Universities Have a Computer-Science Problem. What does that mean? It means that these days, universities put their computer sciences courses in their engineering schools, apart from other disciplines.
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Maybe that's why we are seeing so much harmful tech. The geeks have not been trained to be cognizant of humanity.In other words, there may be downsides just to placing CS within an engineering school, let alone making it an independent college. Left entirely to themselves, computer scientists can forget that computers are supposed to be tools that help people.
A traditional CS department in a school of engineering would be populated entirely by computer scientists, while the faculty for a college of computing like the one he led at Georgia Tech might also house lawyers, ethnographers, psychologists, and even philosophers like me. Bala told me that her college was established not to teach CS on its own but to incorporate policy, law, sociology, and other fields into its practice. “I think there are no downsides,” she said.
Breakthrough Catalyst Turns Sewage Into Clean Energy. “We have developed a catalyst capable of purifying municipal sewage while simultaneously enhancing the efficiency of hydrogen production, a green energy source.” And it uses iron and nickel, which are abundant.
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And Oregon State University scientists discover metal capable of removing carbon dioxide from air. This one uses vanadium, which is not so plentiful, but still, this makes more sense than restricting leaf blowers.
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OHSU postdoc organize for better wages. Well, their salaries come out of NIH grants, and what you get is what you have. They don't pay all that well. So higher wages means they'll have to let go of some people. There's nothing that a union will be able to do. There could be more money if the University took a smaller bite to cover overhead costs, but with the way things are, I wouldn't bet on it. Sorry, Hannah, you should get a second job to make ends meet, or go into private industry, which pays better. Research technician jobs have never paid well. And you are in Oregon.
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Cheese enthusiasts are mourning the possible extinction of brie cheese. The bacterium that creates Brie cheese is in danger of dying off. So no more Brie cheese, unless they manage to rescue the bacteria. This would be really unfortunate.
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Yeah, we already knew this. Oregon is one of least ‘tax friendly’ states. I'm surprised that Washington is one of the best states. What a difference to live just across the Columbia River.
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A.I. is allowing scientists to design custom antibodies from scratch. Well, designing them is one thing. You have to create them, and do so in bulk. That's the trick. But it's a good start anyway.
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So it's not just amyloid? Root cause of Alzheimer's may be fat buildup in brain cells, research suggests. Bad news if you have the APOE3 or APOE4 polymorphism. The APOE gene promotes fat accumulation in neurons.
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Google's woke Gemini A.I. wasn't a mistake. And this is the A.I. model that Apple wants to use. Sick.
“The model is just a reflection of the people who trained it,” one former AI researcher at Google Brain, who asked not to be named, told us. “It’s just a series of decisions that humans have made.”
Go woke, go broke. Harvard closes John G. Wolbach Library, citing 'financial considerations. I guess the boycotts from the wealthy donors is having an effect. So why pay all the expensive tuition money if you can't get the full Harvard experience?
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NVIDIA wants to take away all the nursing jobs that nurses want. The desired nursing jobs are not changing bedpans, starting IVs, checking inventory or making the staffing schedules, although they need to be done. Nurse love the human interaction, and that's what NVIDIA wants to relegate to A.I.
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NVIDIA wants to take away all the nursing jobs that nurses want. The desired nursing jobs are not changing bedpans, starting IVs, checking inventory or making the staffing schedules, although they need to be done. Nurse love the human interaction, and that's what NVIDIA wants to relegate to A.I.