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☆ If you get laid off, one of the first things you should do is volunteer
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-26 | by ( Tim Paradis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

AdvertisementVolunteering can be one way to find gratitude — and help people navigate the steps needed to land a new role, Schielke said. Committing to doing some work for others can also help retain structure in your schedule when work hours disappear, Schielke said. Turn to your network for helpOutside of seeing how you might help others, there are other steps you can take if you're newly unemployed. Schielke said it's important to have a sounding board to help you remain accountable for your next actions, especially as getting laid off can be a shock. Advertisement"Being able to connect with a person or know someone who knows someone who can get your résumé in front of the right people is so important," Schielke said.

Persons: —, Jennifer Schielke, Schielke, what's, It's, dilly, dally Organizations: Service, Group Solutions, Business

☆ Lying on the floor can help you feel less overwhelmed. Here's how to do it and why it works.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-10 | by ( Nandini Maharaj | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

On TikTok, floor time involves sitting or lying on the floor to soothe yourself. We asked experts what they think about floor time and how it can help if you're anxious or overwhelmed. Lying on the floor can help you block out external stimuli, allowing your body time to reset, Wood said. As you're lying on the ground, "make sure your knees are at a 90-degree bend to support your lower half," she said. Alternatives to this practiceWhether you call it floor time or a corpse pose, lying on the floor may not be an option.

Persons: —, Dally, Nicole Wood, Wood, you've, Daryl Appleton, EdD, Appleton, Nandini Maharaj Organizations: Service, sniffed, Business, Research

☆ Tara Davis-Woodhall: ‘My entire memo is have fun,’ says the ‘free-spirited’ US long jump star
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-09 | by ( George Ramsay | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

It’s hard not to be swept up in Davis-Woodhall’s approach to the long jump, especially when she finds reason to laugh even in the heat of fierce competition. “My entire memo is have fun,” she tells CNN Sport. Long jump is one track and field discipline which governing body World Athletics seems interested in developing, such as by introducing a take-off zone in the place of a fixed board. “I think it might be a little silly,” she says, “just because you kind of take away from the principle of long jump. That’s even more true for an athlete like Davis-Woodhall, currently jumping further and with more confidence than ever before.

Persons: Tara Davis, Woodhall, dally, I’m, –, I’ve, Ben Stansall, Serbia’s Ivana Španović, ”, Davis, don’t, “, “ I’m, “ I’ve, ” Davis, Hunter Woodall, Michael Woods, “ Tara, Hunter, Hunter Woodhall, it’s, Michael Steele, Jon Ridgeon Organizations: CNN, CNN Sport, Davis, Paris Olympics, Tokyo Olympics, Woodhall, Doping Agency, ”, University of Texas, World Athletics Locations: Glasgow, Scotland, Davis, AFP, “, Albuquerque , New Mexico, Tokyo, Budapest, Hungary

☆ An afternoon at the popular Chinese coffee chain that should be making Starbucks very, very nervous
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-24 | by ( Kai Xiang Teo | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

A Chinese coffee chain called Luckin Coffee recently overtook Starbucks in China, beating the international coffee chain in sales in the second quarter of 2023, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. Founded in Beijing in 2017, Luckin Coffee has staged a dramatic turn-around. AdvertisementCurious to see whether Luckin could live up to its Starbucks-killer hype, I headed over to a Luckin Coffee in Singapore's central Chinatown neighborhood on Thursday afternoon. Luckin Coffee and Starbucks did not respond to my requests for comment for this story. Ordering my coffee was machine-like: technical, efficient and impersonalA typical ordering experience on the Luckin Coffee app means you'll never have to interact with a human.

Persons: —, Luckin, Kai Xiang Teo, he'd, weren't, Amanda, didn't dally, Esther, I've, Jeremy Organizations: Service, Starbucks, Wall Street, Google, Singapore Locations: China, Beijing, China . Singapore, Singapore's, Chinatown, Luckin, Singapore, Hong Kong

☆ Nvidia tests chatbots in chip design process in bid to use more AI
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( Stephen Nellis | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Oct 30 (Reuters) - Nvidia (NVDA.O) on Monday published new research into using chatbots that can generate human-like responses in the process of designing semiconductors. "It turns out a lot of our senior designers spend a fair amount of their time answering questions from junior designers," Nvidia's chief scientist Bill Dally told Reuters. This can save senior designers a huge amount of time." Dally said a big chunk of engineers' time is dedicated to finding a part of the chip that doesn't work and using testing tools to find out why. To carry out that testing, AI systems can quickly write piece of code called a script that operates the tool.

Persons: Bill Dally, Dally, Stephen Nellis, Marguerita Choy Organizations: Nvidia, Reuters, San, Thomson Locations: San Francisco

☆ Musk, Zuckerberg, Gates to join US senators for AI forum
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-13 | by ( David Shepardson | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Microsoft President Brad Smith, Nvidia's chief scientist William Dally, and Professor Woodrow Hartzog wait to testify before a Senate Judiciary Privacy, Technology, and the Law Subcommittee hearing on "Oversight of A.I. : Legislating on Artificial Intelligence" on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., September 12, 2023. Other expected attendees include feature OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Nvidia (NVDA.O) CEO Jensen Huang, Microsoft (MSFT.O) CEO Satya Nadella, IBM (IBM.N) CEO Arvind Krishna, former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates, AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler and Senators Mike Rounds, Martin Heinrich, and Todd Young. Microsoft President Brad Smith told a Senate Judiciary subcommittee on Tuesday Congress should "require safety brakes for AI that controls or manages critical infrastructure." Smith compared AI safeguards to requiring circuit breakers in buildings, school buses having emergency brakes and airplanes having collision avoidance systems.

Persons: Brad Smith, William Dally, Woodrow Hartzog, Leah Millis, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, Chuck Schumer, ChatGPT, Sam Altman, Jensen Huang, Satya Nadella, Arvind Krishna, Bill Gates, Liz Shuler, Mike Rounds, Martin Heinrich, Todd Young, Schumer, Smith, Joe Biden's, David Shepardson, Lincoln Organizations: Privacy, Technology, REUTERS, Capitol Hill, Nvidia, Microsoft, IBM, AFL, Regulators, Google, Thomson Locations: Washington , U.S, WASHINGTON, Senate's

A SpiceJet passenger aircraft taxis on the tarmac at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai, India, May 29, 2023. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsNEW DELHI, Sept 11 (Reuters) - India's SpiceJet said on Monday it would pay $1.5 million to Credit Suisse as demanded by the country's top court. If SpiceJet fails to pay, the Supreme Court will take "drastic action" at the next hearing on Sept. 22, it said. The airline had previously said the Credit Suisse debt was an old one that predated the tenure of its current management. In that case, also heard on Monday at a Delhi High Court, SpiceJet said it had deposited 625 million rupees of that amount.

Persons: Francis Mascarenhas, India's SpiceJet, SpiceJet, dally, Ajay Singh, Singh, Kalanithi Maran, Maran, Arpan Chaturvedi, Aditi Shah, Yagnoseni Das, Aditya Kalra, Himani Sarkar, Miral Fahmy, Mark Potter Organizations: REUTERS, Credit Suisse, India's, Madras, Court, Thomson Locations: Chhatrapati Shivaji, Mumbai, India, DELHI, SpiceJet

☆ 2 Senators Propose Bipartisan Framework for A.I. Laws
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-07 | by ( Cecilia Kang | More About Cecilia Kang | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Senator Richard Blumenthal, Democrat of Connecticut, and Senator Josh Hawley, Republican of Missouri, plan to announce a sweeping framework to regulate artificial intelligence, in the latest effort by Congress to catch up with the technology. The lawmakers plan to highlight their proposals in an A.I. hearing on Tuesday, which will feature Brad Smith, Microsoft’s president, and William Dally, the chief scientist for the A.I. Mr. Blumenthal and Mr. Hawley plan to introduce bills from the framework. On Wednesday, top tech executives including Elon Musk, Microsoft’s Satya Nadella and OpenAI’s Sam Altman will meet with the Senate leader, Chuck Schumer, and other lawmakers in a separate closed-door meeting on A.I.

Persons: Richard Blumenthal, Josh Hawley, Brad Smith, William Dally, Blumenthal, Hawley, Elon Musk, Satya Nadella, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Chuck Schumer Organizations: Nvidia, Mr, Elon Locations: Connecticut, Republican, Missouri

But Nvidia has created variants of its chips for the Chinese market that are slowed down to meet U.S. rules. Even the slowed Nvidia chips represent an improvement for Chinese firms. The back-and-forth between government and industry exposes the U.S. challenge of slowing China's progress in high tech without hurting U.S. companies. Chip industry sources said that was an effective action. Some in the AI industry believe that is still plenty of speed.

☆ Nvidia shows new research on using AI to improve chip designs
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-28 | by ( Stephen Nellis | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/2] A smartphone with a displayed NVIDIA logo is placed on a computer motherboard in this illustration taken March 6, 2023. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/IllustrationMarch 27 (Reuters) - Nvidia Corp (NVDA.O), the world's leading designer of computer chips used in creating artificial intelligence, on Monday showed new research that explains how AI can be used to improve chip design. Chip design engineers use complex design software from firms like Synopsys Inc (SNPS.O) and Cadence Design Systems Inc (CDNS.O) to help them optimize the placement of those transistors. On Monday, Nvidia released a paper showing that it could use a combination of artificial intelligence techniques to find better ways to place big groups of transistors. The Nvidia research took an existing effort developed by University of Texas researchers using what is called reinforcement learning and added a second layer of artificial intelligence on top of it to get even better results.

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