Posts Tagged ‘fromnpc’
Is facial recognition too biased to be let loose?
November 22, 2020The ethical questions that haunt facial-recognition research
November 22, 2020Resisting the rise of facial recognition
November 22, 2020Why do COVID death rates seem to be falling?
November 22, 2020When did people arrive in the Americas? New evidence stokes debate
September 6, 2020QT from Nature podcast:{{”
I mean first of all, I think we do have a big problem with deliberate outright fraud, but that’s a kind of separate thing from what happens much more commonly. I think there’s a much more common, and in some ways much more kind of insidious because it’s so widespread, problem of bias towards finding exciting, statistically significant results in the literature. So, if you look at the scientific literature, a huge proportion of the findings that are published there are positive results, right, way more than we would expect. In one study, it’s something like over 90% or maybe even more that.
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22 July 2020
(129) 4k, 60 fps San Francisco, a Trip down Market Street, April 14, 1906 – YouTube
July 10, 2020Amazing “upscaling” of old movies by http://Neural.Love uses AI to colorize, de-noise & boost FPS. Video of SF 4 days before the 1906 earthquake illustrates this well
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO_1AdYRGW8
Also:
Hospitals see shortages of a cheap steroid that could help treat Covid-19
July 2, 2020https://www.statnews.com/pharmalot/2020/06/25/covid19-coronavirus-dexamethasone-shortages/
should look at dexamethasone, which, for 50 pounds can save one life easily.
Hospitals see shortages of a cheap steroid that could help treat Covid-19
June 28, 2020https://www.statnews.com/pharmalot/2020/06/25/covid19-coronavirus-dexamethasone-shortages/
should look at dexamethasone, which, for 50 pounds can save one life easily.
Why the World Bank ex-chief is on a mission to end coronavirus transmission
May 4, 2020QT:{{”
“I spent seven years at the World Bank. So, I’m a finance guy…the thing that will stop the financial crisis is getting the virus under control.”
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