Schools should pursue excellence. Indeed, Blue state/city policies have hurt the gifted. "No Child Kept Behind". Love it!
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Sabine Hossenfelder rants about obscure, expensive physics projects that no one understands, that have no real world benefits, yet are supported by tax dollars. They seem to only serve to keep a few academics employed. The trouble with sciences is that you never know where or how the next breakthrough will come. I understand where she's coming from, but research like how some obscure bacteria developed immunity against some obscure virus is how we got CRISPR-Cas9 technology.
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Writing code for a calculator app isn't as easy as it might sound. If you really want it to be mathematically accurate. And behave how you'd expect.
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When you try to game the system and it backfires. During the Biden administration, people applying for grants thought it might help to insert some DEI statements to gain favor with the woke grant administrators. Now such verbiage is a liability. Look at this math grant, for example:
Yeah, poking fun at someone with satire can be more damaging that actual criticism. This is the power of memes and comedians like Dave Chapelle.
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Oh boy. When you code open-source software and let people use it for free, they may come to depend on it. And if something bad happens, some of them may want to hold you liable. No good deed goes unpunished.
Dems won't rest until they claw back Kicker money. This will be especially acute during the Trump administration, as it scrutinizes how money will be spent. Blue states like Oregon and Washington will suffer, as they continue to spend on illegal immigrants, while trying to continue services to people and spend money on homeless agencies, supporting the unions, and giveaways to favored groups.
Here's a website that tracks national power outages. Wonder how accurate and current it is.
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Hope this doesn't happen. Apple Maps may start serving ads. Greedy. It's the ongoing enshittification of Apple.
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Is this why Western philosophers were able to come up with all those profound thoughts? Because they were unmarried, men? I've often considered that all the wise Zen Buddhist monks were able to maintain satori and were blissful, because they were outside the stream of life's stresses. I wondered how relevant their philosophies and sutras were to my life.
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There's been talk that using noise-cancelling headphones or earphones could cause deafness. It turns out that what they promote is auditory processing disorder, or APD. I've never heard of APD before. It seems that if you spend enough time without noise and only listening to signal, then you lose the ability to filter out signal from noise in real life.
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Well, looks like the latest efforts from Anthropic to prevent jailbreaking were unsuccessful. Oh well. Keep trying.
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