AI: Google scales back “AI Overviews”
… because AI Overviews was often spouting nonsense: Google Pumps Brakes on AI Overviews Search After Telling Us to Eat Glue, Rocks (msn.com)
Health: Can you have an allergic reaction to peanuts through breathing?
Can you experience an allergic reaction to peanuts merely from the smell of peanuts? No, says an allergist.
Drones: Amazon gets FAA approval to deliver 500 million packages/year via drone delivery
Hmmmm: FAA OKs Amazon Drone Expansion: Goal Is 500 Million Packages/Year (forbes.com)
Education: In many countries a Bachelor’s degree is 3 years, not four
In the U.S. students are required to take “general education” or “core” requirements – and 4 years or more becomes the standard duration of an undergraduate degree. In much of…
Public health: About 1 in 3 people had asymptomatic Covid-19
About 1 in 3 had asymptomatic Covid-19. Those who were vaxxed and then had Covid appear to have good immunity long afterward.
Media: Time for the periodic “paycheck to paycheck” stories
The Business Insider morons run the same annual story claiming things are worse when data shows they are actually better!
I completed the requirements for an M.S. in software engineering
This is a post from January 2013 that I never previously published. I completed the M.S. in software engineering in December 2012.
Education: Bachelor degrees by sex and major
Bachelor degrees, by sex, and major – this is just a partial list. Chart of the Day: Female Shares of Bachelor’s Degrees by Field, 1971 to 2019 | American Enterprise…
Demographics: Fertility rates by country
75% of the world’s population lives in countries with fertility rates below 2.1 (and some think 2.2 is now the real figure for steady state populations)