Last time I checked, colleges don't offer an actual major in football. It sure as hell may look like they do given how insulated the players may be from the rest of the student body and how so many only meet the bare minimums academically required in order to remain eligible to play, but the on-paper major isn't football.

The biggest abuse in the number of students versus the number of jobs in the profession are in journalism. There are more journalism students than there are jobs in the entire industry.

Music unfortunately has similar problems even with something that has more value. In far too many cases, graduates from college music programs can't work in the field because their teachers are the ones with seats in the local orchestra. They're literally having to directly compete with their instructors.

It would not entirely block students from underperforming K-12 schools, because college admissions officials do not solely look at the performance of schools. They also look at things like raw GPA, class rank, classes that are acknowledged as being more challenging, and on other aspects of scholarship like applications essays and standardized tests.

Certainly there would be fewer students from underperforming schools, because there would generally be fewer strong candidates from underperforming schools, through the sheer nature of the statistics of what led to those schools being labeled as underperforming to begin with.

Thing is though, that's why the higher ed system is tiered. No one looks on Truckee Meadows Community College as being at the same level as UCLA, and no one looks at UCLA as being on par with Yale. There are or at least should be options for many talented high school graduates who are looking for college. Not everyone gets to go to MIT. Not everyone even gets to go to the University of Arizona. Some end up at Chattahoochee Technical College. And that's okay. They might well be able to transfer if they excel in their new environment after high school. If not, they might well have to go through the programs that they can perform at.

What we do need is better assessment for certification of programs, and weeding-out of faux-colleges that themselves just exist to profit off of student loans for 'students' that will never graduate, particularly private for-profit colleges. They need to be held to minimum graduation rates based on original enrollment, and if that means compelling them to find fraudulent enrollments that likewise are attempting to game the educational financing system, then they need to step up.

That would be predicated on allowing actual permanent resettlement with a path to citizenship and birthright citizenship for one's offspring.

I could well see researchers that aren't in a having/raising family stage of life being interested in living and working in Japan for some number of years as an interesting and finite life stage, but I don't see those looking to permanently settle somewhere or to raise a family somewhere necessarily being up for it.

To address that, Japan needs to do more than simply provide some short-term incentives for researchers, but that would also mean a fundamental shift in the thinking of the population as far as what it means to be Japanese, what it means to be a citizen, etc. They do not appear to be willing to do this.

Please don't misunderstand me either, I'm not commenting either way on what other specific countries/cultures do or don't do.

I suspect that most of this "music" is not made by creative people who "don't need to have fine motor skills on the piano". I suspect that most is made by scammers and mercenaries who want to harvest money by putting in minimal effort

That said, there is very little art in mercenary pop music created by teams of producers, arrangers, trendmongers, choeographers, stylists and others. It's artless industrial product, carefully crafted to be almost identical to what's popular, with just enough difference to avoid copyright trouble. It's kinda like teams of experts doing their best to imitate AI

...they might either be useful or awful

They could be useful for providing subtitles to those with hearing problems or for translating language
They could be useful for providing help or recording interesting observations
Here's one example. I am working on repairing a machine and I encounter a part I don't understand. If the glasses could scan the part, look it up and display a description of its function, it would be helpful. If it was broken, the glasses could offer prices and availability of replacements

They could become awful if they pester the user with ads
They could be awful if they were used as part of a silly, pop culture fad
They could be awful if they were used by totalitarian governments for surveillance

What did you expect from them merging with Samsung?

batteries to *not* explode?

>Yes, it is quite strange to have a cosmic particle detector emit a
>series of bizarre signals.

the detector got indigestion from all those radio signals probing it, made worse by some actual cosmic particles.

so it vomited.

I'll confess to having faked the whole thing.

I used a different chatbot, which shall remain anonymous, and told it; "Submit an article to slashdot about what would happen if chatgpt played against the Atari 2600 chess program."

the past repeats . . .

margarine was supposed to be better for us than that awful butter.

But, gee whiz, when we got down to it and actually looked, this chemical concoction designed to mimic the taste chemistry of butter also mimicked other properties--and was *worse* . . .

now, we make a fuel to mimic the combustion chemistry of current fuels, and, well, . . . surprise!

...increasingly unpredictable
Hypemongers continue to make inflated predictions in order to get investment or attention
Real progress is being made, but it's nowhere near the hype

Run away
AI needs local compute

and define "oven"!

They must have *staggering* capacity to feed a crew of 5,000 with just six of these contraptions!

Very long conveyor systems? or ???

the -video: option surpasses not only those junk videos, but also the ai garbage.

Yet the economic pundits continue to promote the myth that endless growth is possible and write headlines that complain about growth being a bit low.
We need steady-state sustainability