How Claude helped my 65-year-old dad finally ditch his handwritten ledgers

My dad has run his small business on handwritten ledgers for years. Here's how I used Claude to finally get him off paper and ...
MUO on MSN

Excel finally speaks regex, and it cleans the data I used to fix by hand

I didn't realize how much time I spent on cleanups until regex let me stop.
Futurism

College Students Are Rapidly Losing the Ability to Read

Add Futurism (opens in a new tab) More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. Here’s ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

My Students Can’t Read

S ix weeks into the term, I assigned my rhetoric and writing students a 20-page article. It was the same length I had assigned for five years and the same length I had read without complaint as an ...
Good e-Reader

Do you use Read and Listen with the Kindle?

“Read and Listen” (formerly known as Whispersync for Voice) lets you seamlessly switch between reading a Kindle eBook and listening to its companion Audible audiobook without losing your place. Amazon ...
The Hollywood Reporter

Seth Rogen Says If “Your Instinct Is to Use AI” to Write Scripts, “You Shouldn’t Be a Writer”

'The Studio' creator said people who are thinking about using the technology to aid their writing skills should try another occupation: "Go do something else." By McKinley Franklin Don’t expect Seth ...
JournalofAccountancy

Use Excel to automate financial statement analysis

Q. I often perform horizontal, vertical, and trend analysis for clients. Each time revised financial statements arrive, I find myself recreating formulas, rechecking ranges, and confirming that ...
Sun Sentinel

New Florida law aims to strengthen cursive writing in schools. Here’s what students must learn.

A new Florida law aims to strengthen the teaching of cursive writing in public schools. The new cursive requirements are part of a sweeping education bill that was recently signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis ...
The New York Times

How A.I. Killed Student Writing (and Revived It)

High school and college teachers are watching students write, in the classroom, in order to protect against the incursion of artificial intelligence. Credit...Video by Lauren Lancaster For The New ...
Yahoo

Judge allows Karen Read to use fired investigator’s texts in forthcoming lawsuit

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. DEDHAM — A Norfolk Superior Court judge cleared the way for Karen Read to use what her lawyers have dubbed racist and homophobic ...
MassLive

Judge allows Karen Read to use fired investigator’s texts in forthcoming lawsuit

DEDHAM — A Norfolk Superior Court judge cleared the way for Karen Read to use what her lawyers have dubbed racist and homophobic text messages on former Massachusetts State Police trooper Michael ...
Business Insider

I teach at Harvard and encourage my students to use AI on every assignment. They just have to follow my ground rules.

I still remember the November when ChatGPT came out, and the exam period that followed. As a professor at Harvard, I had B+ writers submitting essays with em dashes and Oxford commas, as if they had ...