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Choosing Administrative Training That’s Right for You

Office Dynamics

As 2016 comes to an end, I hope you are working on your goals for your 2017 development. The challenge may come when you realize there are a plethora of training programs, conferences, webinars and other learning events for administrative assistants and executive assistants. We limit our on-site training classes to 25.

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AI may boost productivity, but we are already becoming reliant on it, and that’s a problem

Workplace Insight

The report also highlights a trend noted last year: training models is getting expensive. New estimates show cutting-edge systems like OpenAI’s GPT-4 cost a staggering $78 million to train. The original transformer model (2017) cost around $900 to train, while RoBERTa Large (2019) was $160,000.

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Travel Blogger Karen Akpan Shares How She Journeyed From Debt to Economic Freedom

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Karen Akpan, known as @themomtrotter across social media, started her blog in 2017 to document and share budget travel hacks for people. With an expensive California mortgage, car payments and student loans, the emergency fund she and her husband, Sylvester, had dutifully built quickly depleted. Then, in 2019, she lost her job.

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29 Beautiful Stories That Will Restore Your Faith in Humanity

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In the predawn hours of a Saturday morning in January 2017, an arsonist set fire to the Victoria Islamic Center, a mosque in Victoria, Texas. In March 2017, Amy Krouse Rosenthal’s Modern Love column, “ You May Want to Marry My Husband ,” appeared in print and online in The New York Times. Neighborly Love. Jamie Friedlander. ELLEN KOBE.

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These 4 Small, Consistent Changes Helped Me Reach My Potential

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For example, on April 4, I wrote, “Having a car gives me a lot of mobility options that would otherwise be very expensive.”. Train yourself to wake up earlier and do at least 15 minutes of exercise (even if it’s just a brisk walk). This article was published in May 2017 and has been updated. Photo by hedgehog94/Shutterstock.

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Travel Blogger Karen Akpan Shares How She Journeyed From Debt to Economic Freedom

Success

Karen Akpan, known as @themomtrotter across social media, started her blog in 2017 to document and share budget travel hacks for people. With an expensive California mortgage, car payments and student loans, the emergency fund she and her husband, Sylvester, had dutifully built quickly depleted. Then, in 2019, she lost her job.

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44 Ways to Kick-Start Your New Year

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I want to evaluate my cost-of-living expenses and see where I can cut back. I just started my own business, and I want to evaluate my income versus my expenses to see where I am currently, with the ultimate goal of hitting the salary I want to make. Attend training. Review your expenses as a couple. Stop smoking.

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