Breaking News Headlines For May 22nd 2022
1. Medical AI systems can easily learn to recognize self-reported racial identity from medical images with high accuracy https://news.mit.edu/…/artificial-intelligence-predicts… (See also this older post: AI can trivially learn to identify the self-reported racial identity of patients to an absurdly high degree of accuracy: https://lukeoakdenrayner.wordpress.com/…/ai-has-the…/)
2. Free course: Discrete Differential Geometry: An Applied Introduction https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kmcrane/Projects/DDG/
3. California regulator rejects desalination plant despite historic drought https://www.reuters.com/…/california-regulator-rejects…/
4. Fecal Transplants Reverse Hallmarks of Aging in the Gut, Eyes, and Brain https://microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/…/s40168…
5. Microsoft Research Asia has stopped recruiting students from “Seven Sons of National Defense” universities and Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications https://docs.google.com/…/1dThS0DgJhoW9ts7kRr…/edit…
6. American Congress urged to ease immigration for foreign science talent https://www.axios.com/…/national-security-china…
7. “America’s neglect of nuclear energy has weakened our global influence” https://thehill.com/…/3488215-americas-neglect-of…/
8. The Demented – and Selective – Game of Instantly Blaming Political Opponents For Mass Shootings https://greenwald.substack.com/…/the-demented-and…
9. Good question: Why don’t nations buy more territories from each other? https://marginalrevolution.com/…/why-dont-nations-buy…
10. Why do some coronaviruses become pandemic threats when others do not? https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3001652
11. Open Letter to Noam Chomsky (and other like-minded intellectuals) on the Russia-Ukraine war https://blogs.berkeley.edu/…/open-letter-to-noam…/
12. “A lawyer for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign lied to the FBI to “manipulate” the agency in order to win the election, a court has heard.” https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-61488556.amp
