It bears mentioning here that the FAA approves ipads in the cockpit itself as a replacement for flight charts[1]. And many airlines give their pilots ipads.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockpit_iPads"},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Airline industry divided over passenger electronics"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-15/turning-off-iphone-critical-to-pilots-citing-interference.html"}},"_tags":["comment","author_Steko","story_5712300"],"author":"Steko","comment_text":"\"If ... their presence should be forbidden in the passenger cabin\"
It bears mentioning here that the FAA approves ipads in the cockpit itself as a replacement for flight charts[1]. And many airlines give their pilots ipads.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockpit_iPads","created_at":"2013-05-15T18:17:28Z","created_at_i":1368641848,"objectID":"5713754","parent_id":5713382,"points":null,"story_id":5712300,"story_title":"Airline industry divided over passenger electronics","story_url":"http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-15/turning-off-iphone-critical-to-pilots-citing-interference.html","updated_at":"2023-09-06T21:31:18Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Avenger42"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["ipeds","wiki"],"value":"From Wikipedia:
> All iPods lack Touch ID, 3D Touch, NFC, GPS, an earpiece speaker and a noise-cancelling microphone. Depending on the generation, the iPod Touch may have a smaller or inferior display and camera(s). Newer models (5th and 6th generation) lack the ambient light sensor that makes automatic brightness available.
Also it shares the A8/M8 with the iPhone 6, but it's clocked down (1.1GHz vs 1.4GHz for the phone); both cameras are 8MP, but the iPhone can shoot regular video in 1080p at 30 or 60 fps (vs only 30 fps for the iPod) and slow-motion video in 720p at 120 or 240 fps (vs only 120 fps for the iPod)."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Apple to discontinue iPod Nano and Shuffle"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/40749706/apple-to-discontinue-ipod-nano-and-shuffle"}},"_tags":["comment","author_Avenger42","story_14875407"],"author":"Avenger42","children":[14877327],"comment_text":"From Wikipedia:
> All iPods lack Touch ID, 3D Touch, NFC, GPS, an earpiece speaker and a noise-cancelling microphone. Depending on the generation, the iPod Touch may have a smaller or inferior display and camera(s). Newer models (5th and 6th generation) lack the ambient light sensor that makes automatic brightness available.
Also it shares the A8/M8 with the iPhone 6, but it's clocked down (1.1GHz vs 1.4GHz for the phone); both cameras are 8MP, but the iPhone can shoot regular video in 1080p at 30 or 60 fps (vs only 30 fps for the iPod) and slow-motion video in 720p at 120 or 240 fps (vs only 120 fps for the iPod).","created_at":"2017-07-28T19:46:16Z","created_at_i":1501271176,"objectID":"14876959","parent_id":14876080,"story_id":14875407,"story_title":"Apple to discontinue iPod Nano and Shuffle","story_url":"http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/40749706/apple-to-discontinue-ipod-nano-and-shuffle","updated_at":"2024-09-20T01:11:22Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"latexr"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["ipeds","wiki"],"value":"> I think Brooks' opinions will age poorly, but if anyone doesn't already know all the arguments for that they aren't interested in learning them now.
Or they are too young still, or they just got interested in the subject, or, or, or\u2026
Don\u2019t dismiss someone offhand because they disagree with you, they may really have never heard your argument.
> AFAIK, looking at Wikipedia, they're discontinuing iPods in favour of iPhones where we can get a 1TB model and the disk size trend is still exponential.
iPods were single-purpose while iPhones are general computers. While music file sizes have been fairly consistent for a while, you can keep adding more apps and photos. The former become larger as new features are added (and as companies stop caring about optimisations) while the latter become larger with better cameras and keep growing in number as the person lives."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Rodney Brooks on limitations of generative AI"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/29/mit-robotics-pioneer-rodney-brooks-thinks-people-are-vastly-overestimating-generative-ai/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_latexr","story_40835588"],"author":"latexr","comment_text":"> I think Brooks' opinions will age poorly, but if anyone doesn't already know all the arguments for that they aren't interested in learning them now.
Or they are too young still, or they just got interested in the subject, or, or, or\u2026
Don\u2019t dismiss someone offhand because they disagree with you, they may really have never heard your argument.
> AFAIK, looking at Wikipedia, they're discontinuing iPods in favour of iPhones where we can get a 1TB model and the disk size trend is still exponential.
iPods were single-purpose while iPhones are general computers. While music file sizes have been fairly consistent for a while, you can keep adding more apps and photos. The former become larger as new features are added (and as companies stop caring about optimisations) while the latter become larger with better cameras and keep growing in number as the person lives.","created_at":"2024-06-30T09:28:17Z","created_at_i":1719739697,"objectID":"40836067","parent_id":40835830,"story_id":40835588,"story_title":"Rodney Brooks on limitations of generative AI","story_url":"https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/29/mit-robotics-pioneer-rodney-brooks-thinks-people-are-vastly-overestimating-generative-ai/","updated_at":"2025-08-14T22:36:45Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"roenxi"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["ipeds","wiki"],"value":"> He uses the iPod as an example. For a few iterations, it did in fact double in storage size from 10 all the way to 160GB. If it had continued on that trajectory, he figured out we would have an iPod with 160TB of storage by 2017, but of course we didn\u2019t.
I think Brooks' opinions will age poorly, but if anyone doesn't already know all the arguments for that they aren't interested in learning them now. This quote seems more interesting to me.
Didn't the iPod switch from HDD to SSD at some point, and they focused on shrinking them rather than upping storage size? I think the quality of iPods have been growing exponentially, we've just seen some tech upgrades on other axises that Apple thinks are more important. AFAIK, looking at Wikipedia, they're discontinuing iPods in favour of iPhones where we can get a 1TB model and the disk size trend is still exponential.
The original criticism of the iPod was that it had less disk space than its competitors and it turned out to be because consumers were paying for other things. Overall I don't think this is a fair argument against exponential growth."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Rodney Brooks on limitations of generative AI"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/29/mit-robotics-pioneer-rodney-brooks-thinks-people-are-vastly-overestimating-generative-ai/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_roenxi","story_40835588"],"author":"roenxi","children":[40835863,40835915,40835973,40836027,40836067,40836614],"comment_text":"> He uses the iPod as an example. For a few iterations, it did in fact double in storage size from 10 all the way to 160GB. If it had continued on that trajectory, he figured out we would have an iPod with 160TB of storage by 2017, but of course we didn\u2019t.
I think Brooks' opinions will age poorly, but if anyone doesn't already know all the arguments for that they aren't interested in learning them now. This quote seems more interesting to me.
Didn't the iPod switch from HDD to SSD at some point, and they focused on shrinking them rather than upping storage size? I think the quality of iPods have been growing exponentially, we've just seen some tech upgrades on other axises that Apple thinks are more important. AFAIK, looking at Wikipedia, they're discontinuing iPods in favour of iPhones where we can get a 1TB model and the disk size trend is still exponential.
The original criticism of the iPod was that it had less disk space than its competitors and it turned out to be because consumers were paying for other things. Overall I don't think this is a fair argument against exponential growth.","created_at":"2024-06-30T08:20:50Z","created_at_i":1719735650,"objectID":"40835830","parent_id":40835588,"story_id":40835588,"story_title":"Rodney Brooks on limitations of generative AI","story_url":"https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/29/mit-robotics-pioneer-rodney-brooks-thinks-people-are-vastly-overestimating-generative-ai/","updated_at":"2024-09-20T17:21:58Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"bergie"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["ipeds","wiki"],"value":"Also, I think this is slowly becoming less of an issue. A substantial number (10-15% of global PC market share, depending who you ask) of users have made the jump to Mac, which is quite different from Windows. And on top of that, many now use iPads or Android tablets, with even newer UI paradigms.
When you combine this with much of your data now being available through cloud services, the barrier for trying something like Linux should become lower.
5% share for Ubuntu would be significant. Compare that to 2.9% for iPad, and it could mean a lot better application support. The current desktop Linux share is about half of iPad's: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_system..."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Ubuntu To Soon Ship On 5% Of PCs"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA5ODM"}},"_tags":["comment","author_bergie","story_3941729"],"author":"bergie","comment_text":"Also, I think this is slowly becoming less of an issue. A substantial number (10-15% of global PC market share, depending who you ask) of users have made the jump to Mac, which is quite different from Windows. And on top of that, many now use iPads or Android tablets, with even newer UI paradigms.
When you combine this with much of your data now being available through cloud services, the barrier for trying something like Linux should become lower.
5% share for Ubuntu would be significant. Compare that to 2.9% for iPad, and it could mean a lot better application support. The current desktop Linux share is about half of iPad's: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_system...","created_at":"2012-05-08T12:04:13Z","created_at_i":1336478653,"objectID":"3943198","parent_id":3943048,"story_id":3941729,"story_title":"Ubuntu To Soon Ship On 5% Of PCs","story_url":"http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA5ODM","updated_at":"2024-09-19T18:34:58Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"anfractuosity"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["ipeds","wiki"],"value":"Dr Alford also designed water-lined shaped charges for disrupting IEDs -\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Alford#Early_Inventions"},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Shaped Charges \u2013 Sheet of copper going through 1ft of solid steel (2010) [video]"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-3cTsvI7ss"}},"_tags":["comment","author_anfractuosity","story_31382372"],"author":"anfractuosity","children":[31383803],"comment_text":"Dr Alford also designed water-lined shaped charges for disrupting IEDs -\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Alford#Early_Inventions","created_at":"2022-05-14T21:44:26Z","created_at_i":1652564666,"objectID":"31382877","parent_id":31382372,"story_id":31382372,"story_title":"Shaped Charges \u2013 Sheet of copper going through 1ft of solid steel (2010) [video]","story_url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-3cTsvI7ss","updated_at":"2024-09-20T11:10:41Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"ctkrohn"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["ipeds","wiki"],"value":"Actually, Chicago is the font on the original iPods: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_(typeface)"},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"The iPod of 2004"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"http://techblog.willshouse.com/2011/03/02/the-ipod-of-2004/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_ctkrohn","story_2279727"],"author":"ctkrohn","children":[2280401],"comment_text":"Actually, Chicago is the font on the original iPods: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_(typeface)","created_at":"2011-03-02T17:28:11Z","created_at_i":1299086891,"objectID":"2280300","parent_id":2280246,"story_id":2279727,"story_title":"The iPod of 2004","story_url":"http://techblog.willshouse.com/2011/03/02/the-ipod-of-2004/","updated_at":"2024-09-19T17:36:29Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"hga"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["ipeds","wiki"],"value":"That goes a zillions times more for defense contractors, in not considering them evil, especially including keeping them in business.
Hard to win, impossible nowadays against a serious opponent, if you've let them go out of business. And many many of our troops needlessly died in WWII due to our playing catch up because we'd neglected these "merchants of death".
Also goes for defense related research, etc.; our response to that is not 1 ton ANFO IEDs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterling_Hall_bombing).
The Romans had it right, "si vis pacem, para bellum" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_vis_pacem,_para_bellum)."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Trump Wants NASA to Visit Jupiter\u2019s Moon Europa and Explore the Solar System"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"http://www.inquisitr.com/3710152/forget-mars-trump-wants-nasa-to-visit-jupiters-moon-europa-and-explore-the-solar-system/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_hga","story_12946960"],"author":"hga","comment_text":"That goes a zillions times more for defense contractors, in not considering them evil, especially including keeping them in business.
Hard to win, impossible nowadays against a serious opponent, if you've let them go out of business. And many many of our troops needlessly died in WWII due to our playing catch up because we'd neglected these "merchants of death".
Also goes for defense related research, etc.; our response to that is not 1 ton ANFO IEDs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterling_Hall_bombing).
The Romans had it right, "si vis pacem, para bellum" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_vis_pacem,_para_bellum).","created_at":"2016-11-14T15:25:07Z","created_at_i":1479137107,"objectID":"12950329","parent_id":12950031,"story_id":12946960,"story_title":"Trump Wants NASA to Visit Jupiter\u2019s Moon Europa and Explore the Solar System","story_url":"http://www.inquisitr.com/3710152/forget-mars-trump-wants-nasa-to-visit-jupiters-moon-europa-and-explore-the-solar-system/","updated_at":"2024-09-19T23:58:14Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"logifail"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["ipeds","wiki"],"value":"> This is going to be hilarious, giving kids prolonged access to these AI tools [..] we have the internet and wikipedia now, we have ipads in classrooms. They all have a role, and we have to incorporate them in sensible ways
I have three kids, and as far as devices used in education is concerned I become more of a Luddite with each passing day. I have yet to come across any actual evidence that shows children experience a net benefit from additional screen time.
The only exception is our 13 year-old, who currently is recovering from a dislocated and fractured right thumb due to being on the wrong end of a vicious tackle in school sport. He's still unable to hold a pen but found his iPad allows him to do various bits of schoolwork. This - fortunately - is the exception rather than the rule."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"One AI Tutor Per Child: Personalized learning is finally here"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://saigaddam.medium.com/one-ai-tutor-per-child-personalized-learning-is-finally-here-e3727d84a2d7"}},"_tags":["comment","author_logifail","story_35197860"],"author":"logifail","comment_text":"> This is going to be hilarious, giving kids prolonged access to these AI tools [..] we have the internet and wikipedia now, we have ipads in classrooms. They all have a role, and we have to incorporate them in sensible ways
I have three kids, and as far as devices used in education is concerned I become more of a Luddite with each passing day. I have yet to come across any actual evidence that shows children experience a net benefit from additional screen time.
The only exception is our 13 year-old, who currently is recovering from a dislocated and fractured right thumb due to being on the wrong end of a vicious tackle in school sport. He's still unable to hold a pen but found his iPad allows him to do various bits of schoolwork. This - fortunately - is the exception rather than the rule.","created_at":"2023-03-17T17:40:04Z","created_at_i":1679074804,"objectID":"35200269","parent_id":35198159,"story_id":35197860,"story_title":"One AI Tutor Per Child: Personalized learning is finally here","story_url":"https://saigaddam.medium.com/one-ai-tutor-per-child-personalized-learning-is-finally-here-e3727d84a2d7","updated_at":"2024-09-20T13:32:32Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"SilverBirch"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["ipeds","wiki"],"value":"You know how that journalist had a long conversation with Bing and it slowly turned into a psycho-ex girlfriend? This is going to be hilarious, giving kids prolonged access to these AI tools. You get to the parent teacher evening at the end of a term at school: "Err... little timmy and his virtual assistant appear to have entirely neglected maths in favour of adopting Zoroastrianism".
On a more serious note, we have the internet and wikipedia now, we have ipads in classrooms. They all have a role, and we have to incorporate them in sensible ways. I'm sure that these AI tools will have some use, but these language models don't know anything. The examples of them making up information, or being persuaded by people are all over the place. I think it's great to use AI in teaching, but how about we learn from history, the technology we bring in to the classroom has to be well understood and directed in order to be effective. And just as importantly we need to understand that in many cases a focus on technological solutions distract from societal solutions. We can spend billions on deploying AI all over Africa, or we pay for some teachers and ship them some second hand textbooks, which one should we do, and how will that decision be made? Because I fear the decision will be made by some SBF-alike, more interested in their own journey than effective solutions."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"One AI Tutor Per Child: Personalized learning is finally here"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://saigaddam.medium.com/one-ai-tutor-per-child-personalized-learning-is-finally-here-e3727d84a2d7"}},"_tags":["comment","author_SilverBirch","story_35197860"],"author":"SilverBirch","children":[35198175,35198193,35198312,35198400,35198410,35198436,35198526,35198613,35198638,35198706,35198750,35198965,35199357,35199900,35200269,35200271,35200559,35200613,35202745],"comment_text":"You know how that journalist had a long conversation with Bing and it slowly turned into a psycho-ex girlfriend? This is going to be hilarious, giving kids prolonged access to these AI tools. You get to the parent teacher evening at the end of a term at school: "Err... little timmy and his virtual assistant appear to have entirely neglected maths in favour of adopting Zoroastrianism".
On a more serious note, we have the internet and wikipedia now, we have ipads in classrooms. They all have a role, and we have to incorporate them in sensible ways. I'm sure that these AI tools will have some use, but these language models don't know anything. The examples of them making up information, or being persuaded by people are all over the place. I think it's great to use AI in teaching, but how about we learn from history, the technology we bring in to the classroom has to be well understood and directed in order to be effective. And just as importantly we need to understand that in many cases a focus on technological solutions distract from societal solutions. We can spend billions on deploying AI all over Africa, or we pay for some teachers and ship them some second hand textbooks, which one should we do, and how will that decision be made? Because I fear the decision will be made by some SBF-alike, more interested in their own journey than effective solutions.","created_at":"2023-03-17T15:18:00Z","created_at_i":1679066280,"objectID":"35198159","parent_id":35197860,"story_id":35197860,"story_title":"One AI Tutor Per Child: Personalized learning is finally here","story_url":"https://saigaddam.medium.com/one-ai-tutor-per-child-personalized-learning-is-finally-here-e3727d84a2d7","updated_at":"2024-09-20T13:41:42Z"}],"hitsPerPage":10,"nbHits":256,"nbPages":26,"page":0,"params":"query=IPEDS+wiki&hitsPerPage=10&advancedSyntax=true&analyticsTags=backend","processingTimeMS":17,"processingTimingsMS":{"_request":{"roundTrip":15},"afterFetch":{"format":{"total":1},"merge":{"mergeLoop":{"prepareNextHit":5,"total":5},"total":7},"total":7},"fetch":{"query":4,"scanning":3,"total":8},"total":17},"query":"IPEDS wiki","serverTimeMS":18}