“I would have liked to have run a personal development programme looking at the mind and the heart and the body and the family and giving people the understanding of their predicament, so they can see a way out of it - give them something to believe in.” … [Read more...] about Why the Ministry of Health pulled the plug on a million dollar methamphetamine programme for gang members
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New Algorithms Could Reduce Racial Disparities in Health Care
When given an x-ray it hasn’t seen before, the software uses those patterns to predict the pain a patient would report experiencing. Those predictions correlated more closely with patients’ pain than the scores radiologists assigned to knee x-rays, particularly for Black patients. That suggests the algorithms had learned to detect evidence of disease that radiologists didn’t. “The algorithm was seeing things over and above what the radiologists were seeing—things that are more commonly causes of pain in Black patients,” Obermeyer says. … [Read more...] about New Algorithms Could Reduce Racial Disparities in Health Care
Data centers want to be a lot greener. One big problem is holding them back
To meet the aggressive objectives they have set for themselves, tech giants such as Google and Microsoft will have to take more risks, says Adler – and switch some of the focus from renewable energy production to renewable energy storage. Contracting small suppliers, despite the potential higher costs and uncertainty, is the only way to accelerate the growth of a market that urgently needs to expand, if it is to cope with the explosion of hyperscale data centers. … [Read more...] about Data centers want to be a lot greener. One big problem is holding them back
‘I Want to Meet My Teacher’
As the return date neared, the local union chapter posted a long open letter to Facebook, listing safety concerns and declaring that “school as we once knew it is still not possible.” At a school-board meeting, teachers raised objections to hybrid instruction and complained that a 14-day quarantine requirement would force them to give up holiday travel plans. On October 21, three weeks before teachers were scheduled to return, union representatives conducted a walk-through inspection of an elementary school with their own safety consultant. The tour ended abruptly when the group learned high-grade air filters had not been installed as promised, and the union sent out a message saying it “strongly advises its members not to return to the buildings until they are safe.” Taylor postponed the reopening until after the winter holidays. Meanwhile, the YMCA child-care program continued to operate in the buildings. … [Read more...] about ‘I Want to Meet My Teacher’
Former NAB chief spills the beans on Broadsheed deal
The judgment documents reveal what the arbitration court had concluded that the claimant [Broadsheet LLC] was entitled to recover damages from the respondents [the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and the National Accountability Bureau] for the "tort of conspiring to cause unlawful economic loss to the Claimant by entering into the Settlement Agreement dated 20 May 2008 with Mr. James and companies controlled by him and/or in making payments to him or them thereunder." … [Read more...] about Former NAB chief spills the beans on Broadsheed deal