I didn’t mean you specifically.
But there are a ton of “Swifties” who will say that she does no wrong (musically or personally).
So there are obsessed Swift lovers and obsessed Swift haters. The latter is far more rational than the former.
I am interested in an analysis of what the ratio of charitable dollars donated to number of unacceptable positions on trans issues is needed to make you an ethical person.
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It’s normal to “love” Nikola Jokic, Carlos Alcaraz, or Matt Damon. People derive a lot of emotional connection from their enjoyment of sports, movies, and music. Would be pretty weird to passionately hate any of them though.
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Why would a large language model even attempt to answer that? We are fucked as a society.
Didn’t Mississippi set a record for school test performance improvement recently?
They didn’t really attempt to answer it. They plagiarized two websites with “ethical” billionaire lists and combined them into a new list without giving it any “thought”
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No idea but if they did I’m sure they’re cheating
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I haven’t seen the data, but my first thought was that if you start super low you have the most room for improvement. Especially on some percentage basis.
That seems cynical.
That’s the ai we deserve.
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It was selection effects. If you weren’t at a certain reading level they held you back and then tested everyone who passed. Unsurprisingly only testing kids above your cut off makes your test scores jump. Even hearing it for the first time I don’t know why “we got great scores but only in this one grade” wasn’t a red flag. I don’t know why there isn’t some cumulative score grade either. I’d want to know how a school or state is preforming over the whole of its duration, not just at some checkpoint
The “Mississippi Miracle” is the rapid rise of Mississippi’s 4th-grade reading scores on national tests. Critics argue the gains are a “statistical illusion”. They claim holding back the lowest-performing students removes them from testing pools, which artificially boosts the state’s average score. Skeptics also note that middle school scores and math ranks remain low. [1, 2, 3]
Critics primarily attack the success based on three main points: [1]
- Selection Bias: Under Mississippi’s third-grade gate policy, children who fail a state reading test must repeat the grade. Critics like the Los Angeles Times state that these low-scoring students are barred from taking the 4th-grade National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) exams. This omission leaves only the higher-performing students to take the test, driving the state’s average score up. [1, 2, 3, 4]
- Narrow Focus: Critics highlight that the big reading gains are isolated to 4th-grade testing. By 8th grade, Mississippi’s reading scores drop significantly compared to other states. [1, 2]
- Math and Other Subjects: The improvements are not consistent across the board. The state continues to rank very low in national 4th and 8th-grade math scores. [1]
FYI I had zero knowledge of any of this, just common sense.
That you? Looking good!
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Fair
Tis, and thank you. Feeling good. Now I just need to figure out how dating after 20 years of marriage works
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You look better good job!
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Here’s some sale computer prices from 1986.
IBM Personal Computer
256k RAM, 2 floppy drives, keyboard $899* regular $1599.
*When purchased with one of the following:
IBM monochrome monitor and adapter $350 usually $525
Thompson color monitor and Persyst color adapter $500 usually $674
IBM monochrome monitor, adapter, and 10Mb Handcard $800 usually $1220
OR you could splurge and get the Macintosh Plus for $1799* usually $2199.
It comes with an 800k internal disk drive, 1Mb of RAM, and a mouse.
*When purchased with one of the following:
Apple 3.5" floppy drive $349 usually $399
New Apple SCSI Hard Disk 20 and cable $1249 usually $1379
We’ve come a long way baby.
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Speaking as someone who hasn’t been on a date this millenium I can’t give you any advice, but the „after" pictures look a lot more dateable. You’ll figure it out.