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Introducing Opoku Ware School — David, John, & Stephen representing the Santasi-based 2x champion. #NSMQ2025 #NSMQGrandFinale #Primetime

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Bridging Theory and Practice: A Reflection on Ghana’s National Science & Maths Quiz – The 10% Law or Perhaps the 10% Problem. First, Congratulations to Presbyterian Boys' SHS for clinching the title in this year's National Science and Math Quiz (NSMQ), and heartfelt appreciation to Primetime and all sponsors for facilitating this esteemed competition. The NSMQ has indeed grown in stature, now rivaling our national love for soccer in popularity. While the competition continues to excel, it's prudent to offer constructive feedback to further hone its impact and sustain interest. This piece seeks to address a notable incident from this year’s competition, reflecting on the balance between theoretical precision and practical understanding, a key element in nurturing innovative minds capable of tackling real-world challenges. The “10% law” question provides an opportune moment to reflect on the essence and impact of educational competitions. A question concerning the "10% Law" in the context of food chains saw a response marked incorrect due to a minor omission, despite the understanding of the concept being evidently clear. ❓Question Name the law that explains that each trophic level in a FOOD CHAIN transfers 10% of its energy to the level above it, and the other 90% of its energy is lost to heat or reproduction. ❌ Answer given by OPOKU WARE SCHOOL: The 10% law. However, our beloved quiz mistress marked this response as incorrect, stipulating the answer should have been "The 10% law in food chain”. However, the context of the question was clearly delineated; hence, the phrase “in food chain” was implicitly understood, making the given answer accurate and succinct. The penalization for a perceived lack of completeness, in this case, underscores a prevalent concern in our educational fabric - the emphasis on mechanical/verbatim memorization over a nuanced/holistic understanding of concepts. While precision in scientific terminology is vital, the pendulum should not swing to the extreme where the essence of learning is overshadowed by the rigidity of expression. Here is why we need to rethink such rigidity in expression. 📌 Strict Adherence to Terminology In the scenario presented, the adjudication appears to have been fixated on precise terminology rather than understanding the underlying concept. While technical precision is important in scientific communication, the emphasis on exact wording to the detriment of conceptual understanding can be counterproductive. 📌 Impediment to Practical Learning This approach can potentially hinder creativity and critical thinking essential for real-world problem-solving. The focus shifts from a practical understanding of concepts and their applications to a memorization of textbook definitions and terminologies. 📌Impact on Student Engagement When students are penalized for minor omissions in terminology despite demonstrating a clear understanding of the concept, it can be demoralizing and may affect their confidence and performance. *********************** Educational competitions like the NSMQ are pivotal in inspiring and nurturing scientific inquiry among young learners. They serve as platforms for not merely disseminating knowledge but for promoting critical thinking, innovative problem-solving, and practical application of theoretical concepts. 📌Way forward🤝 ✅Real-world Applications Integrating more real-world scenarios and problem-solving exercises can enrich the learning experience and demonstrate the relevance of theoretical knowledge. In essence, while maintaining a high standard of excellence, it's imperative that educational competitions like the NSMQ evolve to foster a conducive environment for practical learning and innovative thinking. This balanced approach can significantly contribute to nurturing a generation of thinkers, innovators, and problem solvers well-equipped to tackle the multifaceted challenges of our contemporary world.

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Bestselling novelist David Baldacci on how AI companies deliberately stole every book and academic paper published in the last 70 years: Baldacci is a named plaintiff in a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft in the Southern District of New York, alongside John Grisham, Scott Turow, George R.R. Martin, Jodi Picoult, and Jonathan Franzen. They're also representing roughly 60,000 unnamed plaintiffs. He explains how AI companies arrived at novels as the key ingredient for building superintelligence: "The AI community searched the world. How do you create superintelligence? They tried everything to try to figure out, how do you do this? They fed dictionaries into it. They did lots of stuff. They finally found the only way to create super intelligence that they needed was to feed novels into the large language models. Novels worked, finished products of storytelling with characters and dialogue and research and events and interactions. That was their Holy Grail moment." Baldacci points out the obvious path the AI companies could have taken —negotiating with the five major publishers, each of whom represents around 100,000 writers. Instead, they chose theft. David Baldacci continues: "They decided we're just going to steal them. I'm not saying anything out of school. They've admitted this. They got most of the books from a Russian pirate website where they would go and download the books from there. And they didn't even want their software programs to know they were stealing the books. So they had the software program that would scrape off the copyright page, scrape off the ISBN number on the back, and just download the book itself." The scale is staggering. Over the last eight or nine years, every book and every academic paper published in the last 70 years worldwide has been ingested into the large language models at Anthropic, OpenAI, and Meta. Baldacci testified about this on Capitol Hill in July. He describes the personal toll of being a named plaintiff: "I've had to give them all of my materials, all of my financial information I've had to give them, let them come in and do a complete scrape on all of my emails, all of my communications. I sat through a nine hour deposition like I've done something wrong. They said, yeah, we've taken your books, we haven't paid you a dime and we didn't ask your permission, but we should be entitled to do it because AI is so cool. That's basically their legal argument." The parallel case against Anthropic in California has already settled for $1.5 billion, to be paid out over two years to 50,000 writers. The OpenAI and Microsoft case is now past discovery and heading toward a settlement conference.

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Suella Braverman, "Conservative voters are saying to me: we're life long voters of the Conservative party but you're not a Conservative party any more and we can't vote for you... Sunak needs to lower taxes.. Cap legal migration.. Take us out of the ECHR.. That's how you send the message that he's serious about stopping the boats" Errr, no. Hola. Life-long Conservative voter here, well up until David Cameron (don't hate me 👀) ➡️ We don't need lower taxes. We need to increase the tax free allowance for the lowest earners so they can keep and spend more of their income, which will help pull many out of poverty. We need higher taxes for the rich and super rich to help fund public services. We should also end non-dom allowances, and take back every penny of covid loan support given to companies that are based off shore and do not pay UK-taxes. We should also be part of a global initiative that taxes large corporates a higher rate of tax if they off shore. ➡️ If we have a staff shortage, which we do, we don't need to cap legal migration, we need to incentivise people to come to the UK and work here. They will all pay tax/NI and they will all contribute to our society. If we do not have enough school spaces, GPs, have pot holes in our roads, etc. these are not because of legal migrants, these issue arise because government policy has not invested in these facilities. Don't blame migrants for Conservative party policy decisions and failures ➡️ As a former Conservative voter, I don't want to leave the ECHR, I want the UK to behave in a way which fits within simple standards of international rules and law making. That means, staying in the ECHR and finding other solutions to addressing asylum seekers Most of the people I know who have stopped voting Conservative have stopped because the party is moving further to the right and no longer represents the values demonstrated by the likes of John Major, Dominic Grieve, Anna Soubry, Rory Stewart and many others

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