Weekly Review 20 December 2024
我上周在 Twitter 上发布的一些有趣的链接（我也在 Mastodon、Threads、Newsmast 和 Bluesky 上发布了这些链接）：如果人们一直说他们已经实现了通用人工智能，那么最终这可能是真的：https://futurism.com/openai-employee-claims-agi 看起来 OpenAI 还没有学会使用受版权保护的数据来训练其人工智能：https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/openai-appears-to-have-trained-sora-on-game-content 微软希望在澳大利亚和新西兰培训一百万人掌握人工
Three Ways to Track Venusquakes, from Balloons to Satellites
The planet’s harsh conditions make studying seismicity challenging, but it is likely possible.
Innovation in Higher Education with Dr. Bridget Burns
在本期节目中，我们很高兴欢迎 Bridget Burns 博士来到 Trending in Education 讨论高等教育创新。Bridget 被《华盛顿月刊》评为“高等教育最具创新力的人”之一，她是大学创新联盟 (UIA) 的创始执行董事。UIA 是一个开创性的全国性公立研究型大学联盟，该联盟共同努力测试和扩展创新，以缩小成就差距并改善所有学生的成绩。自 2014 年成立以来，UIA 校园授予的低收入学位增加了 37%（迄今为止培养了 30,000 多名额外的低收入毕业生），有色人种毕业生增加了 73%。该联盟曾在《60 分钟》、《纽约时报》、《华盛顿邮报》、《Fast Company》等
Unlikely - A Film About the Crisis of Low Graduation Rates in US Higher Education
本周，Mike 和 Dan 还与新纪录片《Unlikely》的制片人 Jaye 和 Adam Fenderson 共度了一段时光。该片通过 5 名学生及其家庭的故事探讨了美国大学入学率低的问题。我们探讨了为什么尽管美国的大学毕业率低于 50%，落后于主要工业化国家，但这个问题尚未引起全国关注。通过探讨“非传统”学生在 21 世纪生活中平衡教育需求与其他财务、家庭和职业需求所面临的挑战，可以发现这一点。然而，这部电影并没有让人感到沮丧，而是通过聚焦 iPromise School、星巴克/ASU 大学成就计划和 Year Up 等创新项目，最终鼓舞人心，这些项目为我们的高等教育系统原本可能已经遗
The Irish language is for life, not just for St Patrick's Day
As celebrations take place around the UK, Gavin O'Toole asks what more can be done by local government to address the indifference towards the Irish languageWhat better way to say "Happy St Patrick's Day" than in the Irish language itself: Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona daoibh?But although this fiesta of al
Impact of the “like it/keep” extension likely small and self-limiting
Senior officials reported that some 1.5 million people might be eligible for the latest administrative tweak to the Affordable Care Act, an extension of the “like it/keep it” fix that would permit individuals to maintain plans that don’t meet new coverage requirements through October 2017. The move
On The Record (with daily recap)
Today in TIE: Austin on guideline-driven care and geographic variability and reading list, Don with more on the Goldilocks principle, this time in the mortgage realm, Aaron with two posts on why high deductible plans likely won’t save that much money (post 1, post 2) and a personal tale of his inter
