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Join International Women’s Day Virtual Event: Breaking the Bias

STEMx

International Women’s Day celebrates the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women, and marks a call to action for accelerating women’s equality. She was previously elected to two terms as Nevada’s State Treasurer, during which she helped manage the state’s finances through the Great Recession.

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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 that’s worse than the humanities, English and finance degrees in the U.K. We should never talk about access to jobs as if we live in an equal world. I think it’s important to define a few terms.

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Heela Yoon: “Social change takes time, especially when tackling big issues like violent extremism and gender inequality in Afghanistan.”

Futurum

Many of the programmes initiated by NGOs in Afghanistan – whether to do with peace, education, gender equality or leadership – don’t involve youth. I can use these opportunities to help others achieve the same things. When I was working at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, it was only men working in economics, trade and finance.

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Creating software that works for everyone

Futurum

A key concept of the Living Lab is that all participants, both developers and users of software, are fully involved and treated as equals throughout the software development process, ensuring the needs and opinions of the users and developers are always considered. “We finance, manufacturing, agriculture, etc.). •

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Can AI Solve Science?

Stephen Wolfram

If we want to find a rule that “lives” for exactly 50 steps, we define “best” to be the one that minimizes a “loss function” equal to the distance from 50 of the number of steps a rule actually “lives”. But what happens with other paths? As we mentioned above, though, with more “dimensions” one’s less likely to get stuck.

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