timbroderick.bsky.social
Data and viz, Modern Healthcare, but views here are mine and don't reflect MH. Anyway, I don’t post much. You’re welcome.
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Just wait. @cakechicago.bsky.social is at the Irish American Heritage Center this year, and the pub there is something special!
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If I recall, they even added the comparison of school test scores to the % of kids eligible for free or reduced lunches, after I did it first :)
That project is offline now, but i saved the initial report here github.com/timbroderick...
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As you said, it’s not as simple as this, but once I saw the stratification of test scores by poverty level, it’s impossible for me to not see school “quality” through this prism
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When I took the time to look at this years ago, I focused on the relation between the % of students in a school eligible for free or reduced lunches and state test scores. Then we compared schools in the state with similar %s
github.com/timbroderick...
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You can start here
www.illinoisreportcard.com/Default.aspx
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I think one reason is the ISBE’s report card did so much
www.illinoisreportcard.com/Default.aspx
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The biggest problem is lack of support for local news after advertising and classifieds were take over by online giants.
There are always good reasons to cancel a subscription, but in this case the publication was blindsided by a vendor (Hearst and King Features!)
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FWIW
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To be more specific, the NYT isn't going to charge an AI company the $1 a week for access to everything that they would charge an individual subscriber.
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The point here, in case you're missing it, is that merchants can set prices based on the customer - and an individual purchasing one thing and an AI company purchasing one thing are way different. The merchant should have an opportunity to set a fair price based on the customer.
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I thought you'd have better replies. My mistake. Anyway, I do encourage you to look more deeply into this. The fact that companies have made deals to get paid to allow AI companies to scrape their content, and AI companies are paying to do that, makes this far more complex than your analogy.
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You know, you're able to be more thoughtful than this. I'm not going to engage with this kind of dialogue.
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They're simply different entities able to apply different resources which has been demonstrated in history as requiring different legal frameworks to manage.
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It's like trying to equate a single person cutting down a tree then using some of the wood themselves and selling some of it, with a company cutting down a forest on an industrial scale.
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There are volumes of legal challenges out there, I encourage you to look into.
Your specific analogy of human actors learning from human-created works fails simply because of scale and practice. No human is able to ingest the enormous amount of data and process it the way these companies have.
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That is not the argument
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There may not be a documented quid pro quo, which would make this technically not bribery, but as a signal for corruption it definitely matters.
Plus all the constitutional stuff about not accepting gifts etc
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I think it's the use of the word "corruption" instead of "bribery" that's confusing things. Bribery is a form of corruption, but corruption in and of itself is not necessarily illegal.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrupt...
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4/But that doesnt mean that the China tariffs dont hurt. Even at 30 percent, they will still cause unnecessary inflation. See modeling of just a 20 precent Tariff.
budgetlab.yale.edu/research/fis...
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Reports differ, can you confirm? Cubs or White Sox fan?
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Evergreen skeet