https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/05/business/tesla-autopilot-lawsuits-safety.html
Tesla Says Autopilot Makes Its Cars Safer. Crash Victims Say It Kills. – The New York Times
July 17, 2021iPad Notebook export for The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
July 17, 2021https://www.goodreads.com/notes/19616957-the-tale-of-the-dueling-neurosurgeons/114528832-mark-gerstein?ref=bsop
Notebook exported from The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery
The Disordered Mind: What Unusual Brains Tell Us About Ourselves: Kandel, Eric R.: 9780374538446: Amazon.com: Books
July 17, 2021The unseen covid-19 risk for unvaccinated people
July 17, 2021This is the first newspaper article I’ve seen with a *methods* section at the end (which describes how #covid19 death rates could be “adjusted” for vaccine status)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/interactive/2021/covid-rates-unvaccinated-people
The unseen covid-19 risk for unvaccinated people
By Dan Keating and Leslie Shapiro
This story was published a few weeks ago but remains incredibly important as the delta variant spreads throughout the U.S.
The country’s declining covid-19 case rates present an unrealistically optimistic perspective for half of the nation — the half that is still not vaccinated.
As more people receive vaccines, covid-19 cases are occurring mostly in the increasingly narrow slice of the unprotected population. So The Washington Post adjusted its case, death and hospitalization rates to account for that — and found that in some places, the virus continues to rage among those who haven’t received a shot. Read more »
This little-known trick lets you use Signal without giving out your phone number — Tech Learning Collective
July 17, 2021metabrain QTL
July 17, 2021Brain expression quantitative trait locus and network analysis reveals downstream effects and putative drivers for brain-related diseases by N. de Klein et al., bioRxiv, 2021.
Google Colab Resources
July 17, 2021here are some nice resources on how to use Google Colab
(https://colab.research.google.com/notebooks/).
Tutorials:
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/how-to-use-google-colab/
https://www.tutorialspoint.com/google_colab/index.htm
https://medium.com/swlh/the-best-place-to-get-started-with-ai-google-colab-tutorial-for-beginners-715e64bb603b (this website will ask you to log in and encourage you to pay to access their articles after a few visits, but just open the website in incognito mode so they can’t track your information)
Cool examples:
https://colab.research.google.com/github/tensorflow/docs/blob/master/site/en/tutorials/generative/autoencoder.ipynb
https://colab.research.google.com/github/tensorflow/docs/blob/master/site/en/tutorials/generative/deepdream.ipynb
https://colab.research.google.com/github/tensorflow/lucid/blob/master/notebooks/differentiable-parameterizations/style_transfer_2d.ipynb https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1VLG8e7YSEwypxU-noRNhsv5dW4NfTGce
