Colleges are now closing at a pace of one a week. Yeah, it's starting with the small pocket colleges, but it's a sign that colleges overall are hurting. People don't want to spend a vast fortune for useless degrees, and it's a bummer if your college shuts down before you've graduated. Who wants to take that risk? Of course, if you were really college material, you could get into a more stable school and get a respectable degree that you could use to pay off your loan.
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I did not know that there was a Bloom County/Calvin and Hobbes crossover. Well, never too late, I guess.
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Here it is again. Biden gets the worse approval rating ever, and I click on the link, and it's 38.7%. C'mon, when is it ever going to get below 30%, as it should? I don't believe these "worse ever" articles anymore. It's still the same at 35%.
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The Department of Homeland Security announced the establishment of the Artificial Intelligence Safety and Security Board. Look at the members. Many of the names are the usual suspects. But look who is on as well – Bruce Harrell, mayor of Seattle! Huh? What qualifications does he have? I would have included Simon Willison, Johann Rehberger, or at least Stephen Wolfram, who could provide some very insightful input. But Bruce Harrell can't even run Seattle, so I would not want him formulating AI safety and security.
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Why Google search results look different now. By incorporating AI-retrieved links, you now don't know for sure if it's relevant to what you were searching for. Maybe it's hallucinating. Maybe the links were selected to increase ad sales to Alphabet. What a mess.
Here's how Google is ruining websites. As people vie for a top spot using SEO techniques, web pages, designed to rank higher, become crap.
Research on memory and retrieval. Now scientists have found that in mice (at least), forming new memories requires DNA breakage triggering DNA repair mediated by inflammatory toll-like receptor-9 pathways in hippocampal cells near the centrosomes. And blocking the TLR9 inflammatory pathway in hippocampal neurons not only prevented mice from forming long-term memories but also caused profound genomic instability, i.e, a high frequency of DNA damage in these neurons. Memory formation is way more complicated than originally thought.
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Active Antarctic volcano spews out gold every day. Well, it's actually gold dust in the air. Nothing worth setting up equipment to harvest.
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