M 08/25/25 open MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch WUaS News and Q&A, with Zoom URL
The next MIT OCW-centric - https://ocw.mit.edu/ - wiki World Univ & Sch WUaS News and Q&A meets on Monday August 25, 2025 at 10:00 AM Pacific Time, 11 AM Mountain Time, 1:00 PM ET (US & Canada), 5:00 PM GMT, 10:30 PM India Time, 1:00 AM Tuesday the next day Hong Kong Time (but please check your time converter from any of your 24 time zones to join this open WUaS Monthly Business Meeting) with Zoom URL here too -
Time: Aug 25, 2025 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
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HOW TO BEGIN a Large Language Model with AI and ML to act as a professor Initially for someone who wants to do a WUaS International Business Management PhD based on the Sloan School of Management's MIT OCW - https://opencw.aprende.org/
Wednesday, August 20, 2025
African penguin: #WUaSunivs Asked #GeminiAI: Could you act as mentor or Prof to #WUaSPhDstudent ...? * HOW TO BEGIN a Large Language Model with AI and ML to act as a professor Initially for someone who wants to do a WUaS Intl Business Management PhD based on the Sloan School of Management's MIT OCW - https://opencw.aprende.org/
#WUaSunivs Asked #GeminiAI: Could you act as mentor or Prof to #WUaSPhDstudent ...?
#WUaSunivs Asked #GeminiAI: Could you act as mentor or Professor to #WUaSPhDstudent @ #MITOCW-Centric Wiki @WorldUnivAndSch using the #SloanSchoolOfManagement #MITOCW courses & as #LLM Yes: https://g.co/gemini/share/
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Here is a step-by-step guide on how to begin creating an LLM to act as a professor for a World University and School (WUaS) International Business Management PhD, leveraging MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW).
1. Data Collection and Curation
The first step is to gather the relevant data to train or fine-tune your LLM.
MIT OCW Content: The MIT OCW website at
https://ocw.mit.edu/
is the official source. The domainopencw.aprende.org
appears to be a partner or a mirror site that provides a clean, searchable interface. It offers a wide range of courses, and the Sloan School of Management section lists numerous graduate-level courses that would be directly applicable. You would need to systematically download or scrape the course materials from the relevant MIT OCW pages. This includes lecture notes, syllabi, readings, problem sets, and exams. WUaS Content: The World University and School (WUaS) wiki page at
https://wiki.
worlduniversityandschool.org/ wiki/Business_Management provides a conceptual framework and lists courses from MIT OCW that are relevant to their program. The content on this page, while not a complete curriculum, can provide a high-level structure and a starting point for what to include. Supplementary Materials: To create a robust "professor," you'll need to go beyond the core course materials. This includes finding and incorporating scholarly articles, case studies, industry reports, and other publications related to international business management.
2. Choosing an LLM Approach
You have a few options for how to implement the LLM.
Prompt Engineering and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG): This is the fastest and most cost-effective method. You can use an existing, powerful LLM (like GPT-4 or Gemini) and feed it the curated documents from step one. The LLM then "retrieves" the most relevant information from your documents to answer a question. This approach avoids the high cost of training or fine-tuning a model from scratch. It's a great way to start building a prototype.
Fine-Tuning: This approach involves taking a pre-trained LLM and training it further on your specific dataset. This allows the model to learn the tone, style, and specific terminology of the business management domain. Fine-tuning a model requires a smaller dataset and less computational power than training from scratch, but it still requires significant resources.
Training from Scratch: This is the most complex and expensive method. It involves building a model from the ground up using your own dataset. This is typically reserved for large organizations and would not be the recommended starting point for this project.
3. Implementing the "Professor" Persona
Once you have an LLM approach, you can program the "professor" persona.
Prompting: You need to craft a detailed system prompt that instructs the LLM to behave like a PhD professor. This prompt should define the professor's role, persona, and constraints, such as:
Role: An expert in International Business Management.
Objective: To guide a PhD student through the curriculum and research.
Behavior: Answers questions, provides critical feedback on research ideas, suggests relevant readings from the provided materials, and explains complex concepts in a clear, academic style.
Feedback Loops: A good "professor" LLM needs to be able to learn and improve. You should build a system where the student can provide feedback on the LLM's answers. This data can be used to refine the model's performance over time.
4. Ethical and Practical Considerations
Accuracy: LLMs can "hallucinate" and produce incorrect or fabricated information. The "professor" LLM must be designed to minimize this. RAG helps by grounding responses in the provided source material, and the system should always encourage fact-checking against the original MIT OCW content.
Intellectual Property: While MIT OCW content is free and openly licensed, you must adhere to the specific Creative Commons license terms. Make sure your project and its distribution comply with these rules.
Scalability: Consider how the system will grow. As the PhD student's research progresses, the knowledge base will need to expand. The system should be designed to easily incorporate new documents, articles, and research papers
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And further how best to begin a Large Language Model with iterating AI and ML at MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School in all the academic wiki subjects - https://wiki.
Starting an AI-driven, OCW-centric academic platform for all subjects and languages is an enormous undertaking. The best way to begin is by adopting a phased, modular, and iterative strategy rather than attempting to build a monolithic system from scratch. This approach allows you to demonstrate value early, gather crucial feedback, and scale effectively.
1. The Foundational Data Pipeline 
The first and most critical step is to build a robust, automated data pipeline that can ingest and process content from MIT OCW. This pipeline must be designed for immense scale and multilingual support from the start.
Ingestion: Develop scripts to programmatically scrape and download content from MIT's OCW website (
ocw.mit.edu
), focusing on text-based materials like lecture notes, syllabi, problem sets, and transcripts of video lectures.Structured Knowledge Base: Convert this raw data into a structured format. This is more than just a simple text file. Each piece of content should be tagged with metadata, including:
Course ID (e.g., 6.001 - Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs).
Department (e.g., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science).
Topic/Subject (e.g., Computer Science).
Content Type (e.g., lecture notes, assignment, exam).
Language (e.g., English).
Language Agnostic Representation: Store the content in a way that is language-independent. This can be achieved using a vector database, which converts text into numerical representations (embeddings) that capture meaning rather than words. This allows a search query in Spanish to find a relevant document in English.
Centralized Index: Create a central index that links all of this data together. This index will be the "brain" that the LLM queries to find relevant information.
2. The Multilingual and Localization Challenge 
Serving content in 200 countries' main languages is the most complex part of this plan. You cannot simply translate everything at once.
Phase 1: English-First with Translation-on-Demand: Begin by building the core system in English, as all MIT OCW content is in English. Use a powerful multilingual LLM (such as one of the open-source variants like BLOOM or a commercial model like GPT-4) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). When a user from a non-English-speaking country asks a question, their query is translated to English, used to find the relevant English documents, and then the final answer is translated back to their language. This is a pragmatic, immediate solution.
Phase 2: Fine-Tuning on Localized Content: As you gather user feedback, identify the most in-demand languages. For these languages, you can start a more formal process. Partner with language experts and native speakers to translate and fine-tune the core academic documents. This creates a higher-quality, culturally relevant knowledge base for specific countries.
Community-Powered Localization: To scale to 200 countries, you will need a community-driven model. The WUaS wiki platform is perfect for this. Allow and incentivize users from different countries to correct machine translations, translate new content, and add country-specific academic and cultural context.
3. Iterative AI and ML for Continuous Improvement 
An effective professor learns from their students. Your system should too.
Feedback Loops: Collect user feedback on the quality of the "professor's" answers. If a student flags a response as incorrect, unhelpful, or culturally insensitive, the system should log this for review. This data can be used to retrain or fine-tune the model.
User Modeling: Use machine learning to build a profile of each student. Track which subjects they study, which questions they ask, and which concepts they struggle with. The "professor" can then use this information to personalize the learning experience, for example, by providing more basic examples for a student who is struggling or suggesting more advanced readings for a student who is excelling.
Curriculum Adaptation: Over time, the iterative process can help identify gaps in the curriculum. If many students in a specific country consistently ask questions that aren't answered by the current data, it indicates a need to either find new data sources or create new, localized content. This allows the AI to not just teach, but also to help develop the curriculum itself
Thursday, August 21, 2025
Kendall Warm Springs dace (Rhinichthys osculus thermalis): Dear @PeggyFlanagan @EWarren Could you please help guide the #OjibweLanguageWUaS wiki school in the #OjibweLanguage @ #MITOCW-centric wiki @WorldUnivAndSch & other #NativeAmericanLanguagesWUaS #WikiSchools -https://wiki.
Dear @PeggyFlanagan @EWarren Could you please help guide the #OjibweLanguageWUaS wiki school in the #OjibweLanguage @ #MITOCW-centric wiki @WorldUnivAndSch & other #NativeAmericanLanguagesWUaS #WikiSchools -https://wiki.
& see http://scott-macleod.blogspot.
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I’ll be in Minneapolis this weekend with my friend @PeggyFlanagan.
We need more Democrats in the Senate who’ll fight for working families with all they’ve got.
RSVP to join us as we fight for America’s future: ewar.ren/9uu
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Asked #GeminiAIreOjibweLanguage re "Dear @PeggyFlanagan @EWarren re #OjibweLangWUaS wiki school in #OjibweLang @WorldUnivAndSch
"HOW TO BEGIN a #LargeLanguageModel for people who want to learn or build community in #OjibweLang -https://g.co/gemini/share/
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I’ll be in Minneapolis this weekend with my friend @PeggyFlanagan.
We need more Democrats in the Senate who’ll fight for working families with all they’ve got.
RSVP to join us as we fight for America’s future: ewar.ren/9uu
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Yellowstone Sand-verbena (Abronia ammophila): Abolition #WUaSabolition #WUaSLawSchools @WorldUnivAndSch In asylum from #SFBayArea on eastern seaboard ... then in asylum from the eastern seaboard back in the SF Bay Area ... * How to PLAN to #AbolishModernSlavery eg in #IllegalSexIndustry industries & re their #LatentNetworksOfViolence & in ~200 countries & in languages #WUaSabolition -#WUaSLawSchs in ~200 #MITOCW-centric #GrowWithGoogleWUaS wiki World University and Schools from - https://wiki.
How to PLAN to #AbolishModernSlavery eg in #IllegalSexIndustry industries & re their #LatentNetworksOfViolence & in ~200 countries & in languages #WUaSabolition -#WUaSLawSchs in ~200 #MITOCW-centric #GrowWithGoogleWUaS wiki World University and Schools from - https://wiki.
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Dear Byron (Hann MD PhD), John (Sargent MD at Tufts Medical Center in Boston and MIT alum especially) Ed (Smyth MD, KP and the state of CA, I think, and Pin/Sid Mazumder HHS, in the US federal government in the greater DC area. US Senator and former Harvard Law Professor Elizabth Warren, and MN Lt Governor Peggy Flanagan, and All),
Greetings from the Valle Vista Staging Area near Canyon 94516. I just checked for my and MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch's mail at the Canyon 94516 US Post Office via general delivery, and there was nothing again. I've just received one piece of mail in the past month or so via USPS general delivery there, a FIT kit test result.
How would you suggest CA law enforcement with US federal government law enforcement help to make 670 Ridgecrest Rd, Canyon 94516 newly safe and vacant presently, so that I and the WUaS academic medical center can move in there imminently?
All the best, abolition ally (with WUaS worldwide abolition movement growing), Yogically, staying alive, Friendly Quaker greetings,
Scott
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EXCLUSIVE: Serena Williams Says GLP-1 Medication Helped Her Lose 31 Pounds
The tennis legend says she needed extra medical support after giving birth to her second daughter.
- GLP1R Gene and GLP-1 Receptor Agonists:The GLP1R gene encodes the GLP-1 receptor, a protein that binds to GLP-1, a hormone that stimulates insulin release and regulates blood sugar. GLP-1 receptor agonists mimic the action of GLP-1, making them effective treatments for type 2 diabetes and obesity.
- Genetic Variations and Drug Response:Studies have identified specific genetic variations (SNPs) within the GLP1R gene that can affect how well individuals respond to GLP-1 receptor agonists. For example, one study found that certain variants were associated with a greater reduction in glucose levels with these medications.
- GLP1R and Gestational Diabetes:Genetic variants in the GLP1R gene have also been linked to gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM). Studies have found that certain GLP1R variants are associated with an increased risk of GDM, particularly in women with higher BMIs.
- Other Factors:While genetic factors are important, other factors like age, BMI, and lifestyle also play a role in how individuals respond to GLP-1 receptor agonists and their susceptibility to conditions like diabetes.
- Ongoing Research:23andMe is currently conducting a study to further explore the genetic basis of GLP-1 receptor agonist efficacy and side effects, highlighting the ongoing interest in this area
A Cure for Aging by 2050? - George Church
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A Billion Years of Evolution in a Single Afternoon — George Church
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INCREDIBLE #DrFeiFeiLi #MITOCW-centric wiki @WorldUnivAndSch can now build out a #RealisticVirtualEarth re #PeterNorvig's #ToolifyAIWUaS https://www.
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Retweeting -
Fei-Fei Li
@drfeifei
A picture now is worth more than a thousand words in genAI; it can be turned into a full 3D world! And you can stroll in this garden endlessly long, it will still be there.
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INCREDIBLE #DrFeiFeiLi #MITOCW-centric wiki @WorldUnivAndSch can now build out a #RealisticVirtualEarth re #PeterNorvig's #ToolifyAIWUaS https://www.
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Or stroll in this garden, another permanently consistent 3D world created from a single image no matter how long you hang out in it.
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Intel shares jump on reports of potential US government investment
Relevance for #SmartphoneChip for #PiCrypto & for structuring #WUaSCorp @WUaSPress (@ #MITOCW-centric wiki @WorldUnivAndSch)&coding for 7.9 billion people & partnering further w #StanfordMinePi?
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Relevance for #SmartphoneChip for #PiCrypto & for structuring #WUaSCorp @WUaSPress (@ #MITOCW-centric wiki @WorldUnivAndSch)& coding for 7.9 billion people & partnering further w #StanfordMinePi? (AND for a #RealisticVirtualEarth too https://www.toolify.ai/ai-
Hiland Toyota, Moline, Illinois, thank you to Randy as service representative M 8/18/25
1) #ToyotaHumanoidRobotHomecare https://youtu.be/9b5T4yJvVfs & as #WUaStutor
2) #ToyotaRoboSiennaVan &
3) #ToyotaSienna w 2 gallon #SiennaShowerToiletKitchen in rear 1/4
3a) via #ToyotaConfigurator esp beginning w #AwesomeCamperShower (#Pt2) ... AND
4) in a #
Some social media brainstorming directions for great and helpful robotics in the years ahead -
Toyota humanoid robot homecare, Toyota Robo Sienna Minivan, Toyota Sienna with 2 gallon shower with toilet and kitchen too in the rear 1/4 with Toyota configurator esp
Toyota Robotics and MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch (WUaS) -
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Not #THR3 perhaps, but 1) #ToyotaHumanoidRobotHomecare https://youtu.be/9b5T4yJvVfs & as #WUaStutor 2) #ToyotaRoboSiennaVan &3) #ToyotaSienna w 2 gallon #SiennaShowerToiletKitchen in rear 1/4 via #ToyotaConfigurator esp beginning w #AwesomeCamperShower (#Pt2).
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