Data centers’ water usage debated. Despite numerous headlines suggesting otherwise, “data centers have not raised household water bills at all, anywhere.” The concern over data centers affecting local water costs turns out unfounded. ~ learn more
Data poisoning is easier than we thought. “As few as 250 malicious documents can produce a ‘backdoor’ vulnerability in a large language model—regardless of model size or training data volume.” This revelation byAnthropic suggests that data-poisoning attacks might be more […]
Data centers could make or break electricity affordability. “But here’s the twist: if we plan them intelligently, the very data centers driving costs today could become one of our best defenses against rising rates. The reason is this: whether a […]
Kristen Holmes is in an enviable position for many health researchers, given the large proprietary dataset she has access to. In addition to the data streams from millions of fitness trackers, the company has a pile date-stamped and labeled event […]
At an individual level, wearables can offer a unique insight into your body’s performance. Mine is eerily good at predicting if I’m getting sick. At a population level, there’s even more to learn. | learn more
“Is Facebook listening to your conversations? No, they are not. They are doing something MUCH more effective!” This thread is not the final word on the topic. I don’t think this rules out their use of microphone data obtained indirectly. | learn […]
Of dollars and data takes up the question of my generation’s wealth. “Using the same Federal Reserve data cited in the articles above, we can see that Millennials have roughly the same inflation-adjusted financial assets per capita as prior generations […]
Thank you so much to this author! “What do I actually do with my time? How productive am I? I logged everything I did in 2020 and got some pretty cool data out of this.” | learn more
A study by the Brookings Institution claimed that the Chicago area lost 12,582 “innovation jobs” between 2005 and 2017. I’m curious to learn what tech/innovation jobs we had to lose back in 2005, but that data isn’t in here. Full report […]
“A new approach to training artificial intelligence algorithms involves paying people to submit medical data, and storing it in a blockchain-protected system.” | learn more