Title: High Blood Pressure Now Affects 1 in Every 7 U.S. Pregnancies
Category: Health News
Created: 4/29/2022 12:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 5/2/2022 12:00:00 AM
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A team of researchers recently developed an algorithm that generates original reviews for wines and beers. Considering that computers can’t taste booze, this makes for a curious use-case for machine learning. The AI sommelier was trained on a database containing hundreds of thousands of beer and wine reviews. In essence, it aggregates those reviews and picks out keywords. When the researchers ask it to generate its own review for a specific wine or beer, it generates something similar to previous reviews. According to the researchers, its output is comparable to, and often indistinguishable from, reviews created purely by humans. The…
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If a person is lost in the wilderness, they have two options. They can search for civilization, or they could make themselves easy to spot by building a fire or writing HELP in big letters. For scientists interested in the question of whether intelligent aliens exist, the options are much the same. For over 70 years, astronomers have been scanning for radio or optical signals from other civilizations in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, called SETI. Most scientists are confident that life exists on many of the 300 million potentially habitable worlds in the Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers also think…
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Elon Musk and other modern oligarchs can not only sway the public – they can exploit their data, too
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During the Gilded Age of the late 19th century, and the early decades of the 20th century, U.S. captains of industry such as William Randolph Hearst and Jay Gould used their massive wealth to dominate facets of the economy, including the news media. They were, in many ways, prototype oligarchs – by the dictionary definition, “very rich business leaders with a great deal of political influence.” Some have argued that the U.S. is in the midst of a Second Gilded Age defined – like the first – by vast wealth inequality, hyper-partisanship, xenophobia and a new crop of oligarchs using…
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Title: Thinking of Donating a Kidney? New Data Shows It’s Safe
Category: Health News
Created: 4/29/2022 12:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 4/29/2022 12:00:00 AM