Interesting Links for 12-02-2025

[andrewducker]

1. Five ways to reform benefits - from insiders who know its failings

(tags:welfare uk )

2. If you want people to remember, tell them what they got right, not what they got wrong.

(tags:memory learning psychology )

3. Harlow school punishes pupils for scoring below 90% in maths

(tags:school punishment OhForFucksSake uk mathematics viaPatrickHadfield )

4. First, give the man the fish!

(tags:advice Education )

5. guys .002 seconds after learning about the "male loneliness epidemic"

(tags:men society video funny )

6. BBC research shows issues with over half the answers from Artificial Intelligence (AI) assistants

(tags:ai misinformation )

Comments

[hilarita]

1. That all sounds sensible, and I wish that was the way the government were heading, rather than desperately trying to force people to work in jobs that make them sicker.

3 is amazingly self-defeating, especially given what's in 2. Also, I'd have ended up even more switched off maths than I was at school (where I was best in my age group), because of my small problem with switching digits and geometry. Top set pupils are usually quite upset enough by not getting high marks without this.

6. Totally not surprising and oh god I really wish we could get through to people that this is the expected mode of operation of LLMs.