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☆ Stanford Medical School Withdraws From U.S. News Ranking, Expanding Exodus
  + stars: | 2023-01-24 | by ( Melissa Korn | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Stanford Medical School is withdrawing its cooperation from the U.S. News & World Report rankings of medical schools, pulling out six days after Harvard Medical School said it would no longer provide data to the publication. The move suggests a prolonged cascading effect after Yale Law School said in November that it wouldn’t provide data for U.S. News’s law-school rankings. More than a dozen other top-ranked schools—including Stanford Law School—followed suit. Harvard Medical School Dean George Q. Daley said the law schools’ decisions compelled him to act.
☆ Viral chatbot ChatGPT will be overhyped, then overlooked, and then, perhaps, essential
  + stars: | 2022-12-20 | by ( Emilia David | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +7 min
Emerging technology like ChatGPT is usually called overhyped until it becomes essential. ChatGPT lets users ask its bot questions or give it prompts using GPT-3, an impressive piece of natural-language-processing AI tech. ChatGPT and the Gartner Hype CycleIn layman's terms, ChatGPT is a chatbot using GPT-3, a state-of-the-art AI model that uses a massive amount of data to generate humanlike text. It's all very exciting and new, which is where the Gartner Hype Cycle, from the tech-research and consulting firm Gartner, comes in handy. To be sure, the rise of generative AI and more forms of ChatGPT aren't assured.
☆ Here's why Home Depot and Lowe's are booming in a housing market bust
  + stars: | 2022-11-16 | by ( Diana Olick | In Dianaolick | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +3 min
Suzanne Kreiter | The Boston Globe | Getty ImagesWith rising mortgage rates, homeowners are staying in place. By the end of the first quarter of this year, before the steep runup in mortgage rates caused the housing market to falter, homeowners had a collective $11 trillion dollars in so-called tappable equity, according to Black Knight. That equity is part of a three-pronged driver of home improvement, according to the CEO of Lowe's, Marvin Ellison. "The growth rate for improvement spending will slow due to declines for existing home sales," said Robert Dietz, NAHB's chief economist. "However, an aging housing stock, work from home trends and a decline for household mobility all favor remodeling spending."
☆ Can Harvard Discriminate by Race Forever?
  + stars: | 2022-11-01 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
The Supreme Court Justices exhibited supreme patience Monday in hearing nearly four hours of argument in a pair of major cases involving race and college admissions. But the argument was worth the time, because it exposed some unhappy truths about those who believe in the necessity of discriminating by race. The Justices are considering challenges to the admission practices of Harvard and the University of North Carolina, in particular that they discriminate illegally against Asian-Americans in favor of other races. ( Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, and SFFA v.
☆ Decades of stark divisions over affirmative action set for Supreme Court showdown
  + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Lawrencehurley_Pic.Jpg | Lawrence Hurley | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +4 min
Most court observers are expecting that the court’s 6-3 conservative majority will be sympathetic to the arguments against affirmative action being brought by a group called Students for Fair Admissions. Ed Blum, the anti-affirmative action activist who leads the group, said he hopes the court "will finally end these polarizing and unfair racial preferences in college admissions." The court shifted to the right following former President Donald Trump’s appointment of three conservative justices, creating the 6-3 conservative majority. Polanco joined other UNC alumni and current students in defending the existing admissions policy in court. They argue that the UNC admissions policy discriminates against white and Asian applicants and that the Harvard policy discriminates against Asians.
☆ The Supreme Court and Racial Preferences
  + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
A great triumph of 20th-century American government was the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It broke the back of Jim Crow and reasserted the principle that no one should be discriminated against for his race. The Supreme Court has a chance to reaffirm that vital American principle on Monday when it hears challenges to the admissions practices at Harvard and the University of North Carolina (Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard College and SFFA v. University of North Carolina). The case is an important moment for American law but even more for the country’s social and political future. Yet rather than assimilate this melting pot with race-neutral principles, many in our political class want to divide America into racial categories, allocating jobs, benefits and even elections based on race.
☆ Side-by-side photographic glass plates and James Webb images show how telescope technology has evolved since the 1800s
  + stars: | 2022-09-10 | by ( Paola Rosa-Aquino | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +8 min
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, astronomers catalogued the universe on glass photographic plates. Compared to faint objects stamped on plates, the James Webb Space Telescope's images show dramatic improvements in telescope technology. The exposures were made on glass plates coated with photosensitive emulsions, with astronomers later developing the plates like film in a darkroom. Compared with Webb's infrared images, photographic plates of the same parts of the night sky show how developments in technology led to clearer and deeper views of the cosmos. Webb's clear views of interacting galaxies offer sharper detail than faint glass plate imagesA glass plate image of Stephan's Quintet taken in 1974, left.
☆ How to get a job at McKinsey, BCG, Bain, or Accenture, according to 3 headhunters for these top management consulting firms
  + stars: | 2020-06-23 | by ( Robin Madell | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +14 min
The top management consulting firms — which include McKinsey & Company, Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Bain & Company, and Accenture — are notoriously tough to break into. Insider asked Smith and two other recruiters for management consulting on their top tips for breaking into the ranks of McKinsey, BCG, Bain, and Accenture. "We've noticed that more consulting firms are expanding beyond MBA degrees and into other advanced degrees to fill their post-graduate classes." Stokes added that candidates can leverage the international piece of the tripod by keeping in mind that McKinsey, BCG, Bain, and Accenture have offices worldwide. You can see samples of case interviews for McKinsey, BCG, Bain, and Accenture here.
☆ The Tucker Carlson origin story
  + stars: | 1998-01-28 | by ( Aaron Short | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +57 min
Tucker Carlson is remembered as a provocateur and gleeful contrarian by those who knew him in his early days. It was Tucker Carlson. (Note on style: Tucker Carlson and the members of his family are referred to here by their first names to avoid confusion.) In 1979, Richard Carlson married Patricia Swanson, heiress to the Swanson frozen foods empire that perfected the frozen Salisbury steak for hassle-free dinners. Tucker Carlson attended St. George’s School, a boarding school starting at age 14.
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