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DrWebOpinion | UC San Diego report: Incoming students are not ready for college – The Washington Post
The signs of educational decline are now impossible to ignore
UC San Diego report shows students are not prepared for college, especially in math.
November 23, 2025, 5 min
Some years ago, during a dinner party, our smoke detector started beeping while we were broiling steaks. I dashed into the hallway and poked at the detector with a broom, which paused, as if surprised, then resumed wailing. My husband came out of the kitchen and had a go. His more muscular attention bought us perhaps 30 seconds of relief, but the machine recovered and more aggressively assaulted our ears. Eventually we pulled the cursed thing out of its frame and ripped the batteries out.
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That’s when one of our guests said, “Guys, that’s really a lot of smoke.” It sure was, because as it turned out, our bathroom was on fire (thanks to a candle).
Life is full of these messy signals. Prices are a signal. They tell us how much people want stuff, how much that stuff costs to produce and how much of it we have available. Standardized test scores are signs, telling us whether kids have mastered certain skills. Those warnings are, like my smoke alarm, highly imperfect. (We’ve had many alerts and exactly one fire.) But they contain vital information, and we ignore them at our peril.
Unfortunately, because these signals are messy, we are often tempted to ignore them, especially when the information they contain is bad news, like “your bathroom is on fire,” or “your schools are failing to close persistent racial and income gaps,” or “regulations have made it too hard to build new housing.” Ideally you’d extinguish the fire or fix your failing schools or amend the regulations before the problem worsens. But solving problems is hard, and in politics, it often involves taking on well-organized constituencies that will wave away the smoke and insist that everything is just fine. So institutions often choose to disregard the underlying issues and simply whack the alarm with a hammer until it stops beeping.
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There has been a lot of that going on recently, most notably in education. Instead of rectifying disparities in preparation and achievement, people decided it would be simpler to adjust the measurements. Parents opposed standardized testing, got their kids disability diagnoses that allowed them extra time on tests and lobbied teachers to change bad grades. Exhausted teachers responded with grade inflation, which also helped conceal that low-income and minority kids weren’t doing as well as their richer and White peers. Progressive educators watered down curriculums, gutted gifted and talented programs, and weakened admissions standards for honors classes and magnet schools. Colleges dropped standardized testing requirements, in part because that made it easier to diversify their student body. None of these things happened everywhere, but they happened in many places, and all of them made it harder to see — or rectify — pandemic-era learning loss.
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Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋**UC San Diego Review of Senate-Administration Workgroup Report on Admissions**
"_Between 2020 and 2025, the number of students whose math skills fall below high school level increased nearly thirtyfold; moreover, 70% of those students fall below middle school levels, reaching roughly one in twelve members of the entering cohort._"
Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻💻🧬#American #Kids Can’t Do #Math Anymore
Five years ago, about 30 incoming freshmen at #UCSanDiego arrived with math skills below #highschool level. Now, according to a recent report from #UC San Diego faculty and administrators, that number is more than 900—and most of those students don’t fully meet #middleschool math standards.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/11/math-decline-ucsd/684973/
https://archive.ph/GmtF1
Five years ago, about 30 incoming freshmen at #UCSanDiego arrived with math skills below #highschool level. Now, according to a recent report from #UC San Diego faculty and administrators, that number is more than 900—and most of those students don’t fully meet #middleschool math standards.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/11/math-decline-ucsd/684973/
https://archive.ph/GmtF1
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Krzysztof KołaczNowe badania Apple: roboty uczą się działać, oglądając świat oczami ludzi
Apple, we współpracy z MIT, Carnegie Mellon i innymi uczelniami, zaprezentowało nowy sposób trenowania humanoidalnych robotów.
W projekcie „Humanoid Policy ∼ Human Policy” roboty uczą się, analizując nagrania z perspektywy pierwszej osoby, zebrane za pomocą Apple Vision Pro.
Naukowcy stworzyli zbiór danych PH2D, zawierający ponad 25 tys. ludzkich i 1,5 tys. robotycznych demonstracji manipulacji obiektami. Dzięki temu udało się wytrenować jeden, uniwersalny model AI, który może sterować humanoidalnym robotem w rzeczywistym świecie.
Zamiast kosztownych i czasochłonnych sesji teleoperacyjnych, dane zebrano z pomocą aplikacji na Apple Vision Pro, wykorzystującej kamerę i technologię ARKit do śledzenia ruchu głowy i dłoni. Dla tańszej alternatywy badacze zaprojektowali też uchwyt na kamerę ZED Mini, kompatybilny np. z Meta Quest 3.
Dodatkowo, by dopasować tempo ruchów ludzi do możliwości robotów, nagrania spowolniono czterokrotnie na etapie trenowania.
Apple stworzyło urokliwą lampę-robota!
Sercem projektu jest HAT – model AI, który uczy się na podstawie wspólnego formatu danych od ludzi i robotów. Zamiast oddzielnie analizować każdy typ źródła, HAT tworzy jedną uniwersalną „politykę działania”, co pozwala robotom lepiej radzić sobie z nowymi zadaniami.
Badanie otwiera nowe możliwości w dziedzinie robotyki i pokazuje potencjał integracji technologii Apple w automatyzacji przyszłości. Więcej szczegółów tutaj.
Więcej na temat robotów — nie tylko tych humanoidalnych, ale i przemysłowych — także w kontekście AI, usłyszysz w nowym odcinku mojego podcastu „Bo czemu nie?”.
#AI #Apple #AppleVisionPro #ARKit #badaniaApple #egocentryczneNagrania #HAT #HumanActionTransformer #humanoidalneRoboty #innowacje2025 #MetaQuest3 #MIT #PH2D #podcast #robotyka #sztucznaInteligencja #technologiaApple #UCSanDiego
Scientists Discover Hidden Cause of Alzheimer’s Hiding in Plain Sight – SciTechDaily
A new study by UC San Diego researchers has shown that the gene PHGDH, once considered only a biomarker for Alzheimer’s, actually plays a direct causal role by disrupting gene regulation in the brain through a newly discovered, non-enzymatic function. Using AI, they identified a drug candidate, NCT-503, that targets this “moonlighting” function and significantly slowed Alzheimer’s progression in mouse models. Credit: SciTechDaily.comHealth
Scientists Discover Hidden Cause of Alzheimer’s Hiding in Plain Sight
By University of California – San DiegoMay 10, 2025, 9 Comments, 7 Mins Read
A new study by UC San Diego researchers has shown that the gene PHGDH, once considered only a biomarker for Alzheimer’s, actually plays a direct causal role by disrupting gene regulation in the brain through a newly discovered, non-enzymatic function. Using AI, they identified a drug candidate, NCT-503, that targets this “moonlighting” function and significantly slowed Alzheimer’s progression in mouse models. Credit: SciTechDaily.com
Researchers found the PHGDH gene directly causes Alzheimer’s and discovered a drug-like molecule, NCT-503, that may help treat the disease early by targeting the gene’s hidden function.
A recent study has revealed that a gene previously identified as a biomarker for Alzheimer’s disease is not just a marker, it is a direct cause of the disease. Researchers at the University of California, San Diego discovered that the gene plays a previously unrecognized secondary role that actively drives the development of Alzheimer’s. Using artificial intelligence, the team was able to uncover this hidden function and identify a potential therapeutic strategy to block the gene’s harmful activity.
The findings were published on April 23 in the journal Cell.
Alzheimer’s disease affects approximately one in nine people aged 65 and older, making it the most common form of dementia. Although certain genetic mutations are known to cause Alzheimer’s, these cases represent only a small fraction of the total. Most individuals with Alzheimer’s do not carry mutations in any of the established disease-causing genes. These sporadic or “spontaneous” cases have long puzzled scientists, as their underlying causes remain largely unknown.
Read more: Scientists Discover Hidden Cause of Alzheimer’s Hiding in Plain Sight – SciTechDailySource Links: Scientists Discover Hidden Cause of Alzheimer’s Hiding in Plain Sight
#AlzheimerS #CausesDisease #Cell #Disease #Health #Science #SciTechDaily #UCSanDiego
Gabriel Morency 🤖Tritons +2
Wolverines - 2
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#Michigan open as - 3.5 faves vs #UCSanDiego
PCI’ve been following the #ParkFire a couple hours north of me. Our #SierraNevada mountains are a laboratory for fire management.
I didn’t realize how many #cameras are now spread across the state.
#UCSanDiego has quite a program.