“If you’re asking about products over Alexa, you’re going to see that behavior also reflected on the web,” Choffnes says. “If you go to Amazon.com, for example, you’ll see recommendations based on what you asked.”
Even when Google was able to draw on a user’s behavior, it still frequently profiled people incorrectly. According to the study, Google was able to correctly profile a married person with 70% accuracy but could only do so with 10% accuracy for people who are “in a relationship.”
- Half of parents are paying their Gen Z and millennial adult children $1,474 a month—but they plan to pull the plug in the next two years because it’s eating into retirement
- People making six-figure salaries used to be considered rich—now households earning nearly $200,000 a year aren’t even considered upper-class in some U.S. states
- Over 4 million Gen Zers are jobless—and experts blame colleges for ‘worthless degrees’ and a system of broken promises for the rising number NEETs
The Oregonian reflects on why Portland hasn't been able to recover. Why it lags behind other cities.
The whole article has the attitude of
"Gee, we did everything right. What could it be that keeps Portland from recovering?"
This is what they focus on:
A big win would help a lot, he said. Blosser suggested projects like a Major League Baseball stadium, or the Albina Vision Trust’s plan to add housing, cap Interstate 5 near the Rose Quarter and restore a historically Black neighborhood, could demonstrate Portland has shifted out of reverse and into gear.
Portland cafe touts their police bashing ideals and Portland postal workers to rally, march downtown.
Things sure have changed since I grew up, that's for sure.“We’ve spent decades building trust with people, especially with the LGBTQ+ community and immigrants. They’re not comfortable going to someone they don’t trust.”
Well, I'm not sure Canada is the best solution, and people are fleeing there because it's the easiest immediate solution.Joe feels this pessimism, too, and says that the chances that he will return to the UK are slim unless there’s a rebalance between pay, public services and opportunities for growth.
“It’s a big problem for me. The social contract in Canada is strong,” he said. “In the UK, it’s broken.”
Amazing, if confirmed. Paper here.The drug, tested on mice, restored these gamma oscillations, and in turn reconnected neurons to essentially heal the brain damage without arduous physical rehabilitation.
- 59% of the executives say they're "actively looking for a new job with a company that's more innovative with generative AI."
- Less than half (45%) of employees — versus 75% of the C-suite — think their company's AI rollout in the last 12 months has been successful.
- According to a May 2024 study from IBM, nearly two-thirds (64%) of leaders said their organization needs to embrace AI despite the fact that it will change jobs faster than employees can adapt.
- According to a 2024 LinkedIn report, 53% of employees said they hid their AI use from employers for fear that it would make them look replaceable.
- Execs are often so far removed from the actual implementation of AI on a worker level that they don't see or understand this fear and resistance
If the NIH doesn't have to pay as much in indirect costs, it may have more money to allocated to more researchers. It won't help the current grantees, though. Sad to see that Dr. Aaron Grossberg is seeking opportunities elsewhere.Privatized research may be the thing, and industry may indeed be the place where ground-breaking research gets done. Universities have been living off government subsidies for too long.The NIH guidance justified its new 15 percent indirect cost cap by comparing what foundations typically pay for indirect costs: zero. The Gates Foundation has a maximum indirect cost rate of 10 percent. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation pays up to 12 percent. If universities accept zero to 12 percent indirect cost rates from foundations, they should accept a similar rate from the government, argues the NIH.
Colleges reject the relevance of the comparison. They can forgo indirect cost funding from foundations only because the government already provides it, they say. In other words, taxpayers are easy marks when their money is being stewarded by federal bureaucrats. Private funders drive a harder bargain with their resources.