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[franks_3111 @franks_3111]

@TPCarney His account didn’t post the animation.

“…we brought it to life” was a clue.

[franks_3111 @franks_3111]

@EWErickson The time for slippery slope arguments was 30 years ago when Rs greenlit subsidizing childcare labor.

But, current R policy of “childcare labor is only worth subsidizing as long as parents aren’t the ones providing it” is perverse.

End it or stop discriminating against parents.

[franks_3111 @franks_3111]

@marctshort @DonnyFerguson “and now”

Rs greenlit the program over 30 years ago.

[Legal Insurrection @LegInsurrection]

An illegal alien fled during a targeted ICE operation and crashed into a Tesla with the wife of East Brunswick Mayor Brad Cohen.

Republicans are furious at New Jersey Democratic Gov. Mikie Sherrill for limiting cooperation with local and federal law enforcement.

https://t.co/WXSbjkkvqK

[Sensurround @ShamashAran]

I think having early voting, in person, is a good compromise to eliminate any need for mail-in voting at all.

Limit it to a week or two of early voting, if that makes it more agreeable to fully eliminate mail in voting, i'd consider it a win.

(Only exceptions would be for overseas military. And even then, we need a better system for them)

[franks_3111 @franks_3111]

@nicksortor It’s a state case???

WTH is talking about?

[Chris Hinkle @TheChrisHinkle]

I was a young FBI Special Agent in the FBI Washington Field Office on 09/11/2001. I spent several days working the "Rubble Pile" at the Pentagon. I pulled a lot of plane parts out of the pile.

[Haseeb Qureshi ＞|＜ @hosseeb]

You're missing the core drama of the story: Tristan is softly accusing OpenAI of having stolen their result from Codex chat logs.

Tristan then claims OpenAI tried to threaten him to not publicly disclose this, and that they'd give him the Clay Prize ($1M) as the "closest humans to the problem" if he'd agree to disavow his co-author, @__alpoge__ , who is at Anthropic.

This is HBO-level drama, but with math proofs.

[Nayib Bukele @nayibbukele]

A few days ago, I shared the World Bank’s summary of the results of the PISA for Schools assessment conducted in 171 Salvadoran public schools participating in our education pilot.

Since then, I have seen some legitimate questions about what these results mean, as well as some claims about what they supposedly don’t mean.

So let’s be very precise.

First, what we NEVER claimed:

1. We never claimed these results represent the national average.

They don’t.

This was not the national PISA assessment.

It was PISA for Schools, conducted specifically in the 171 public schools participating in our pilot program.

That is precisely why my original post said:

“These are the results of our pilot program, which includes AI tutors and has been running in 171 public schools for just over a year.”

A pilot is, by definition, not the entire country.

2. We never claimed that these 171 schools were a statistically representative sample of every school in El Salvador.

They weren’t selected randomly from all Salvadoran schools.

They were selected to participate in the pilot because they were schools where the program could initially be implemented more easily: they had certain basic infrastructure and connectivity requirements, and school communities capable and willing to implement a new educational model.

That creates a selection effect, and it should be acknowledged.

But there is an important distinction here.

These schools were NOT selected because their students had exceptional academic results.

They were not our “best schools.” Not even close.

We didn’t search the country for the highest-performing schools or students and then test them.

They are normal Salvadoran public schools, urban and rural, in different parts of the country, serving ordinary Salvadoran families.

And the characteristics that made implementation easier: connectivity, infrastructure, trained teachers and willingness to adopt the program, are also things that can be replicated in other schools.

They are not innate characteristics of the students.

We can install connectivity.

We can improve infrastructure.

We can train teachers.

We can provide the same technology.

We can deploy the same educational tools.

In fact, that is exactly what we are doing.

3. These results also do NOT prove that AI tutors, by themselves, caused the improvement, although we believe they are a MAJOR part of these results.

Our pilot is broader than that.

It includes changes in teaching, support for teachers and principals, educational materials, monitoring and evaluation, technology, and AI tools, among other interventions.

Our AI tutors and learning platforms are being developed with @grok, @Kira_Learning, and support from I Hate Flying Bugs.

And the broader transformation of our education system is being supported by the @WorldBankGroup, @AgendaCAF, and @el_BID.

All of these interventions can also affect student motivation and engagement.

But that distinction matters: if students become more motivated BECAUSE of the program, that is not necessarily a flaw in the program or an explanation that somehow invalidates the results.

It may be one of the ways the program works.

The same applies to teachers.

For example, the implementation of the AI tutors, including the requirement for teachers to log in and out of the system, coincided with teacher attendance in these schools increasing from 76% to 97%.

If the program causes teachers to attend school more consistently, and that in turn helps students learn more, that is not an advantage that disappears when we scale the program.

It is potentially part of the intervention itself.

Of course, to scientifically isolate the causal effect of AI tutors, teacher attendance, student motivation, technology, training, or any other individual component would require a different experimental design.

Now, what DO these results tell us?

1. They tell us that 1,198 students in 171 ordinary Salvadoran public schools… 🧵1/2👇🏼

[The Associated Press @AP]

A wave of attacks by the Iranian-backed Houthis on Saudi Arabia has wounded 73 people, Saudi authorities say. https://t.co/4tOOzZ0cVD

[Scott Walker @ScottWalker]

A capitalist deserves credit for the 5-day, 40-hour work week. Henry Ford conducted studies and found that working more than 40 hours a week did not increase output as workers who were tired were more likely to make mistakes and worked slower. The studies also found that the shorter hours reduced the high turnover of workers on the assembly lines. Finally, he believed that giving workers more free time and pay would encourage them to buy Ford cars. It worked. 

On May 1, 1926, the Ford Motor Company officially shifted to a 5-day, 40-hour schedule for workers at their factory without reducing their compensation. A business entrepreneur led the way - not a government bureaucrat. The Fair Labor Standards Act did not happen until 1938. Yet another example of how leaders in free markets are ahead of the government.

[Michael Brendan Dougherty @michaelbd]

His most fervent supporters think he’s lying about all this.

[Sachin Jose @Sachinettiyil]

An incredible 234 people are taking part in OCIA at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church in Dallas, Texas, as they discern their call to become Catholic

Many parishes and university Newman Centers across the country are reporting record numbers of people participating in OCIA this year

[PoIiMath @politicalmath]

California fined a church $1.2 million for violating lockdown protocol. The fine was upheld by a California appellate court just last year.

[Affordability Crisis @trackingcosts]

Funny how 5 of the 10 richest counties in America happen to be the suburbs of Washington, DC. A city that manufactures nothing, exports nothing, and somehow gets richer every year. Wonder where all that money comes from.

[Not the Bee @Not_the_Bee]

Muslim police chief of Detroit suburb told his subordinates that wife-beating isn’t a “formal” criminal offense https://t.co/Rx2vNuGIwS

[franks_3111 @franks_3111]

@DefiyantlyFree “without work requirements attached”

On the one hand, govt acknowledges childcare is labor that needs to be paid and is the purpose of the program.

On the other hand, govt will pay anyone but the parent to perform that labor.

Make it make sense.

[franks_3111 @franks_3111]

@WillRicci “Govt acknowledges that childcare is labor that needs to be paid and we’ll help with that as long as it’s not YOU. If you’re single, it comes with the added bonus that you’ll likely be kicked off if you ever marry.”

What a perverse system. WTH were they thinking?

[Wilfred Reilly @wil_da_beast630]

Why doesn't mainstream media do this type of thing, today?

[franks_3111 @franks_3111]

@ShamashAran Canceling it would be better than disincentivizing marriage which the current program does.