Join Steve Kelly and Loren Tate for the Illini Pella Saturday Sports Talk. Today's guests include Dr. Sheldon Jacobson, David Jones, Will Leitch and Mark Moss.
What the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) discovered is that COVID-19 infections occur when universities bring students back to campus. An initial surge of infections is no surprise. What is more surprising, however, is that UNC abandoned what they believed were carefully constructed plans at the first sign of trouble. Will other schools make the same mistake?
Reindustrialization is viable for Hong Kong if efforts are well-targeted and play to the city’s strengths. Hong Kong is often compared to Singapore, where there is a wide industrial base despite it being physically smaller than Hong Kong with a smaller population and equally devoid of natural resources. InvestHK reported that as of 2019, Hong Kong had over 3,184 startups employing over 12,478 people. Hong Kong is proud of its technology unicorns, such as online logistics group GoGoVan, travel booking platform Klook, and fintech company WeLab.
Sam Burer, professor of business analytics in the Tippie College of Business, was the recipient of the 2020 INFORMS Computing Society prize for his pioneering work on low-rank semi-definite programming. The prize is an annual award for the best English language paper or group of related papers dealing with the Operations Research/Computer Science interface.
The development of a COVID-19 vaccine is at the forefront of everyone’s minds. Recent news suggests that a solution may be available in 2021, though the hope is sooner. The race for a vaccine adds to a body of evidence that suggests when under pressure the pharmaceutical industry reacts quickly.
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Can we really trust AI to make better decisions than humans? A new study says … not always. Researchers have discovered that OpenAI’s ChatGPT, one of the most advanced and popular AI models, makes the same kinds of decision-making mistakes as humans in some situations—showing biases like overconfidence of hot-hand (gambler’s) fallacy—yet acting inhuman in others (e.g., not suffering from base-rate neglect or sunk cost fallacies).
The genetic testing company 23andMe, which holds the genetic data of 15 million people, declared bankruptcy on Sunday night after years of financial struggles. This means that all of the extremely personal user data could be up for sale—and that vast trove of genetic data could draw interest from AI companies looking to train their data sets, experts say.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., as the new secretary of Health and Human Services, is the nation’s de facto healthcare czar. He will have influence over numerous highly visible agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration, among others. Given that healthcare is something that touches everyone’s life, his footprint of influence will be expansive.
Health insurance has become necessary, with large and unpredictable health care costs always looming before each of us. Unfortunately, the majority of people have experienced problems when using their health insurance to pay for their medical care. Health insurance serves as the buffer between patients and the medical care system, using population pooling to mitigate the risk exposure on any one individual.
Oklahoma State University's Sunderesh Heragu joins LiveNOW's Austin Westfall to discuss the evolving economic landscape after President Trump implemented tariffs on some of our biggest trade partners. Most tariffs have been halted for now -- but not with China. Beijing and the White House have levied steep tariffs on each other. Trump announced that tariffs on China would reach 145 percent. In response, China imposed 125 percent tariffs on U.S.-imported goods.
Washington’s experiment with tariff trade torment makes lab costs soar; ‘it’s like doubling the price tag’, US researcher says
In the case of upgrading electrical and broadband infrastructure, new analysis from the University of Massachusetts Amherst reveals {that a} “dig once” strategy is almost 40% more economical than changing them individually.
Billionaire investor Mark Cuban's question to Representative Matt Gaetz, a Florida Republican, on energy costs took off on social media on Saturday.