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An analysis of studies pertaining to masks from 1978 to 2023

Hacker News

Importance Because the MMWR has substantial influence on United States public health policy and is not externally peer-reviewed, it is critical to understand the scientific process within the journal. Mask policies during COVID is one topic that has been highly influenced by data published in the MMWR. 0/77 were randomized studies.

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Partisan Media Bias Shapes AI Sentiment

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The study highlights the significant role media plays in shaping public opinion on AI, especially in the context of political discussions and policy-making.

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Escalation Risks from Language Models in Military and Diplomatic Decision-Making

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Governments are increasingly considering integrating autonomous AI agents in high-stakes military and foreign-policy decision-making, especially with the emergence of advanced generative AI models like GPT-4. We find that all five studied off-the-shelf LLMs show forms of escalation and difficult-to-predict escalation patterns.

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Navigating to Objects in the Real World

ML @ CMU

Empirical study: We evaluated three approaches for robots to navigate to objects in six visually diverse homes. But learned visual navigation policies have predominantly been evaluated in simulation. We evaluate policies across six homes with no prior experience, maps, or instrumentation.

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Combatting the healthcare crisis: What role will technology have?

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Healthcare has come a long way since the earliest days of the studies of chemistry, psychology, physiology, and more. In 2021, the consulting firm Mercer released a study projecting the conditions of a looming shortage of healthcare staff. Nevertheless, it seems that there is a storm on the horizon.

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Model-free reinforcement learning part three: digging into Q-learning, SARSA, double Q-learning more practically

Data Science Blog

This is the sixth article of the series My elaborate study notes on reinforcement learning. This article series is also a study note for me. Many other study materials on RL also first explain dynamic programing (DP) to introduce GPI, interactive relations of values and policies.

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A new kind of climate denial has taken over on YouTube

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Instead, the most common lies about climate change now have to do with denying the benefits of clean energy, attacking policies meant to slash planet-heating pollution from fossil fuels, and maligning scientists and advocates that push for change.

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