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AI beats real doctors on 149 remote OSCE-style tests

blog post image "We tested performance in consultations with simulated patients (played by trained actors), compared to those performed by 20 real PCPs using the randomized approach described above. AMIE and PCPs were assessed from the perspectives of both specialist attending physicians and our simulated patients in...
Source: research.google

Tetris defeated?

blog post image 34 years later, a 13-year-old hits the NES Tetris “kill screen” says ArsTechnica. "BlueScuti forces the game to crash after 40 minutes and 1,511 lines." Having tried to play the game I can appreciate how difficult - and what an outstanding feat - this has been to basically break the game.
Source: arstechnica.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

Induced subgraphs of hypercubes and a proof of the Sensitivity Conjecture: In this paper, we show that every (2^{n-1}+1)-vertex

Induced subgraphs of hypercubes and a proof of the Sensitivity Conjecture: In this paper, we show that every (2^{n-1}+1)-vertex induced subgraph of the n-dimensional cube graph has maximum degree at least sqrt{n}. This result is best possible, and improves a logarithmic lower bound shown by Chung, Füredi,...
Source: arxiv.org

Winners of the 2018 PLOS Computational Biology Research Prize | PLOS Biologue: It's time to celebrate the best of PLOS

Winners of the 2018 PLOS Computational Biology Research Prize | PLOS Biologue: It's time to celebrate the best of PLOS Computational Biology! In 2017 PLOS Computational Biology launched the "PLOS Computational Biology Research Prize" program with the aim to recognize some of the journal's most outstanding...
Source: plos.org

The UK has 'one of the worst healthcare systems in the developed world': The UK has one of the worst healthcare systems

The UK has 'one of the worst healthcare systems in the developed world': The UK has one of the worst healthcare systems in the developed world according to a damning new report which said the nation has an “outstandingly poor” record of preventing ill health.
Source: independent.co.uk

State of Care 2014/15 from the Care Quality Commission (CQC) - room for improvement. "Demands are increasing on health

State of Care 2014/15 from the Care Quality Commission (CQC) - room for improvement. "Demands are increasing on health and social care. State of Care – our annual overview of health and social care in England – looks at the trends, highlights examples of good and outstanding care, and identifies ...
Source: cqc.org.uk