Links for 2022-05-22
Medical AI systems can easily learn to recognize self-reported racial identity from medical images with high accuracy https://news.mit.edu/2022/artificial-intelligence-predicts-patients-race-from-medical-images-0520 (See also this older post: AI can trivially learn to identify the self-reported racial identity of patients to an absurdly high degree of accuracy: https://lukeoakdenrayner.wordpress.com/2021/08/02/ai-has-the-worst-superpower-medical-racism/)
Free course: Discrete Differential Geometry: An Applied Introduction https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~kmcrane/Projects/DDG/
California regulator rejects desalination plant despite historic drought https://www.reuters.com/world/us/california-regulator-rejects-plan-desalination-plant-2022-05-13/
Fecal Transplants Reverse Hallmarks of Aging in the Gut, Eyes, and Brain https://microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40168-022-01243-w
Microsoft Research Asia has stopped recruiting students from “Seven Sons of National Defense” universities and Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dThS0DgJhoW9ts7kRr_5zHgtHC9lw15eB5FjjtO3v5M/edit#heading=h.p1h0vln8cmku
American Congress urged to ease immigration for foreign science talent https://www.axios.com/2022/05/09/national-security-china-international-science-tech-talent
“America’s neglect of nuclear energy has weakened our global influence” https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/3488215-americas-neglect-of-nuclear-energy-has-weakened-our-global-influence/
The Demented - and Selective - Game of Instantly Blaming Political Opponents For Mass Shootings https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-demented-and-selective-game-of?s=r
Good question: Why don’t nations buy more territories from each other? https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2022/05/why-dont-nations-buy-more-territories-from-each-other.html
Why do some coronaviruses become pandemic threats when others do not? https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3001652
Open Letter to Noam Chomsky (and other like-minded intellectuals) on the Russia-Ukraine war https://blogs.berkeley.edu/2022/05/19/open-letter-to-noam-chomsky-and-other-like-minded-intellectuals-on-the-russia-ukraine-war/
“A lawyer for Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign lied to the FBI to "manipulate" the agency in order to win the election, a court has heard.” https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-61488556.amp
This is very likely just a coincidence. The 2022 outbreak was confirmed on 6 May. Had some terror cult planned to troll those researchers they would probably have chosen the exact date mentioned in the simulation instead.
I don't know why NTI chose monkeypox for their simulation but it might possibly have been chosen as a likely candidate because it is easy to obtain and modify? In any case, the group simply wanted to increase preparedness for bioterror attacks by means of a simulated attack.
Extraordinary coincidence nonetheless.