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Should you tell your favorite program you’re ranking them #1?
What about your backups? Should you tell them that, too? Or just say you’re ranking them VERY highly?
Or should you just say nothing at all?
Gimme a few minutes, and all your LOI questions will be answered…
youtu.be/qTCuzYE7v5Q
What about your backups? Should you tell them that, too? Or just say you’re ranking them VERY highly?
Or should you just say nothing at all?
Gimme a few minutes, and all your LOI questions will be answered…
youtu.be/qTCuzYE7v5Q
Mailbag: Letters of Intent and Post-Interview Communication
YouTube video by Sheriff of Sodium
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February 1, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Should you tell your favorite program you’re ranking them #1?
What about your backups? Should you tell them that, too? Or just say you’re ranking them VERY highly?
Or should you just say nothing at all?
Gimme a few minutes, and all your LOI questions will be answered…
youtu.be/qTCuzYE7v5Q
What about your backups? Should you tell them that, too? Or just say you’re ranking them VERY highly?
Or should you just say nothing at all?
Gimme a few minutes, and all your LOI questions will be answered…
youtu.be/qTCuzYE7v5Q
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Top advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are asking the agency’s acting director to explain the abrupt removal of information and data from CDC websites, and say when it will be restored. www.statnews.com/2025/02/01/c...
CDC advisers push agency to explain data removal, say when info will be restored
Information on topics such as gender, teens' behavior, and infectious diseases was removed from the CDC's website.
www.statnews.com
February 2, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Top advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are asking the agency’s acting director to explain the abrupt removal of information and data from CDC websites, and say when it will be restored. www.statnews.com/2025/02/01/c...
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In a big representative sample of humans against GPT-4: "the creative ideas produced by AI chatbots are rated more creative [by humans ]than those created by humans... Augmenting humans with AI improves human creativity, albeit not as much as ideas created by ChatGPT alone” docs.iza.org/dp17302.pdf
February 2, 2025 at 2:17 AM
In a big representative sample of humans against GPT-4: "the creative ideas produced by AI chatbots are rated more creative [by humans ]than those created by humans... Augmenting humans with AI improves human creativity, albeit not as much as ideas created by ChatGPT alone” docs.iza.org/dp17302.pdf
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I'm very pleased to have contributed to this work, "The Manifesto for Teaching and Learning in a Time of Generative AI: A Critical Collective Stance to Better Navigate the Future"
openpraxis.org/articles/10....
openpraxis.org/articles/10....
The Manifesto for Teaching and Learning in a Time of Generative AI: A Critical Collective Stance to Better Navigate the Future | Open Praxis
Open Praxis is a peer-reviewed open access scholarly journal focusing on research and innovation in open, distance, and flexible education. It is published by International Council for Open and Distan...
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November 29, 2024 at 10:16 PM
I'm very pleased to have contributed to this work, "The Manifesto for Teaching and Learning in a Time of Generative AI: A Critical Collective Stance to Better Navigate the Future"
openpraxis.org/articles/10....
openpraxis.org/articles/10....
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Generative AI at the end of 2024:
I scan of some technological developments.
aiandacademia.substack.com/p/generative...
I scan of some technological developments.
aiandacademia.substack.com/p/generative...
November 30, 2024 at 7:00 PM
Generative AI at the end of 2024:
I scan of some technological developments.
aiandacademia.substack.com/p/generative...
I scan of some technological developments.
aiandacademia.substack.com/p/generative...
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People make prompting too hard. Most people would benefit from just using good enough prompting techniques. I outline some basic rules, including why “treat AI like an intern” is no longer the advice I would give new AI users. www.oneusefulthing.org/p/getting-st...
Getting started with AI: Good enough prompting
Don't make this hard
www.oneusefulthing.org
November 24, 2024 at 3:48 PM
People make prompting too hard. Most people would benefit from just using good enough prompting techniques. I outline some basic rules, including why “treat AI like an intern” is no longer the advice I would give new AI users. www.oneusefulthing.org/p/getting-st...