The number and quality of studies showing that air pollution has very substantial effects on health continues to increase. Patrick Collison reviews some of the most recent studies on air pollution and cognition. I’m going to post the whole thing so everything that follows is Patrick’s. —- Air pollution is a very big deal. Its …
Elon Musk’s company profits from green energy tax breaks passed by Democrats.
A new Apple Health Study is launching today in the Apple Research app. U.S. residents can participate in the study if they meet the minimum…
A study showed that chatbots alone outperformed doctors when making nuanced clinical decisions, but when supported by artificial intelligence, doctors performed as well as the…
At cardiology conferences and diabetes meetings, doctors can’t help noticing that thin seems to be very in.
Compulsory treatment of the severely mentally ill was once taboo. No longer
Making it easier to avoid AI-generated slop.
One intriguing experiment suggests the promise of using the new technology
Performance of large language models (LLMs) on medical tasks has traditionally been evaluated using multiple choice question benchmarks. However, such benchmarks are highly constrained, saturated…
Teens are far more likely to say it’s acceptable to use ChatGPT for research (54%) than for math problems (29%) and essays (18%).
Preparing cancer patients for difficult decisions is an oncologist’s job. They don’t always remember to do it, however. At the University of Pennsylvania Health System,…
