Universities would prefer no AI(hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com)

17 points by HR01 2 months ago | 23 comments

How should higher education be financed?(thediff.co)

8 points by barry-cotter 2 years ago | 37 comments

How smart do you have to be to get a degree?(cremieux.xyz)

58 points by noch 2 years ago | 65 comments

American universities have an incentive to seem extortionate(economist.com)

55 points by martincmartin 3 years ago | 73 comments

New U.S. college grads now have higher unemployment than the average worker(randalolson.com)

167 points by davidbarker 4 months ago | 169 comments

Students foot the bill for flagship state universities(wsj.com)

41 points by paulpauper 3 years ago | 27 comments

AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt(futurism.com)

628 points by technewssss 3 months ago | 317 comments

Futurism article reporting that AI companies are using off-balance-sheet arrangements to hide large amounts of debt.

We need scientific dissidents(chronicle.com)

355 points by Georgelemental 3 years ago | 848 comments

Chronicle of Higher Education opinion essay arguing that the early artificial consensus on Covid's origins shows the need for scientific dissidents.

California bans legacy admissions at private universities(nytimes.com)

535 points by JumpCrisscross 2 years ago | 563 comments

New York Times article reporting that California has banned legacy admissions preferences at private universities such as Stanford and USC.

Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as worth the cost(nbcnews.com)

417 points by jnord 11 months ago | 681 comments

NBC News article on its poll finding two-thirds of registered voters no longer think a four-year college degree is worth the cost, a reversal from a dozen years ago.

US proposes $100k charge for international students to do post-graduate work(nature.com)

41 points by bluenose69 17 days ago | 40 comments

Nature news article on a proposed US rule charging international students $100,000 to do post-graduate work, which specialists say would choke the STEM talent pipeline.

LLMs use a surprisingly simple mechanism to retrieve some stored knowledge(news.mit.edu)

336 points by CharlesW 2 years ago | 121 comments

MIT News article on research showing LLMs often retrieve stored facts via simple linear functions, and a technique to probe what a model knows about subjects.