When I was an instructor for courses like "Intro to Programming", this was definitely the case. The students ranged from "have never programmed before" to "I've been writing games in my spare time", but because it was a prerequisite for other courses, they all had to do it.
Teaching the class was a pain in the ass! What seemed to work was to do the intro stuff, and periodically throw a bone to the smartasses. Once I had them on my side, it became smooth sailing.
I remember when I first experienced golang, I tried compiling it.
The compilation command returned immediately, and I thought it had failed. So I tried again and same result. WTF? I thought to myself. Till I did an `ls` and saw an `a.out` sitting in the directory. I was blown away by how fast the golang compiler was.
I don't understand why they don't allow different domains. "gmail.com" is running low on email addresses; if they added more domains, they'd be able to really scale up their email offering.
Branding and marketing. It makes it crystal clear how popular it is.
And gmail.com isn't "running low" on addresses, I don't even know what that means. Whatever TLD you'd prefer, just append it to your username instead. Exact same amount of uniqueness.
You are describing Searle's "Chinese Room argument"[1] to some extent.
It's been discussed a lot recently, but anyone who has interacted with LLMs at a deeper level will tell you that there is something there; not sure if you'd call it "intelligence" or what. There is plenty of evidence to the contrary too. I guess this is a long-winded way of saying "we don't really know what's going on"...
Teaching the class was a pain in the ass! What seemed to work was to do the intro stuff, and periodically throw a bone to the smartasses. Once I had them on my side, it became smooth sailing.
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