The Mendicant Bug
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…if you don’t even come to the station?
Via Sarah Wood at Swivel: high school graduation rates for the largest school districts in the country are apallingly low. In Detroit, the lowest of the low, the graduation rate was a meager 24.9% for the 2003-04 year.
I don’t even have words to describe how bad this is, and Detroit is not alone.
My name is Jason M. Adams and I recently graduated with my masters from the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. My main areas of research were with recommender systems and word sense disambiguation. Now I am on the job market. And I am obsessed with my two dogs.
Contact me: jaso...@gmail.com
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