Texas Rejected Alpha’s Charter. Its Education Agency Helped Alpha Reach Public Schools Anyway
Texas’s education board rejected Alpha School’s proposed charter on June 27, 2025. Afterward, Education Commissioner Mike Morath and his agency…
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The Flynn Effect Has Slowed and in Some Places Reversed
The Flynn Effect is the long-run rise in average scores on standardized cognitive tests over the 20th century, and the…
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AI in Healthcare Won’t Replace Doctors: It Will Judge Them
The loudest fear about AI in healthcare is straightforward: software gets good enough, and doctors start getting replaced. The evidence…
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Zero-Shot World Models Attack AI’s Data Bottleneck
Most vision models get good by seeing absurd amounts of data. Zero-shot world models are interesting because they try a…
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Empirical Research in Machine Learning Ended Math’s Monopoly
A theorem-first paper and an ablation-heavy systems paper can now describe the same model class and leave with very different…
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AI-Generated Interview Ethics: Why Disclosure Is Not Enough
The strangest thing about Esquire Singapore’s Mackenyu piece is not the sentence, “The following interview was produced with Claude, Copilot,…
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Rebuttal Experiments Are Breaking Peer Review Right Now
A lot of people in AI quietly agree on one thing about rebuttal experiments: they make their papers better. More…
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AI-Native Graduates: Why Reddit’s Hiring Shift Is a Signal
In a recent podcast, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said the company will “go heavy on new grads” because “they’re so…
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ChatGPT vs Chegg: The Day Answers Went Free
In 2021, a physics PhD grading problem sets at midnight could open Chegg and watch the questions flow like a…
