• Access to AI was a rising tide that lifted all boats, and narrowed the gender gap between male students and the female students who had been trailing behind before the pilot program began.
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AI Educational Pilot Outperforms 80% of Other Interventions
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• When the researchers compared their results to other educational interventions, this pilot outperformed 80% of them. 80%!
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Students Learn Computer Basics and AI Prompting Skills
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• Many of these students had never even used a computer before. They spent the beginning of the program figuring out how to navigate a PC, setting up user accounts, being taught how to prompt. Makes the learning curve even more remarkable.
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Copilot Improves Student Learning Outcomes by Two Years
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The setup: For 6 weeks, students used Copilot in their computer lab 2x/week, guided by teachers on selected topics and grammar/writing tasks. The results: A pen and paper test showed their scores improving .3 standard deviations, the equivalent of almost 2 years of learning.
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The Hundred-Page Language Models Book: A Concise Introduction
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Remember "The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book"? There is also "The Hundred-Page Language Models Book". Very concise and released with the same idea as previous books: read first, buy later.
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AI and Automation Transform Job Market: Prepare for Change
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La automatización y la inteligencia artificial están acabando con los empleos tradicionales, pero a la vez muchos empleos nuevos surgen y es importante que empieces a prepararte ya.
— Juan Merodio (@juanmerodio) 18 janvier 2025
El mercado laboral se transforma y si no te reciclas el futuro puede arrollarte y llevarte por… pic.twitter.com/yJlYXhkq5MLa automatización y la inteligencia artificial están acabando con los empleos tradicionales, pero a la vez muchos empleos nuevos surgen y es importante que empieces a prepararte ya. El mercado laboral se transforma y si no te reciclas el futuro puede arrollarte y llevarte por
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First Programming Language: Learning Journey and Memories
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What was your first programming language and what do you remember most about learning it?
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7 In-Demand Skills to Land a Data Analytics Job
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Want to land a job in Data Analytics? These 7 in-demand skills will get you hired: Technical Skills: SQL, Spreadsheets
Programming: R, Python, SAS
Data Viz: Tableau, Power BI
Database Management: MySQL, PostgreSQL
Machine Learning: Regression, SVM
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Groq Sponsors uOttaHack with Workshop and Increased Rate Limits
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Opening ceremony best on Groq prize track announcement Turbocharge your Multimodal and Agentic Apps with Groq Workshop Increased rate limits for dozens of hackers (and counting) Fully stocked swag table Can't wait to see what's built on Groq at uOttaHack!
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Jeff Bezos on Writing as a Tool for Clearer Thinking
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Jeff Bezos on how writing improves your thinking!
— Amitav Bhattacharjee (@bamitav) 18 janvier 2025
pic.twitter.com/uxiTGvDJ4l#writing #WritingTips #thinking @EduardoValente @ipfconline1 @kalydeoo @chboursin @cleartechtoday @SpirosMargaris @DataDiva @CloudMaster99 @AI_Whiz @CyberSecPro @DigitalNomad @InnoVatorX @GadgetGeek…Jeff Bezos on how writing improves your thinking! #writing #WritingTips #thinking @EduardoValente @ipfconline1 @kalydeoo @chboursin @cleartechtoday @SpirosMargaris @DataDiva @CloudMaster99 @AI_Whiz @CyberSecPro @DigitalNomad @InnoVatorX @GadgetGeek