The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.

SingleSue

He's doing Computer science with a specialism in AI/gaming so it needs to be capable of running games etc.

Cakeguts

GDB2222 wrote: »

I remember someone called their PC Gordon, as in Gordon the big engine from Thomas the Tank Engine.

It's strange that Joe needs a gaming PC to do his uni work on.

We used to have laptop called Dishy Dolly.

GDB2222

SingleSue wrote: »

He's doing Computer science with a specialism in AI/gaming so it needs to be capable of running games etc.

That's very impressive, and I wish him all the best with his studies.

zagubov

SingleSue wrote: »

He's doing Computer science with a specialism in AI/gaming so it needs to be capable of running games etc.

That's a career with a future, if ever there was one. Go for it, Joe!:beer:

zagubov

LydiaJ wrote: »

But did any of those people you've listed repeatedly break the conditions of their asylum claims in the way that the Ecuadorians are saying that Assange has?

I'd hope not!

Although I'd also hope that the Ecuadorians are being accurate in what they're saying rather than being subject to foreign organisations with the finances and resources to distort our information , so that our understanding and judgements are based on suitable information.

Why should we expect anything less?

SingleSue

Thanks guys, it's been a long road but we are starting to see him realising his potential now. The need for the PC was because without one at home he had to stay at uni or only come home for very short periods of time during the holidays as his portable equipment just wasn't man enough to deal with his assignments.

One of the most surprising things is that this is the one who had to retake GCSE maths yet he is breezing through university level maths, he passed the maths module last year with flying colours, getting firsts in most of the exams!

PasturesNew

zagubov wrote: »

That's a career with a future, if ever there was one.

Or not. What if the purpose of AI is ultimately for the AI to then be the creators of more AI? You'd be creating the machine that puts you out of a job.

Jazee

My printer is installed. It prints from phone and pc, don't know about other advanced stuff but eventually got it to switch off.

Probably could have done with Joes help.

Cakeguts

SingleSue wrote: »

Thanks guys, it's been a long road but we are starting to see him realising his potential now. The need for the PC was because without one at home he had to stay at uni or only come home for very short periods of time during the holidays as his portable equipment just wasn't man enough to deal with his assignments.

One of the most surprising things is that this is the one who had to retake GCSE maths yet he is breezing through university level maths, he passed the maths module last year with flying colours, getting firsts in most of the exams!

That could be because GCSE was too easy for him. There are some people who get terrible results in exams because they find the course extremely boring because it is all too easy.



What they used to do with young people who found the O level courses too easy was to send them out for musical instrument lessons to give them something else to focus on while they waited for the rest of the class to catch up. GCSE is much much easier than O level and you don't get free musical instrument lessons anymore so I often wondered what happened to people who found GCSE too easy.



If they are at a decent school sometimes they just take the GCSEs several years earlier and then go onto something more challenging between GCSEs and the second A level year.



The people I feel sorry for are the ones at non flexible schools where they don't bother to help people who find the whole GCSE system too easy and there must be a lot of them.

SingleSue

It's a good theory but I'm not sure how much of it would apply to Joe. His issue was more around support and the school going by a prognosis report done when he was 5 which meant they thought he wasn't worth the effort. Their idea of support was to put him in a class full of disruptive and noisy students when one of his problems was dealing with disruption and noise and to use the TA which was supposed to be for him (as mandated in his statement) for everyone and because others were noisier and more disruptive and took up all the TA's time, it left him more and more stressed and anxious which only made him close down even more.

I battled them until I was not only blue in the face but exhausted, I brought in outside agencies to help me fight against them or at least work with me and they would make all the promises and then as soon as the agencies left, would backtrack again. If I ever mentioned that he was a bright child, I would be looked at either like I was an alien with two heads or with pity because I was a poor deluded parent...they had that prognosis report remember, in their eyes, they were better informed than me.

However, I knew that he was bright. He was coaching James in GCSE maths when he was still at primary school, he was doing complex sums even before he had verbal skills. A treat or bribe for Joe was not sweets, it was quick fire maths problems. Unfortunately, it was in his later years in high school the problems really occurred, all because of that blasted report (and his total failure in his SATS because he couldn't cope with the noise of the pencils scratching on paper - he spent them either under his desk or running from the room).

The report was done when he was completely non verbal, completely closed off and shut down and before I gave up with the conventional route of being a parent of a child with autism.

The college he went to couldn't have been more different, they listened to my suggestions regarding support (which were cheaper and easier to implement than in his statement) and to find his own level in a normal class....just so happened his own level was at the top of that class and by the end of his time there, the top student in the year group.

Sorry, bit of a rant there..I'm in that sort of mood tonight.