Recent content by jian

I’m sure you know about this already but have you looked at the free material for Ravnica from WotC?

Thunderbolts, The Marvels, and What If were all excellent, and Thunderbolts was the one film that was outstanding. The overall quality was OK, but it was much more eclectic than the first 3 phases, much as Phase 4 was. The outstanding films or properties of previous phases in my opinion were...

Yes, I think it’s not very clear how the GM uses Fear and that’s somewhat down to trying to split the difference between PbtA rules (“GM makes a Move in reaction to PC moves/results and when it’s appropriate”) and D&D etc rules (“NPC goes when it’s their turn”). As noted, the GM gets slightly...

Agreed. I think both leads had their issues but their chemistry worked really well and it was just amazing to see a fully comic book romcom on TV 30 years ago. Love and Capes is a comics series that really embraced this, it’s a fun read.

Agreed. Casino Royale is great because it’s an origin film - Bond at the beginning is a brutal thug, who gradually develops into a more sympathetic character and then hardens into his iconic self. The others just aren’t any good (Solace is distinctly average, Skyfall is terrible, Spectre is...

Yes about Leiter - that’s from the novels (Live and Let Die, not included in the Moore film). He survives. I wouldn’t say Pam Bouvier is any less of a simpering damsel than any other Bond girl at any point, and certainly not because of anything Bond does.

Maybe they’re actually voting for Diana Rigg? I could see that.

Dalton because his Bond is humane and conscientious, actually thinks about whether he should murder the person he’s been sent to murder (his establishing character moment), and knows how to treat a woman like a human being. It’s a pity he didn’t get more than two films (and didn’t get to start...

That’s definitely a possibility. If medical students are mostly judged on coursework rather than exams (as horrible and stressful as exams are) that’s definitely an option. And if after graduating you rely on machine learning for all your diagnoses your skills will rust, even assuming the models...

I think it’s also fair to say that different subjects and sectors need different kinds of learning. Medicine does require a great deal of rote learning and the ability to correlate multiple apparently unrelated facts into recognisable patterns, and that’s what the exams are generally designed to...

I think it depends how the exams work, specifically whether they encourage a useful mixture of rote learning and information analysis. When I was doing my medical finals and my specialist exams then it did feel at times that I was simply swallowing and regurgitating info that I would never...

Having read the SRD, I basically think this: 1) It’s a nicely more narrative take on the D&D space with some interesting mechanics. It reminds me both of 13th Age and Dungeon World in that it hangs on quite deliberately to lots of D&D tropes such as bardic inspiration, rogue’s sneak attack...

I think the ability to retrieve and analyse information quickly is quite important for many sectors, and you’d certainly want more emphasis on exams (not 100% or anything, more like 40% and you can’t get a higher class degree on coursework alone) for anything that required professional...

That’s a really good argument for making exams more important for qualifications, I think. Coursework can always be written by genAI but exam answers would be harder to duplicate effectively (as long as the examiners are knowledgeable).

Hmmm… the use case for disabled students is interesting, I’ll have to think about that. There are of course all sorts of entirely valid use cases for machine learning, such as distribution logistics or analysing vast amounts of scientific data (such as radio telescope pictures of distant...