ON RADICAL TRANSPARENCY | Mark Twain: “When in doubt, tell the truth.”
“As I slowly grow wise I briskly grow cautious.” - Mark Twain Learn more about MY ECAM: MY ECAM - Regulatory Compliant Immutable Recording of Public and Private Data and [...]
October 2020
THE INDEPENDENT | Coronavirus false positives: How many are there and is it actually an issue? What is a false positive? Are false positives behind the surge in new cases? Are false positives an actual issue?
As coronavirus cases once again begin to surge across the UK, the issue of false positive test results has once again been raised. By Anthony Cuthbertson @ADCuthbertson Wednesday 23 September [...]
UCL | Three Quarters of People with SARS-CoV-2 Infection are Asymptomatic: Analysis of English Household Survey Data
Research Department of Primary Care and Population Health, University College London Irene Petersen,1,2 Andrew Phillips3 Published 8 October 2020 Volume 2020:12 Pages 1039—1043 DOI https://doi.org/10.2147/CLEP.S276825 1Research Department of Primary Care and Population Health, [...]
September 2020
MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW | Deepfake Comrades Putin and Kim are here to warn Americans about their self-inflicted doom | Divided they fall. United States they prosper.
AI-generated synthetic media is being used in a political ad campaign—not to disrupt the election, but to save it. Source: MIT Technology Review Reprinted for educational purposes and social benefit, [...]
THE GUARDIAN | Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook won’t remove anti-vaccine posts despite Covid concerns | Social media chief denies Facebook’s algorithms are designed to push viewpoints ‘that are going to kind of enrage people’
Facebook’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, has said he “hopes” his social network will not effectively destroy society as we know it. Source: The Guardian Edward Helmore Thu 10 Sep 2020 00.27 BST [...]
THE GUARDIAN | A robot wrote this entire article. Are you scared yet, human? | We asked GPT-3, OpenAI’s powerful new language generator, to write an essay for us from scratch.
The assignment? To convince us robots come in peace For more about GPT-3 and how this essay was written and edited, please read our editor’s note below Source: The Guardian [...]
COVID DASHBOARD | GOV.UK Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the UK
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/
Jeremy Farrar @JeremyFarrar | SAGE 18th June 2020 – points 18-22 | Testing at airports & points of entry to countries, quarantine & scientific advice
A lot of discussion in media on testing at airports & points of entry to countries, quarantine & scientific advice. This is the advice from SAGE 18th June 2020 - [...]
THE NEW YORK TIMES | U.S. Will Revive Global Virus-Hunting Effort Ended Last Year
A federal agency is resurrecting a version of Predict, a scientific network that for a decade watched for new pathogens dangerous to humans. Joe Biden has also vowed to fund [...]
August 2020
843,826 COVID-19 DEATHS (First 6 Months, March-August 2020)
25 million global cases. No end in sight.
