There is a failure of standardized testing as it cannot distinguish between 10,000+ students. The SAT and GRE are too easy, especially the math sections.
RESEARCH
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Bonus Incentives Double Escape Room Success Rates Study
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We know incentive pay boosts performance at jobs, but do bonuses also work for complex & non-routine tasks as well? Yes! Cool experiment finds that being given a small bonus for quickly solving an escape room doubles the chance people escape in 45 minutes https://
cesifo.org/DocDL/cesifo1_
wp6903.pdf
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Yann LeCun’s 1998 gradient-based deep learning paper breakthrough
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#otd in 1998 Yann LeCun submitted a paper on “gradient-based” deep learning for document recognition. It took more than a decade before the world finally warmed to neural networks: https://
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Generative AI Deserves More Nuanced Media Coverage
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Generative AI warrants a whole lot more nuanced, considerate coverage like this IMO
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Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality publishes TPDP 2021 papers
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A new issue of the Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality (
@JPrivConf
) was just published. Featuring a section I and @radcummings guest-edited on TPDP 2021 papers. Includes papers with @RuobinGong
, @RasmusPagh1
, @Kobbini and more. Check it out! https://
journalprivacyconfidentiality.org/index.php/jpc/
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AI Predicts World Cup Soccer Game Outcomes and Goals
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Can #AI predict who wins a game? In a special project to celebrate the world’s biggest football/soccer tournament kicking off later this month, we set out to determine the likelihood of scoring a goal #2022WorldCup Learn more
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Differential Privacy Composition Basics Explained Accessibly
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A new technical post by Thomas Steinke (
@shortstein
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, on the basics of composition. Very accessible! https://
differentialprivacy.org/composition-ba
sics/
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NeRF Zero to SOTA Tutorial at Hugging Face Paris
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I'm in Paris, FR this Thursday 11/3, ping me if you want to chat. I'll do an internal tutorial zero->SOTA on NeRF at Hugging Face, might extract a 5min video to share online from it if its exciting to people.
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Low engagement with research links highlights fact-checking importance
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666,000 people saw this thread. 535 clicked on one of the links I gave to a paper. The papers & research is all real, it isn’t a trick, I just am always amazed at how few people actually look at the research I post, especially one on the importance of fact-checking for yourself!
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Google Scholar’s critical role in modern scholarly research infrastructure
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I'd argue that Google Scholar plays a critical role in modern research. It is free, and it absolutely crushes every other scholarly search engine, including specialized ones Though it is a bit scary that it seems to be a tiny team & it exists only by the charity of Google…