Friedrich A. Hayek Is there a right to education? Even in today’s polarized political environment in the United States, the overwhelming majority of citizens think there is such a right, and many hold that it applies through the completion of college.1 Every one of the fifty state constitutions includes language providing for free public education, although the language of rights is not explicitly cited. But to Friedrich Hayek, such expressions reveal confusion about both what rights are and […]

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Testing that your AI agent is performing as expected is not easy. Here are a few strategies we learned the hard way. The post How We Are Testing Our Agents in Dev appeared first on Towards Data Science.

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EFF and the ACLU of Northern California Sue on Behalf of Local Nonprofits Contact: Josh Richman, EFF, jrichman@eff.org;  Carmen King, ACLU of Northern California, cking@aclunc.org SAN JOSE, Calif. – San Jose and its police department routinely violate the California Constitution by conducting warrantless searches of the stored records of millions of drivers’ private habits, movements, and associations, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California (ACLU-NC) argue in a lawsuit filed Tuesday.  The […]

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Doug Bandow The United States political system is failing. Expanding political divisions have been exacerbated by the machinations of a political class unwilling to sacrifice its prerogatives, irrespective of the nation’s desperate needs. For a time, the gerontocracy controlling political affairs in Washington seemed to mimic that in Moscow prior to the Soviet regime’s collapse. , In their latest show of political bankruptcy, leaders of the world’s most powerful nation recently proved incapable of passing a single appropriations […]

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Congress rushes bills and hides what’s inside. How we fix it. The post J.D. Vance Shares the Big Beautiful Bill’s Secrets appeared first on Downsize DC.

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This article introduces the Gaussian Mixture Model as a natural extension of k-Means, by improving how distance is measured through variances and the Mahalanobis distance. Instead of assigning points to clusters with hard boundaries, GMM uses probabilities learned through the Expectation–Maximization algorithm – the general form of Lloyd’s method. Using simple Excel formulas, we implement EM step by step in 1D and 2D, and we visualise how the Gaussian curves or ellipses move during training. The means shift, […]

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How I keep up with papers with a mix of manual and AI-assisted reading The post Reading Research Papers in the Age of LLMs appeared first on Towards Data Science.

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