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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> <rss version="2.0" xmlns:blogChannel="http://backend.userland.com/blogChannelModule"> <channel><title>Flutterby!</title><link>https://www.flutterby.com/</link><description>Last updated 2024-04-25 07:25:06.079433+02</description><language>en</language> <image><title>Flutterby</title><url>https://www.flutterby.com/adbanners/175x24base.jpg</url><link>https://www.flutterby.com</link></image><item><title>https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/april/at-columbia</title><link>https://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/32010.html</link><description><html><body><p>Oh that's A powerful observation: "It&#8217;s the first time the police have been invited onto Columbia&#8217;s campus since 1968. Like 1968, 2024 may go down as an inauspicious year for university administrations trying to defend the indefensible."</p> <p><a href="https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/april/at-columbia">https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/april/at-columbia</a></p> </body></html></description><pubDate>2024-04-25T07:25:06</pubDate></item><item><title>Email from Chevrolet informs me that</title><link>https://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/32009.html</link><description><html><body><p>Email from Chevrolet informs me that "Dan, there&#8217;s a world of tech in Blazer EV", and... no, I work with this stuff, let's limit that tech as much as possible...</p> </body></html></description><pubDate>2024-04-25T01:45:01</pubDate></item><item><title>McKinsey Faces US Criminal Probe Over Opioids Work, Sources Say</title><link>https://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/32008.html</link><description><html><body><p>For all of the horrible things McKinsey has done to the US, this feels an awful lot like taking down Al Capone via tax fraud, but I'll take it: <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2024-04-24/mckinsey-faces-us-criminal-probe-over-opioids-work-sources-say">McKinsey Faces US Criminal Probe Over Opioids Work, Sources Say</a></p> </body></html></description><pubDate>2024-04-25T00:22:27</pubDate></item><item><title></title><link>https://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/32007.html</link><description><html><body><p><a href="https://www.flutterby.net/Image%3a2024-04-24EightCheeseFrozenPizza.jpg"><img height="160" alt="" width="120" src="https://www.flutterby.net/files/images/2024/04/24/160px-2024-04-24EightCheeseFrozenPizza.jpg" style="float: right; "/></a>Not sure if "8 Cheese Pizza" means like 7 bladed razor, or "we had leftovers and a grater" or ... But that many seems excessive for a blend.</p> </body></html></description><pubDate>2024-04-24T23:55:02</pubDate></item><item><title>Marques Brownlee's review of the Humane AI pin titled "The Worst Product I've Ever Reviewed... For Now" (YouTube)</title><link>https://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/32006.html</link><description><html><body><p><a href="https://thedebrief.org/nasa-veterans-propellantless-propulsion-drive-that-physics-says-shouldnt-work-just-produced-enough-thrust-to-defeat-earths-gravity/">Charles Buhler's "reactionless drive" is making the rounds again</a>, just as the reviews of all of these half-baked cell phones that talk to "AI assistants" are starting to come out. This morning it's <a href="https://www.theverge.com/24138746/rabbit-r1-hands-on-ai-gadget-chatgpt">The Verge talking about the Rabbit R1</a>, in the wake of all of the hullabaloo over <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TitZV6k8zfA">Marques Brownlee's review of the Humane AI pin titled "The Worst Product I've Ever Reviewed... For Now" (YouTube)</a>.</p> <p>And I'm reminded of that thing where it's useful to look at "what's the enabling technology here?". If Buhler's right, space travel is the absolutely least interesting thing about what he's pushing. If a company has developed interesting "AI assistant" technology, carrying around another device is the least interesting part of that.</p> <p>A few years ago I was thinking "well, I could learn to play another instrument, or I could use my voice to generate MIDI", so I went looking for those technologies, and holy shit the number of people who were selling plugins that promised to do that, but bundling it with a cheap USB mic, were legion (especially once I triggered the Facebook ad demons). And, of course, none of them found any third party who'd credibly say "yeah, this works".</p> <p>Anyway, wish more "AI" reviewers would do head-to-heads against the current state of Siri or Alexa.</p> </body></html></description><pubDate>2024-04-24T18:46:29</pubDate></item><item><title>Ask MeFi question for Fluffer pro</title><link>https://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/32005.html</link><description><html><body><p>An Ask MeFi question for "Fluffer pro tips" did *not* go in the direction I was expecting...</p> </body></html></description><pubDate>2024-04-23T18:10:03</pubDate></item><item><title>The Performance Impact of C++'s `final` Keyword</title><link>https://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/32004.html</link><description><html><body><p>It's been a while since I've been cycle counting, but this is interesting: <a href="https://16bpp.net/blog/post/the-performance-impact-of-cpp-final-keyword/">The Performance Impact of C++'s `final` Keyword</a></p> <blockquote><p>In case you skimmed to the end, here's the summary:<ul><li> Benefit seems to be available for GCC.</li><li> Doesn't affect Apple's chips much at all.</li><li> Do not use <code>final</code> with Clang, and maybe MSVC as well.</li></ul></p> </blockquote><p>At the very least, it's another one of those things to hide behind the preprocessor so you've got options.</p> </body></html></description><pubDate>2024-04-23T17:33:46</pubDate></item><item><title>30 Million Canvas Grading Records Reveal Widespread Sequential Bias and System-Induced Surname Initial Disparity</title><link>https://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/32003.html</link><description><html><body><p><a href="https://record.umich.edu/articles/study-alphabetical-order-of-surnames-may-affect-grading/">Study: Alphabetical order of surnames may affect grading</a></p> <blockquote><p>An analysis by University of Michigan researchers of more than 30 million grading records from U-M finds students with alphabetically lower-ranked names receive lower grades. This is due to sequential grading biases and the default order of students&#8217; submissions in Canvas &#8212; the most widely used online learning management system &#8212; which is based on alphabetical rank of their surnames.</p> </blockquote><p><a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4603146">30 Million Canvas Grading Records Reveal Widespread Sequential Bias and System-Induced Surname Initial Disparity</a></p> </body></html></description><pubDate>2024-04-23T01:26:30</pubDate></item><item><title>Mike Masnick: The Coddling of the American Parent</title><link>https://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/32002.html</link><description><html><body><p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-coddling-of-the-american-parent">Mike Masnick: The Coddling of the American Parent</a></p> <blockquote><p>Jonathan Haidt&#8217;s new book &#8220;The Anxious Generation&#8221; blames youth mental health issues on social media in a way that&#8217;s easy, wrong, and dangerous.</p> </blockquote></body></html></description><pubDate>2024-04-22T23:47:20</pubDate></item><item><title>Mother Jones: These Floridians Rebuilt Houses in Flood Zones. Now FEMA Is Cracking Down.</title><link>https://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/32001.html</link><description><html><body><p>Great article on the politicization of insurance risk, perverse incentives, and rebuilding in flood zones: <a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/04/lee-county-fema-flood-zone-construction-50-percent-rule/">Mother Jones: These Floridians Rebuilt Houses in Flood Zones. Now FEMA Is Cracking Down.</a></p> </body></html></description><pubDate>2024-04-22T23:43:17</pubDate></item><item><title>National Bureau of Economic Research: Nothing for Something: Marketing Cancer Drugs to Physicians Increases Prescribing Without Improving Mortality Colleen Carey, Michael Daly &amp; Jing Li</title><link>https://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/32000.html</link><description><html><body><p><a href="https://www.nber.org/papers/w32336">National Bureau of Economic Research: <cite>Nothing for Something: Marketing Cancer Drugs to Physicians Increases Prescribing Without Improving Mortality</cite> Colleen Carey, Michael Daly &amp; Jing Li</a></p> <blockquote><p>...We find that prescribing of the associated drug increases 4\% in the twelve months after a payment is received, with the increase beginning sharply in the month of payment and fading out within a year. A marketing payment also leads physicians to begin treating cancer patients with lower expected mortality. While payments result in greater expenditure on cancer drugs, there are no associated improvements in patient mortality. </p> </blockquote></body></html></description><pubDate>2024-04-22T21:13:16</pubDate></item><item><title>Mastodon thread about Sears kit homes</title><link>https://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/31999.html</link><description><html><body><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/@sidereal/112293051206867591">Mastodon thread about Sears kit homes</a>.</p> </body></html></description><pubDate>2024-04-22T19:04:03</pubDate></item><item><title>https://doi.org/10.1111/coep.12633</title><link>https://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/31998.html</link><description><html><body><p><a href="https://ktla.com/news/college-applications-rose-in-states-that-legalized-recreational-marijuana/">College applications rose in states that legalized recreational marijuana </a></p> <p><a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/coep.12633">Contemporary Economic Policy: <cite>Higher education: The impact of recreational marijuana on college applications</cite> Christopher D. Blake, Danna Kang Thomas, Joshua Hess</a></p> <blockquote><p>Using a two-way fixed effects difference-in-differences model, we investigate the effects of local recreational marijuana (RMJ) policy changes on college applications and find that the three largest state public schools reaped, on average, an almost 54% increase in applications. This increase does not appear to come solely from low-ability students as both first and third quartiles of admitted student composite SAT scores to the largest three public schools do not decrease. Rather, they both increase by almost 3.8% though these estimates are not statistically significant. Robust difference-in-difference and event study models support the signs and magnitudes of these gains and show they diminish over time.</p> </blockquote><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/coep.12633">https://doi.org/10.1111/coep.12633</a></p> </body></html></description><pubDate>2024-04-22T17:54:12</pubDate></item><item><title>CVS pharmacy in the Petaluma</title><link>https://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/31997.html</link><description><html><body><p>The CVS pharmacy in the Petaluma Target/Kenilworth location is closed today. Presumably for 4/20 celebrations?</p> </body></html></description><pubDate>2024-04-20T18:55:02</pubDate></item><item><title>Why did it take me so long to realize</title><link>https://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/31996.html</link><description><html><body><p>Why did it take me so long to realize that Tesla is just taking "move fast and break things" a little too literally?</p> </body></html></description><pubDate>2024-04-20T06:00:13</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
