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Is a College Degree the Worst Investment You Can Make — or the Best?

ED Surge

Universities generally cover a wide range of subjects, focused on an academic field, say mathematics or computer science. And the argument is that if a university degree is a good investment, it ought to be substantially more valuable than the opportunity cost. My argument is that the risk is too high, and the returns too low.

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Storage solutions: can we reimagine the trade-offs that limit flash storage devices?

Futurum

PERFORMANCE – the speed at which data in a storage device can be accessed (latency) or how much data can be accessed in a given time (throughput). SSDs, on the other hand, are completely electronic, allow computers and devices faster access to information stored in them and consume less power than HDDs.

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Should universities use differential treatment to admit students?

Futurum

The idea that exam results should be assessed differently based on a student’s socio-economic background is known as differential treatment, and Emil is investigating whether such policies can improve equality and efficiency in education and labour markets. As you can imagine, there are many arguments both for and against these ideas.

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The Importance of Diversity in the STEM field

Talk STEM

The rise of our digital landscape has not just provided convenience, it has also represented incredible international career opportunities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. Among the many benefits that this shift has provided is the increased accessibility to knowledge and tools for global contributors.

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Kids Online Learning Statistics 2023

The Maker Mom

were studying business, computer science, and healthcare. When you take into account that a small portion of the population of K-12 children will not be best served by this type of virtual education model, there is a fair argument to be made for retaining traditional classrooms. Among these students, 46.4% in 2008 to 27.3%

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The Physicalization of Metamathematics and Its Implications for the Foundations of Mathematics

Stephen Wolfram

But beginning a little more than a century ago there emerged the idea that one could build mathematics purely from formal axioms, without necessarily any reference to what is accessible to sensory experience. and at t steps gives a total number of rules equal to: &#10005. But what can we do with this statement? &#10005.

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Can AI Solve Science?

Stephen Wolfram

And in our times we’re in the middle of a major transformation to a fundamentally computational representation of the world (and, yes, that’s what our Wolfram Language computational language is all about). My goal here is to explore and assess what AI can and can’t be expected to do in science. So how does AI stack up?

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