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The Deep Sea Is Filled with Treasure, but It Comes at a Price | The New Yorker

July 31, 2021

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/06/21/the-deep-sea-is-filled-with-treasure-but-it-comes-at-a-price

Edith Widder, “Below the Edge of Darkness: A Memoir of Exploring Light and Life in the Deep Sea” (Random House).

Helen Scales, “The Brilliant Abyss: Exploring the Majestic Hidden Life of the Deep Ocean, and the Looming Threat That Imperils It” (Grove Atlantic)

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How to Negotiate with Ransomware Hackers | The New Yorker

July 31, 2021

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/06/07/how-to-negotiate-with-ransomware-hackers

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The Pied Piper of SPACs | The New Yorker

July 31, 2021

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/06/07/the-pied-piper-of-spacs

Chamath Palihapitiya says that the investment tool lets ordinary people get rich off startups. It may be hype—but hype can be its own economic engine.

By Charles Duhigg

May 31, 2021

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Frontiers | InferBERT: A Transformer-Based Causal Inference Framework for Enhancing Pharmacovigilance | Artificial Intelligence

July 31, 2021

Nice talk by W Tong at #ISMBECCB21 (CAMDA session) discussing the FDA perspective on how to do AI for regulatory science. He presents the TRIAL framework: transparency, reliability, interpretability, applicability & liability. #ISMBECCB2021

In relation to interpretability, he discusses InferBert
(https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frai.2021.659622/full) which builds a Bayesian causality framework (using the Do-calculus) for interpreting the BERT transformer based model. #ISMBECCB21 #ISMBECCB2021

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