It really is not what most people who was working on building the early web in the late 1990s were expecting. Universal access to information was going to transform everything, creating widespread learning and bridging divides. It really is shocking how much that didn't happen.
EDUCATION
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AI Education Misinformation: Debunking Common Misinterpretations
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This interpretation of the paper has joined the pantheon of AI misinformation that I get asked about often. There are legitimate worries about AI use in education, just not this one.
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ChatGPT Study Shows Lower Student Essay Engagement
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The paper doesn’t make this claim at all, nor could it given the methodology. (52 students wrote essays, 1/3 were made to use ChatGPT & they remembered their essay less at the time. 4 months later 18 people came back & the ChatGPT group were still less engaged in their essay)
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Income-Based Student Loan Repayment Through Employment Outcomes
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What if students borrow directly from schools and do not have to repay the school if they can’t get a job?
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Essential ML Concepts and Papers Explained Resource
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A list explaining key ML concepts and papers: https://
github.com/dair-ai/ML-Pap
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STEM Education Transforms Lives and Mental Health Outcomes
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I would have killed myself if I had not gotten into a stem school
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Free Deep Learning Book: Complete Guide from Math to LLMs
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A fantastic, visually stunning intro to deep learning. This free book covers: – Maths for ML
– Datasets & Losses
– Linear Models
– Fully Connected Models
– CNNs for Images & Beyond
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Perplexity AI Transforms Education in Indian Schools with Voice Learning
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It’s great to see schools in India having their students learn with Perplexity as a tutor. Our founding mission was to make the world’s knowledge accessible, and I’m glad it’s having its impact. Here’s one where students in Telangana are using the voice mode to ask questions back
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IQ Testing Criticized as Pseudoscientific Swindle by Taleb
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Good morning to anyone seeing this and feeling personally called out. “IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle (Argument Closed)” by @nntaleb https://
medium.com/incerto/iq-is-
largely-a-pseudoscientific-swindle-f131c101ba39
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Education Must Adapt as AI Transforms Workforce Skills
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Ce qui est HALLUCINANT C’est que la classe politique laisse l’éducation s’effondrer Alors qu’il est impératif que nos enfants travaillent énormément pour être complémentaires de l’IA Il n’y a pas de place pour les GROSSES FEIGNASSES à l’heure de l’IA Quelle lâcheté !