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AI and the shrinking college payoff, NHJ’s school in context, Sal Khan’s origin story: A Chalkbeat Ideas roundup

Welcome to Chalkbeat Ideas . This is our semi-monthly roundup of interesting takes, tidbits, and links. Feel free to send along links and ideas for the next one. Is AI devaluing a college degree? An update. For many years, a college degree has been a major advantage for those seeking well-paying jobs. This has been a key theme of this newsletter . Yet I’ve also noted that it’s reasonable to…

AI and the shrinking college payoff, NHJ’s school in context, Sal Khan’s origin story: A Chalkbeat Ideas roundup

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An agent that knows which pygame you are actually running

This is a submission for the Sanity Challenge, Path One: Ship an Agent That Queries Real Content What I Built pygame and pygame-ce are two separate distributions of the same library.

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  • Trained on API references from both distributions
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Victoria Song, in her Optimizer column/newsletter for The Verge: I’ve been aggressively avoiding Muse since it launched a few weeks ago. Sure, some of that is because I was busy testing other devices.

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