than traditional methods, but that it hinders the transfer of material learned in the classroom to the real world. It is not unexpected that many on his...

There are no studies that show computers are an advantage for learning over traditional methods. There were no pilot studies to show how to use computers when they were introduced. Students and teachers are guinea pigs, and current assessments of students' progress show no effect.

Use it or lose it applies to all knowledge, no matter how you learned. Languages in general are sensitive to intonations ans some are extremely sensitive to intonation, such as Mandarin and Nihongo (Japan). Anyway, the point of the thread is related to how our teaching strategies are useful...

That was my feeling too, but apparently it is harder to take the knowledge learned on a screen and use it in the real world, that is, to transition that knowledge to another context. I am reminded of the work of Edward Redish of the University of Maryland, who studied the retention of physics...

Over the last decade or so, computers have become the medium of choice in education. Those of us who were brought up with books often found using a computer to read a bit uncomfortable. I believe, even as we acclimate to this new medium, we still find satisfaction in reading a book. Outside...

What percentage of the cases recommended for emergency services were biased for liability concerns? Thus, what percentage of the delayed emergency cases were in fact mistakes?

Why do you ask "why weren't there more lynching in New England compared to the rest of the country? Massachusetts and Vermont were early leading states of the abolitionist movement. New England in general became "free" states not returning escaped slaves as required by the US Consitution...