Mar 25Assorted Recent Talks on AISam Altman: OpenAI CEO on GPT-4, ChatGPT, and the Future of AI — Bill Gates on AI and the rapidly evolving future of computing Godfather of artificial intelligence” talks impact and potential of AI GTC 2023 Keynote with NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang For Discussion: What is your take on the following comments by Bill Gates on the future of programming? Kevin Scott: One of the things for me that has been really fascinating, and I think I’m going to say this just as a reminder to folks who are thinking about pursuing…AI4 min readAI4 min read
Jun 25, 2021Assorted ThreadsAs @chrismanfrank says “Life is about two things: love and bold adventure” 2. On the Future of Online Education 3. El Salvador, Growth Diagnostics and the #BitcoinBitcoin2 min readBitcoin2 min read
May 12, 2021What are the best commencement speeches from last two years?Commencement Speech1 min readCommencement Speech1 min read
May 11, 2021The Future of Higher Education according to Sal KhanADAM SHAPIRO: What is the future of higher education, do you think, going to look like relatively soon, because we’re almost out of the pandemic? But when you talk about two years of community college for free, I mean, I’m still trying to grapple with why some people are paying…Education Reform2 min readEducation Reform2 min read
May 9, 2021Balance Sheets and Debt Crisis: Predicting Defaults in the 21st CenturyInteresting highlights from a recent macroeconomics paper presentation.Macroeconomics1 min readMacroeconomics1 min read
May 9, 2021Two Reads for the DayIf you read two articles this week, let it be the following two pieces. 1. Why Did It Take So Long to Accept the Facts About Covid? A few sentences have shaken a century of science. A week ago, more than a year after the World Health Organization declared that we face a pandemic, a page on its website titled “Coronavirus Disease (Covid-19)…Daniel Kahneman2 min readDaniel Kahneman2 min read
Apr 29, 2021Go and create your own CBCAssorted CBC announcements. More at Maven.Cbc1 min readCbc1 min read
Apr 2, 2021People to follow in EdTech — Raj Kunkolienkar#MBA #DisruptEducation #EdTechEdtech1 min readEdtech1 min read
Mar 28, 2021The Myth of ExperienceBook talk of the Day; In our success-hungry contemporary society, we’d all love to believe that there are magic bullets to be found — secrets of success we can apply to guarantee the results we want. And when experience is examined uncritically and carelessly, it may seem to yield such secrets. But all too often, they prove illusory. Fortunately, though guarantees are nowhere to be found, a more scientific approach to experience can provide insights that can make our personal success measurably more likely.Psychology1 min readPsychology1 min read