DOES MY ALGORITHM HAVE A MENTAL-HEALTH PROBLEM?
Is my car hallucinating? Is the algorithm that runs the police surveillance system in my city paranoid? Marvin the android in Douglas Adams’s Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy had a pain in all the diodes down his left-hand side. Is that how my toaster feels? Source: aeon.co
AI CARDIOLOGIST ACES ITS FIRST MEDICAL EXAM
When both the AI and expert cardiologists were asked to classify the images, the AI achieved an accuracy of 92 percent. The humans got only 79 percent correct. Source: ieee.org
TRUMP, CONGRESS APPROVE LARGEST U.S. RESEARCH SPENDING INCREASE IN A DECADE
When it comes to federal research spending, there are “some silly good numbers in here,” tweeted Matt Hourihan, who analyzes U.S. science spending patterns for AAAS (publisher ofScienceInsider) in Washington, D.C., when the deal was released this past Wednesday. Source: sciencemag.org
WHERE FAT GOES WHEN YOU LOSE WEIGHT
Some respondents thought fat turns into muscle, which is impossible, and others assumed it escapes via the colon. Only three of our respondents gave the right answer, which means 98% of the health professionals in our survey could not explain how weight loss works. Source: cnn.com
UBER, LOSING $1 BILLION A QUARTER, SELLS ITS SOUTHEAST ASIAN BUSINESS
Uber is pulling out of Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar, and Cambodia. According to Bloomberg, this represents a region of 620 million people. The deal includes the operation of UberEats. Source: arstechnica.com
THE KEY TO GOOD LUCK IS AN OPEN MIND
What do these people have that the rest of us don’t? It turns out “ability” is the key word here. Beyond their level of privilege or the circumstances they were born into, the luckiest people may have a specific set of skills that bring chance opportunities their way. Somehow, they’ve learned ways to turn life’s odds in their favor. Source: nautil.us
BREAKTHROUGH STUDY REVEALS HOW LSD DISSOLVES A PERSON’S SENSE OF SELF
A fascinating study has uncovered key insights into the mechanisms behind how our brain generates the sense of our self. The researchers administered LSD to several participants in order to home in on where in the brain our sense of self is activated. Source: newatlas.com
KAGGLE PUBLIC DATASETS: 13,000+ COMMUNITY-CREATED DATASETS
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NETFLIX BANNED FROM COMPETING AT CANNES FILM FESTIVAL
Netflix has been banned from competing in the Cannes Film Festival, according to a report from The Hollywood Reporter. Theirry Fremaux, the head of Cannes, told THR last week the ban is because Netflix refuses to release its films in theaters, choosing instead to debut them on its streaming service and, in some rare cases, do day-and-date releases so the film can be seen both online and off. In the case of Bong Joon-ho’s Okja and Noah Baumbach’s The Meyerowitz Stories — films that were entered into last year’s Cannes to widespread protest from French filmmakers — Netflix was unable to secure last-minute permits for one-week theatrical releases due to French media regulations.
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