Prior research suggests that parents will rate highly the importance of these activities [11]. Three, how confident are parents to support their children’s learning in these four academic subjects and does it differ by subject or children’s grade? Again, consistent with research with parents ...
Nicholas Fiveboroughs is a Sicko, someone that takes on others’ illnesses. In a city where diseases can be transferred, the rich buy longer lives without pain, and the poor get a short life of constant sickness. Maybe it was fate, or maybe someone is looking out for him, but after Nic...
The “witches” or apotropaic marks — believed to protect against witches or evil spirits — and other ritual carvings were found at Gainsborough Old Hall in Lincolnshire in eastern England.They were discovered during two years of research by Rick Berry, a volunteer for English Heritage, the or...
Furthermore, for people trying to sort out their actual branch in the tree, the Big Y-700 test is MUCH MORE reliable than the earlier STR (short tandem repeat) tests that are prone to random and back mutations. At one time, STR tests were all that was available, but now, SNPs ha...
Over the past few weekends I have been experimenting with large language models (LLMs) that I can configure, fine tune and run on consumer grade hardware. By that, I mean something that will run on an old Intel i5 system with a Nvidia GTX 1060 GPU. Yes, it is a dinosaur by today’...
I asked students to move. We’d have two zones in the classroom, an “active” zone in which I’d expect students to interact with me and with each other, and an “inactive” zone, in which I’d have no such expectation. I made clear that there was no grade advantage or penalty ...
by Judith Curry How the duality of yin-yang can illuminate the climate debate and enlighten transformational research. Ok, this is something different, I hope you will find it interesting. A little known JC fact is that my main hobby is Tai Chi. I am v
“Chuck Esposito, a genial, quick-witted and thoroughly sports-fixated man who runs the race and sports book at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas,” which in turn reminded of the punchline of that joke from grade school: “Hey, man, the smartest guy in the world just jumped out of the ...
we created three broad categories of quality measurement: low, medium and high. For both the theoretical and empirical studies, an overall percentage grade of: i) 0–40% was classified as low quality; ii) 41–70% was classified as medium/middle-quality; and iii) 71–100% was classified ...
No, I’m not referring to the gold foil stars you might have earned in grade school (though it could be argued that stickers are indeed a reward for kids). For adults, rewards can be things like money, social status, social connections, sex, and food. When you getpromoted at workor ...