Month: January 2023

Researchers detail reproducibility issues in health care AI; a 2021 review found health-related ML models perform especially poorly on reproducibility measures (Emily Sohn/Nature)

Emily Sohn / Nature: Researchers detail reproducibility issues in health care AI; a 2021 review found health-related ML models perform especially poorly on reproducibility measures  —  Emily Sohn is a freelance journalist in Minneapolis, Minnesota.  —  You can also search for this author in  —  PubMed Google Scholar

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Microsoft Returns to the Altair

The Altair 8800 arguably launched Microsoft. Now [Dave Glover] from Microsoft offers an emulated and potentially cloud-based Altair emulation with CP/M and Microsoft Basic. You can see a video of the project below. One thing that makes it a bit odd compared to other Altair clones we’ve seen is that the emulator runs in a

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A profile of, and interview with, DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis on AGI, “not moving fast and breaking things”, launching the Sparrow chatbot in 2023, and more (Billy Perrigo/TIME)

Billy Perrigo / TIME: A profile of, and interview with, DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis on AGI, “not moving fast and breaking things”, launching the Sparrow chatbot in 2023, and more  —  Demis Hassabis stands halfway up a spiral staircase, surveying the cathedral he built.

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A Number Maze For Younger Hackers

[David Johnson-Davies] has a lofty goal of building a small device to give to younger hackers on a semi-yearly basis. So this last year, he designed and created The Number Maze Game, a small handheld logic puzzle maze. It’s based on several 4-digit seven-segment displays controlled by an AVR128DA32. Navigation is just a few push

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TikTok, Instagram, and other social media platforms expect age verification measures in the UK’s Online Safety Bill to reduce user numbers, hitting ad revenue (Financial Times)

Financial Times: TikTok, Instagram, and other social media platforms expect age verification measures in the UK’s Online Safety Bill to reduce user numbers, hitting ad revenue  —  UK’s Online Safety Bill requires stronger age verification measures for platforms including TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat

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China’s central bank says Ant Group and 13 other firms “have basically completed business rectification” under financial regulators’ guidance and supervision (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post)

Coco Feng / South China Morning Post: China’s central bank says Ant Group and 13 other firms “have basically completed business rectification” under financial regulators’ guidance and supervision  —  Chinese financial technology giant Ant Group and 13 other platform companies “have basically completed business rectification” …

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Conductive Ink Based on a Simple Idea

There’s an old series of jokes that starts with: “How do you put an elephant in a refrigerator?” The answer is to open the door, put the elephant inside, and close the door. Most people don’t get that because it is too simple, and simple is the approach Georgia Tech researchers have taken when faced

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How Finland, ranked first of 41 European countries in a media literacy survey, teaches students to spot misinformation on social media, starting in preschool (Jenny Gross/New York Times)

Jenny Gross / New York Times: How Finland, ranked first of 41 European countries in a media literacy survey, teaches students to spot misinformation on social media, starting in preschool  —  The Nordic country is testing new ways to teach students about propaganda.  Here’s what other countries can learn from its success.

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SIA says chip companies proposed 40+ projects across the US worth ~$200B since 2020, as the US realizes that chips are now as central to modern economies as oil (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: SIA says chip companies proposed 40+ projects across the US worth ~$200B since 2020, as the US realizes that chips are now as central to modern economies as oil  —  Recent shortages and fears of China’s ambitions to dominate the industry have led to a frenetic effort to rev up U.S. production

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Internal messages: Twitter intentionally suspended access to third-party clients last Thursday; staff questioned when an explanation will be provided publicly (Erin Woo/The Information)

Erin Woo / The Information: Internal messages: Twitter intentionally suspended access to third-party clients last Thursday; staff questioned when an explanation will be provided publicly  —  The mysterious outage of Tweetbot and other third-party Twitter clients that began Thursday night was an intentional suspension …

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How Elon Musk’s Twitter moderation cuts boosted hate speech outside the US and Canada, where 75%+ of the service’s 280M DAUs live, including in Japan and India (Washington Post)

Washington Post: How Elon Musk’s Twitter moderation cuts boosted hate speech outside the US and Canada, where 75%+ of the service’s 280M DAUs live, including in Japan and India  —  With 75 percent of its audience outside the U.S. and Canada, the impact of Elon Musk’s moderation cuts has been great elsewhere

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