All of Chuck Newsom's Comments + Replies

"... a rouge AI loose ..." was likely intended to be "... a rogue AI loose ..."

The graph of average GPA at Harvard vs. time is interesting. I thought back to being a 3rd-year Arts student in '78/79 at a public university in western Canada.

A very good prof told us that in the Department of Psychology (or perhaps the Faculty of Arts in general), the median mark was set as the demarcation between a C+ and a B (and thus, the median GPA would have been 2.75).

Per the graph, the average Harvard GPA at the time was c. 3.1. (The slope is steep at that point, so there's some +/- possible, and the median may have been different.)

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