COVID19 preferentially kills the old & vaccination is less effective in the old, so a high vax rate, older population country will have a higher death rate than a low vax rate young county. Unles… (View Post)

If you work as a wordsmith then you definitely need to be thinking about how ChatGPT & friends are going to change the market for the written word. Basic copywriting is dead in the water, that se… (View Post)

Publishers have got very good at bringing out new editions of textbooks which do little except renumber the problem sets in some fields. A little light bribery of academics to get them to set the new… (View Post)

Thank god for that. It was pretty awful for my kids. Phonics seems to be an effective but mechanistic way to teach kids to read that is completely irrelevant for the kids that catch on quickly regard… (View Post)

So, they’d like to fund something that’s /not/ DARPA by ignoring everything that makes DARPA work? Sometimes, finding a way to insulate politicians from their own worst instincts is the only way to m… (View Post)