Corie Lok

Dec 11, 2024 | broadinstitute.org | Corie Lok

During her highly unusual college experience traveling the world, Wolu Chukwu saw the power of communities. She attended Minerva University, a San Francisco-based college that rotates its students to a different country each semester while they take online classes, work together on projects and experiments in the field, and learn how to live in a new environment.

Oct 28, 2024 | broadinstitute.org | Corie Lok |Mehrtash Babadi

One of the first steps for researchers in studying and analyzing single cells is to determine the cells’ identity: what type and subtype of cells are these, and how similar or different are they to previously analyzed cells? Scientists then annotate the cells with this information, a process that can take days or even weeks, depending on the number of cells being labeled, and requires labor-intensive literature and database searches.

Nov 15, 2023 | broadinstitute.org | Corie Lok

Kedrick Perry got his start in diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) work early in his career. As a doctoral student at the University of Virginia, he also worked as assistant director of graduate diversity programs where he designed and implemented various diversity initiatives.

Nov 3, 2023 | phys.org | Corie Lok

The recent explosion of generative AI tools has prompted many discussions in virtually all fields about the benefits and risks of these technologies. These tools, including ChatGPT, Bard and others, have been trained on huge amounts of content and can produce text and images that often look eerily like human-generated content.

Nov 3, 2023 | flipboard.com | Corie Lok

21 hours agoResearchers from Microsoft Research Asia, Peking University, and Xi’an Jiaotong University have developed a new technique to improve large language models’ (LLMs) ability to solve math problems by having them learn from their mistakes, akin to how humans learn. The researchers have revealed a …