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World's wealthiest (and 'business as usual') 'at heart of climate problem'

"These [polluter elite] are people who fly most, drive the biggest cars most and live in the biggest homes which they can easily afford to heat, so they tend not to worry if they’re well insulated or not. … They’re also the sort of people who could really afford good insulation and solar panels...
Source: bbc.com

Using GPT-2 to generate Tweets

blog post image Last summer I blogged about using a Deep Neural Network to generate tweets but only used 3200 of my tweets. Since then I've used Twitter's archive mechanism to retrieve ALL my tweets (just over 30,000) to train a network. Not any old network - the GPT-2 model from OpenAI. This 'finetuning' of an existing...

Phrases of the day: selective exposure, selective perception, principles knowledge, vicarious trial, change agent, and cue-to-action.

Phrases of the day: selective exposure, selective perception, principles knowledge, vicarious trial, change agent, and cue-to-action. I’ve been reading Everett Rogers’ book Diffusion of Innovations with a ‘learning lens’ on. I’m fascinated that the adoption of innovations is so analogous to...
Source: amazon.co.uk

Three-Quarters of All Honey On Earth Has Pesticides In It - Slashdot: An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge:

Three-Quarters of All Honey On Earth Has Pesticides In It - Slashdot: An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: About three quarters of all honey worldwide is contaminated with pesticides known to harm bees, according to a new study. Though the pesticide levels were below the limit deemed safe...
Source: slashdot.org

Is Python Really the Fastest-Growing Programming Language? - Slashdot: An anonymous reader quotes Stack Overflow Blog: In

Is Python Really the Fastest-Growing Programming Language? - Slashdot: An anonymous reader quotes Stack Overflow Blog: In this post, we'll explore the extraordinary growth of the Python programming language in the last five years, as seen by Stack Overflow traffic within high-income countries. The term...
Source: slashdot.org

Will the UK become a “desert for healthcare innovation”? « Healthcare Economist

Will the UK become a “desert for healthcare innovation”? « Healthcare Economist
Source: healthcare-economist.com

Health care to comprise 20% of the US economy by 2025 « Healthcare Economist

Health care to comprise 20% of the US economy by 2025 « Healthcare Economist
Source: healthcare-economist.com

Brexit and Trump explained and how (liberal) globalists have probably got it wrong. "When and Why Nationalism Beats Globalism:

Brexit and Trump explained and how (liberal) globalists have probably got it wrong. "When and Why Nationalism Beats Globalism: And how moral psychology can help explain and reduce tensions between the two. ... ... globalists often support high levels of immigration and reductions in national sovereignty;...
Source: the-american-interest.com

What is a Pseudo R-squared? « Healthcare Economist

What is a Pseudo R-squared? « Healthcare Economist
Source: healthcare-economist.com

Document Moved

Document Moved
Source: sciencebasedmedicine.org

The problem with p-values « Healthcare Economist

The problem with p-values « Healthcare Economist
Source: healthcare-economist.com

Will payers pay for new healthcare technologies « Healthcare Economist

Will payers pay for new healthcare technologies « Healthcare Economist
Source: healthcare-economist.com

Trends in Life Expectancy among Older Americans, by Race « Healthcare Economist

Trends in Life Expectancy among Older Americans, by Race « Healthcare Economist
Source: healthcare-economist.com

Improving DCE Response Rates « Healthcare Economist

Improving DCE Response Rates « Healthcare Economist
Source: healthcare-economist.com

The Intuition behind Bayes Theorem « Healthcare Economist

The Intuition behind Bayes Theorem « Healthcare Economist
Source: healthcare-economist.com

Is evidence-based policymaking in crisis? « Healthcare Economist

Is evidence-based policymaking in crisis? « Healthcare Economist
Source: healthcare-economist.com

Great read! We can eat almost anything, but we are uncertain what we should eat. This omnivore's dilemma has not only vexed

Great read! We can eat almost anything, but we are uncertain what we should eat. This omnivore's dilemma has not only vexed our ancestors trying to avoid poisonous foods it continues to occupy much of our time. We seem incapable of deciding what to have for lunch without consulting to dietary guidelines,...
Source: amazon.co.uk

First drug to reverse Huntington's disease begins human trials : The new drug, called IONIS-HTTRx, silences the gene known

First drug to reverse Huntington's disease begins human trials : The new drug, called IONIS-HTTRx, silences the gene known to be responsible for the production of a protein which causes Huntington’s
Source: telegraph.co.uk

How does England’s NHS pay for hospital stays? « Healthcare Economist

How does England’s NHS pay for hospital stays? « Healthcare Economist
Source: healthcare-economist.com

What are regression trees? « Healthcare Economist

What are regression trees? « Healthcare Economist
Source: healthcare-economist.com