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Data Mining Vital Statistics Yields Fascinating Societal Insights

Smart Data Collective

In short, vital statistics are data points that include birth, death, marriage, and divorce records. You can figure out how to ration limited resources or create alternatives. You may notice there’s been an increasing pattern of marriages ending because of abuse or infidelity. Death records reveal a lot about society.

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Five Ways AI Can Help States Solve Their Hardest Problems (Part 1): Enhance Crisis Response

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State government’s first priority is simple: to help people and to do so by creating an environment in which its constituents can flourish. Many available forecasts provide less than four weeks notice at the state and county level. As these services have increased, so has the demand of constituent needs.

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How an Electrical Engineer Solved Australia’s Most Famous Cold Case

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The place of death led the police to treat the case as a suicide , despite the apparent lack of a suicide note. Interviewers then and decades later reported that she had seemed evasive; after her death, some of her relatives and friends said they speculated that she must have known the dead man. police sketch artist.

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5 ways organizations are using AI for climate action

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Forecasting runway configuration changes at airports to reduce waste from delays (with NASA): Use real-time air traffic and weather data to predict runway changes at airports, giving flight operators more advance notice to manage schedules, reduce delays, and save fuel.

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Get started with generative AI on AWS using Amazon SageMaker JumpStart

AWS Machine Learning Blog

This post provides an overview of generative AI with a real customer use case, provides a concise description and outlines its benefits, references an easy-to-follow demo of AWS DeepComposer for creating new musical compositions, and outlines how to get started using Amazon SageMaker JumpStart for deploying GPT2, Stable Diffusion 2.0,

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Science Fiction Short: Hijack

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Instead, creating a computer from a planet will likely involve spreading out a world’s worth of mass. A Uploading is a hypothetical process in which brain scanning can help create emulations of human minds in computers. billion years ago, when photosynthetic cyanobacteria created the oxygen-rich atmosphere we breathe today. “So

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The Therac-25 Incident

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It describes incidents of death and maiming caused by faulty software engineering processes. Each was a severe radiation overdose, which resulted in serious injuries, maimings, and deaths. If nothing else, I hope this article makes you think about the process you use to create software. Today's article is not fun, or funny.