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A 2021 study revealed that nearly two-thirds of people surveyed believed life was better before social-media platforms, and 42 percent of Gen Z respondents said they felt addicted to social media and couldn’t stop if they tried, even though ‘depressed,’ ‘angry,’ and ‘alone’ were the most common words they associated with Facebook, while ‘missing ou... See more

A new paper by Harvard found that:

‘PDF TO BRAINROT’ STUDY TOOLS ARE A STRANGE ITERATION ON A TIKTOK TREND , techcrunch

AI-based study tools like Coconote and Study Fetch are capitalizing on the “PDF to Brainrot” trend, which involves reading text from documents over “oddly satisfying” videos, like ASMR clips or gameplay footage from Subway Surfers . Why read a textbook if you can l... See more

It appears the study section is as good as a coin flip. Aka. Percentile of 1 is little different than 4 or 11 It's nearly entirely arbitrary. We don't know if percentile 60 is as good bc we don't have enough data

Harvard says AI tutors are better than Harvard professors. The students who used an AI tutor in a Harvard physics class (instead of the professor’s teaching) learned more than 2X as much. The best part? They did it in less time and were more motivated and engaged.