Tom 7 is peak comedy for computer scientists (not to be confused with tech bros) with a penchant for deadpan delivery.
I wouldn’t be surprised if he posts a new video within the next few months since SIGBOVIK passed last month and he has a paper in the proceedings.
I think it is, but from a time when she made videos for nostalgia critic.
I remember learning a few years ago that it was a New Yorker piece. Kind of surprising given how much it sounds like a copypasta/greentext post.
I think it’s been around for a bit (at least I remember seeing it last year). Double laxative effects aside, I always thought this would taste weird.
Eloquently put. Did a site tagline just drop?
They get into it pretty quickly, but it doesn’t get a name till later. The name of the idea seems to be called “cueing theory” or the “three cues system”. Basically, it says that beginning readers should look at cues or context for reading new words, such as the first and last letters of the word, what the sentence says so far, etc., and use these to try to infer what the new word is. Sounding out a word should only be used as a last resort under this system.
The thing that’s funny to me (in a 
kind of way) is that the way the people who support these ideas talk about teaching reading sounds a lot like training an AI language model - i.e. use the preceding context to guess the next word. They even go so far as to use a sticky note to cover the next word and try to get the kids to guess it as a classroom exercise.
I don’t remember if ever wanted more lanes, but when I started driving (grew up in the south so that’s all I knew) I could tell that something seemed inefficient. My phase that I’m embarrassed by now was when I thought traffic would be solved by replacing human drivers with self-driving cars. Very-young-me already knew the answer though lol (I played with a train set growing up a lot).
I thought that Roblox technically offered “experiences”, because calling them games would go against Apple’s TOS for the app store or something like that.