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Cake day: July 31st, 2023

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  • I made course for 11th and 12th graders together with a friend when I at university. It was only one week long and the topic was neural networks (we hit the timing right, it was 3 years before the AI hype started).

    I did that experiment where you give the students 5 random places and amount of time out of a week. You say that is the movement profile of a fictional person and the students have to find out why those places matter.

    Makes them learn the importance of information and how linking data can be an insane tool for understanding as something. But it also teaches how easy it is to gather information from small data points and self aware you should be about your digital footprint.







    • nothing. I have autism. There’s nothing wrong with me, but I’m obviously a little bit different like other people, which in itself is neither good nor bad.

    • because we need a descriptor and that’s just what my friends use; we know what we mean with it and what we don’t.

    Also I’m gonna take those questions at face value, but I’m just gonna note the first question is a bit out out of left field, as no one implied that something’s wrong with that.

    But I don’t wanna assume you are an asshole, so I’m gonna take it as a misunderstanding.


  • Let’s go through examples:

    “He’s retarded” - that’s a slur, unless it’s ironic.

    “That was retarded” - not a slur, cause it’s kinda taking a dig at an action, not a person.

    “I’m retarded” - technically a slur but almost always used with a hint of irony, therefore usually not a slur.

    That’s how I use the word with my friends. And I have autism, so technically 100 years ago I would have been the resident retard ;)