Posts Tagged ‘npc’
The coronavirus is here to stay — here’s what that means
February 21, 2021How COVID unlocked the power of RNA vaccines
January 21, 2021.@ElieDolgin’s great feature on the development of new mRNA vaccines highlights how important breakthroughs in lipid nanoparticles were. Interesting that a lot of the key research appears to be funded by @Darpa.
The ethical questions that haunt facial-recognition research
December 3, 2020https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03187-3
Thought a lot of the issues discussed in this article were potentially applicable to genomics
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, 2020Science is getting harder to read | Nature Index
November 11, 2020simple but interesting textual analysis
https://www.natureindex.com/news-blog/science-research-papers-getting-harder-to-read-acronyms-jargon
The weird physics of upside down buoyancy – YouTube
September 18, 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
