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☆ Harris isn’t giving the specifics some undecided voters say they want
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-18 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

On another intractable issue, the Israel-Hamas war, Harris was strong on aspiration, vague on specifics and seemed to fall on both sides of the issue. Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris debate for the first time at the National Constitution Center on September 10, 2024, in Philadelphia. And Harris might be smart to avoid taking positions that could scare off disaffected Republicans and moderate suburban voters she’s seeking to win over. Voters want to know more about HarrisStill, recent polls show that the vice president has a window of opportunity to court voters who want to learn more about her. … She needs to be more direct.”From left to right, second gentleman Doug Emhoff, Vice President Kamala Harris, Minnesota first lady Gwen Walz and Minnesota Gov.

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☆ Opinion | Joyful Feelings as Democratic Convention Concludes
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-23 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

To the Editor:Day 4 of the Democratic National Convention was wonderful. Al Sharpton brought out members of the Central Park Five, men who collectively spent 41 years of their lives incarcerated. Mr. Trump never apologized because he is incapable of an apology. Sandy MileySherrill, N.Y.To the Editor:To preserve my sanity, I’ve spent the last eight years not reading the news. Instead, I’ve filled the empty space watching lots of feel-good dog videos: golden retrievers, of course, and lots of rescues.

Persons: Al Sharpton, Donald Trump, Trump, Kamala Harris, Michelle Obama, Sandy Miley Sherrill, I’ve Organizations: Democratic National Convention, Central, New York Times Locations: N.Y

☆ I'm horrible at job interviews, so I asked an expert for advice before a big opportunity. Her tips helped me land the job.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-12 | by ( Melissa Petro | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Read previewI've done everything you're not supposed to do during a job interview — appearing unpolished, bad-talking past bosses, and revealing too much. At one job interview in 2011, I even cried. I decided to become a freelancer, partly to avoid the entire job interview experience. I may be bad at job interviews, but I'm great at writing headlines. Related storiesI decided to say, "I'm a freelance writer and writing instructor who's been providing book editing services since 2010.

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☆ A software engineering job got over 3,000 applications. Here's how a recruiter screened out 98% of them before a phone call.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-20 | by ( Shubhangi Goel | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewIt took Lusely Martinez and her team 50 days to fill a software engineering role for a global tech company. "This role was for a level three software engineer, with full-stack expertise and knowledge of specific programming languages," Martinez told Business Insider. Martinez used an applicant tracking software to screen out candidates who didn't meet the job's basic requirements. Recruiter screening callThe hiring manager selected 43 candidates for a recruiter screen —1.28% of the total applicants. "Do your due diligence: read the job posting thoroughly before applying to ensure you are a good match," she said.

Persons: —, Lusely Martinez, Martinez, they've, it's Organizations: Service, Business, BI Locations: generalities

☆ Nvidia has a parade of partners, but these two stocks are my favorite beneficiaries
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-24 | by ( Jim Cramer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +23 min

That's what Nvidia needed semiconductor design firm Synopsys to do to make this next generation of chips. Right now, Nvidia has had not one, but two different breakthroughs: Accelerated computing at a ridiculously fast speed and generative artificial intelligence. I think Jensen regards Dell as a crucial partner when it comes to installing Nvidia's systems anywhere. Do I think Nvidia would like to do more business with Apple? I think Nvidia would like to do more business with everyone, including alleged opponent Intel .

Persons: Abraham Lincoln, David Herbert Donald, Jensen, It's, Jensen Huang, Lincoln, Leonardo da Vinci, da Vinci, he's, Blackwell, Grace Hooper Superchip, –, Moby Dick –, that's, they've, Adam Selipsky, Jensen laughingly, Claude, Anthropic, Dell, Michael Dell, Jensen's, it's, dink, I'm, Johnson, J, Abbott, Reckitt Benckiser, we've, CrowdStrike, ServiceNow, Bill McDermott, Tesla, Elon Musk, Lora Kolodny, That's, Frank Slootman, Ansys, Synopsys, isn't, Sundar Pichai, Satya Nadella, Larry Ellison, Nvidia's Blackwell, Mark Zuckerberg, Jim, Tim Cook, Cook, Apple, Jim Cramer's, Jim Cramer, Josh Edelson Organizations: Lincoln, GTC, Nvidia, GTC –, CNBC, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Dell Technologies, Club, Dell, Siemens, Rockwell Automation, Cadence Design Systems, Nvidia's, Johnson, Abbott Laboratories, GE Healthcare, cybersecurity, Palo Alto, Palo, Snowflake, AMD, Autodesk, Cadence, Computer, Oracle, Apple, Justice Department, Intel, Vision, Jim Cramer's Charitable, SAP Center, AFP, Getty Locations: U.S, Silicon Valley, Lincoln, Here's, Palo Alto, Pittsburgh, Switzerland, San Jose , California

☆ Educators teaching AI literacy to students should include ethics in their lesson plans, scholars say
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-27 | by ( Ngozi Nwanji | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

While some optimists focus on AI's benefits in education, others fear that using AI in classrooms could catalyze cheating and misinformation. This is where AI literacy can be useful. Created within the Stanford Graduate School of Education, CRAFT is a collaborative effort of Stanford education researchers, software developers, and curriculum developers. Lee also told BI that AI literacy in classrooms "should involve recognition of where AI can be effective and where it requires extra vigilance." He said the school also hopes to grow CRAFT's teacher codesign fellowship through which fellows develop AI literacy lessons.

Persons: —, OpenAI, Victor Lee, Lee, Matthew Ratz, Ratz, ChatGPT, Erin Reddick, who's, Reddick, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Organizations: Stanford, Service, Allied Market Research, Arizona State University, ASU, Stanford Graduate School of Education, Montgomery College, TED, Ratz, Houghton Locations: North America, Jasper, Houghton Mifflin

☆ Reducing pesticides in food: Major food manufacturers earn an F grade
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Sandee Lamotte | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

“Pesticide exposure during pregnancy may lead to an increased risk of birth defects, low birth weight, and fetal death,” the American Academy of Pediatrics stated. “Exposure in childhood has been linked to attention and learning problems, as well as cancer.”Yet pesticide exposure is widespread, even for chemicals that were banned years ago by federal agencies. In the 2023 Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce — a list of nonorganic produce with the most pesticides — researchers found 210 different pesticides on the 12 foods. In addition, consumers can ask food companies to “release the actual test results of pesticide concentrations in their products,” said EWG’s Temkin. “Food companies have not been publishing such data, instead relying on generalities,” she said via email.

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☆ UN chief heat officer says warming cities pose potential to be major killers
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-06 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Sept 6 (Reuters) - The United Nations' first global chief heat officer called on Wednesday for political leaders to make firm commitments at November's COP28 climate meeting to stem rapidly rising temperatures in cities, particularly in poorer countries. "In July, we had these crazy heat domes in almost all of the Northern Hemisphere." "It really felt like something was different, it felt like a turning point," Myrivili, the former chief heat officer for Athens, said. Myrivili and national chief heat officers around the world are focused on measures like bringing nature into cities and employing mitigation techniques such as the white reflecting asphalt introduced in Phoenix, Arizona. There are a lot of countries that have a lot of informal housing, a lot of informal labour and a lot of poverty, and that's where heat becomes the real killer."

Persons: Eleni Myrivili, Myrivili, Remo Casilli, I'm, Jane Wardell, Alison Williams Organizations: United Nations, Reuters IMPACT, Northern, Fontana, Fontana della Barcaccia, Spagna, REUTERS, Thomson Locations: London, Athens, Fontana della, Italy, Rome, generalities, Phoenix , Arizona

☆ Opinion | What We Celebrate When We Celebrate the Fourth of July
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-04 | by ( Bret Stephens | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In the spring of 1859, Abraham Lincoln was invited by a committee of Boston Republicans to attend a festival in honor of Thomas Jefferson’s birthday. Instead, he sent a letter that explains, perhaps better than anything else Lincoln wrote except for the Gettysburg Address, what it is that we celebrate when we celebrate the Fourth of July. Lincoln began by noting a historical irony: Roughly 70 years earlier, America’s two main political parties had gotten their start. The Democrats of his day held “the liberty of one man to be absolutely nothing, when in conflict with another man’s right of property,” Lincoln wrote. “Republicans, on the contrary, are for both the man and the dollar, but in cases of conflict, the man before the dollar.”

Persons: Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson’s, Lincoln, “, ” Lincoln, John C, Calhoun, Stephen Douglas Organizations: Boston Republicans, Gettysburg, Democratic, Republicans, Federalists, “ Republicans

☆ AI’s regulation naysayers protest too much
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-21 | by ( Karen Kwok | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +7 min

As venture capitalist Marc Andreessen notes, AI models are made up of codes and algorithms just like other computer programmes. Moreover, AI models’ ability to extrapolate from data at high speed explains why almost every industry is deploying the technology in the hope of boosting productivity. Precisely because AI models can replicate tasks done by humans, it’s harder to spot which is which. The EU’s proposed law advocates placing AI applications into four different buckets. AI systems that could be used to influence voters and the outcome of elections and systems used by social media platforms with over 45 million users are labeled “high-risk”.

Persons: Sam Altman, Marc Andreessen, Joe Biden, Altman, ChatGPT, “, ”, Peter Thal Larsen, George Hay, Katrina Hamlin Organizations: Reuters, Organisation for Economic Co, OECD, Microsoft, Watchdogs, Facebook, Meta, Twitter, Union, Bloomberg, Thomson Locations: EU, China, Canada, India, United Kingdom, United States, Brussels, Paris, Europe

☆ He's played chess with Peter Thiel, sparred with Elon Musk and once, supposedly, stopped a plane crash: Inside Sam Altman's world, where truth is stranger than fiction
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( Melia Russell | Julia Black | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +41 min

But, "you do at some point need to start having contact with reality," he told Insider. The plan was still only a rough sketch, Blania told Insider, but that didn't seem to matter to his host. "He always wanted to understand everything at a very deep level," Thrun told Insider in an email. (When asked about guns, Altman told Insider he'd been "happy to have one both times my home was broken into while I was there.") When asked about this, Altman told Insider in an email: "i can guess what that's about; these stories grow crazily inflated over the years of getting re-told!

☆ Sam Altman is building his utopia, whether you want it or not
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( Melia Russell | Julia Black | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +41 min

Altman told Insider, "We debate our approach frequently and carefully." "I don't think anyone can lose your dad young and wish he didn't have more time with him," Altman told Insider. Altman told Insider that his thinking had evolved since those posts. (When asked about guns, Altman told Insider he'd been "happy to have one both times my home was broken into while I was there.") When asked about this, Altman told Insider in an email: "i can guess what that's about; these stories grow crazily inflated over the years of getting re-told!

☆ I worked a seasonal job at Disney so I could have extra money to travel the world
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-01 | by ( Jen Glantz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Some people who worked there were obsessed with Disney, but I hadn't even heard of most of the Disney movies. At the time, I was eager to travel to Hong Kong and Taiwan, so I wanted to work a 3-month seasonal job to help me pay for that. I decided to try to work at the same place my brother worked a few years prior, Disneyland Paris. Djeneba, 26, worked a seasonal job at Disneyland Paris so she could earn extra money to travel the world. But it's an easy seasonal job, and by the end of it, you'll understand the Disney magic or, at least whatever it means to you.

Language allowed me to make some meaning of the situation and take control of my own mental health narratives. “I’m gonna be honest, I didn’t wanna go to the mental health hospital,” she says in the documentary. She wants to be transparent about her mental health condition in order to inspire others and help them feel less alone. Moments like this highlight how risky it still is for a celebrity to be candid about mental health. For a celebrity who once had the most followed Instagram account, the performance of an identity versus the reality of it is crucial to understanding Gomez’s mental health advocacy.

Anyone on his team who agreed to a debate should be fired, or never work again, because that debate may have tanked his campaign,” said Chris Kofinis, a veteran Democratic campaign strategist. John Fetterman, the Democratic Senate nominee in Pennsylvania, debates Republican challenger Mehmet Oz on Tuesday. And Fetterman’s campaign, eager to project strength, said Wednesday that it had raised $2 million since the debate ended“There’s always second-guessing,” Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., said on MSNBC Wednesday. Fetterman’s debate performance took some Republicans by surprise, too. But another top Pennsylvania Democrat, who believes Fetterman’s debate performance was devastating and requested anonymity to offer candid thoughts on the party’s nominee, fears the race is over.

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