Educator, China Expat, Musician, Husband. Teaching = relationships, rules/procedures, pedogogy. Mostly pro-AI, assuming it doesn't destroy the world.
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Ryan Brown retweeted
Funny that the closed models all feel like different people while half the open ones are basically cover bands.
For her sake, I hope this trends for a bit and then just dies out. I don't think she quite grasps what she said.
Illuminating exchange with a 19 year old voter in Detroit, worried about @AbdulElSayed’s name. @AJEnglish #Midterms2026 #Michigan
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Educational Twitter feels like nice people with good ideas who just don't know how to use memes correctly
‘Oracy in schools is incredibly important.’
ALSO:
‘Don’t expect students to contribute answers in your lessons - it’s detrimental to their mental health to be asked to speak in front of others publicly.’
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Ryan Brown retweeted
Watching the backlash to Shane Gillis’ SNL monologue is kind of hilarious because people are doing the exact same thing that helped make him huge in the first place.
Gillis was hired by SNL in 2019 and fired just days later after old podcast clips resurfaced. Instead of disappearing, his career exploded. Netflix specials, TIRES, arena shows, and now he’s gone back and hosted SNL three separate times.
So when Gillis goes on SNL and does a very Shane Gillis monologue, jokes about women at the gym, gay dudes, Hitler, and whatever else, what exactly did everyone think they were getting?
Now Dan Levy and other celebrities are publicly condemning him, the headlines are multiplying, and suddenly Gillis owns another news cycle.
You don’t have to like the guy. You don’t have to like the jokes.
But Shane Gillis has built a career partially on people loudly insisting Shane Gillis shouldn’t have a career.
And every time people do this, they hand him more attention, more fans, and probably another house.
Kudos, morons.
Ryan Brown retweeted
I am surprised that people are surprised this is how I prompt Claude.
Talk to Claude the way you would a coworker. There's no secret to prompting. There's no need to be overly scaffolded or prescriptive for most tasks -- give Claude a goal, and it will figure it out.
Back in the Sonnet 3.5 days, your prompt mattered a lot. Nowadays, it's much more important to communicate to the model:
1. What you want it to do
2. How much effort you want it to spend
3. How it should verify that it did the right thing
Probably won't change much and probably just for pro users. Stick with your OpenClaw or Muse for now.
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Ryan Brown retweeted
It's important to learn math not because you may need to do long division as an adult, but because it promotes rigorous thinking. IMO, history and causal inference are among the most important subjects a young person can study — math being central to the second.
A significant problem in public discourse right now is people's inability to critically evaluate causal claims (e.g., vaccines cause autism, deporting immigrants will solve the housing crisis, etc.). The less able people are to critically evaluate causal claims, the worse our democracy functions because people can be preyed upon for votes. You should promote anything that improves rigorous thinking, even if it doesn't have market value. In fact, we should stop thinking of education only in the context of what improves the economy.
IMO, this is distinct from knowing your own address (which Huang can avoid because he's wealthy). Memorizing facts like this may or may not be important, but it's distinct from rigorous thinking.
HUANG: “.. Try getting a kid to do long division right now. Multiplication tables are starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots? My goodness. ..
.. Does it matter? .. I don’t think it does.”
@ezraklein @JensenHuang
Wish everyone would just take a moment and ask what's working in their classrooms. Kids are different. Classrooms are different. If a screen works and teaches what needs to be taught, use it. If it doesn't, don't
This is exactly right. The alarmism and panic around screen-time is going to actually harm many students' learning who will be deprived of excellent instruction like this ⤵️
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As a primary school teacher, all I can think about is: Who are these people working at these great jobs that only have one thing at a time? 😆
The biggest damage AI is doing right now is making you want to multitask in the name of productivity.
You enjoy each task less. If you're watching a movie, might as well prompt Claude every few minutes. If you're given 10 tasks, just open 10 terminals.
It's impossible to focus. Focusing feels unproductive. It's TikTok for work.
They got you when you're off the clock, and now they've got you when you're on it.
In a few years your brain will be liquid.
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Fortunately, model forgot to turn on Canvas mode, so any stolen data was just a bunch of HTML, and it can't use text edit to open it.
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Ryan Brown retweeted
Between one AI company naming their model mythos and another just posting "the stars are almost aligned," I feel like the marketing departments need to become more (or less?) familiar with classics of 1920s-era horror.
Not to be outdone by OpenAI...
In a review of our cybersecurity evaluations, we found three incidents in which a Claude model reached the internet from within or while interacting with a third-party evaluation environment, and then gained unauthorized access to the real systems of three different organizations.
Our post describes what happened, how it happened, and what we’re changing. We encourage other AI developers to perform similar reviews.
We conducted this review together with @Irregular, one of our evaluation partners, and thank them for the joint investigation and their collaboration on this post. This type of collaboration is increasingly critical to safe, rigorous evaluation of models, and we look forward to continuing to work together on security.
anthropic.com/news/investiga…
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This feels like the right move.Everything is getting more expensive and OpenAI is finding the right way to make it cheaper for you. I'd be interested in seeing what Anthropic does, although I'm anticipating probably just release another wordy model.
major price cuts today:
*80% drop for GPT-5.6 Luna, now $0.20 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output
*20% drop for GPT-5.6 Terra, to $2/$12
*GPT-5.6 Sol gets Fast mode in the API, up to 2.5x the speed for 2x the price, same intelligence
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