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- The Startling Evidence on Learning Loss Is In https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/18/opinion/pandemic-school-learning-loss.html 2 comments
- Covid learning loss has been a global disaster https://www.economist.com/international/2022/07/07/covid-learning-loss-has-been-a-global-disaster 155 comments
- Learning Apps Outstrip School Oversight, and Loss of Student Privacy Is at Risk http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/12/technology/learning-apps-outstrip-school-oversight-and-student-privacy-is-among-the-risks.html?ref=technology 9 comments
- Summer Learning Loss http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2009/05/summer-learning-loss.php 3 comments
- Democrats have learned nothing from their election loss https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5044160-democratic-party-leadership-accountability/ 101 comments politics
- Please share any resource for learning Consumer&Producer Surplus; Externalities; Efficiency loss from underproduction&Overproduction. Having a hard time understanding it. https://example.com/ 2 comments economics
- [Denton] Oliver Marmol, who led the #STLCards to a 93-win season in 2022 but was at the helm of a 91-loss season in 2023, has signed a contract extension with the #STLCards, MLB .com learned today. The official announcement will come within the hour. https://x.com/johndenton555/status/1768684810287878336?s=46&t=eZQOkEBzAB8XR0_j5bQcHg 133 comments baseball
- Hawaii Student Recovery From Pandemic Learning Loss ‘Exceptional’ Analysis Finds https://www.civilbeat.org/beat/hawaii-student-recovery-from-pandemic-learning-loss-exceptional-analysis-finds/ 2 comments politics
- Tony Ferguson on getting knocked out by Michael Chandler: “Right away, I knew I couldn’t dwell on it. S--- happens. You take a loss, you learn from up, you get the f--- back up, and do it again” https://www.si.com/mma/2022/09/08/ufc-279-preview-mma-next-day-fight-routine-tony-ferguson-israel-adesanya-ufc 101 comments mma
- Students from low-income families are increasingly isolated in the nation’s schools, complicating efforts to remedy ‘learning loss’ during the pandemic, study finds https://gse.berkeley.edu/news/students-low-income-families-are-increasingly-isolated-nation%E2%80%99s-schools-complicating-efforts 91 comments science
- [Clyde 1 Superscoreboard] Motherwell manager Graham Alexander after today’s loss to Celtic; “We should’ve had one at Ibrox, we should’ve had one against Aberdeen, we should’ve had one here. I’m learning very quickly that it’s easy to give a penalty against us, very difficult to give one for us…” https://twitter.com/ClydeSSB/status/1449417440463577089?s=20 10 comments soccer
- Today I learned that with Sidney Crosby in the lineup, Team Canada has not lost a game since the round robin loss to the U.S. at the 2010 Olympics https://www.reddit.com/r/hockey/comments/lon68n/today_i_learned_that_with_sidney_crosby_in_the/ 21 comments hockey
- This is how we lost control of our faces - The largest ever study of facial-recognition data shows how much the rise of deep learning has fueled a loss of privacy. https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/02/05/1017388/ai-deep-learning-facial-recognition-data-history/ 82 comments privacy
- This is how we lost control of our faces - The largest ever study of facial-recognition data shows how much the rise of deep learning has fueled a loss of privacy. https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/02/05/1017388/ai-deep-learning-facial-recognition-data-history/ 4 comments technology
- ME LIKEY NIKE or: How I Learned to Cut Losses on GME and Deploy Capital Elsewhere Effectively https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/ldiqx9/me_likey_nike_or_how_i_learned_to_cut_losses_on/ 15 comments wallstreetbets
- One-termers: What Trump can learn from Carter and Bush's re-election losses https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/527867-one-termers-what-trump-can-learn-from-carter-and-bushs-re-election-losses 42 comments politics
- Sleep loss hijacks brain’s activity during learning. Getting only half a night’s sleep, as many medical workers and military personnel often do, hijacks the brain’s ability to unlearn fear-related memories. It might put people at greater risk of conditions such as anxiety and PTSD https://www.elsevier.com/about/press-releases/research-and-journals/sleep-loss-hijacks-brains-activity-during-learning 807 comments science
- Watching more than two hours of TV per day or using a computer for more than one hour a day at 8–9 years of age predicted a 12-point lower performance in reading at 10–11 years, equivalent to the loss of a third of a year in learning. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0237908 7 comments science
- High resolution visualization of the impact of learning rate variation on the loss landscape https://youtu.be/QeViLO0pU1I 5 comments deeplearning
- I don't know much about video editing. I just kinda learned as I went along, but I made this tribute to show that subs all across reddit coming together to help pay their respects and help each other mourn the loss of a cultural icon. https://streamable.com/jiyat 4 comments nba
- What Vancouver Canucks star Elias Pettersson learned from the loss of his closest childhood friends — and the fight to get them back https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/elias-pettersson-vancouver-canucks-deportation-big-read/?fbclid=iwar1nncurdsyc4wt3rhegf-cixwk-myj7k_uw_zfpmd7ohdjbhz2naugsctw 15 comments hockey
- Most Americans think Trump is a successful businessman. Until they learn about his losses. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2019/05/15/trump-business-success-poll/3677609002/ 96 comments politics
- "KataGo: Accelerating Self-Play Learning in Go", Wu 2019 [adding auxiliary losses, exploration tweaks, global pooling, for much greater compute-efficiency in training to human-level] https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.10565 3 comments reinforcementlearning
- My university requires us to learn programming, I missed out many of the starter classes and I'm at a complete loss now. Does anyone know where I can find the necessary resources to catch up? https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/9wqda5/my_university_requires_us_to_learn_programming_i/ 5 comments learnprogramming
- Serena Williams learned half-sister's killer was freed just before shock loss to Konta https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/aug/16/serena-williams-jo-konta-yetunde-price 16 comments tennis
- How can a broad bid ask spread "lock me in" at my stop loss? Help a summerfag. I'm just doing some learning. https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/5vso2m/comment/de52oax?st=JHDQP419&sh=2cc638c0 10 comments wallstreetbets
- Tom Brady: Emotions felt from Super Bowl loss 'are all part of learning and growing in this journey of life' http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000915694/article/tom-brady-super-bowl-loss-was-a-learning-experience 196 comments nfl
- An artificial intelligence (AI) agent based on a machine learning algorithm was able to identify congenital cataracts, a rare eye disease responsible for 10% of all vision loss in children worldwide, with accuracies exceeding 90%, putting it on par with individual human ophthalmologists. http://motherboard.vice.com/read/ai-matches-docs-in-diagnosing-rare-eye-condition 7 comments science
- Skill Loss (Learning to Code Again) https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/50lsmw/skill_loss_learning_to_code_again/ 6 comments learnprogramming
- Fans really need to learn how to handle losses better. No excuses for this. http://dailysnark.com/patriots-fans-go-kicker-steven-gostkowski-twitter-postgame-missing-extra-point/ 28 comments nfl
- Teen brain scans show weight loss tied to "executive function," which can be learned http://news.byu.edu/archive15-feb-teenmri.aspx 33 comments science
- Almost Half of Republicans Indulge the 'Stolen Election' Delusion. A party that cannot take responsibility for its losses cannot learn from them. http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/12/almost-half-of-republicans-indulge-the-stolen-election-delusion/265949/ 663 comments politics
- Corporations have learned how to take bad news in stride, write down losses, and move on, but our governments have not. Evictions merely create more homeless people and more vacant homes. What is needed is a quick write-down of the value of the mortgages. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/sep/09/us-housing-crisis-policies 3 comments politics
- Facial expressions are innate, not learned: New study finds that blind athletes' facial expressions after a victory or loss are identical to those of sighted athletes. http://www.disaboom.com/blogs/saydrah/archive/2008/12/30/certain-facial-expressions-are-innate-blind-athletes-display-quot-winning-quot-smile-after-victories.aspx 71 comments science
- Researchers find that students made little or no progress while learning from home due to the school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic. Learning loss was most pronounced among students from disadvantaged homes. https://www.pnas.org/content/118/17/e2022376118 466 comments science
- The lesson of JPMorgan’s stunning $2 billion trading loss is that the banks haven’t learned their lesson, and neither have the politicians http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/12/opinion/jpmorgan-chases-2-billion-loss.html 41 comments politics
- [Ted Nguyen - The Athletic] With his loss of quickness, Russell Wilson has to learn how to play the game like he’s never played it before. But the more you watch him, the more it looks like the Broncos made a $245m mistake. https://twitter.com/FB_FilmAnalysis/status/1596127114285109248?s=20&t=r_kiUNi6hK2z5IyQf3Pcbw 2 comments nfl
- Researchers find that students made little or no progress while learning from home during COVID-19 lockdowns. Learning loss was most pronounced among students from disadvantaged homes. https://www.pnas.org/content/118/17/e2022376118 19 comments science
- School closures in the last year have led to serious learning losses, with primary-age school pupils making virtually no progress studying at home, according to researchers at the University of Oxford. Learning losses were particularly pronounced in families with low levels of education. https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2021-04-08-children-learned-little-or-nothing-during-school-closures-despite-online-learning 3 comments science
- What the U.S. Left Can Learn From the Labour Party’s Epic Loss. Liberal pundits say the lesson is that Democrats shouldn’t move left. They’re wrong. http://inthesetimes.com/article/22220/labour-party-jeremy-corbyn-boris-johnson-uk-brexit-bernie-sanders-left/ 59 comments politics