I’ve always found it weird that Arduino has its own language. On top of it, it’s not a really well designed one in the sense that it does not follow a simple paradigm where there are few basic fundamentals and from there it’s only vocabulary.

One thing that’s pretty cool about your case of having two kids of different ages is that you can make them play a sort of an asymmetric ping-pong game where one becomes the game master/designer to the other.

I have a son that’s about to turn 6 now. Since the age of two I’ve been playing with him with Cubetto https://primotoys.com/. Cubetto is a no-screen programming of a robot using physical directional shapes.

When I help them with a playful narrative (I’ve even written an article about it), he and his friends enjoyed it a lot. They play with moving it around.

However, my observation is that at this age they are not ready for the more advanced feature of reexecutable code (the Cubetto board has this equivalent of a callable procedure). They struggle even with the simpler random or invert commands (which are an extension pack actually).

One nice thing is that there is a learning path towards disassembling the robot and potentially (unofficially) towards reprogramming its Arduino. So kids can also tinker with at later age.

As you can see, I’m quite enthusiastic about the technology and could share some further resources, if anyone cares to read them.

Wow, great! Didn’t know Alice is still a thing. I’ve remember trying it out when I was a kid when it was little more than a syntax highlighting IDE (or at least that’s how I remember it). I see with Alice 2 and Alice 3 it has leapfrogged. Still, scratch/squeak feel more accessible to small kids to me.

If this is about age (and it might not be), the age range in question is very sensitive. A typical kid at 6 can’t yet read or do simple maths. On the website I found these indicative ages

Well, a lot of people voted him because they didn’t see an alternative in the EPP-affiliated crooks, i.e. Borissov’s criminal gang.

тук става дума за продаден бухал:

“България е чат от общите европейски решения, ние в лицето на правителството не се страхуваме да поставяме българския интерес, да го обясним и целите да бъдат постигнати. Това и направихме с изключването на три лица от санкционния списък”, каза Радев, като имаше предвид шефа на “Лукойл” Вагит Алекперов, патриарх Кирил и Искандер Махмудов. https://www.segabg.com/hot/category-bulgaria/bulgariya-i-slovakiya-radost-otbelyazaha-che-ne-podkrepyat-ukrayna

Thank you for your opinion, it is appreciated.

Anche a Busto Arsizio: https://www.malpensa24.it/ciclobus-per-le-scuole-e-luci-sulle-ciclabili-busto-in-bici-per-la-mobilita-sostenibile/

Thanks! This is a really important one. Only if we had a way to convert these pain points to action points and organize financial support for the effort to address them…

I must say that the masto5 post felt like really a big step in this direction, but the threadiverse has still to get the academic and institutional support mastodon has managed to achieve.

I wouldn’t think that your advertising of the podcast is so successful as to make people listen to it.

But somehow you seem to be leaking the idea that reasoning models are something different than autoregressive LLMs. Yes, they do have different fine-tuning and system prompts, but little beyond that. Subbarao Kambhampati has worked a lot on this, e.g. https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.15339 or https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.15125

I struggle to imagine what would be a possible meaningful answer.

“I’ve hand 15 posts and 6 comments in the 11 communities I moderate, but the mood on this part of the world is gloomy because of politics”?

Exactly, thanks for sharing the link. The interaction between threadiverse platforms and mastodon (sadly for pixelfed this does not work) is exactly as it is for fedigroups.social or what used to be a.gup.pe.

There’s also the dynamics that burning fuel makes the aircraft lighter, whereas consuming electricity does not impact battery weight.

Based on my experience with the Yaris (which is y personal attempt to remake the Taxi 2 movie), take-off would need both types of engines.

In your comment I read the assumption that take off would be in hybrid mode. Not sure it’s a given.

I don’t see this disputed so much as I see the need for “all science requires methodology”. I find it ridiculous that research in technical areas like LLMs has given up on any pretence of reproducibility.

That’s a very simplistic interpretation. A popular book that counters it is https://bookwyrm.social/book/29025/s/thinking-fast-and-slow

I personally have huge doubts about the methodological merits of phenomenology. Consider this as a starting point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenomenology_(psychology)

Marketing does not care about the validity of its claims.