The biggest financial decision many families will ever make is their child’s choice of college major.

RT @emollick: New randomized, controlled trial of students using GPT-4 as a tutor in Nigeria. 6 weeks of after-school AI tutoring = 2 years….

RT @randallmbriggs: Happy to publish Lecture 1 of my course, Advanced Machining, here on @X. This lecture is an introduction to the course….

Coincidentally -- or not -- Russian military commitments in Africa and the Mideast all happen to be positioned to block pipelines to Europe from oil & gas producing countries.

Everyone in the San Francisco Bay Area just got a tsunami warning, due to a 6.6 earthquake just off the coast of far Northern California.

RT @lexfridman: Scientific American editor-in-chief is an embarrassment to science. Get politics out of science, engineering, STEM educati….

RT @CliffordAsness: The return of economic idiocy is staggering and terrifying. Many things are debatable even if I or others may strongly….

AI earpieces will solve a politician's hardest problem: hallucinating convincingly in realtime.

Lojack has let police locate and recover stolen cars for 30 years. Why don't police do the same for stolen phones, which have locator tech built in?.

RT @HedgeDirty: The most socially corrosive form of crime is the one where the perpetrator advertises his own immunity from consequence, b….

How did China bootstrap world-class primary education from 1980-2000? Literacy went from 65% to 90%+ in 20 years, while China was still poor. Where did they get the teachers? How did they pay for it? (Source:

The far right doesn’t understand compassion, and the far left doesn’t understand incentives.

RT @martin_casado: 1/ We’ve submitted a letter to President Biden regarding the AI Executive Order and its potential for restricting open s….

RT @AndrewYNg: Laws to ensure AI applications are safe, fair, and transparent are needed. But the White House's use of the Defense Producti….

If you’re paid $80 an hour, then ChatGPT is a bargain if it saves you just 1 minute per day.

Imagine Thomas Edison and Henry Ford challenging each other to a fistfight.

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Working again as of noon Pacific time May 4.

RT @RSA_Observer: @ElbridgeColby An aside. In the long haul the US is probably not going to be able to keep pace with Chinese arms manufact….

RT @StrangerJosh11: Energy is ultimately the lever by which the world is lifted.