Isaac is a multimodal AI that specializes in interpreting features on images and performing inference on them. I gave it a picture of a meal, and it calculated the caloric content and glycemic index. It's a 2 billion parameter model – quite small, and could fit in a mobile phone. This could be a game changer for people with diabetes.
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The editor who allowed this article to be published was fired. It's called Carbon dioxide and a warming climate are not problems. Is that science, when you disallow viewpoints countering the narrative?
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Good. Illinois just passed a law that forbids the use of AI for mental health applications.
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Cool. A star in the constellation Sagitta may go supernova and be visible in the daylight.
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John Cook posted a set of mental math tricks to help you look like Feynman. Just the thing to impress the girls at parties.
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Some scientists are working to bring back the dodo bird. Proof of concept? This is going to be done by a company that specialized in this sort of thing: Colossal Biosciences. They already brought back the dire wolf, but they'll use CRISPR technology to add adaptive diversity so that the resurrected animals don't die so easily.
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Trump promised No Tax on Tips. Oregon Democrats are scheming to take it away. Oregonians will finally get to know how well the Dem party cares about them.
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Seattle Childrens Hospital is going to lay off 150 staffers. They'll be mostly administrators. Seattle is facing the same headwinds as Oregon hospitals. Providence lost $260 million in the last quarter. Gone are the Obamacare heydays.
It's like the City of Portland, facing their own cash crunch. It's all due to the same underlying problem, really. Think about it.
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Ugh, Dean Sidelinger is back, telling the Oregon Health Authority to be pro-vax again. Just when I thought I didn't have to worry about that guy again. It's still unclear to me if pharmacies are going to participate in this charade.
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Anxiety Grows at Knight Cancer Institute as Leaders Float Big Budget Cuts. Apparently the Knight gift money is going to restricted expenses, and not to fund and support existing programs.
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