A BBC article today made me furious www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...open.substack.com/pub/christin...
Next month on Wednesday November 6 I will be offering my comprehensive hierarchal modeling course at a steep discount in an effort to raise funds for World Central Kitchen and Doctors Without Borders, particularly their ongoing work in Gaza and Lebanon.
Wondering if anyone has come across relevant papers with simulations or sound rationale about the pitfalls of aggregating different outcome variables under a simplified index? It makes sense that it is a poor idea but would welcome detailed insight to better articulate to others..
“I can eat sugar now". A 25-yr-old woman with type 1 diabetes has started producing her own insulin after a transplant of reprogrammed stem cells (extracted from her own body). Follows similar type 2 diabetes success. www.nature.com/articles/d41... by Smriti Mallapaty | Nature
She is the first person with type 1 diabetes to receive this kind of transplant.
Tucker Carlson too much of a suck up to the Russians to be believable in Russian propaganda.
Often when I am working with R half of the things I produce have (what seems to me) a component of witchcraft to them. Run it 10 times, does not work, on the 11th, voila. Surefire way to make me feel as daft as possible!
lot of negativity towards AI lately, but consider : are these tools ethical or environmentally sustainable? No. *but* do they enable great things that people want? Also no. *but* are they being made by well meaning people for good reasons? Once again, no. maybe you're not being negative *enough*