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Kenya's push to make 'boda-boda' motorbike taxis go electric

blog post image "The government wants Kenya's three million motorbike taxi riders to go green but only a few have done so." I last went to Kenya over 10 years ago and I got around Kitale on the back of push bikes by local riders. Motorised bikes 'boda-boda' were only just being introduced at the time. Apparently there...
Source: bbc.com

The Vulnerable World Hypothesis

blog post image "This paper introduces the concept of a vulnerable world: roughly, one in which there is some level of technological development at which civilization almost certainly gets devastated by default, i.e. unless it has exited the ‘semi-anarchic default condition’. Several counterfactual historical and...
Source: doi.org

Introducing Gemini: our largest and most capable AI model

Gemini is our most capable and general model, built to be multimodal and optimized for three different sizes: Ultra, Pro and Nano.
Source: blog.google

Factors affecting the uptake of new medicines: a systematic literature review - BMC Health Services Research Lublóy, Ágnes.

"This systematic literature review has provided insights into the factors that affect new drug uptake—primarily, doctors’ scientific orientation, prescribing habits, exposure to pharmaceutical marketing, and interpersonal communication." "Background The successful diffusion of new drugs is crucial...
Source: biomedcentral.com

China’s GPT-3? BAAI Introduces Superscale Intelligence Model ‘Wu Dao 1.0’ | Synced

The Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI) releases Wu Dao 1.0, China’s first large-scale pretraining model.
Source: syncedreview.com

The role of motivational profiles in learning problem-solving and self-assessment skills with video modeling examples Lisette

In the current study, we examine the role of situation-specific motivational profiles in the effectiveness of video modeling examples for learning problem-solving and self-assessment accuracy in the domain of biology. A sample of 342 secondary school students participated in our study. Latent profile...
Source: springer.com

Introducing Open-AI's DALL-E.

Ever wondered what an armchair in the shape of an avocado might look like? Introducing Open-AI's DALL-E. Does this help with accessibility by explaining things in pictures from written words? Does it risk replacing humans in the creative industry with machines? "DALL·E: Creating Images from...
Source: openai.com

Free Intro to Linux Course Surpasses One Million Enrollments - Linux Foundation

Free Intro to Linux Course Surpasses One Million Enrollments - Linux Foundation - Training: The Linux Foundation course has consistently been one of edX’s most popular offerings. 60 hours of course materials and assignments.
Source: linuxfoundation.org

Open source learning analytics

Stephen's Web ~ Learning Analytics beyond the LMS: Enabling Connected Learning via Open Source Analytics in ‘the wild’ ~ Stephen Downes "This excellent report (55 page PDF) will introduce you to the Connected Learning Analytics (CLA) toolkit." Overview of an approach to learning analytics.
Source: downes.ca

Using Machine Learning to Detect Deficient Coverage in Colonoscopy Screenings

Using Machine Learning to Detect Deficient Coverage in Colonoscopy Screenings: Posted by Daniel Freedman and Ehud Rivlin, Research Scientists, Google Health "In “Detecting Deficient Coverage in Colonoscopies”, we introduce the Colonoscopy Coverage Deficiency via Depth algorithm, or C2D2, a machine...
Source: googleblog.com

Comparison of E-Learning, M-Learning and Game-based Learning in Programming Education – A Gendered Analysis: Learning

Comparison of E-Learning, M-Learning and Game-based Learning in Programming Education – A Gendered Analysis: Learning to code is considered as a difficult and challenging task for a significant number of novice programmers in programming education. Novice programmers have to acquire different skills...
Source: online-journals.org

Heroes of Progress, Pt. 30: Sir John Harington: Introducing the man who invented the first flushable toilet, Sir John Harington.

Heroes of Progress, Pt. 30: Sir John Harington: Introducing the man who invented the first flushable toilet, Sir John Harington.
Source: humanprogress.org

How the adults in the room handled the economic impact of COVID-19 in March - not the politicians and not their advisers.

"The adults in the room: On Sunday 15 March, the morning before he became the 121st governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey absorbed the news from around the world. In the past 12 hours, the White House had banned all visitors from the UK, Spain had introduced a national lockdown, France had closed...
Source: newstatesman.com

UCL cancer policy update

“Because of the complexity of delivering better cancer care and the dynamics of NHS funding and introducing better practices in the health service there is a strong case for developing new cancer strategies for all the UK nations for the 2020s. Britain could also benefit from leading an independent...
Source: ucl.ac.uk

Autonomy, Belonging, Competence. GMC reports on the ABC of wellbeing.

Caring for doctors Caring for patients: An independent report into the wellbeing of UK medical students and doctors. "In 2018 we commissioned Professor Michael West and Dame Denise Coia, to carry out a UK-wide review to help tackle the causes of poor wellbeing faced by medical students and doctors. ...
Source: gmc-uk.org

A Gentle Introduction to Joint, Marginal, and Conditional Probability: Probability quantifies the uncertainty of the outcomes

A Gentle Introduction to Joint, Marginal, and Conditional Probability: Probability quantifies the uncertainty of the outcomes of a random variable. It is relatively easy to understand and compute the probability for a single variable. Nevertheless, in machine learning, we often have many random variables...
Source: machinelearningmastery.com

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

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

Training medical students to manage difficult circumstances- a curriculum for resilience and resourcefulness?: In response

Training medical students to manage difficult circumstances- a curriculum for resilience and resourcefulness?: In response to the growing prevalence of physical and emotional burnout amongst medical students and practicing physicians, we sought to find a new methodology to scope a five-year undergraduate...
Source: biomedcentral.com

The words we use in Diabetes. A language matters booklet from NHS England introduced by Partha Kar about the choice of words

The words we use in Diabetes. A language matters booklet from NHS England introduced by Partha Kar about the choice of words when communicating with people about diabetes. Really nice piece of work explaining how to bring more empathy to your conversations and less stigma.
Source: england.nhs.uk