Use existing authorities to expand the ability of highly skilled immigrants and nonimmigrants with expertise in critical areas to study, stay, and work in the United States by modernizing and streamlining visa criteria, interviews, and reviews.
Yes! Gotta put all of those military-age unaccompanied male savages pouring across the southern border to work on artificial intelligence! That’ll show those Chinese!
Accelerate the rapid hiring of AI professionals as part of a government-wide AI talent surge led by the Office of Personnel Management, U.S. Digital Service, U.S. Digital Corps, and Presidential Innovation Fellowship. Agencies will provide AI training for employees at all levels in relevant fields.
“U.S. Digital Corps”—really? I guess they’re like the Marines, except with GPUs instead of rifles.
The White House press release header shows an image of the White House with a bat flying around it. Wonder whose belfry that escaped from?
Geniuses, these arty types are. Because of this installation, the museum’s Autumn season was cancelled by the Egyptian authorities (Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities), who considered its blatant racism an affront to Egypt and Egyptians.
The exhibition closed a week ago, but there may well be longer-term residual damage.
Not sure when the field season can be rescheduled.
The microwave V band, with frequencies between 50 and 75 GHz (wavelengths of 4–6 mm) is being developed for high bandwidth communications using satellites in low Earth orbit. In 2020, SpaceX received a license from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to operate 12,000 satellites using frequencies in this band.
… provides a collection of interactive personality tests with detailed results that can be taken for personal entertainment or to learn more about personality assessment. These tests range from very serious and widely used scientific instruments popular psychology to self produced quizzes. A special focus is given to the strengths, weaknesses and validity of the various systems.
Included is the:
Statistical “Which Character” Personality Quiz: This tool will compare your answers to a database of 2,000 fictional characters. The database is made by crowd-sourcing ratings of the characters, and the goal is to match people to characters they will agree are similar to them using techniques from recommendation engines. There also is a peer report version, which is even more advanced. And a version for couples.
Here is a description of the quiz:
When the creator of this website would tell people that he published personality tests on the internet, people would usually ask him if he meant that he worked at BuzzFeed on their “Which character are you?” personality quizzes. And he would have to explain that he did not and had never been very interested in that style of test. These quizzes are very fun, as evidenced by their extreme popularity. But they are not that meaningful, two people who get the same result on a typical example of these tests don’t necessarily have much more in common than two randomly paired individuals. So for the longest time this website had not one character match personality quiz, but I guess it was inevitable because here is an attempt at a slightly more scientific, but still silly, “Which Character Are You?” test.
This test was created by getting more than 3 million volunteers to describe characters on a variety of different adjective based scales. This created a database of descriptions for 2,000 characters. A user’s self ratings are compared against these profiles and the closest match is found. The documentation on how this quiz works and was developed can be found here.
The linked documentation is very detailed and worth reading if you’re interested in such matters.
To try it for yourself, go to the Statistical “Which Character” Personality Quiz page, scroll to the bottom, select the test version (“Recommended—36 questions” is the default), and click “Begin assessment”. If you find the results amusing, post them as a reply to this comment.
Beginning with a case in Florida in February 2023, voters and advocacy groups have brought many Section 3 challenges in state and federal courts across the country, attempting to block Trump’s name from appearing on ballots for state primaries and caucuses before the national election begins. This page is intended to track which states have active Section 3 litigation to remove Trump from the 2024 ballot. At the bottom is a selected reading of Lawfare 's coverage on the issue.
Won’t make any newsfeeds, It’s an entre nous from a friend who was booked to be on the team, landed in Cairo, was told only then that the season had been cancelled. I posted here as an illustration of the cluelessness of people in the ‘aht’ world, all as woke as can be, and never bothering to consult with anyone with a grasp on how things operate outside their bubbles. Friend and I were hoping to rendezvous in late November, early December, when I’d be based in Cairo for a fortnight and she’d spend her weekly Friday ‘off’ in the same hotel/part of town. She’s now out of twelve weeks of paid work as well.
Did you view the ‘installation’ video? Thoughts beyond ‘gag!’?
For men like these, heinousness is the point. Death and atrocity shocks those inclined to compromise out of their complacency. The terrorist understands that life and death are the ultimate binary. When a political dispute has been reduced to “kill or be killed,” the extremist has attained his aim.
Pro-Palestinians should research their market before spray painting mice in the colors of the Palestinian flag. The average English punter is going to be more angered by the heinous act of spray painting innocent little animals than by anything happening in the Middle East.
