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Comment Re: CO2 Heresy: Canada has it backwards (Score 2) 100

Comment Entropy always increases (Score 1) 55

For a given system, it's all about how much energy can be converted into heat over a unit of time.

Watts in â BTUs out.

There are many ways to optimize the left hand side of the equation but doing the rhs part in an efficient and stable manner remains a challenge. This is where scaling out is going to win.

Comment Re:well duh (Score 1) 412

Well, you can have the firehose, which can be gamed, or you can have VA Systems^W^W Geeknet spend their hard-earned revenues on hiring editors like Timothy to hand-curate the content.... which would *you* prefer?

Comment Re:If ancient people taught us anything... (Score 1) 394

Rightfully, your post is currently showing for me as +5, Interesting. Unfortunately, that fact kinda invalidates your point. So, now we're apparently stuck in the "this sentence is a lie" paradox. Fortunately, it's also completely off topic, thus re-validating your point and setting the universe right again. Yay!

Comment Re:What do you expect? (Score 2) 488

The problem is that decision makers need actionable data in order to inform decisions. Whether this is for legislators parceling out funding or administrators deciding on admissions, it applies across the system. The system is designed so that the system works smoothly; not so that children are educated nor that society is improved. I would love to agree with you and say "let's just fix this glaring problem"; But, how? Just about everyone I've ever met who's associated with the education system knows that standardized tests are a joke; and they want, desperately, to enrich children's lives. But the system fights them at every turn. It's no conspiracy, it's emergent behaviour. How do we push this side-effect out from the system?

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