College Board is dumbing down the SAT tests, as student performance declines. This just hides the rot. Better to leave things as they are and show everyone how poorly kids are doing. Making the test even easier doesn't help anyone.
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Are investors pulling out of AI? There's been talk that after seeing how AI really performs, investors have a better idea of AI's limitations as well as the capabilities. It's like the dotcom era – there's a lot of fluff. You just have to discern which is going to be the eBay.com and which is going to be the Pets.com.
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This study is making the rounds. It concludes that:
It was a tough study to do. They tried to estimate lives saved by the vax and looked at data from the whole world, with vaccines of all kinds – mRNA, DNA, with adenoviral vectors and others. As you know, every country reports things their own way. All the authors could say is that estimates of lives saved was, in their calculation, lower than what was promulgated.Estimates in this study are substantially more conservative than previous calculations focusing mostly on the first year of vaccination, but they still clearly demonstrate a major overall benefit from COVID-19 vaccination during the years 2020-2024. Most benefits in lives and life-years saved was secured for a portion of older persons, a minority of the global population.
Interestingly, the vax saved more lives during the Omicron era than before. That seems counter-intuitive to me.
Perhaps the vax impaired the immune systems of the vaxxed so that getting the vax during Omicron made a huge difference.
But prior to Omicron, maybe the immune systems of the vaxxed were still intact enough so that the vax didn't make a difference.
Another conclusion was that the survival benefit was almost all in those 60 or older. So there was really no reason to give it to kids.
Here's a video of Seattle City Council approving a new sales tax, and one member admits that they have no idea what this tax is going to pay for. They just approved it. New tax. Just because.
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