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☆ In economics, women's voices still struggle to be heard
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-08 | by ( Maria Martinez | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

There seems to be a lot to celebrate on International Women's Day in the field of economics. Women head the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization, the U.S. Treasury and the European Central Bank. "The pervasive underrepresentation of women in economics is systemic and structural," Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the first woman to head the World Trade Organization, told Reuters. "There are no women in the textbooks and most big names in economics are men," said Sandra Kretschmer, economics researcher and member of the Women in Economics Initiative. Women and men tend to have different research interests, said Alisa Weinberger, economics researcher at Goethe.

☆ Wojcicki sisters among seven women pioneers getting their own Barbie doll
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-07 | by ( Parija Kavilanz | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

New York (CNN) Barbie isn't one to be pigeonholed into a profession just because she's a woman. She's had an impressive 200 careers on her resume — doctor, astronaut, computer engineer, CEO and even presidential candidate. Among them are the Wojcicki sisters — Susan (longtime CEO of YouTube), Anne (CEO of at-home DNA testing company 23andME) and Janet (professor of pediatrics and epidemiology at the University of California, San Francisco). Susan Wojcicki announced in February that was "stepping back" from her leadership role at YouTube after nearly a decade of running the video-sharing platform. She later became Google's 16th employee and has worked at the company for nearly 25 years.

☆ Explainer: International Women’s Day: date, history and this year’s theme
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-06 | by ( Josie Kao | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

March 6 (Reuters) - As the world gears up to celebrate International Women's Day (IWD) on Wednesday, here is a look at what the global event stands for, this year's theme and the issues that activists are focusing on. WHAT IS INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY? WHAT IS THIS YEAR'S INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY THEME? The U.N.'s theme this year is "DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality." WHY IS INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY IMPORTANT?

☆ Our quest to make AI love us back is futile — and dangerous
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-06 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

But that's futile, experts say, because the AI of today can't feel empathy, let alone love. We've spent years trying to get AI to love us back. Experts told Insider that it's futile to expect the AIs that exist right now to love us back. During a simulation in October 2020, OpenAI's GPT-3 chatbot told a person asking for psychiatric help to kill themselves. Halpern, the UC Berkeley professor, told Insider AI-based relationships are perilous also because the entity can be used as a money-making tool.

☆ A 40-year stock trader and mathematician who had a 366% return shares her 4 biggest tips, plus the winning strategy she learned from her worst mistake
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-04 | by ( Laila Maidan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Sunny Harris began trading on her own after a fund manager lost a big chunk of her investment. She recommends testing your strategy and rules at least 100 times before using them to make trades. Before Sunny Harris became a stock trader, she was a computer programmer with a master's degree in mathematics. 4 of her biggest takeaway tips to trading the marketHer overarching advice is to develop your own trading strategy. And I lost money three times in a row.

☆ TikTok's parent ByteDance is developing a new 'AI-based' learning platform called GeniusJoy that it will test overseas
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-24 | by ( Dan Whateley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

TikTok's parent ByteDance is developing a new 'AI-based' learning tool called GeniusJoy. TikTok's parent company ByteDance is developing a new learning platform for children that the company is referring to as GeniusJoy, per two job postings on its website and a June trademark filing by a company subsidiary. GeniusJoy will adopt "Singapore math pedagogy" for its program, per ByteDance's job listing. ByteDance, which is headquartered in Beijing, has released a variety of educational products in the past centered on Chinese consumers. The company also once operated a learning app called Guagua Long, a course-livestreaming platform dubbed Qingbei, and an English-language tutoring app named GoGoKid.

☆ U.S. Supreme Court's 'major questions' test may doom Biden student debt plan
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-23 | by ( John Kruzel | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

She did not realize she was setting off on a path toward another, less-welcome family first - racking up more than $150,000 in student debt. The major questions doctrine is an outgrowth of an approach favored by many conservatives and business groups to curb what they call the excesses of the "administrative state." Beginning in 2020, the administrations of President Donald Trump, a Republican, and Biden, a Democrat, repeatedly paused federal student loan payments and halted interest from accruing. Two lawsuits - one by six conservative-leaning states and the other by two student loan borrowers who opposed the plan's eligibility requirements - prompted lower courts to block it. 'INSUFFICIENT FUNDS'The major questions doctrine gives judges broad discretion to invalidate executive agency actions unless Congress clearly authorized them in legislation.

☆ The CEO of far-right network Gab says AIs like ChatGPT are 'satanic' and floats creating a Christian one to fight back
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-22 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The CEO of the far-right social network Gab wants to build an explicitly Christian AI. Insider asked ChatGPT whether it thinks it is satanic, to which it said no. Insider asked ChatGPT if it's satanic, and this was its response. Screenshot/ChatGPTIn his article, Torba asked: "If the enemy is going to use this technology for evil, shouldn't we be on the ground floor building one for good?" Insider asked ChatGPT what it thought of Torba's article, and was told it was "misguided."

☆ ChatGPT failed miserably in Singapore's 6th-grade tests, averaging 16% for math and 21% for science. Days later, it was getting answers right.
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-20 | by ( Aditi Bharade | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

OpenAI's ChatGPT failed math and science tests that sixth-graders in Singapore take. It made errors in simple addition and could not comprehend any diagrams, per The Straits Times. It scored an average of 16 out of 100 marks for the three mathematics papers it took, per The Straits Times. ChatGPT fared a little better at the science papers, getting an average of 21 out of 100 marks. But on Monday, when Insider tested ChatGPT on two PSLE science questions — one from 2020 and another from 2022 — it got both questions right.

☆ Who are Larry Kramer and Andreas Paepcke — the two people who paid part of Sam Bankman-Fried's bail?
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-19 | by ( Sarah Jackson | Lakshmi Varanasi | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

They are Larry Kramer and Andreas Paepcke, both of whom have ties to Stanford, where SBF's parents work. On Wednesday, unsealed court records identified the FTX founder's bail guarantors as Larry Kramer, a former dean of Stanford Law School, and Andreas Paepcke, a senior research scientist at Stanford. A screenshot of Larry Kramer's bio on a Stanford Law School web page shows that he's emeritus dean of the institution. from the University of Chicago Law School in 1984, according to his Stanford Law bio page. On his personal page, Paepcke listed hobbies including "piano studies and simple composition, worrying, and poetry."

☆ Trump's 2020 presidential campaign hired a research firm to probe the results for election fraud but found no evidence, with the findings kept away from the public: WaPo
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-12 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The Trump campaign commissioned a firm to probe the 2020 election, but researchers came up empty, per The WaPo. Roughly a dozen people at the Berkeley Research Group were part of a team analyzing Trump's claims. The research didn't deliver what the Trump campaign sought and the findings were kept undisclosed. The Trump campaign envisioned using evidence from the report to bolster the then-president's claims in the public arena and in court. An individual with knowledge of the findings told The Post that the Trump team pushed for at least a dozen hypotheses to be tested.

☆ Factbox: Kazuo Ueda: Who is the new Bank of Japan governor and what can we expect from him?
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-10 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

TOKYO, Feb 10 (Reuters) - Japan's government is likely to appoint Kazuo Ueda, an academic and a former member of the Bank of Japan's policy board, as the next central bank governor, two government officials told Reuters on Friday. The 71-year-old is widely seen as an expert on monetary policy, but is seen as a surprise appointment by analysts. The following are some key questions and answers about the next central bank governor in the world's third-largest economy and the challenges he faces. He is an external director at JGC Holdings Corp (1963.T), an engineering company and at the state-owned Development Bank of Japan. In a 2016 article, Ueda wrote that the BOJ's ultra-easy policy seemed to be "reaching its limits".

☆ I'm the Wordle editor. People complain about the words and recognize me on the street — but I wouldn't trade this job for anything.
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-06 | by ( Kiera Fields | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

She applied to be an associate puzzle editor at The New York Times in 2020 and got the job. I'd always loved puzzlesStarting in my late teens, I'd solve The New York Times Sunday crossword. I would submit them to The New York Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and the Los Angeles Times. Becoming the Wordle editor has been transformative in my personal and professional lifeI've had someone recognize me in a local store and ask, "Aren't you the Wordle lady?" Being the Wordle editor is a thrill, and it's an honor.

☆ A stock trader who returned 440% in 2022 explains the software program he built to automatically buy and sell risky penny stocks for optimal profits
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-04 | by ( Laila Maidan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

He fed the computer 20 years worth of stock data to determine the relationship between data points. And I certainly would not suggest to people that you can just easily make 440% in the stock market. The program trades stocks ranging from pennies priced under $1 a share to large-caps and makes about 20 to 50 trades a day. About 20 minutes later, the market price rose and hit the sell order price of $0.3449 and the position closed. About 17 minutes later, the market price declined and hit the buy order price, and the position closed.

☆ Palestinian teenager dreamt of being a chef before attack, teachers say
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-03 | by ( Henriette Chacar | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +8 min

Although he grew up in Silwan, a cauldron of Palestinian-Israeli tensions near Jerusalem's Old City, Aleiwat had not shown an interest in politics, teachers, relatives, and children from his area told Reuters. They described a popular teenager with a strong personality, a passion for football and an ambition to be a chef. The Jan. 28 attack in Silwan is part of a recent surge of violence in Jerusalem and the Israeli-occupied West Bank. After the Jan. 28 attack, Israeli forces took control of Aleiwat's family home and the government ordered it sealed. Abbasi and other relatives said Aleiwat's family had for years feared their home would be demolished because it was built without the required Israeli permissions.

☆ The top 10 best U.S. cities for STEM careers, according to new research
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-03 | by ( Ashton Jackson | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Despite recent mass tech layoffs , STEM careers have remained in high demand — and some cities are better than others for professionals in the field. Seattle, WATotal Score: 70.82Professional opportunities ranking: 1Quality of life ranking: 222. Austin, TXTotal Score: 67.33Professional opportunities ranking: 2Quality of life ranking: 103. Sacramento, CATotal Score: 60.16Professional opportunities ranking: 38Quality of life ranking: 32According to Jill Gonzalez, a WalletHub analyst, most of these cities have consistently remained the best places for STEM careers for almost a decade. The recent layoffs have only affected a small part of the total labor force and the STEM field encompasses more areas than just tech.

The National Education Union (NEU), which is organising the teachers' strikes, has asked for an above-inflation pay award funded fully by the government, so that schools can also cover other costs, from stationery to textbooks. With inflation reaching double digits last year, teachers have seen a 23% real-terms pay cut since 2010, the union says. Heighington, who teaches music, said more than a third of experienced full-time teachers and teaching staff had left his school last year. Educators say schools having to pay teachers' salaries from their own pocket has left classrooms starved of money for textbooks, IT upgrades and school trips. Reports say teachers at the elite Winchester College in southern England, where Sunak attended school and was a head boy, are among those striking on Wednesday.

☆ Spaceport boss says it's challenging being a successful woman in the space industry as some people exclude her from conversations
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-28 | by ( Kate Duffy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Melissa Thorpe, a Spaceport boss, spoke about the criticism she gets as a woman in the space sector. The space industry is male-dominated, but Thorpe said she's questioning how things are done. Thorpe said she didn't get into the space industry in the traditional way. One out of 5 space industry workers are womenThorpe's seven-day job not only involves running the spaceport, but also going to conferences, traveling, and meeting with clients in different time zones. The United Nations reported in October 2021 that around one in five workers in the space industry are women.

☆ The CEO of a $1.6 billion biotech says his bet on AI is paying off with faster, cheaper research that could reshape the industry
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-25 | by ( Andrew Dunn | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

It has generated tons of data with AI and robots, aiming to find a better way to make drugs. For a biotech executive hoping to make something vast, Chris Gibson seems proudest in obsessing over the tiniest details. Gibson calls this the "human-y" element of research — and it's what Recursion is working hard to eliminate. What's happening in AI — and Recursion is emblematic of this — is we're at the second half of the chess board." Despite the progress in generating massive amounts of data, Recursion's leaders acknowledged that the goal of creating an approved medicine is likely still years away.

☆ I used to work on Mars rovers and now I develop self-driving cars. Here's how I made the pivot from NASA's JPL to Amazon's Zoox.
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-22 | by ( Alexa St. John | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

The former supervisor at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab now works at AV startup Zoox. I figured after all the startups, why not work for a big company, and what better big company than NASA? ZooxThe AV space is the next frontier of robotics. What we're trying to do here in the AV space, it's extremely multidisciplinary. You're doing perception, you're doing planning, you're doing prediction, doing simulation.

That was up from 10% in January 2022, but the pessimists were far outnumbered, with 71% of tech workers feeling positive. Many people spent Covid-19 lockdowns developing their digital skills, and plenty wound up switching from other sectors, like retail or education, into tech roles elsewhere. Professional and business services roles, which include engineering and “computer services,” were down 6,000 last month from November. Even so, employers’ broad appetite for tech skills could put something of a floor under wages — and prop up the appeal of tech roles in general — even as the economy slows. Experienced tech workers, rather than those new to the field, largely drove those pay gains, the jobs platform Hired found in research published in September.

Math is important, but there are still plenty of ways to make a living without it. Here are 24 high-paying jobs to check out. Luckily, there are plenty of high-paying jobs out there for the numerically-averse. O*NET ranks how important "using mathematics to solve problems" is in any job, assigning each a "math importance level" between 1 and 100. Here, in reverse order of median salary, are 24 high-paying positions with a math-importance level of 31 or less:

☆ Gary Wang, the mysterious FTX cofounder, is cooperating with prosecutors. Here's what we know about the key player in the failed crypto empire.
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-22 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

FTX cofounder Gary Wang was a critical player during the rise and fall of SBF's crypto empire . Throughout his time at FTX, Wang maintained a limited online presence and steered clear of media interviews, leaving the limelight to his cofounder, Sam Bankman-Fried. But at FTX, Wang was a somewhat reclusive figure, per reports. Fraud charges and guilty pleaUnlike his cofounder, Wang has largely disappeared from view since he was fired from FTX after the company's implosion. "All of the sudden that snapped into he was leaving that day, back to the US and implicitly mostly stopped working," Bankman-Fried told the news outlet.

☆ Gary Wang, the mysterious FTX cofounder, has pleaded guilty to fraud charges. Here's what we know about the key player in the failed crypto empire.
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-22 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

FTX cofounder Gary Wang was a critical player during the rise and fall of SBF's crypto empire . Wang also served as FTX's former chief technology officer but kept a low profile. Wang served as the chief technology officer at FTX until the exchange collapsed in mid-November. Wang later became the chief technology officer at FTX, establishing himself as a key member of the crypto empire's inner circle. Fraud charges and guilty pleaUnlike his cofounder, Wang has largely disappeared from view since he was fired from FTX after the company's implosion.

Dec 22 (Reuters) - FTX founder and former Chief Executive Sam Bankman-Fried, who faces U.S. fraud charges over the collapse of FTX, ran his crypto empire with a number of associates. GARY WANGGary Wang co-founded FTX and Alameda Research with Bankman-Fried, and served as FTX's chief technology officer. He and Bankman-Fried met at a math camp in high school and became college roommates, Bankman-Fried wrote in a now-unavailable FTX blog. Wang worked as a software engineer at Google before co-founding FTX and Alameda, according to an archived webpage for the FTX Future Fund, the company's charitable effort. NISHAD SINGHNishad Singh was a best friend of Bankman-Fried's brother in high school, Bankman-Fried wrote in the deleted blog post.

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