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Are there automation-resistant intelligences? The question we all want to ask is 'will my job be taken over by a robot?'

Are there automation-resistant intelligences? The question we all want to ask is 'will my job be taken over by a robot?' "Our model predicts that most workers in transportation and logistics occupations, together with the bulk of office and administrative support workers, and labour in production occupations,...
Source: ox.ac.uk

Building SMILY, a Human-Centric, Similar-Image Search Tool for Pathology. Advances in machine learning (ML) have shown great

Building SMILY, a Human-Centric, Similar-Image Search Tool for Pathology. Advances in machine learning (ML) have shown great promise for assisting in the work of healthcare professionals, such as aiding the detection of diabetic eye disease and metastatic breast cancer. Though high-performing algorithms...
Source: googleblog.com

Robust Neural Machine Translation: In recent years, neural machine translation (NMT) using Transformer models has experienced

Robust Neural Machine Translation: In recent years, neural machine translation (NMT) using Transformer models has experienced tremendous success. Based on deep neural networks, NMT models are usually trained end-to-end on very large parallel corpora (input/output text pairs) in an entirely data-driven...
Source: googleblog.com

This book is outstanding - brief, proudly retro, humorous, and genius. A great introduction to the last 60 years of AI.

This book is outstanding - brief, proudly retro, humorous, and genius. A great introduction to the last 60 years of AI. To know a subject so well that you can reduce it to a Ladybird-style book readable by all is a gift. We could all learn from this level of presentation. It is available online...
Source: amazon.co.uk

Machine Learning That’s Light Enough for an Arduino: Adafruit’s Limor Fried ported TensorFlow Light to the Arduino ecosystem

Machine Learning That’s Light Enough for an Arduino: Adafruit’s Limor Fried ported TensorFlow Light to the Arduino ecosystem so you can make your own AI-powered projects
Source: ieee.org

Gaining insights with Natural Language Processing of Reddit Data to Evaluate Dermatology Patient Experiences and Therapeutics.

Gaining insights with Natural Language Processing of Reddit Data to Evaluate Dermatology Patient Experiences and Therapeutics. "There is a lack of research studying patient-generated data on Reddit, one of the world’s most popular forums with active users interested in dermatology. Techniques within...
Source: sciencedirect.com

Development of new antibiotics encouraged with new pharmaceutical payment system: The NHS will test the world's first ‘subscription’

Development of new antibiotics encouraged with new pharmaceutical payment system: The NHS will test the world's first ‘subscription’ style payment model to incentivise pharmaceutical companies to develop new drugs for resistant infections. "The new trial will be led by the National Institute for...
Source: www.gov.uk

Utility of social media and crowd-intelligence data for pharmacovigilance: a scoping review. - PubMed - NCBI "Although

Utility of social media and crowd-intelligence data for pharmacovigilance: a scoping review. - PubMed - NCBI "Although social media data has the potential to supplement data from regulatory agency databases; is able to capture less frequently reported AEs; and can identify AEs earlier than official...
Source: nih.gov

Frailty predicts mortality in all emergency surgical admissions regardless of age. An observational study: “Frail patients

Frailty predicts mortality in all emergency surgical admissions regardless of age. An observational study: “Frail patients in any age group are more likely to die than those that are not frail. We aimed to evaluate the impact of frailty on clinical mortality, readmission rate and length of stay for...
Source: oup.com

EU Trials Tracker — Who's not sharing clinical trial results? : By law, all clinical trials on the European Union

EU Trials Tracker — Who's not sharing clinical trial results? : By law, all clinical trials on the European Union Clinical Trials Register (EUCTR) must report their results in the registry within a year of completion. This site tracks which universities and pharmaceutical companies are...
Source: trialstracker.net

Been using this ‘pencil project’ software for flowcharting. Works really well for quickly sketching systems diagrams

Been using this ‘pencil project’ software for flowcharting. Works really well for quickly sketching systems diagrams and workflows that you can export to various formats. It is available on Windows (also as a stand-alone App on PortableApps.com, Linux, and Mac) The ‘sketchy’ style wireframing...

How the audacity to fix things without asking permission can change the world, according to Tara Mac Aulay - 80,000 Hours

How the audacity to fix things without asking permission can change the world, according to Tara Mac Aulay - 80,000 Hours
Source: 80000hours.org

A Primer on Machine Learning and Deep Learning for Educators | Emerging Education Technologies "While many digital technologies

A Primer on Machine Learning and Deep Learning for Educators | Emerging Education Technologies "While many digital technologies have played a role in advancing education, a set of emerging technologies is positioned to bring new advances thanks to the breakthroughs achieved in artificial intelligence...
Source: emergingedtech.com

Why Thousands of AI Researchers Are Boycotting the New Nature Journal - Slashdot: An anonymous reader shares an excerpt

Why Thousands of AI Researchers Are Boycotting the New Nature Journal - Slashdot: An anonymous reader shares an excerpt from a report via The Guardian, written by Neil Lawrence, the founding editor of the freely available journal Proceedings of Machine Learning Research: Machine learning has demonstrated...
Source: slashdot.org

Understanding Latent Dirichlet Allocation with Gibbs Sampling by coding it from scratch. Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA)

Understanding Latent Dirichlet Allocation with Gibbs Sampling by coding it from scratch. Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) is a machine-learning technique that by the magic of many (many many) small calculations it can detect patterns in data and cluster documents, for example, into similar topics. ...
Source: github.io

France to ban all oil, gas production by 2040: French President Emmanuel Macron said he's "very proud that France has become

France to ban all oil, gas production by 2040: French President Emmanuel Macron said he's "very proud that France has become the first country to ban new oil exploration licenses"
Source: cbsnews.com

2017 ACC/AHA/AAPA/ABC/ACPM/AGS/APhA/ASH/ASPC/NMA/PCNA Guideline for the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Management

2017 ACC/AHA/AAPA/ABC/ACPM/AGS/APhA/ASH/ASPC/NMA/PCNA Guideline for the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Management of High Blood Pressure in Adults: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines Paul K. Whelton. Robert M. Carey....
Source: ahajournals.org

Early phase drug trial claims a breakthrough in Huntington disease. IONIS-HTT is an antisense "gene-silencing" compound,

Early phase drug trial claims a breakthrough in Huntington disease. IONIS-HTT is an antisense "gene-silencing" compound, injected in to CSF and designed to reduce the production of all forms of the huntingtin (HTT) protein, which in its mutated variant (mHTT) is responsible for Huntington's Disease....
Source: reuters.com

Towards a Competence-Based Course Authoring Tool Supporting Learning Management Systems: To establish a more comparable,

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

Reducing patient mortality, length of stay and readmissions through machine learning-based sepsis prediction in the emergency

Reducing patient mortality, length of stay and readmissions through machine learning-based sepsis prediction in the emergency department, intensive care unit and hospital floor units. Sepsis management is a challenge for hospitals nationwide, as severe sepsis carries high mortality rates and costs...
Source: bmj.com