Title: Pandemic Doubled Need for Inpatient Care of Eating Disorders
Category: Health News
Created: 11/24/2021 12:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 11/29/2021 12:00:00 AM
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Disclaimer: this is not an ad for Obsidian. Onboarding to a new company is hard work. Keeping all the information straight is its own work stream that deserves thought and attention. Countless names, faces*, teams, initiatives, and acronyms fly by before noon. Believe me. I’m in the process right now. This week I landed on a system I’m pretty happy with. You’re a knowledge worker. Build a knowledge base You need a place to put all the information you’re receiving. This is some of the stuff I’m talking about: People Teams Repositories Relationships between teams, repositories, people, etc. Initiatives Your…
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Artificial intelligence (AI) was once the stuff of science fiction. But it’s becoming widespread. It is used in mobile phone technology and motor vehicles. It powers tools for agriculture and healthcare. But concerns have emerged about the accountability of AI and related technologies like machine learning. In December 2020 a computer scientist, Timnit Gebru, was fired from Google’s Ethical AI team. She had previously raised the alarm about the social effects of bias in AI technologies. For instance, in a 2018 paper Gebru and another researcher, Joy Buolamwini, had shown how facial recognition software was less accurate in identifying women…
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Microsoft has survived brutal battles against Apple and Google, but the company now faces a more formidable foe: the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace. The congregation is leading a group of Microsoft investors who want to hold the firm accountable for its tech. The campaigners are urging Microsoft shareholders to vote for two proposals at a November 30 meeting: Ask Microsoft to ensure its lobbyists live up to its values and policies on racial justice, human rights, and privacy. Call for Microsoft to stop all sales of facial recognition to government entities. The sisters may not look like your…
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Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. There’s practically no need to allow websites to send you notifications, and there’s certainly no need for your web browser to ask if that’d be okay. If you’ve never found any use for these, I want to show you how to fix it once and for all, in whichever browser you use. Google Chrome (desktop) Click on the three dots button near the top right corner of the browser, and select Settings. Head to ‘Privacy…
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