Harvard Business School has topped Bloomberg’s “dream schools” list for a third straight year Harvard Business School may not top every MBA ranking — but when it comes to aspiration, it’s still in a ... The post ‘Because It’s Harvard’: HBS Is Still The Most Desired MBA appeared first on Poets&Quants.| Poets&Quants
Study shows US death toll could reach 70,000 a year by 2050 Source| Climate & Capitalism
New admissions criteria announced a continuation of legacy consideration and a reinstatement of the standardized testing requirement for class of 2030 applicants| The Stanford Daily
Over the past eight months at Stanford, I’ve done almost everything except journalism. Here’s why — and the result.| Medium
Three lessons you can put to use right now| Ideas and Insights from the JSK Journalism Fellows at Stanford - Medium
Synergy and Terra were informed by ResEd on May 6 that both co-ops would lose their co-op status next academic year, due to low pre-assignment numbers.| The Stanford Daily
MD-PhD student Humza Khan writes about the importance of adjusting to LLMs and maintaining critical thinking.| The Stanford Daily
On May 28, 2020, the Stanford Faculty Senate convened to vote on a resolution supporting Stanford’s divestment from fossil fuel companies. The resolution was written by the Associated Students of Stanford University (ASSU) and Fossil Free Stanford, a student group that has been advocating for divestment from fossil fuels since 2012. Hundreds of attendees logged [...] The post Conflict of Interests: Fossil Fuel Money in Environmental Research at Stanford appeared first on Stanford Politics.| Stanford Politics
In an effort to break the record for the longest sit-in in Stanford history, dozens of students gathered in tents in White Plaza since Friday. The group’s demands include a condemnation of Israel, resources for Palestinian diaspora students and an investigative committee into investments by the University tied to Israel.| The Stanford Daily
Levin will succeed interim President Richard Saller, concluding a seven-month search process for Stanford’s 13th President following Marc Tessier-Lavigne's resignation last summer.| The Stanford Daily
For those looking for the course material, I’ve posted the slides for all 10 sessions on a parallel site: http://cs007.blog On September 26th, I had the great pleasure of officially kicking off a brand new course at Stanford University, “Personal Finance for Engineers“. The course was offered through the Computer Science department (CS 007), but was … Continue reading Stanford CS 007: Personal Finance for Engineers (Reviews & Reflection)| Psychohistory
Update: For those looking for full course material, I’m posting it on a parallel site: Yesterday, I had the great pleasure of officially kicking off a new course at Stanford University, ̶…| Psychohistory
– The Spotlight series highlights the research of female economists, one at a time.– Muriel Niederle is a Professor of Economics at Stanford University. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard Universi…| Gender Matters
Stanford University's release of the Alpaca model - which basically showed that an inferior foundational LLM can mimic a superior model cheaply - has massive business and science implications. Though "self-instruct" - i.e. the pattern of fine-tuning models with auto-generated demonstrations/training data - is nothing new, Stanford showed that it could be done at the scale of LLMs, and that it only costs $600! If Stanford's results are valid (and that's a big "if"), here are the major implicat...| NextWord
