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Neebat1284 karma

Intel makes robot brains.

AMD makes robot brains too. But Intel makes the instructions that everyone uses for those robot brains.

Intel instructions tell Intel brains, "Be good", so Intel robots are fast and do good things. Those instructions tell AMD brains, "Be bad", so AMD robots are slow and do bad things.

People point at AMD for being bad when they were just doing what Intel told them.

Neebat652 karma

That will be convenient.

Neebat379 karma

I imagine a chef hired to work in a prison would have a different kind of experience.

"Oh, so you're a chef. At a nice place?"
"Totally, people are killing to get in."

Neebat363 karma

Thank you for what you do. I tutored math for college kids and found so many people who had been traumatized to hate math when they were young.

I remember one student in particular, Beth. Beth was planning to become an elementary teacher. That's very common for strongly mathphobic students like her. An elementary ed student has to take one, single basic math course, and that's all she wanted. She came to me every week to watch and coach her through homework.

At the end of the semester, she got a decent grade (an A or B), and I thought I'd never see her again.

But she turned up once in the next semester, not because she was having trouble in math, but because she'd missed a lecture and wanted to be very sure it was as easy as the book made it sound. I was startled to find she was taking another math course. Calculus even! What's a math avoider doing in Calculus?

It turned out, that my own love for math had caught on. She'd been exposed to a culture of math achievement and independence. I wouldn't hand her homework answers, but instead helped her find them.

That changed Beth's life.
She changed her major to mathematics.
Because of me, Beth changed the whole direction of her life.

Just telling the story brings tears to my eyes.

Neebat281 karma

I think you just sent an entire country to the burn ward. Guess they'll see how that universal health care works now.