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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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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. There are two key weaknesses to our argument.

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Kids Online Learning Statistics 2023

The Maker Mom

Many of these students achieve most, if not all of their credit hours through online courses. Around 90% of K-12 public school teachers assert that digital learning tools are the best option when doing research or gathering data. This is a systemic problem that requires years to correct and oversight on nearly every level to achieve.

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Prosecuting rap: can we get racial discrimination out of the courtroom?

Futurum

DEFENCE – (in court) the argument that the accused person should not be found guilty. Many young people face discrimination and a lack of opportunities, a situation that is all too common in one of Europe’s least equal societies. DEFENCE – (in court) the argument that the accused person should not be found guilty.

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Social science for social change: the story of marriage equality in the US

Futurum

Social science for social change: the story of marriage equality in the US Published: For centuries, gay people have suffered discrimination, prejudice and persecution. However, since the 1990s, public attitudes towards gay rights in the US have undergone a monumental shift.

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

Stephen Wolfram

But, first and foremost, the story of the Second Law is the story of a great intellectual achievement of the mid-19th century. Kelvin’s ideas about the inevitable dissipation of “useful energy” spread quickly—by 1854, for example, finding their way into an eloquent public lecture by Hermann von Helmholtz (1821–1894).

Energy 88