2/ once schools taste even a tiny bit of the losses from bad loans they will stop lending money for gender studies and other nonsense that doesn't make any money when you graduate Colleges have got to clean up their act they're overpriced and under delivering value

1/ There must be over 1 million student loans in the US that are in arrears, and people are trapped because they can't discharge the debt and their degree was worthless I propose that we allow student loans in Bankruptcy, but the school has to pay half the loss

His research eventually led to a team-up with Hameroff who is an expert in anesthesia, and it is now their theory that superconducting microtubules are resonating, and providing a high frequency vibration that is consciousness So every prior theory was way off. Fascinating.

As the great Sir Roger Penrose points out, we should stop using the term "Artificial Intelligence" because current LLM systems are not conscious He prefers the term "Artificial Cleverness" He has a proof that consciousness is not a computation which has astounding implications

a great speech I don't know this woman. I live in California so we don't see her ever cause she's from GA the speech is a biting condemnation of the current political system It worries me greatly what kind of future my children will have

i've been waiting patiently for over a decade for someone to go to jail or at least be publicly named and shamed for this incredible fault, said which cost us so dearly in lives and treasure

this is a fascinating paper and explains what I have observed with the AI models the prestige hierarchy of the training materials are so important and reddit is a cesspool

I know that the statute of limitations has expired on the evil cabal that concocted the greatest military hoax in history, where supposedly Saddam had weapons of mass destruction and we had to act quickly, but can't we at least name and shame them? I am waiting patiently

And the bizarre thing is that the stipend is a mere 2 million yen per person, which is only 12k USD We spend so much on sports, and neglect our craftspeople and artists (outside of pop & country music, which is overcompensated)

When one walks in Japan on the street, you can find dozens of things that Americans should have or practices to adopt One great thing the Japanese Govt did was establish a Living Treasures system to honor and reward 116 exceptional artists and craftspeople Idea worth copying

what is so inspiring to me about this little clip is that he's a relatively young man People usually take quite a while to figure this out So there's hope for the future yet

this fellow is a really good Programmer, and a great teacher

I think it's time to retire The metrics like income per capita to measure how successful a country is compared to one another if you measure using the 3 M's, then you will critically realize that Romania and Slovenia are kicking everyone's ass they have such high homeownership

i grew up reading In Fleming novels they were short, short and authentic feeling Sadly, the last film was a downer and I'm very upset at how they took the joy away from Bond when he was finally having a pleasant italian vacation someone mean spirited wrote No Time To Die

California is losing restaurants that are rapid clip One of the reasons is the high sales tax on dining out, which is now over 10% We need more jobs, and restaurants are a easy way to increase employment let's lower the sales tax to 5% or maybe even drop it to 0 on hot meals

in order to have tremendous lightning storms, you have to have really clean air, which allows clouds to stay intact America has way too many jet planes flying over our cities spewing soot, which destroys high altitude clouds The more clouds you stack the more volts you get

unlike most goods which have a price is set into somewhat of equilibrium between supply and demand, housing prices are an auction and it ruins the auction. If you have somebody in it that has too much money We should not allow investment funds to purchase single-family dwellings

when you look at percentage of families that own their own home, you see countries like Romania in Slovakia, which are in the 90% range So by one measurement, these are among the richest countries in the world because they haven't let the financial people take over their housing

I know a couple of people who have had battles with Lyme disease and it's been bothering them for decades If this works, that would be amazing I wonder how many other parasite diseases could be fixed by this

a rather eloquent summary of the current situation