Donald Trump orders new tariff investigation into US copper imports
President opens new front in assault on global trade norms as advisers claim China moving to dominate copper marketDonald Trump on Tuesday opened yet another front in his assault on global trade norms, ordering a new investigation into possible tariffs on copper imports to rebuild US production of a
Weekly Review 20 December 2024
我上周在 Twitter 上发布的一些有趣的链接（我也在 Mastodon、Threads、Newsmast 和 Bluesky 上发布了这些链接）：如果人们一直说他们已经实现了通用人工智能，那么最终这可能是真的：https://futurism.com/openai-employee-claims-agi 看起来 OpenAI 还没有学会使用受版权保护的数据来训练其人工智能：https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/openai-appears-to-have-trained-sora-on-game-content 微软希望在澳大利亚和新西兰培训一百万人掌握人工
我上周在 Twitter 上发布的一些有趣的链接（我也在 Mastodon、Threads、Newsmast 和 Bluesky 上发布了这些链接）：使用 AI 避免碰撞的自动驾驶船：https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350423932/unmanned-vessel-makes-waves-science-minister 帮助研究文献和引用的 AI：https://dataconomy.com/2024/09/27/scite-ai-review-can-it-research-well/ 微软纠正生成性 AI 幻觉的方法：https://www.comput
Weekly Review 27 September 2024
我上周在推特上发布了一些有趣的链接（我也在 Mastodon、Threads、Newsmast 和 Bluesky 上发布了这些链接）：这是人工智能的真正危险，它可以用于增强监控，大型科技公司可以通过这样做赚很多钱：https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/16/oracle_ai_mass_surveillance_cloud/除了需要大量能源外，人工智能还需要大量水来冷却：https://www.techrepublic.com/article/generative-ai-data-center-water-use/使用人工智能消除招聘中的偏见。但人工智能会继
As the Debby effect dissipates, initial claims remain positive for the economy
– 作者：New Deal democrat 在过去的几个月里，失业救济申请首先受到未解决的后疫情季节性因素的冲击，然后还受到飓风黛比对德克萨斯州申请的影响。第一个因素现在正在减弱，第二个因素已经结束，因为本周德克萨斯州的申请下降到了去年的正常水平 […]The post As the Debby effect dissending, initial claims remain positive for the economy appeared first on Angry Bear.
UConn Women Defeat Georgetown to Claim Big East Championship
康涅狄格州大学女子篮球队周一晚上以 78-42 击败乔治城大学霍亚队，夺得康涅狄格州金神体育馆的大东部篮球锦标赛冠军。这是哈士奇队自学校重返大东部联盟以来四年来的第四次夺冠。这场比赛以 […]The post UConn Women Defeat Georgetown to Claim Big East Championship appeared first on Heroes Media Group.
Kathleen Stock says she quit university post over ‘medieval’ ostracism
Professor accused of transphobia claims lack of support from colleagues and unions led her to resignThe philosophy professor at the centre of a row over her views on gender identification and transgender rights has said she quit her post at Sussex University because of what she called “a medieval ex
On The Record (with daily recap)
Bipartisan Policy Center: Tax Reform Quick Summary Bipartisan Policy Center: Domenici-Rivlin Protect Medicare Act Today in TIE: Reflex, Austin looks at Domenici-Rivlin with competitive bidding, suggests Google Reader fixes, and plumbs NEJM’s take on the PSA kerfuffle, Don and Harold do bloggingheads
Malpractice risk, by physician specialty
A new paper in NEJM by Anupam Jena, Seth Seabury, Darius Lakdawalla, and Amitabh Chandra illuminates many of the important aspects of malpractice risk: how it varies by specialty, how many claims lead to payments, the size of payments, the chance of a claim in a year and over a career, etc. Accordin
Choice Inconsistencies among the Elderly: Evidence from Plan Choice in the Medicare Part D Program, by Jason Abaluck and Jonathan Gruber (AER) We evaluate the choices of elders across their insurance options under the Medicare Part D Prescription Drug plan, using a unique dataset of prescription dru
Most preventable medical errors do not result in a paid claim
Paid physician malpractice claims for adverse events in 2009 (from Bishop, Ryan & Casalino in this week’s JAMA): Inpatient 4910 Outpatient 4448 Both 966 Total 10,739 By way of comparison (my calculations): Incidence Number of US hospitals 5,795 <1 per hospital/year Number of admissions 37,479,709 0.
The ER does not count as health care
There are many odd things people say all the time about health care in the United States, but this one always makes my hair stand on end (emphasis not mine): While speaking out against Democratic proposals to increase access to quality, affordable health care, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) claimed, “all Am
