One of the biggest issues in our state—and it’s hitting virtually everyone. Families are being left without insurance as premiums skyrocket. Over-regulation, wildfire mismanagement, and state interference are making it worse, not better.

If you actually believe there is some vast Amazon lost tribe of Hick People out there in Flyover Country whose only connection to civilization is PBS and NPR, then I'm afraid you're the one living in an information desert

"Over the past five years, UC San Diego has experienced a steep decline in the academic preparation of its entering first-year students -- particularly in mathematics, but also in writing and language skills. Between 2020 and 2025, the number of students whose math skills fall

As everyone is tweeting about proposed cuts by the federal government to universities, a reminder that the State of California is not without blood on its hands. The president's proposed cut to the NSF was 57%. Meanwhile, from 2000 to 2025 the state of California forced UC

"Universities have found that high school GPA on its own is inadequate for admissions... MIT reproduced the analysis of the UC STTF report and found that at MIT standardized tests provided much needed additional information beyond high school transcripts."

TIL:

A math professor noticed his kitchen sink at home was leaking. He called a plumber. The plumber came the next day, tightened a couple of nuts, and the sink worked perfectly again. The professor was delighted. But when, a minute later, the plumber handed him the bill, he was

ACM POPL26 papers!! See you in Rennes! popl26.sigplan.org/track/POPL-202…

We shouldn’t get carried away and misunderstand/misrepresent the crisis. A few points: 1. The 87% and 19% are among a population of 138 students, who have already been placed in a remedial class. It is not representative of the overall incoming student body. In fact, the

The UCSD results are a direct result of the UC system's refusal to use standardized tests in admissions. Given grade inflation, slots are allocated basically by lottery. Combine that with the appalling performance of CA public schools and you get lots of low-achieving students.

This is the part I think a lot of people don't understand. These kids are getting A's and B's in classes like Algebra II and Pre-Calculus in high school, but grade inflation and lack of standardized testing for admissions hide the issues.

In February 2020, the UC Academic Senate published a 228 page report that made the case for using standardized tests in admissions. They were overruled. You can't say they didn't warn the powers that be. But this was a political decision, not an academic one.

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You might wonder about the "regent" Jay Sures qualifications that led him to this brilliant "SAT is racist" insight...? He's a f-ing Hollywood agent ... :facepalm: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Sures

(I’m guessing this person is jesting but…) imo the really interesting thing about Rust is not memory safety, but that ownership makes it a lot easier to build tools to catch these other types of bugs…

An LLM-generated paper is in the top 17% of ICLR submissions in terms of average reviewer score, having received two 8's. The paper has tons of BS jargon and hallucinated references. Fortunately, one reviewer actually looked at the paper and gave it a zero. 1/3

Here is Roger Ebert's first paragraph of his review for "The Mummy" and it is why he was the greatest film critic to ever live

Via Kelsey Piper in The Argument. This is why accountability and transparency matter and are core tensions in education politics that are not simple red or blue fault lines. Full in reply.