Our daily update is published. Both tests completed (758k) and new cases (65K) were near all-time highs. States reported 855 deaths, in line with the higher level we saw last week.
In the internet age, boundaries between *Opinion* and *Reporting* are unclear to many readers. Credibility of NYT investigative columns (consistently excellent) get undercut by flame wars over the Op-Eds. I think NYT should excise the opinion section or at least brand separately.
Those who wish to teach a class on my Causality book would benefit from my slides and homework which I am happy to share: bayes.cs.ucla.edu/BOOK-2K/vi…. Merry teaching, it should be fun.
How can you be a political official in charge of a state of 10 million people and only find out in the last 24 hours that asymptomatic transmission of COVID-19 is a thing?
In the state where @CDCgov is headquartered, no less?!
Today, we're standing up a project called NextTrace that aims to enable digital participatory contact tracing and guide #COVID19 surveillance efforts. See a full description here nexttrace.org/about or get the summary in this thread. 1/20
Exciting News: My dad and his team received FDA approval today for a "splitter" device that allows 4 patients to be on 1 ventilator!! This is going to be a game changer in this #COVID19 pandemic.
prismahealth.org/vesper/
The daily update from @jburnmurdoch@FT for #COVID19 deaths and cases (log scales)
US Deaths keeps looking worse, steeper, more marked divergence from South Korea
US Case curve now worst of all, altho more difficult to interpret w/ testing only ramping up now (2 months too late)
If you are interested in Meta-Learning, I highly recommend watching this great talk by @jeffclune describing their "Learning to Continually Learn" paper: great overview of Meta-Learning, MAML, and their Neuromodulation (ANML) technique!
videos.re-work.co/videos/186…#100DaysOfMLCode
We're hiring a Head of Research! Are you a data scientist who's thinking about the social impacts of #data & #AI? Or a social scientist who's interested in the impacts of data & AI on people & society?
Apply by 8 November to join @AdaLovelaceInst team: adalovelaceinstitute.org/job…