Sounds like another case of if it's not measured, it doesn't happen, like when Trump said during COVID, "If we stop testing right now, we’d have very few cases, if any." (Ignoring the obvious fact that they'd still exist, we just wouldn't know about them, noting that would have been better PR for him in the moment, but not so much in reality for the rest of us.)

How magnanimous of him. /s

Yeah - it seems like you could integrate NTP into setting up the computer. And it is true most don't care, but some of us could use that enabled from the getgo.

I've had too many conversations - "My computer isn't correcting or decoding." Are you using an NTP service? "Huh? what's that?" So now I gotta tell them to download Meinberg NTP or the like, then talk them through setting up and using. I mean, if MacOS can do it by default, why can't Windows?

Is literally anyone surprised at this point - at anything associated with Trump and/or his family?

Not sure what you're looking at. I am interested in the subject because I have a lot teachers public and private school in the family.

Most of what I see out there suggests to me there is essentially no correlation between changes in per-pupil spend and outcomes. If you go back to the 70s, you can't go much further back because you don't have a lot of comparable standardized test results before then, and stop pre-pandemic, what you see nationally anyway is educational outcomes are very flat even while (inflation adjusted) per-pupil spend jumped.

When you dig down to individual states, and/or mega districts (LA, etc) you mostly see that again outcomes stay pretty flat even in periods, even when major reforms (big increases in spend or cuts were made) even as you scroll forward a decade or on the outcome side to account for student experience.

From what I can see within a very wide-band of education spending, there is little impact on outcomes. Critics will find all sorts of exceptions but as I said in my previous post usually they end up being outliers to begin with. Sure you increased spending and scores did go up but it was in place where they were well below the curve to start with. Or people will say see see they spent even more money and scores dropped, but you look into and it was a place that was previously over performing, suggesting other factors probably are in play.

Yeah honestly British and American literature were some of my favorite subjects in high school because we got read things like Jane Eyre, Emma, Frankenstein, Gatsby, Huck Fin, Red Badge of Courage, etc.

All of those are great because the language is pretty accessible even for a contemporary audience and you can absolutely immerse yourself in any of them. Never felt like work..

Rand was a good writer, but she went off the deep end and forget that her audience was sophisticated enough to consume more than comic-book like obviousness and really would have like see real people integrating some of her philosophy into daily life, in a way they could relate to somewhat.

Atlas Shrugged kinda sucks..there is no getting around that. However i suggest people who don't like Atlas Shrugged actually read "We the Living", Rand herself contends that her philosophy was not fully developed and expressed in that book, maybe that is true, but succeeds where Atlas fails in that it reads like a real novel with characters you can believe, and experience some empathy for/with.

Well, maybe they're all hoping to become President someday. /s :-)

But do you approve of interactions with people at work, maybe going out to a happy hour with them?

Some, if not all, of those speeches are a little tone deaf. US students on why they booed their pro-AI graduation speakers: ‘They’re not reading the room’

And there are several, so far,
- Florida students boo graduation speaker who called AI ‘next Industrial Revolution’
- Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt booed after AI remarks at Arizona commencement
- Google: commencement AI boo.

The only way these commencement speakers could get booed more is if they fell asleep at game #3 of the NBA Finals. :-)

Yup, the tiny errors OP was seemingly claiming were insignificant are not insignificant in banking.

There was a story years ago about how someone became wealthy by taking the fractions of a cent leftovers from banks and pushed them in to his own account. That's just a story, but it do add up.

Especially considering any prosperity will probably go more to those guests making the commencement speeches than the graduates hearing them.

That brings up the rationale used by many, that fighter pilots saw it, so they cannot be wrong. Fighter pilots are interesting people with excellent reflexes, all intelligent, alpha types. Their lives often depend on high end observational skills.

So they scan hard and well for threats. But when it comes to analysis, most are pretty average.

I have some programs that need pretty accurate timing, and always have to use Meinburg and NTP on the windows version to get it close enough. MacOS doesn't have this issue.

And the batteries last forever!