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Great to see this on X. This is something I created during my PhD time 20 years ago.
DaVinci@BiancoDavinci
This is a healing grid by Japanese artist Ryota Kanai. If you stare at the center, the irregularities start to heal themselves because your brain strongly prefers to see regular patterns.
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A student today at my elite university admitted to me today that she took a class so she could work on reading for more than 20 minutes at a time. She can't read. She mainly skims and summarizes, she says and still gets A's.
This student is, by professional standards, illiterate. Gonna have high GPA when she graduates.
This conversation was had after 6 of 22 students dropped my course because the maximum reading per week in one week was over 100 pages.
What people aren't grasping is that this is literally *dangerous*. These people are going to be come doctors, engineers, etc. They are - by any metric - vastly less capable than prior generations. These effects are cumulative over a lifetime.
This grade inflation is part of the problem, but not even close to the entirety. And the problem obviously starts in K-12.
Students don't know history because, you can't actually become historically literate on the advice of 'never assign more than 30 pages a week'. You can't develop any of the skills that came with literacy. This is, quite honestly, a civilizational catastrophe.
Steve McGuire@sfmcguire79
79% of grades at Yale are A-range. Graduating summa cum laude requires a record high GPA OF 3.98.
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If you gave away $126 billion to subsidize free flights between LA and San Francisco at current demand levels, you could fund roughly 150 to 200 years of travel before the money runs out.
KTLA@KTLA
In a 60 Minutes report, officials said they now believe the rail line linking L.A. and San Francisco could ultimately cost about $126 billion, more than triple the original price tag approved by voters. ktla.com/news/californi…
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Cost to build high speed rail between L.A. & San Francisco: $126B
Artemis II mission: $4B
Moon base: $20B
It's literally easier to send people to the Moon, and build stuff there, than it is to build in California.
We could have 31-32 Artemis missions at that cost (they'll rapidly get cheaper), or build 5 Moon bases with money left over.
This is a problem across the Western world, but nowhere is worse than California, where all that money could be "spent" without a single mile of track being laid.
KTLA@KTLA
In a 60 Minutes report, officials said they now believe the rail line linking L.A. and San Francisco could ultimately cost about $126 billion, more than triple the original price tag approved by voters. ktla.com/news/californi…
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No hands.
No rain.
No limits. ☔🤖
A floating umbrella in the middle of nowhere.
The future doesn’t wait for cities…
it shows up anywhere.
#Innovation #IoT #5G #Drone #Drones #AI #Technology #Bigdata
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The greatest civilization in human history produced something no other society ever has: a system so free that you can make a living destroying it.
Every day, thousands of Americans wake up in homes built by capitalism, eat food delivered by capitalism, pick up devices created by capitalism, open apps funded by capitalism, and post anti-capitalist content to audiences assembled by capitalism. Then they collect ad revenue, sponsorships, and donations generated by the very system they are denouncing. The machine they hate is the machine that feeds them.
What made this possible? A culture that never taught them what capitalism is or why it works. They were educated in government schools that taught them to resent the producers, pity the unproductive, and view wealth as something taken rather than created. They graduated with strong opinions and no rational frame of reference. So they did what the system allows: they monetized their ignorance.
The irony is not that they are hypocrites. It is that capitalism is so productive, so resilient, and so generous that it even feeds the people trying to kill it. No socialist system has ever been secure enough to tolerate its own critics, let alone pay them.
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Rocky's “Amaze, Amaze, Amaze” catchphrase was mentioned in NASA communications with the Artemis II crew.
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Yoda is the Boomer stuck in his ways.
Windu/Qui Gon are opposing types of Gen Xers.
Obi Wan is the Millennial who followed the rules and did everything he was taught was right only to end up homeless, broke, and single anyway.
And Anakin is the fatherless radicalized GenZ.
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this is true. to expand on it:
“empathy” vs “theory of mind” are two perpendicular axes that together make up EQ. Empathy cares about how others feel while theory of mind actually models it.
Without theory of mind, “empaths” just golden rule maxx. Trouble is that what you want and what i want are frequently different and without an ability to truly grok this, empaths frequently harm themselves or others in an attempt to help.
In contrast without empathy, “theory of mind”ers become psychopathic. They know exactly what others want but without a care for their well being, they just use this to exploit them.
It is only high theory of mind combined with high empathy that leads to low time preference pro-sociality.
signüll@signulll
the reason why emotional intelligence is extremely rare is simply cuz it is expensive. actually modeling another person’s internal state in real time is computationally brutal.. it requires suppressing your own frame, running a parallel simulation, & updating continuously. the “inference costs” of eq in humans are likely much higher than the most expensive ai model in existence today.
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So I was aware that Vince Vaughn was the winning bidder for this Jeff Easley painting in the Gary Con Charity auction. It the will serve as the new D&D sourcebook Melf’s Guide to Greyhawk.
What I did not know, is that Vince then gifted it to @lukegygax .
Stay classy, Vince.
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If they really wanna make a stir, and upset all the right people, they should do this book.
The High Crusade
In 1345, silly blue aliens land in medieval England expecting an easy conquest. Instead, angry knights introduce the technology of iron gauntlets to the alien's sad little loser faces, storm the spaceship like its France, capture it, and launch an interstellar crusade, conquering planets and toppling empires. Deus vult… in space!
Sensurround (センサラウンド)@ShamashAran
If you have not read the novel "The Chaplains War" you should fix that. goodreads.com/book/show/2141… If Angel Studios ever made a scifi movie, it should be this one.
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u have the potential to make someone else's favorite thing. and i think that is really beautiful.
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Educators don't talk about the Kansas City experiment.
Andrew Follett@AndrewCFollett
A federal judge once gave literally unlimited money to public schools in Kansas City. Those schools got worse by every possible metric. The money was mostly stolen by unions.
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Because Horror is a visceral thing and "smart" people are intellectuals and wanna-be intellectuals and if you spend the movie all in your head or up your rear, you never allow the emotions to materialize or affect you.
Normal people who just watch and feel are moved more by movies than people who do not allow themselves to experience the emotions that movies evoke, no matter the genre. True for Romance, War, Mystery, Thriller, Action, Adventure, etc.
PoIiMath@politicalmath
My teens wanted to watch a horror movie so we watched The Shining, which sent me down a rabbit trail Critics *hated* The Shining when it was released. Siskel gave it 2 stars. Variety said Kubrick "destroyed all that was so terrifying about the King novel". One critic called it "Shallow, self-conscious, and dull. Read the book". Kubrick was nominated for "Worst Director" at the first Razzie awards I find all of this insane. In imdb, The Shining is rated as one of the top 100 movies of all time. It is seared into our collective memory with "all work and no play" and "Here's Johnny" and "red rum". Somehow Kubrick made a horror movie that every "smart" person hated when it came out and yet endured as one of the great movies of all time. How do you do that?
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