6 October 2023
This editorial is bonkers. It criticizes Kaiser for controlling medical costs … and tries to use the Kaiser experience as just another reason why ‘single-payer’ does not work.
Single-payer healthcare only works until the reality of rationing bites.
Have they tried to get a referral from United Healthcare lately? Traditional healthcare insurance rations to preserve profits. Business rations resources to make their numbers. Which principle is WSJ applying?
If you thought local news was dead, this opinion piece argues otherwise. Whether this evidence indicates a trend is debatable. However, local news is important for the future of our republic.
I had just finished reading a Bloomberg Headline Story noting that their economists were predicting 160,000 new Jobs in September – a slow down in jobs production. Just as I finished, the numbers were released – 336,000 new jobs.
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Scientific American article discusses the energy requirements for AI via an interview of Alex de Cries, a data scientist and Ph.D. candidate studying the energy costs of emerging technologies. He suggests that sustainability of AI should be included as a
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Intel is not making delivery commitments for new supercomputer at Argonne. Energy Department has 10 companies engaged in a research center focused on quantum computing. Jesus pointed out that power corrupts – remember the temptations? OpEd written by former Liberty student
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One of my first tasks in state government was to review the plans and progress for Y2K upgrades — some $320 million spread across 2 dozen agencies. The State CIO developed a simple system of measuring momentum and progress —
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The End of Big: How the Internet Makes David the New Goliath (Hardcover) http://www.politics-prose.com/book/9781250021854
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From David Warlick’s blog on teaching and learning — a thought-provoking essay (wait, I am redundant), an essay discussing the utilities of a textbook. Lots of ideas that may provoke many more essays, hopefully to learn why we use texts, how
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Seems like yesterday, I lifted Caiti up to place the star on the family Christmas tree. Now she enters the blogosphere, and writes about her fear of heights and why she writes. Dave Winer discusses the power of writing as it
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Three articles — focused on San Jose’s project to use MOOCs…. California State U. Will Experiment With Offering Credit for MOOCs Courses in the pilot project are aimed at high-school students and students enrolled at community colleges in the state.
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Good read Teaching a MOOC: Lessons Learned & Best Balch Practices
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no time to talk — bunch of books here you will want to check out
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Searls provides arguments supporting the idea that people want lists, not stories. Are outlines a good way to present arguments, lessons, so that students can see the connection, the logic, supporting the arguments?
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Found floating thru my twitter stream, Mr. Boyd discusses “Speculative Design.” Worth the read. Some quotes of interest: Jeff Hammerbacher’s observation that ‘the best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads’. So, if
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