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I love minding my own business while listening to kids chatting in their own slang, dissing grown-ups, catching each other saying 6-7, being deadly serious about school exams 😄 Language is a fascinatingly human thing when it's flowing without the imposition of scientifically derived rules and years of societal integration. It just can't stay put and tries to explore every crack, break every convention.

FBI Director Kash Patel granted waivers to Deputy Director
Dan Bongino and two other newly hired senior FBI staff members,
exempting them from passing polygraph exams normally required to gain access to America’s most sensitive classified information.
People familiar with the matter say his ascent to his position without passing a standard FBI background check was unprecedented.
Bongino was selected for the role at the FBI although he, like Patel, had no prior exper…

FBI Director Kash Patel Waived Polygraph Security Screening for Dan Bongino, Two Other Senior Staff
As the FBI’s deputy director, Bongino receives some of the country’s most sensitive secrets, including the President’s Daily Brief. His ascent to that position without passing a standard bureau background check is unprecedented, insiders say.

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@CaptainIRS/115701458671999527
This is why you never want @… designing your national CS exams.

With the tax-free money in a health savings account, a person can pay for eyeglasses or medical exams, as well as a $1,700 baby bassinet or a $300 online parenting workshop.
Those same dollars can’t be used, though, to pay for insurance premiums — or for most health related necessities such as baby formulas or toothbrushes
HSAs are tax shelters for the rich, masquerading as healthcare insurance.
Donald Trump and some Republicans are pitching the accounts as an alternative to …

Health Savings Accounts, Backed by GOP, Cover Fancy Saunas but Not Insurance Premiums - KFF Health News
Health savings accounts can be used to cover medical expenses, tax-free. But while wealthier Americans are using them to pay for gym equipment, cedar ice baths, and hemlock saunas, poorer Americans can’t use them to pay their skyrocketing health insurance premiums.

Predicting Diabetic Retinopathy Using a Two-Level Ensemble Model
Mahyar Mahmoudi, Tieming Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01074 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.0…

Predicting Diabetic Retinopathy Using a Two-Level Ensemble Model
Preprint Note: This is the author preprint version of a paper accepted for presentation at the IISE Annual Conference & Expo 2025. The final version will appear in the official proceedings. Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a leading cause of blindness in working-age adults, and current diagnostic methods rely on resource-intensive eye exams and specialized equipment. Image-based AI tools have shown limitations in early-stage detection, motivating the need for alternative approaches. We propose a …

A Simple Data Augmentation Strategy for Text-in-Image Scientific VQA
Belal Shoer, Yova Kementchedjhieva
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20119 https://arxiv.org/…

A Simple Data Augmentation Strategy for Text-in-Image Scientific VQA
Scientific visual question answering poses significant challenges for vision-language models due to the complexity of scientific figures and their multimodal context. Traditional approaches treat the figure and accompanying text (e.g., questions and answer options) as separate inputs. EXAMS-V introduced a new paradigm by embedding both visual and textual content into a single image. However, even state-of-the-art proprietary models perform poorly on this setup in zero-shot settings, underscorin…

Replaced article(s) found for physics.ed-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.ed-ph/new
[1/1]:
- High stakes exams inflate a gender gap and contribute to systematic grading errors in one introdu...
David J. Webb, Cassandra A. Paul