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the us and israel attacked iran. why now and what comes next? i break down the decision, the risks of escalation, and what to watch.

I think this alone could be enough to make a site of data journalism pencil.

But beyond this, one thing AI coding is extremely good at is generalizing special case code into generalizable tools. So I think a data journalism organization would quickly see compounding efficiency gains.

But I think a lot of the work that bogged down production that mostly involves the process of getting software written and to run will take far less time.

This means a few things. First you can get more articles from a data journalist is a month. 2/

Yes. I should be far more precise because reading what I wrote is not what I meant.

I do not mean to say you can now take a journalist or opinion writer and make them a data journalist by having LLM add data to their argument. I think this will happen and it will be bad. 1/

If I were a journalism entrepreneur I would be thinking a lot about data journalism right now. AI has just made it dramatically easier and faster to collect, analyze, and present data.

Including implementing creative presentations; not just conventionalb charts.

It's very frustrating that there's a movement that has had decades long success at reducing testing from math education in the US and Canada and not only is there barely anyone resisting, barely anyone knows the movement exist.

Harley Finkelstein: Canadian Jews are being targeted simply because they are Jewish Celebrations of Jewish life that have nothing to do with Israel are being disrupted as the nation stands idly by

“What began as chants has crossed into intimidation. What is excused as advocacy now routinely crosses into harassment, disruption and outright antisemitism, playing out openly from places like the Eaton Centre to university campuses across the country."
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Harley Finkelstein: Canadian Jews are being targeted simply because they are Jewish Celebrations of Jewish life that have nothing to do with Israel are being disrupted as the nation stands idly by

Celebrations of Jewish life that have nothing to do with Israel are being disrupted as the nation stands idly by, writes Harley Finkelstein
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I am with you that’s a real possibility. I’m not good at predictions. But it it does get built then those saying not that it will never be built will look silly.

This third way is embarrassing no matter what happens: if the pipeline gets built, they enabled something they claim to oppose. If it doesn’t, they were conning Canadians who believe in resource development.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Liberals need to pick a lane. Either oppose the deal like Guilbeault, or argue a pipeline would actually be good.

But the “genius” defense amounts to “don’t worry, we’re lying to Canadians who think resource development is key to economic recovery.”

Which is exactly what Poilievre will say if the pipeline doesn’t materialize.

They just disagree on whether that makes Carney incompetent or a genius who traded a fantasy for real concessions on carbon pricing.

Ron McKinnon praised the deal because it got “Danielle Smith’s government on board with climate change initiatives,” not because he thinks a pipeline is coming.

Poilievre says no pipeline will actually get built. Multiple senior Liberals believe the same thing. Ross Belot calls it “the most useful imaginary pipeline in Canadian history.”

Strange bedfellows on the pipeline MOU: Poilievre and progressive Carney defenders are making the exact same prediction from opposite directions. 🧵

It does not help to invest more into education when that investment is using the wrong techniques.

In fact, fixing curriculum is one of the cheapest interventions available.

I hope there is more and more mainstream reporting on math education. And that it moves into the actual details of evidence based research of pedagogy.

The latter just works. And it out performs the former on standardized testing. This is a big part of the underlying motivation to get rid of standardized testing.

Huge parts of the world have shifted over to inquiry-based learning or constructivist mathematics or just a math curriculum focused on Big Ideas.

This is in contrast to a pedagogy of gaining skill fluency through deliberate practice of using standard algorithms taught through direct instruction.

It was great to hear @dkthomp.bsky.social talk about the decline in math education on Plain English.

One thing they did not discuss is the way pedagogy and curriculum changes could be a cause. 🧵

Vertical construction underway for trio of apartment buildings near Expo/Bundy Station Just south of Expo/Bundy Station in Sawtelle, the arrival of two orange tower cranes are the latest sign of progress on the construction of a trio of developments from Carmel Partners.

Some years ago LA upzoned a single family area next to the Expo/Bundy station. 20 homeowners sold their property at huge profits to developers and now they’re turning into 600 new apartments.

Hopefully we’ll see projects like this all over the state in coming years now that SB79 has legalized them.

And to create these tasks people need to have the mental encodings for them.

And the most reliable way to acquire the mental encodings for these tasks is to learn how to do the tasks. Really, this is the only reliable way we know how to create these encodings.
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There is an educational philosophy that believes there is no value in kids learning how to do mathematical tasks that a computer or calculator can do.

What this philosophy misses is that we need people who can create these mathematical tasks. 1/2

“That 4.5% increment in GDP is equal to the total the U.S. currently spends on K–12 education.”

Testing matters. The returns to better math performance are staggering. 2/2

Steven Klaiber-Noble on X: "Countries that test math performance and improve scores see massive economic returns. Hanushek & Woessmann find half a standard deviation improvement in math test scores produces 1% higher GDP growth annually for 40 years. “That 4.5% increment in GDP is equal to the total the" / X Countries that test math performance and improve scores see massive economic returns. Hanushek & Woessmann find half a standard deviation improvement in math test scores produces 1% higher GDP growth annually for 40 years. “That 4.5% increment in GDP is equal to the total the

Countries that test math performance and improve scores see massive economic returns.

Hanushek & Woessmann find half a standard deviation improvement in math test scores produces 1% higher GDP growth annually for 40 years.

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Math and Reading Scores Are Declining in BC. Why? | The Tyee And what’s the fix? Second in a series.

Great piece from @kehyslop.bsky.social at @thetyee.ca about the pedagogical choices made in bc curriculum resulting in declining math and reading scores.

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Like you only have one bag of flour and you have to decide if it will be used for 100 loaves of bread or play-doh for kids? Do you flip a coin or set a price? Because currently with H1Bs the government is flipping a coin.

What about adding a price when there's limited supply of inputs and you're currently using a lottery which is wildly sub-optimal in its allocation?

The more I read about the science of teaching math the more it becomes clear how important constant testing and evaluation is for student success.

It is hard to appreciate just how much harm was done in reducing in testing because of reported testing anxiety.