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by dublinben 245 days ago
>Do people need training to use a calculator?

Yes? Quite a bit of time was spent in math classes over the years learning to use calculators. Especially the more complicated functions of so-called graphing calculators. They're certainly not self-explanatory.

What does it say about your skill or the depth of this tool that you haven't gotten better at using it after 2 years of practice?
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watwut 245 days ago
One of this article claims that failure of AI projects is because the companies failed to train employees for AI. You do get value out of calculators without training. The training is there so you can unlock advanced more complicated functions.

The article come across as "AI can not fail, it can only be failed" argument.

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godelski 244 days ago
Even on just normal calculators.

Quick, without looking it up, can you tell me what the {mc, m+, m-, mr} buttons do? If you're asking "the what buttons?" or "that's not on my calculator" then we have an answer. If you do know these, did you just intuit them or did you learn them from some instruction? If you really did intuit them, do you really think that's how most people do it? (did you actually intuit them...)

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