Was getting strange #dropouts via #Bluetooth (Sony) earbuds connected to my #iPhone. Read that #AppleWatch can cause this. Connected #earbuds to Apple Watch Bluetooth directly - no more dropouts! Yay! #music
Harvard dropouts to launch 'always on' AI smart glasses that listen and record every conversation | TechCrunch

After developing a facial-recognition app for Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses and doxing random people, two former Harvard students are now launching a startup that makes smart glasses with an always-on microphone.

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The ‘Tangpingist Manifesto’, Bob Black’s The Abolition of Work, David Graeber’s Bullshit Jobs, and Fernando Pessoa’s The Book of Disquiet #Chinesehippies #dropouts #refuseniks #anarchy #celibacy #weird madeinchinajournal.com/2025/08/05/o...

On Sinopessimism, or Junkies o...
On Sinopessimism, or Junkies of Futility | Made in China Journal

This essay is written precisely so that it could be dismissed. —Paul Mann (1991: 141)   Gary Zhexi Zhang (2021) first coined the term ‘Sinopessimism’ as a speculative counterpart to Afropessimism, imagining a future in which China becomes the object, rather than the subject, of global racialisation. While Zhang’s usage was primarily a thought experiment, […]

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I've been trying for six hours to find out why I'm seeing #network #dropouts every minute today in the #monitoring of my #selfhosted services. I restarted everything, rewired everything, took the server offline on a rolling basis, and so on and so forth.

At some point I realized that both, the primary and the identically configured backup instance of my #nginxproxymanager (on a different host) are online in parallel. But hey, it wasn't #DNS this time. 🤯🤬😤

🏷️ #homlab #adminlife #proxmox

Went to see if #DropoutTV had a fedi presence and instead I just found a bunch of self-described PhD #dropouts
Teaching in English Linked to Worse Results and More Drop-Outs
A Swedish study found that those taking a programming course in English, rather than their native Swedish, performed worse and had higher dropout rates, raising questions about the efficacy of English Medium Instruction (EMI) in non-English speaking countries. The study’s rigorous random assignment isolated language as the key factor influencing lower test scores and completion rates in the English-instructed group.
https://scitechdaily.com/teaching-in-english-linked-to-worse-results-and-more-drop-outs/ #RuhRo #English #language #DropOuts #education
Teaching in English Linked to Worse Results and More Drop-Outs

A new study from KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden indicates that employing English for teaching in higher education can significantly hinder learning outcomes if the students are not native English speakers. This was evident when 2,000 Swedish student

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Florida is going great! #Florida #DeSantis #Education #DropOuts

Highest drop out rate in Florida college’s history fueled by DeSantis’ 'censorship' https://www.alternet.org/drop-out-rate-desantis-censorship/

Highest drop out rate in Florida college’s history fueled by DeSantis’ 'censorship': report

A Florida college reported this week it has seen "27 percent of its student body drop out" since Florida governor and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Ron Desantis' recent takeover, marking "the lowest retention rate of first year students in" the University of South Florida's Sarasota campus'...

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New #ReproducibilityCertification:

Aux-Drop: Handling Haphazard Inputs in Online Learning Using Auxiliary Dropouts

Rohit Agarwal, Deepak Gupta, Alexander Horsch, Dilip K. Prasad

https://openreview.net/forum?id=R9CgBkeZ6Z

#dropouts #dropout #feature

Aux-Drop: Handling Haphazard Inputs in Online Learning Using...

Many real-world applications based on online learning produce streaming data that is haphazard in nature, i.e., contains missing features, features becoming obsolete in time, the appearance of new...

OpenReview

Aux-Drop: Handling Haphazard Inputs in Online Learning Using Auxiliary Dropouts

Rohit Agarwal, Deepak Gupta, Alexander Horsch, Dilip K. Prasad

Action editor: Gang Niu.

https://openreview.net/forum?id=R9CgBkeZ6Z

#dropouts #dropout #feature

Aux-Drop: Handling Haphazard Inputs in Online Learning Using...

Many real-world applications based on online learning produce streaming data that is haphazard in nature, i.e., contains missing features, features becoming obsolete in time, the appearance of new...

OpenReview

Aux-Drop: Handling Haphazard Inputs in Online Learning Using Auxiliary Dropouts

https://openreview.net/forum?id=R9CgBkeZ6Z

#dropouts #dropout #feature

Aux-Drop: Handling Haphazard Inputs in Online Learning Using...

Many real-world applications based on online learning produce streaming data that is haphazard in nature, i.e., contains missing features, features becoming obsolete in time, the appearance of new...

OpenReview