Please mod this up. I think there is a serious lack of understanding about real world conditions which drive this. Also, working one less hour is not really an option for a lot of people--you work what your boss tells you need to work.
For those who like their wisdom delivered in a more "folksy" manner, try this: To quote my grand-dad, "All Indians walk in single file. At least the one I saw did."
FYI, CAT (Computer Adaptive Testing) is *not* proprietary. There a lot of papers out there about how to do adaptive testing and how to do it well. That said, all of these systems, as an earlier respondent noted, are based upon actual responses rather than predicted responses. As a professional in assessment, I would not want to base any decisions about item presentation on 80% accuracy. We assess because there is uncertainty and we need evidence to model and demonstrate our best estimate of whatever it is we are measuring. The trouble with adapting before you have evidence is that you never push a examinee to their extremes. You've already artificially constrained the range of difficulties and items that a student will see. Restriction of range is already a huge problem on existing tests because of people's preconceptions of what's appropriate for certain ages or groups of examinees. It's promising technology and I intend on watching how it evolves.
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Unfortunately, google will have to pay royalties to the seagulls in finding Nemo for that one.
Thank you for the link. I chuckled when I read they renamed their company "cookie jar entertainment".
Oh thank God a car analogy! Now I understand.
Oh thank God someone made a car analogy. Now I understand.
psst! aren't you supposed to put the tl;dr at the top? At any rate, thanks for the insightful comment.
You forget that we need a collapse in society first... Perhaps he could still be right?
Despite the language, this is perhaps the most insightful comment in this thread.
No. Ubuntu is now so slow and resource hungry that skipping a letter just won't be possible.
+2 pedantic. Good show, chap!
Not oil companies... just Defense contractors... Lockheed, I think is the current major player running the show there.
I believe you mean *fracking* toaster, sir.
That is very interesting stuff. Perhaps, to borrow your language a bit, they could hire a fucking website designer. Thanks for posting!
I could be wrong, but more than likely the axis of E-vil and other countries MS would be prosecuted for trading with.
I think you may have just missed the point of art altogether...
Ah /.,... home to random misogyny and racist puns. In other news, Hooray Beer!
ah... how times change. Or is it now white-hat is a researcher and black-hat is a hacker?
My apologies--my attempt at humor apparently failed.
You forget yourself, citizen. Corporations are undead and almighty. They are, however, a bit more tangible than sky fairies.
Please mod this up. I think there is a serious lack of understanding about real world conditions which drive this. Also, working one less hour is not really an option for a lot of people--you work what your boss tells you need to work.
For those who like their wisdom delivered in a more "folksy" manner, try this: To quote my grand-dad, "All Indians walk in single file. At least the one I saw did."
lp0 on fire
I thought mono was part of the MS ecosystem?
...i'm thinking its the world police.
Oh... you mean U.N.I.T.? Good, then the Doctor's already on this one.
FYI, CAT (Computer Adaptive Testing) is *not* proprietary. There a lot of papers out there about how to do adaptive testing and how to do it well. That said, all of these systems, as an earlier respondent noted, are based upon actual responses rather than predicted responses. As a professional in assessment, I would not want to base any decisions about item presentation on 80% accuracy. We assess because there is uncertainty and we need evidence to model and demonstrate our best estimate of whatever it is we are measuring. The trouble with adapting before you have evidence is that you never push a examinee to their extremes. You've already artificially constrained the range of difficulties and items that a student will see. Restriction of range is already a huge problem on existing tests because of people's preconceptions of what's appropriate for certain ages or groups of examinees. It's promising technology and I intend on watching how it evolves.
You math is a bit off: 25 000 000 / 55 000 = 454.545455