It's interesting that although the article avoids stating causation, it does use the word "help," which is also an extremely strong statement when the data only shows correlation. Social-economic level, especially relating to income and assets should be the very first obvious factor analyzed. There's a reason that rich people support and participate in the arts more than poor people. Rich people have the spare time, spare money, and often less stress (economic, health, etc.). For example, some high schools require a lot of money (up to $5000 for one school in our area) per season to participating in marching band, and that doesn't even include buying the expensive instrument. Poor people have to work more hours for lower pay. When they do have spare time, simply destressing is more important than indulgence in the arts.

Insider trading without all the large institutional investors or otherwise rich people. It's those large or powerful investors that mostly keep the insider trading in check. Otherwise, the stock market would be just like Polymarket and Kalshi.

It's 65k per year plus another 20k with graduate degrees. So 85k per year. Over 10 years, that's 850k. About 2/3rds of the H1-B visas are computer and IT jobs, so, say about 550k. That's out of the roughly 6.5 million total computer and IT jobs. Or about 8.5% (if all the H1-B computer and IT workers stayed in these types of jobs). That's definitely enough to affect wages and job availability.

Nvidia is lagging its competitors with respect to stock price appreciation. However, it's still outperforming its competitors in revenue, margin, and future demand. While Nvidia's growth has indeed slowed down, it still is growing faster than Intel or AMD, either looking at percentage or dollar growth. Intel's sales are flat. While AMD's sales are growing by about 40% over the last year, Nvidia's sales have grown by 65%, despite being much larger to start with. AMD's PE ratio is now an astounding 151! Intel's PE is undefined since its profit is negative.

How about for questionable slop? Most of the AI stuff is perhaps detectable by highly trained individuals, but most readers are not highly trained. Also, many readers eagerly slurp up human-created slop of obvious low quality and accuracy, so why would there be a rejection of AI-created slop of obvious low quality and accuracy?

AI slop already works for revenue generation. That's why it's gaining steam. I'm not advocating for AI slop, but it's obvious that it's working, maybe not for the readership public but definitely for the generators.

This announcement of an "agreement" sounds like PR. Is there a contract for N wafers? Is Apple paying for poor yield, or is Intel absorbing low-yield cost? Is this a real pre-contract agreement or just some raw meat to throw at Trump?

Apparently this huge 245TB SSD will cost around $80k, which will be around 10x the cost compared to the same capacity HDD set. The HDD power will be 2-3x more, but that power is noise compared to the rack power needed by everything else. There is an advantage in form factor density compared to a set of smaller SSDs, but that density comes at the cost of performance due to a single interface, single queue, and more latency due to TRIM. Performance is a big deal because that's why the much higher cost of SSDs is justifiable. The only real reason for this huge SSD is to save rack space, and that is something, but is it worth the decreased performance?

Seems like a dangerous attitude. This barging in on the Scientologists is very much like the teenagers knocking on doors and then running away. Would it be acceptable to distinguish between the doors of neighbors that we like and don't like? It's an outrage when the teenagers bother the nice old widow but something we condone when it's the unfriendly curmudgeon. That doesn't sound right.

So yeah your AI can outperform a doctor that gets 5 minutes with the patient before having to move on to the next one in order to keep their private equity Masters satisfied.

So, suppose, we stick it to the "private equity Masters", compel them to double the number of doctors — forget for a second, who is going to pay for them — and afford them a whopping 10 minutes with the patient.

ChatGPT will still beat humans... And it will be getting better with every month, whereas the humans will not...

A new study from Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess found that an OpenAI reasoning model outperformed experienced ER doctors at diagnosing and managing patient cases

AI is sufficiently anthropomorphic to be capable of making mistakes. Demanding perfection from it is stupid. It does not need to be error-free. It just needs to be better than humans...

Doing work that doesn't result in additional comprehension or knowledge is not only non-beneficial, but because it's emotionally defeating, it can be worse than not doing any homework because all the student learns is that they don't get it and likely never will.

The big problem with education is that many/most teachers aren't good at tutoring/teaching. That is, they say stuff in class that doesn't help the students learn new concepts. Or with many teachers, they don't even both with the lecturing. They simply assign stuff and hand out tests. At home, the same pattern repeats. What would be great would be either work that by design is self-tutoring. Or maybe some sort of AI-based instruction that forces the student to ask questions about what they don't understand.

It's the exact opposite. Sure, the MAGA base can ignore gas prices, but the non-MAGA republicans and the right-leaning independents are much more easily swayed by gas prices, and it's this third of voters that produces political tsunamis. Carville continues to be right - it's the economy, stupid. That continues to be true even if a third of voters are intransigent MAGA.

It seems like bookstore.org is doing more beneficial things for small bookstores than might be apparent. They allow small bookstores to benefit from online orders without incurring the significant costs of buying or setting up the ordering, inventory, or fulfillment systems. The small bookstores do send some traffic to bookstore.org via both direct orders and referrals from their own websites. The bookstore gets 30% of the cover price for orders and referrals and 10% from the general fund otherwise.

Although the small bookstores are also taking advantage of other trends (like selling coffee and stationary, hosting events, curating booklists, etc.), bookstore.org plays a significant role in the revival of the small bookstores. The 30% profit from referring to bookstore.org is far greater than the small 1-3% profit from in-store sales. The average small bookstore gets around $5-10k per year, which is significant considering the small budgets that most small bookstores operate on.

NAEP scores have been dropping since 1970 and SAT from before 1970, i.e., before Carter.

What is more important than cost is power usage or total hardware needed or memory needed or something other than a price. Cost is just a number selected by salespeople. The Chinese have been accused of price dumping in many markets, so a lower price is not surprising or necessarily indicative of a technological advantage. If the power usage is indeed lower, then that is significant. However, if power were indeed significantly lower, then that would have been the headline.