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NYC professor Shellyne Rodriguez under investigation after chasing Post staffers with machete

The unhinged New York City art professor who held a machete to a Post reporter’s throat after he knocked on her apartment door Tuesday morning is under investigation by the NYPD, according to police. Shellyne Rodriguez could possibly face assault and other charges over the frightening altercation, which began inside her Bronx apartment building before she then chased two Post staffers in the street, according to law enforcement sources. New York Post veteran Reuven Fenton and a photographer visited Rodriguez to inquire about a viral video from earlier this month in which she freaked...

UC Berkeley Professor Apologizes For False Indigenous Identity

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May 6, 2023

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — An anthropology professor at the University of California, Berkeley, whose identity as Native American had been questioned for years apologized this week for falsely identifying as Indigenous, saying she is “a white person” who lived an identity based on family lore.Elizabeth Hoover, associate professor of environmental science, policy and management, said in an apology posted Monday on her website that she claimed an identity as a woman of Mohawk and Mi’kmaq descent but never confirmed that identity with those communities or researched her ancestry until recently.“I caused harm,” Hoover wrote....

ChatGPT may be able to predict stock movements: finance professor

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April 14, 2023

Alejandro Lopez-Lira, a finance professor at the University of Florida, says that large language models may be useful when forecasting stock prices.He used ChatGPT to parse news headlines for whether they're good or bad for a stock, and found that ChatGPT's ability to predict the direction of the next day's returns were much better than random, he said in a recent unreviewed paper.The experiment strikes at the heart of the promise around state-of-the-art artificial intelligence: With bigger computers and better datasets — like those powering ChatGPT — these AI models may display "emergent abilities,"...

WATCH: Professor and Legal Insurrection Founder Reveals Why Critical Race Theory Must Be Defeated

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March 28, 2023

William Jacobson, the founder the popular website Legal Insurrection and a professor at Cornell University, recently joined The Political Insider’s Brett Smith to discuss his new Equal Protection Project, as well as why he and his organization are continuing to shed a light on discriminatory practices in education and the growing, dangerous concept of Critical Race Theory (CRT). Contrary to what its defenders claim, CRT is not just some high-minded, little-mentioned principle limited to law schools. Far from it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agktv2suPJc RELATED: Tensions Rise In Virginia Schools Over Racial Issues Nothing but a “Non-Problem?” At the...

A Wharton professor gave A.I. tools 30 minutes to work on a business project. The results were ‘superhuman’

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March 27, 2023

Artificial intelligence is presenting new possibilities on how to do work, and leaving many observers nervous about what will become of white-collar jobs. Ethan Mollick, a management professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, has been closely following developments in generative A.I. tools, which can create essays, images, voices, code, and much else based on a user’s text prompts. He recently decided to see how much such tools could accomplish in only 30 minutes, and described the results this weekend on his blog One Useful Thing. The results were, he writes,...

Marxist California Professor Aghast to Learn She’s Descended From Mayflower Passenger, Slave-Owning Soldier

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February 24, 2023

79-year-old University of California professor Angela Davis got the surprise of her life last week when the Marxist learned she is descended from one of only 101 passengers on the Mayflower as well as a slave-owning Revolutionary War soldier. Needless to say, the former Black Panther who won the Lenin Peace Prize in 1979 (formerly known as the Stalin Peace Prize) was aghast to learn of her true family ties. Jean Genet, Angela Davis, and Jane Fonda at a Black Panther meeting in 1968. pic.twitter.com/vFrr8ayYzu — Andrew Marzoni (@andrewmarzoni) February 22, 2023 Famed Black...

ChatGPT passed an MBA exam and one professor is sounding the alarm

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January 22, 2023

ChatGPT has alarmed high-school teachers, who worry that students will use it—or other new artificial-intelligence tools—to cheat on writing assignments. But the concern doesn’t stop at the high-school level. At the University of Pennsylvania’s prestigious Wharton School of Business, professor Christian Terwiesch has been wondering what such A.I. tools mean for MBA programs. This week, Terwiesch released a research paper in which he documented how ChatGPT performed on the final exam of a typical MBA core course, Operations Management. The A.I. chatbot, he wrote, “does an amazing job at basic operations management and process analysis...

Carnegie Mellon Professor Claims Stacey Abrams Lost Due to Racism

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November 14, 2022

While we didn’t witness the much anticipated ‘red wave’ this last Tuesday, there was one notable blue loser – Stacey Abrams. Between Abrams and Beto O’Rourke, I’m not sure which one has perfected the art of losing; Beto has Abrams beat since he’s run for just about everything under the sun and lost, but Abrams is just getting started. What was unique about this particular loss for Stacey is that she acknowledged that she lost with a concession speech because it’s no longer en-vogue to be an election denier if you are a Democrat....

Why your usual Wordle strategy isn’t working today, according to a linguistics professor

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March 12, 2022

If you’ve found today’s Wordle answer more difficult than most, you’re not alone. Puzzle #256 has proven so tough, in fact, that we’ve been live-blogging the internet’s reactions to the latest headache-inducing five-letter term. But why is today's answer proving trickier than others? TechRadar spoke to Dr Matthew Voice, an Assistant Professor in Applied Linguistics at the UK’s University of Warwick, to find out the science behind the struggle. Naturally, we’ll be divulging the solution to today’s puzzle below, so turn back now if you’re committed to weathering the latest Wordle alone. Ok, here goes. Today’s Wordle...

Harvard medical professor says it’s time to move on from pandemic

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February 5, 2022

It's time to let the young, healthy and "anyone who wants to move on" from the pandemic do so, said Dr. Stefanos Kales, a professor at Harvard Medical School.In a paper posted on LinkedIn last month, Kales said that for the majority of children and adults, "Covid-19 is not a serious threat, only a nuisance that impedes schooling, work and travel.""Once Omicron peaks, subsequent variants are likely to be even more mild," he said. "We badly need to allow the general public, particularly the young, to get back to normal life."He said he favors...

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