Moreover, the model tends to generalize well to unseen tasks that did not appear in the training data.

Rogue Republican calls Trump presidency the'Epstein administration' amid criticism of Pam Bondi Mystery buyer of Epstein's Zorro Ranch is revealed to be Texas politician running for election Scandal engulfs America's'most hated podcast': Insiders torch Nick Viall... but save the ugliest whispers for his much-younger wife The tragic truth about what happened to the quintuplets who won America's hearts America's top 10 most generous billionaires are revealed Ritzy LA neighborhood where yoga moms are scandalized by den of iniquity... then go home to letters about what their brazen husbands are up to Ex-UFC star Cain Velasquez reunites with family as he's released after being jailed over attempted murder of man accused of sexually assaulting his son Meet'Donor Dan' who promises dads an international life of luxury... but only if they meet his incredibly high standards Disney's staggering nine-figure loss laid bare after its woke Snow White movie with Rachel Zegler flopped spectacularly Terrifying moment'drunk driver' is brought to his knees in high-speed chase with cops Meghan Markle cozies up to Prince Harry as they enjoy courtside date night at NBA All-Star Game over Valentine's Day weekend Harrison Ford, 83, and Calista Flockhart, 61, kiss on the tarmac as they arrive back in LA on Valentine's Day How the daughter of a Real Housewife laid bare an ugly truth at the heart of Hollywood... and exposed the depth of the damage it's done I'm a celebrity security guard here's where I'd never let my teenagers go for spring break David Harbour skips Stranger Things costar Maya Hawke's wedding as he goes on Valentine's date with mystery woman My wife thinks her surprise to me is every man's dream... but I'm disgusted by what she's offering to do: DEAR JANE I exposed the only US city erased from Google Maps... here's what this ultra-wealthy community doesn't want you to see Only 20% of people can solve this three-question IQ test backed by MIT... are you one of them? The world's shortest IQ test is just three questions long and can tell if you're smarter than 80 percent of the population. Called the Cognitive Reflection Test ( CRT), it has been around since 2005 but recently gained popularity on social media, with one TikTok user's breakdown of the three questions getting 14million views. The test was created by psychologist Shane Frederick, now at the Yale School of Management, to help predict whether people are likely to make common mistakes in thinking and decision-making. Since its creation, multiple studies over the last two decades have tested thousands of college students, finding that less than 20 percent can get all three right.

North Dakota colleges three-year bachelor's degree programs approved by State Board of Higher Education on Jan. 29, allowing students to graduate a year earlier starting fall 2026.

The American Revolution created a lasting democracy while the French Revolution became blood-soaked tyranny. But today's armchair revolutionaries echo similar calls.

Go to a small liberal-arts college if you can. I n the waning heat of last summer, freshly back in my office at a major research university, I found myself considering the higher-education hellscape that had lately descended upon the nation. I'd spent months reporting on the Trump administration's attacks on universities for, speaking with dozens of administrators, faculty, and students about the billions of dollars in cuts to public funding for research and the resulting collapse of " college life ."At Initially, I surveyed the situation from the safe distance of a journalist who happens to also be a career professor and university administrator. I saw myself as an envoy between America's college campuses and its citizens, telling the stories of the people whose lives had been shattered by these transformations. By the summer, though, that safe distance had collapsed back on me.

This article presents the full, original record of the 2024 Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) town hall, "Statistics in the Age of AI," which convened leading statisticians to discuss how the field is evolving in response to advances in artificial intelligence, foundation models, large-scale empirical modeling, and data-intensive infrastructures. The town hall was structured around open panel discussion and extensive audience Q&A, with the aim of eliciting candid, experience-driven perspectives rather than formal presentations or prepared statements. This document preserves the extended exchanges among panelists and audience members, with minimal editorial intervention, and organizes the conversation around five recurring questions concerning disciplinary culture and practices, data curation and "data work," engagement with modern empirical modeling, training for large-scale AI applications, and partnerships with key AI stakeholders. By providing an archival record of this discussion, the preprint aims to support transparency, community reflection, and ongoing dialogue about the evolving role of statistics in the data- and AI-centric future.

Foundation vision, audio, and language models enable zero-shot performance on downstream tasks via their latent representations. Recently, unsupervised learning of data group structure with deep learning methods has gained popularity. TURTLE, a state of the art deep clustering algorithm, uncovers data labeling without supervision by alternating label and hyperplane updates, maximizing the hyperplane margin, in a similar fashion to support vector machines (SVMs). However, TURTLE assumes clusters are balanced; when data is imbalanced, it yields non-ideal hyperplanes that cause higher clustering error. We propose PET-TURTLE, which generalizes the cost function to handle imbalanced data distributions by a power law prior. Additionally, by introducing sparse logits in the labeling process, PET-TURTLE optimizes a simpler search space that in turn improves accuracy for balanced datasets. Experiments on synthetic and real data show that PET-TURTLE improves accuracy for imbalanced sources, prevents over-prediction of minority clusters, and enhances overall clustering.

Is It Really Worth It? Apple, Michigan taxpayers, and one of Detroit's wealthiest families spent roughly $30 million training hundreds of people to build iPhone apps. Two years ago, Lizmary Fernandez took a detour from studying to be an immigration attorney to join a free Apple course for making iPhone apps . The Apple Developer Academy in Detroit launched as part of the company's $200 million response to the Black Lives Matter protests and aims to expand opportunities for people of color in the country's poorest big city. But Fernandez found the program's cost-of-living stipend lacking--"A lot of us got on food stamps," she says--and the coursework insufficient for landing a coding job. "I didn't have the experience or portfolio," says the 25-year-old, who is now a flight attendant and preparing to apply to law school. "Coding is not something I got back to."