A short sampler of hip-hop history and culture.
Google celebrates the 50th anniversary of the birth of hip-hop. ~ learn more
Google celebrates the 50th anniversary of the birth of hip-hop. ~ learn more
“What can we do to get a people's e-bike that has 30 miles of range, requires no maintenance, travels 15-20 mph, and retails around $500?” ~ learn more
“In 1999 Connecticut had so many people in prison that it paid to send 500 of them to be incarcerated in Virginia. Nearly 25 years later, the state has not only sliced its number of imprisoned people in half, but been able to close more than 10 prisons while keeping its crime rate at its lowest level in more than 40 years.” ~ learn more
“We hypothesize two failure modes of safety training: competing objectives and mismatched generalization. Competing objectives arise when a model’s capabilities and safety goals conflict, while mismatched generalization occurs when safety training fails to generalize to a domain for which capabilities exist.” ~ learn more
“Med-PaLM M is a large multimodal generative model that flexibly encodes and interprets biomedical data including clinical language, imaging, and genomics with the same set of model weights. Med-PaLM M reaches performance competitive with or exceeding the state of the art on all MultiMedBench tasks, often surpassing specialist models by a wide margin.” ~ learn more
This is about software development, but I think it’s more broadly applicable. “I've seen (and been on) so many projects that claim success and move on to the next thing when they are 99% done and fail to complete the last 1%.” ~ learn more
“Just like any new worker, you are going to have to learn its strengths and weaknesses; you are going to have to learn to train and work with it; and you are going to have to get a sense of where it is useful and where it is just annoying.” ~ learn more
This is a paper about ethics, but I suggest you read it for the summaries of the three featured studies. “The purpose of this paper is to present three famous cases of placebo use in surgical trials and to perform an ethical analysis of their acceptability using the Declaration of Helsinki as a main regulatory source.” ~ learn more
“The heart surgeons most likely to attend the national meetings also tend to be the go-getters, eager to cut and demonstrate their prowess in the operating theater. When these surgeons are away, mortality rates decrease by about 12.5%, a decrease “similar in magnitude to some of the best treatments we have available for heart attacks.”" ~ learn more
They bought the rights to the brand and website out of bankruptcy and decided that it’s a better name so they’re switching to it. ~ learn more