Pretraining a modern large language model (LLM), often with ~100B parameters or more, typically involves thousands of ...

Discover how GDP and GPI together offer a clearer insight into a country's economic prosperity and well-being beyond traditional metrics.

Many people want agriculture to be perfectly sustainable, perfectly efficient, and perfectly transparent. But it's an ...

The progress story gives us hope, but it can also create burnout and a feeling that we are never good enough. Progress is not neutral; what counts as “better” depends on our values and perspectives.

As adoption of education technology accelerates, a fundamental question remains: Are we measuring the right things?

If states measured student success by their growth instead of their proficiency we'd know if students were actually learning something.

The average CEO makes over 280 times what their company’s line worker earns. This is more than 10 times the ratio observed in the 1970s. Looking just at the salaries and bonuses of Fortune 500 CEOs, ...

It stands to reason that the longer or more diligently you work at something, the better you get at it. But researchers from the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business found that consumers don't ...

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More than five years after the pandemic threw schools off course, the latest evidence suggests that progress toward solving the nation’s attendance problem is slowing down well short of the finish ...

In the last column, I wrote about the ocean of possibility within each of us and how there are parts of us we haven’t met yet. I also described how a sculptor chiseling away at stone to reveal a new ...

It was the first day of school, and five pairs of eyes looked expectantly at me. I returned their gaze, trying my best to look confident and joyful. This was the first day of our family’s new ...