i think a lot about how to get a high agency kid here’s what’s working +

in our house: — there’s clear, unambiguous, and consistently enforced rules (very few) — we practice in our lives the things we want for our kid — we actively let the child be the decider of excellence, of completion, of most everything besides ‘don’t die’

An underrated feature of this situation: a private company now has incredibly powerful zero-day exploits of almost every software project you've heard of. And Hegseth and Emil Michael have ordered the government not to in any capacity work with Anthropic.

So, basically, if Anthropic was not a US company, we’d be facing zero days with multiple unknown points of attack on virtually all of our systems to an adversary who developed this capacity before us.

COLUMN: No matter what the US and Iran agree over the future of Hormuz, the strait’s status will change. But the waterway will never be as critical as it was six weeks ago: Iran's rivals will rush to build more bypass oil pipelines. @Opinion bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

Happy SAT day to all who celebrate. Reminder that a disproportionate number of kids in rich school districts get 1.5x the time that everyone else does. And everyone in the system is conspiring to keep the numbers non-transparent.

By the way, these numbers are from 2019, Alvin Christian's JMP shows accommodations at colleges have continued to shoot up since then. No reason to think the SAT is any different.

It's not everyone in the system. Disability rights advocates sued, arguing that letting consumers of the information (university admissions) know that a student got extra time was illegal under the Americans with Disabilities Act, and they bludgeoned the College Board into

the strait of hormuz is in a quantum superposition of open and closed that only collapses when you try to take a tanker through yourself and see if you get shot at

College grads have been “prolentarianized": Universities minted too many knowledge workers, and now they're working at Starbucks in unprecedented numbers. This is a popular narrative. But it isn't quite right. In truth, recent college grads today are *more* likely to hold a

Judging by my tl there is a growing gap in understanding of AI capability. The first issue I think is around recency and tier of use. I think a lot of people tried the free tier of ChatGPT somewhere last year and allowed it to inform their views on AI a little too much. This is

What the research clearly shows is at elite colleges were applicants regular max out GPA (like UVA), standardized tests like the SAT are more predictive of college GPA than high school GPA. Gift link: nytimes.com/2024/01/07/bri…

It’s kind of wild that a Supreme Court case upholding the rights of Asian American students not to be discriminated against in university admissions is coded as “anti civil rights” without question or exploration of the underlying premise.

In the late 1970s, Nintendo was trying to break into the American arcade market. Arcade shooters dominated the market, and Nintendo had tried its hand at shooters to little success. Shigeru Miyamoto was a young designer tasked by the Nintendo president to try to create a

It's definitely a long shot, but a Mahan win would be transformational. Not just for California, but for the entire Democratic Party—and therefore the country. Electing a sane, competent centrist technocrat to lead the biggest, bluest, most poorly managed, lefty

Timely reminder given today's election results: Orban's authoritarian government utterly failed to deliver on growth and Hungary ended up being the poorest country in the EU by the end of his tenure. This is extremely embarrassing given their starting position.

23% of total government spending in the US is on healthcare -- the highest in the OECD (probably highest in the world). Mexico spends just 11% on healthcare. Meanwhile, about 11% of government spending in the US is on the military 23% > 11%

Quick update on the "autism epidemic": - Tylenol does not cause autism - Vaccines do not cause autism - Autism hasn't actually increased The entirety of the "rise" in autism is due to diagnostic drift rather than an increase in the population's liability to have autism.

BIG claim from new MIT + Oxford + Carnegie Mellon and other top labs paper: AI can boost performance at first and then leave people less able to think through problems on their own. Just minutes of AI help can improve scores now while weakening independent problem-solving

shoutout to Gary Larson for literally calling this in The Far Side in 1987 (!!!)