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I popped round to an NHS dentist a few months ago - and they stuck my head on one of these contraptions. The Kodak 8000C takes a panoramic X-ray, giving a superior view of your teeth. Nifty. The dentist showed me where my wisdom teeth were and I was impressed with how high resolution the image was. Afterwards, I asked…
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Let's marinate in some hard truths. Dissect what is in front of our eyes.
Most food safety regulations say that Peking duck should be illegal. But it's not, so what gives?
Remember Apple’s failed attempt to detect CSAM in images? Would that have been similar to the way that Visual Look Up works? Is this the thin end of the wedge?
Every so often a news article will make the rounds of the internet – or, for that matter, a paper will be published in an academic journal – presenting a new ‘decipherment’ …
I consider myself fairly “up” with popular trends. Perhaps I don’t know every celebrity crush, or every new thing that every TikTok…
The Penguin Random House trial is ripping the lid off publishing
In an important new paper, Rafael Ahlskog and Sven Oskarsson show that half of the effect size in observational studies, even in conservative estimates, is composed of confounding.
The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to [a fence] and says, “I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.” To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: “If…
Aubrey Hirsch on harassment and existing as a woman online
A pocket guide to Neapolitan nonverbal communication.
Blame Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, the world’s worst plastic polluters, according to a new study
I live in Brazil. Brazil is a developing country. It is definitely not a rich country, but it is definitely not among the poorest either. We are placed on 84th in human development index rankings. You will find Brazil similarly in the middle of other rankings like per-capita income, education or life expectancy. There…
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I thank Kent Gladstone, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), for a critical reading of both manuscripts. Many critical comments and corrections from Brad Howard have made the Mini-Tutorial a better adventure for anyone who follows his path.
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On the anatomy of malpractice
To the north of Kyiv is a 40-mile long column of Russian vehicles, trapped by bad tyres, breakdowns, fuel shortage, and mud. But what of the occupants? Are they fit to fight?
It's a shortcut to understanding, and there are no shortcuts
(The way you can *really* tell something is horribly wrong is that grad students find PhD Comics darkly funny, not just dark.)
The real challenge to building on the frontier? Figuring out human behavior.
