Researcher in Texas is going to train an AI model to see if he can decode dogs' language. Sounds reasonable. It's just another application of supervised learning, right?
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Looks like aggressive Congressional investigation has forced the Stanford Internet Observatory to shut down. ZeroHedge has the scoop. Just in time for the election.
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Insane leadership. Seattle Police is following California's lead – hiring illegal DACA recipients to serve on the police force. Hey, if they didn't follow the law, why should you, right?
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Why you should homeschool your kids. Seattle teachers are taking their students out of class for political purposes – "social justice" marching.
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52% of college graduates can't find a job that actually requires a college degree. That number is still 45% even a decade later. So half of college graduates really never had to go to college.
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Incompetence everywhere you look.
- Portland leaders have agreed to continue spending millions of dollars annually for private guards and other security services amid ongoing theft, property damage and physical safety threats at some city-owned properties.
- In their report, the Oregon secretary of state's office identified $2.9 billion in accounting errors, which they concluded were unintentional mistakes.
- Multnomah County is continuing to support the distribution of thousands of tents and tarps to the homeless in Portland, but it also costs the city millions of dollars to remove them to comply with a federal court settlement to keep sidewalks clear for the disabled.
- Results from the Measurement of Academic Progress, or MAP, math tests show that just 49% of the district’s students made the expected learning gains over the first six months of the current school year, down five percentage points from the prior year.
Is Portland gearing up for the inevitable protests when Trump wins the election? Sounds like they're more afraid of screwing up than keeping the city safe.
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AMR couldn't make it work. LifeFlight couldn't make it work. Now MetroWest is taking over the hospital transport business. And 80 employees will be let go. More unemployment. And why will it be different for this company?
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