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News items:
WUaS is proceeding with licensing in the state of Pennsylvania with the department of education, and in tandem, then beginning the accreditation process with the Middle States Commission for Higher Education (MSCHE).
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Licensing fees will be $5,000 with the state of PA, and the MSCHE Pre-Application fee is $1,500. If everything goes well, this will allow us to enroll large numbers of students at accrediting World Univ & Sch this September, and, accredited, seek reimbursement from departments of education not only from 50 US states, but also from all ~200 countries, per student per year, and thanks to the CC-4 licensing of OCW.MIT.EDU, as well as the free CC-4 licensed "CS First with Google at WUaS" Scratch programming language course - https://csfirst.withgoogle.com/s/en/home - for example.
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But WUaS doesn't have the money to pay these fees; if everyone in this list can chip in, say, $50, WUaS will be able to begin the process soon - http://worlduniversityandschool.org.
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Here again are the MOMENTOUS milestones in these licensing and accrediting regards (from last week too):
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FW: PA Department of Education Authorization
On Thu, Jan 26, 2023, WUaS received a phone call and an email from Michelle Simmons with the about licensing authorization -
See -
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2023/01/weaver-bird-ploceus-recording-of-monday.html
and
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2023/03/green-darner-dragonfly.html
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And on Thu, Jan 12, 2023, World Univ & Sch received a call from Diana Bonner at Middle States Commission on Higher Education with Green Light to proceed with contacting the state of PA to begin licensing:
See: "Thank you so much for your call Diana Bonner just ... " - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2023/01/virginia-opossum.html
Also,
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Saturday, January 28, 2023 - WUaS sent in the "Reply to FTB, state of CA's Franchise Tax Board - Questionnaire" - and regarding a request from them for a 199N for the 2020 tax year ... and wrote too that WUaS is opening a new main office in Pennsylvania (during my asylum in PA from CA), and regarding accreditation and licensing too.
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Thnx to #TomMartin @LawDroid whose #ChatBotAI on 4/13/17 in physical #StanfordLawCodeX pres. by him lead to #WUaSCorporation @WUaSPress. #WUaSCorp wrote #WUaSArticlesofIncorporation in 10 minutes leading to #WUaS becoming a 3rd legal entity #ForProfitGeneralStockCompanyInCA :)
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1622279994180255744?s=20&t=9hJ86QMcOfG5rLosIX_orA
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1622280642737086466
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Glad for WUaS to have joined GEG Pennsylvania (Google Educators' Groups), and to have just shared this with GEG Pennsylvania (and you can join the GEG group in your region by searching on for example "How to join GEG Pennsylvania?" for where you live) -
Dear GEG Pennsylvania, All,
Thanks. At MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School, the CS First With Google at WUaS" course learning the Scratch programming language is a favorite Google Educators' resource. Currently, students can matriculate in to World Univ & Sch for free-to-students' Bachelor degrees with it:
Matriculate in now for @WorldUnivAndSch 4 years' FREE web CC-4 OCW.MIT.EDU -centric AA Bach MS PhD Law MD IB h.s.) Degrees w CC-4 'CS 1st w Google @ WUaS' csfirst.withgoogle.com Email Meeting@ WorldUniversityAndSchool.org Universities in ~200 countries in ALL 7,151 Langs
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1611037948522135575
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1611038930945572865?s=20&t=Wb0IEqtBxPelogdVlYaTNQ
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1611038202369904645
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1611038618868383759
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1611038724413849604
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1611039006573092865
Thanks too to GEG PA for making it possible to sign up for a leadership role in this group, which I'm new to. How best for WUaS to begin to reach out to online PA GEG students for free degrees as we proceed with licensing with the state of PA's department of Education, and accrediting with the Middle States' Commission on Higher Education?
Thank you, Scott
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/accreditation
https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/search/label/Law AND /accreditation
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WUaS Monthly Business Meeting meets this Saturday at 9am Eastern Time for an hour in Zoom -
Time: Feb 18, 2023 12 noon Eastern Time, 12 noon Eastern Time
Email Meeting @ WorldUniversityAndSchool.org for joining info and URL. https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1611037948522135575 ~
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FW: PA Department of Education Authorization
On Thu, Jan 26, 2023, WUaS received a phone call and an email from Michelle Simmons with the about licensing authorization -
See -
https://scott-macleod.
and
https://scott-macleod.
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And on Thu, Jan 12, 2023, World Univ & Sch received a call from Diana Bonner at Middle States Commission on Higher Education with Green Light to proceed with contacting the state of PA to begin licensing:
See: "Thank you so much for your call Diana Bonner just ... " - https://scott-macleod.
Also,
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Saturday, January 28, 2023 - WUaS sent in the "Reply to FTB, state of CA's Franchise Tax Board - Questionnaire" - and regarding a request from them for a 199N for the 2020 tax year ... and wrote too that WUaS is opening a new main office in Pennsylvania (during my asylum in PA from CA), and regarding accreditation and licensing too.
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Thnx to #TomMartin @LawDroid whose #ChatBotAI on 4/13/17 in physical #StanfordLawCodeX pres. by him lead to #WUaSCorporation @WUaSPress. #WUaSCorp wrote #WUaSArticlesofIncorporation in 10 minutes leading to #WUaS becoming a 3rd legal entity #ForProfitGeneralStockCompanyI
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The way to innovate responsibly in the new world of #legal #GenerativeAI? Engage with state regulators, professional responsibility lawyers and stakeholders.
#legalhack #legal #innovation #ethical #AI #legaltech #lawyers
https://twitter.com/lawdroid/
Matriculate in now for @WorldUnivAndSch 4 years' FREE web CC-4 OCW.MIT.EDU -centric AA Bach MS PhD Law MD IB h.s.) Degrees w CC-4 'CS 1st w Google @ WUaS' csfirst.withgoogle.com
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LTT – Colin Allen
Tuesday, February 14th @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST
Title: How much are large language models narrowing the gap to human intelligence?
Abstract: ChatGPT was released in late October 2022. It is a public interface to GPT-3, an artificial neural network with 175 billion parameters trained on terabytes of text from the internet. It is paradigmatic of the class of Large Language Models (LLMs) based on deep (multilayer) learning. ChatGPT provides a simple public interface that allows users to type in queries (aka “prompts”) and receive multi-paragraph responses where appropriate. It has many surprising capacities such as being able to generate computer programs for specific tasks, writing doggerel about mundane subjects in the style of famous people, and generating reasonable albeit pedestrian syllabi for college courses. It can also write answers to typical academic examination questions that are sometimes factually wrong or conceptually incoherent, but frequently highly plausible and often accurate enough for the purpose. As such, then, it does not differ from much of the writing that we, as educators, see at the undergraduate level, and many of its essays would easily pass muster at the level of a B grade in an introductory course. This has led some commentators to suggest that education as we know it is over. Less hyperbolically, many commentators have argued that it marks the end of the take-home exam. I will argue that this is an overreaction, although some adjustments to our assignments may be necessary. But more interestingly, the way in which ChatGPT shows its limitations exposes real gaps between the cutting edge of LLMs and the kind of self-monitoring intelligence which we aim to foster and to assess in our students. I will draw out the lessons from these failings for how we should think about the role of metacognition and wisdom in the kind of intelligence that most humans are capable of displaying, but which is absent from the best that LLMs currently provide.
LTT – David Snoke
Friday, February 17th @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST
Title: “A quantitative field theoretical for spontaneous collapse”
Abstract: Any model of spontaneous collapse of the wave function in quantum mechanics must involve alterations of the standard Schrödinger equation to allow non-unitary dynamics. In the past two years I have developed a model for a change to the quantum field theory for fermions to allow for nonlocal spontaneous collapse of quantum states. This model has the features that it conserves energy and particle number and works for many-body states of identical particles, unlike some previously proposed models for spontaneous collapse. It does have some odd implications for relativistic causality. I will describe this model in mostly non-mathematical terms, and compare it to other approaches to spontaneous collapse, as well as to the many-worlds and Copenhagen interpretations.
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Dear Diana, Pitt philosophy, CMU philosophy, All,
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