DeepMind AI needs mere 4 hours of self-training to become a chess overlord: AlphaGo Zero needed three days to train up in Go; AlphaZero needed just eight hours.
Source: arstechnica.com
The future is here: Genetically engineered stem cells save a patient: The genetic disease epidermolysis bullosa left a patient without much skin.
Source: arstechnica.com
Association Between Treatment by Locum Tenens Internal Medicine Physicians and 30-Day Mortality Among Hospitalized Medicare Beneficiaries: This cohort study evaluates the differences in quality and costs of care related to locum tenens vs non–locum tenens physicians treating hospitalized Medicare beneficiaries....
Source: jamanetwork.com
What to Do When a Patient Has a 'Do Not Resuscitate' Tattoo: “We’ve always joked about this, but holy crap, this man actually did it.” This is a good account in The Atlantic and highlights the ethical debate about consent. Many doctor and medico-legal comments have been circulating on social media...
Source: theatlantic.com
Do Good on Autopilot (i.e. without even thinking about it) with These 4 Apps. The apps (mostly plugins to browsers) help with raising money for charitable causes without you having to do anything other than install the app.
Source: thelifeyoucansave.org
After 37 years, Voyager 1 has fired up its trajectory thrusters: This week, the scientists and engineers on the Voyager team did something very special. What does this mean for Voyager and what effect will this thrust have on its trajectory? Great that the rockets work - fantastic engineering - and...
Source: arstechnica.com
APOD: 2017 November 20 - Curiosity Rover Takes Selfie on Mars
Source: nasa.gov
How to brew beer like a Norwegian farmer: Kveik: a word we’re likely to be seeing a lot more of in the beer world. But what is kveik? Here are a couple of things it’s not: Kveik is NOT a beer style. It’s the name given in…
Source: zythophile.co.uk
Oral anticoagulants for prevention of stroke in atrial fibrillation: systematic review, network meta-analysis, and cost effectiveness analysis: Objective To compare the efficacy, safety, and cost effectiveness of direct acting oral anticoagulants (DOACs) for patients with atrial fibrillation.
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Source: bmj.com
Thyroid drug to stay on the NHS: The decision on liothyronine was part of a wider prescribing review by NHS England.
Source: bbc.co.uk
Computer model for the cardiovascular system: development of an e-learning tool for teaching of medical students: This study combined themes in cardiovascular modelling, clinical cardiology and e-learning to create an on-line environment that would assist undergraduate medical students in understanding...
Source: biomedcentral.com
A cross-sectional examination of psychological distress, positive mental health and their predictors in medical students in their clinical clerkships: Medical students can experience the transition from theory to clinical clerkships as stressful. Scientific literature on the mental health of clinical...
Source: biomedcentral.com
The surfer who has only one leg: Pegleg takes surfing in his stride thanks to a prosthetic limb.
Source: bbc.co.uk
How this local news co-op gets its members interested: Getting them involved in the production of news: The Bristol Cable now has a solid stable of members who can be involved in every stage — from pitching story ideas to assisting in investigations to delivering the quarterly print paper.
Source: niemanlab.org
How one country persuaded teens to give up drink and drugs: Iceland used to have a big teenage drinking, smoking and drug problem. Now it doesn't.
Source: bbc.co.uk
Algorithm outperforms radiologists at diagnosing pneumonia | Stanford News: In just over a month of development, their algorithm outperformed expert radiologists at diagnosing pneumonia.
Source: stanford.edu
Towards a Competence-Based Course Authoring Tool Supporting Learning Management Systems: To establish a more comparable, compatible, and coherent system of higher education in Europe, the so-called Bologna Process (BP) has been adopted. As a measure to improve comparability, the BP requires that every...
Source: online-journals.org
A model for the use of blended learning in large group teaching sessions: Although blended learning has the potential to enhance the student experience, both in terms of engagement and flexibility, it can be difficult to effectively restructure existing courses. To achieve these goals for an introductory...
Source: biomedcentral.com
Using social media to support small group learning: Medical curricula are increasingly using small group learning and less didactic lecture-based teaching. This creates new challenges and opportunities in how students are best supported with information technology. We explored how university-supported...
Source: biomedcentral.com