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A Stanford study found that the majority of middle school students can’t tell the difference between real news and fake news. Not sure if this is real or not, but here you go
And I'm pretty certain it applies to adults as well. Keeps snopes in business, I guess.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: A Stanford study found that the majority of middle school students can’t tell the difference between real news and fake news.
So, Twitter and Facebook are run by middle school students? 
When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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Critical Thinking Skills[^] - they removed them from the curriculum so they couldn't be questioned. Now they wonder. 
"Critical", that sounds hurtful to others. 
(Non)Information rushes in to fill the vacuum (the students' heads). 
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The problem is that with Critical thinking you quickly realize that many of your teachers are dummies.
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Is that really surprising for middle school students? I'm more concerned about the adults who can't tell the difference
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My Grammar/Literature/History professor in middle school told us many times that the reason these and other classical subjects (Lating, Ancient Greek...) are taught is because they teach how to think critically.
Except that she fell hard on not one but two big frauds in those years and she defended it steadfastly while I, at the age of 12, was perfectly aware that they were frauds.
One is the in-famous book of Misha Defonseca[^], which I caught immediately as a poorly written fiction book while she believed each and every word. It ws year 2001, before the author confessed.
The other one was a fraud perpetrated by a subsidiary of Amnesty International which allowed to send and receive correspondence with alleged prisoners in some variable Latin American state, in order to ensure their well being. Some years later they busted the operation of forged letters... which were also re-used for other people, often with strange non-sequiturs. I smelled the stink at age 13, the professor never caught wind of it.
If these people are those who teach critical thinking...
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When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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This is barely news in a country where nearly 70% of the population believe in a personal god and where over 40% believe in creationism.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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The system mimics the brain with "neurons" that are really light waveguides cut into silicon substrates. "The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades"
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Any truly dramatic developments are likely years away, but it's notable that they're even on the horizon.
Now mind you, I basically just got up (see Chris, I do sleep) and read that as:
Any truly dramatic developments are likely light years away, but it's notable that they're even on the event horizon.
Marc
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Once again, "Could" allows you to guess anything.
"Light-based neural network could lead to unicorns."
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We're getting unicorns! I have a new headline!
TTFN - Kent
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Go was born out of frustration with existing languages and environments for systems programming. Programming had become too difficult and the choice of languages was partly to blame. One had to choose either efficient compilation, efficient execution, or ease of programming; all three were not available in the same mainstream language. If you don't, it will be double
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s := make([][]bool, h)
for i := range s {
s[i] = make([]bool, w)
Any language that has to have two different operators for assignment does not meet the ease of programming criteria.
Maybe it's just me.
Marc
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We are legion, trust me.
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When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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Wow!
The denunciations were virultent enough 46 years ago, and now we actually have C to compare to and find the := syntax lacking.
1970 - Niklaus Wirth creates Pascal, a procedural language. Critics immediately denounce Pascal because it uses "x := x + y" syntax instead of the more familiar C-like "x = x + y". This criticism happens in spite of the fact that C has not yet been invented.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Can't say I'll be using Go at all, but a quick search says := isn't an assignment operator. It's a declaration operator, it might look like one but that's only because you can initialize a variable while declaring it.
name := "John"
Is just syntactic sugar for...
var name string
name = "John"
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: Is just syntactic sugar for...
Spanish for[^]..... Too Lazy to type!
Hogan
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Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: It's a declaration operator, it might look like one but that's only because you can initialize a variable while declaring it.
I thought that might be the case. Still, makes me wonder why the syntax can't use =. Seems odd that the declaration with assignment needs a different syntax, though I suppose it prevents re-declaring with a different type by making it clear that it's a declaration.
Oh well, one can argue these things until the cows come home and are turned into hamburger. 
Marc
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Look at the upside, at least it's not PHP we're talking about. 
Jeremy Falcon
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Kent Sharkey wrote: If you don't, it will be double
This indecision's bugging me.
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If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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I can't see how Go solves the three-requirement problem... Hint: ease of programming...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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It doesn't, but apparently you're not cool as a tech company these days unless you have your own programming language. Google just wanted in on the party.
Jeremy Falcon
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I was reading this, and it was kind of entertaining and interesting. Then I read "Google"....
[screeeeeeeeech].
* Click *
I'm out.
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