That was the official response I got from the district administration so had to post it. Also was being pressured by the government (indirectly) to take it down. So that was all bs. Next update I'll give is when I will have solved the problem.
Fellow Pune resident here. I think there is a potential for a transparency startup here. Parts of stuff like these exist. I would buy you lunch/ beer/ whatever to learn from some of your experiences.
This statement makes no sense. You're putting out political opinions on the lives of people without any idea of the reality.
The caste system was a part of India but every Government since independence has made attempts and continues to make everything possible to make the lives of the historically lower castes better off.
Not to mention India was forced to become a USSR ally because the USA had sent their aircraft carrier in a India Pakistan war to support the Pakistan side. And then the USSR sent their aircraft carrier in India's defence.
Hi Wincy, Sorry to drop my comment here without any scientific evidence or any such certification of experience.
But I had a similar condition in my childhood. Many doctors thought it was some form of complicated asthama or something but couldn't figure out what exactly was it.
Then my parents put me in an breathing camp (yoga retreat kind of thing). I was there for six months and we were convinced there that breathing is life. Breathing is the most important thing in and for life. And slowly, the condition disappeared.
The condition was more of an impediment in the brain blocking the breathing command when I got upset unlike some incurable damage to the lungs. Just teaching and reminding us to breath every second for six months made things a lot better.
If there's no such camp/retreat in your country, you could try India.
You both brought up a memory for the first time where as I child I once decided to hold my breathe and started to panic and worry because I didn't seem to be able to start breathing again. I think it was only a one-time thing, and obviously I started breathing again. I wonder how common it is and what the state of a child who experiences this is - it's fascinating.
Robots who could replace some manual labour work within a specified area (say: factories), don't need to rely on batteries. We could attach them with a huge wire and plug it into power supply.
In those specified areas it's also much simpler and more efficient to change the process itself.
Automated warehouses for example don't use legged robots that climb ladders, operate forklifts, and carry boxes around.
Interestingly, the bits of manual labour still required in these areas (e.g. factories) are cheap in terms of manual labour and not doable with the same level of efficiency with even the most sophisticated robots, let alone bipedal ones (you'd change the factory to accommodate to the simplest possible robot design, not vice versa).
Learning CSS selectors and HTML structure, inspect element and the other dev tools builtin to your browser, and something like BeautifulSoup (for static/non-JS heavy pages) and Selenium (JS and other complicated pages) is pretty key imo. My background in web dev helped me with the HTML stuff. Basically, you fire up the page in a browser, inspect element to see how you can use CSS selectors to uniquely identify that data, then using BeautifulSoup or Selenium to parse and interact with the DOM will cover most web scraping cases.
So if they want to a class where a teacher was general present but everyone learned through KA while doing interactive activities in between - how about that?
I mean when I was in school for a few grades some of my teachers assigned Khan Academy so it was basically that.
I don't think it worked well, but honestly I can imagine a good teacher just replacing whatever course material they're using with KA and lecture off of it, while still somehow incorporating classroom interaction
That sounds like the worst of everything - you won't be getting the benefit of having someone who can explain things to you in person (kind of wasting a teacher) and you also won't have the opportunity that KA gives you to take things at your own pace.
How about a general tutor + KA? So the tutor will take of queries and keep a class full of children interactive - but children will learn maths through KA?
That would be better, but that isn't really their complaint.
I hear three main complaints about a variety of sites:
1) The curriculum isn't right for their ages - it is either too cute, made for littler kids, or too much like a lecture, and would be better for older kids. KA tends to trend more towards the lecture side of that spectrum, other sites tend to be too cute. (This is kids from 8-13 giving this feedback.)
2) They dislike the UX. They don't phrase it that way, but they just don't like how they have to interact with questions, videos, etc.
3) Math on KA, specifically, only has one way to teach each topic - if you don't get it, you are out of luck. This is where a tutor would absolutely help.
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