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How College Admissions Work According to Machine Learning
49:04 - 55:33 (06:29)
This transcript discusses the college admissions process, and how machine learning can be used to make predictions, showing that colleges tend to admit those from higher ranked schools and only a select few from schools ranked lower.
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The pressure to provide the "right answer" in search and AI often leads to minimizing false positives at the expense of potentially missing some correct information, according to a discussion on the Lex Fridman podcast.
49:04 - 49:46 (00:41)
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The pressure to provide the "right answer" in search and AI often leads to minimizing false positives at the expense of potentially missing some correct information, according to a discussion on the Lex Fridman podcast.
ChapterHow College Admissions Work According to Machine Learning
Episode#135 – Charles Isbell: Computing, Interactive AI, and Race in America
PodcastLex Fridman Podcast
The conversation delves into the world of academia, particularly within the computer science department, and the challenges of hiring in a way that promotes diversity while still valuing expertise and experience.
49:46 - 52:05 (02:19)
Summary
The conversation delves into the world of academia, particularly within the computer science department, and the challenges of hiring in a way that promotes diversity while still valuing expertise and experience.
ChapterHow College Admissions Work According to Machine Learning
Episode#135 – Charles Isbell: Computing, Interactive AI, and Race in America
PodcastLex Fridman Podcast
The US News ranking system heavily influences the admissions process of universities, as they admit students from higher-ranked schools, those ranked around them, and very few from schools ranked below, with some exceptions.
52:06 - 55:33 (03:27)
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The US News ranking system heavily influences the admissions process of universities, as they admit students from higher-ranked schools, those ranked around them, and very few from schools ranked below, with some exceptions. The ranking system can even cause universities to adjust their behavior and change their loss function.