Dr. Jo Boaler of Stanford is in the news again. She had claimed that "lower achieving and lower income" student achieved better when exposed to a "reform-oriented teaching approach". Her paper was apparently the basis of removing algebra from California's math curriculum. But she never revealed the schools that were the basis of her research. Until now. The identities of the schools that she says benefited from the specialized education led to an investigation into the schools' performance. Turns out they didn't do any better than other schools, and refutes Boaler's claims.
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Just out: German study shows that the mRNA COVID-19 vaxxes (both Comirnaty (BNT162b2, Pfizer/BioNTech) and Spikevax (mRNA-1273, Moderna)) led to "intracellular aggregation of encoded spike monomers and their subunits". "The various spike protein derivatives impaired not only cell proliferation, but also induced a pro-inflammatory response and oxidative stress". These were felt to be contributory to the vaccine's acute reactions and long-term side-effects. This is a potentially devastating paper. The mRNA vax should be taken off the market.
And it's starting. Enraged over COVID-19 vax side-effects, a gunman opens fire on the CDC. Yeah, people aren't going to just take it any longer. Their worst fears are coming true.
Gary Marcus is very underwhelmed with GPT-5. Marcus is a known wet-towel thrower, so this is not surprising. I've played around with GPT-5, and frankly haven't noticed a big difference just with casual use.
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The Unmarker app removes watermarks that other apps put on. Back to the drawing board guys. You're going to have to find some other way of digitally watermarking images to protect against theft.
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ODOT is not going to clean up graffiti, since the budget was cut. Illegal alien non-citizens will continue to get state funding, but services that citizens pay taxes for are going to be cut. That's essentially what's happening.
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