What’s News For May 2nd?
1. “The skill of surgeons varies tremendously, with bottom quartile surgeons having over 4x as many complications as the best surgeons in the same hospital. And surgeons are keenly aware of who is good & who is bad – their rankings of others are very accurate.” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1520589431861878786.html
2. A story that discussed how a single individual (not a CS prof but a stay-at-home-dad software engineer) was able to win the simulation component of recent DARPA robotics challenges (but not the latest one). https://www.wired.com/…/darpa-challenge-robot-olympics…/ (archived version: https://archive.ph/w8Ida)
3. Inside the New Right, Where Peter Thiel Is Placing His Biggest Bets — “I think Trump is going to run again in 2024,” he said. “I think that what Trump should do, if I was giving him one piece of advice: Fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people.” https://www.vanityfair.com/…/inside-the-new-right-where…
4. „169 cases of acute hepatitis of unknown origin have been reported“ from Europe and US. 17 children have required liver transplantation; at least one death has been reported. https://www.who.int/…/multi-country-acute-severe…
5. Evidence of Zoonotic Spread: Superbug C. difficile Can Jump Between Pigs and Humans https://scitechdaily.com/evidence-of-zoonotic-spread…/
6. Hadza hunter-gatherers are not deontologists and do not prefer deontologists as social partners. https://www.sciencedirect.com/…/abs/pii/S0022103122000336
7. Anti-technology, anti-growth, anti-humanist thinking was the rule, not the exception, among the originating thinkers of environmentalism. https://thebreakthrough.org/…/wait-environmentalists…
8. Distributed Acoustic Sensing is a technique that uses light feedback from twisted fiber optic cables to detect vibrations or deformation in the ground. https://arstechnica.com/…/scientists-spy-on-mount-etna…/
9. Elegant Six-Page Proof Reveals the Emergence of Random Structure https://www.quantamagazine.org/elegant-six-page-proof…/
