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Does Our Academic System Unnecessarily Pit People Against Each Other?

ED Surge

So for this week’s podcast we’re diving into his argument, talking to a philosophy professor who studied with Hussain and regularly teaches the paper to his own students. In that case, your access to health care doesn't depend on any actions that you take. One is where health care is just guaranteed—perhaps government supplied.

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Defined Learning’s Projects for Black History

Defined Learning

Students might learn something about their topic, but there isn’t much critical thinking in these “dessert” projects , or any of the six features of High-Quality PBL : Intellectual Challenge and Accomplishment, Authenticity, Collaboration, Public Product, Project Management, or Reflection. Defined Learning’s U.S.

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

ED Surge

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. We should never talk about access to jobs as if we live in an equal world. And this is indispensable for the poor.

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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 New World of LLM Functions: Integrating LLM Technology into the Wolfram Language

Stephen Wolfram

And for example doing a very simple piece of machine learning , we again get a symbolic object which can be used as a function and applied to an argument to get a result: And so it is with LLMFunction. By giving a second argument to LLMFunction you can say you want actual, structured computable output. can be used.

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Kids Online Learning Statistics 2023

The Maker Mom

Around 90% of K-12 public school teachers assert that digital learning tools are the best option when doing research or gathering data. In addition, there is a glaring example of the disparity in racial equality evident in the United States provided by online education.

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How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

But in 1798 Benjamin Thompson (Count Rumford) (1753–1814) measured the heat produced by the mechanical process of boring a cannon, and began to make the argument that, in contradiction to the caloric theory, there was actually some kind of correspondence between mechanical energy and amount of heat.

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