A 20 second summary of what you can find more about down bellow:
✍️ A quote by Gilles Deleuze
🤔 Heterodox vs. mainstream macroeconomics
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🤖 Google's new AI and it's medical application
👶🏼 Vaginal seeding may have positive effects for babies born via C-section.
“The problem is no longer getting people to express themselves but providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say. … What a relief to have nothing to say, the right to say nothing, because only then is there a chance of framing … the thing that might be worth saying.”
Heterodox vs. mainstream macroeconomics
Economics is unique in having self-defined, self-contained heterodoxies. One possible reason for this is that economics is often used to make policy, which can be influenced by the desires of interest groups and ideologies. Another reason is that all of these heterodoxies deal with macroeconomics, which is where our greatest ignorance lies.
Noah Smith explores these ideas in a great and critical way.
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Google's New AI Describes X-Rays and Answers Patient Questions
AI in healthcare can improve work efficiency, diagnoses, and treatment outcomes. Google's new large language model, Bard, supports over 100 languages and will be integrated into platforms like Gmail. PaLM 2, with 540 billion parameters, draws knowledge from scientific papers and websites, and Google plans to release 25 new products and features based on it. Med-PaLM 2 will be made available to select customers to improve patient outcomes. Hospitals are already hiring AI engineers to test ChatGPT and LLMs, and AI language may soon be included in medical education.
Recent research suggests that vaginal seeding may have positive effects for babies born via C-section
A randomized and blinded trial of 76 infants and mothers found that swabbing cesarean-section babies with their mother's vaginal fluids to encourage the development of a microbiome seems to be safe and might improve development. Babies who had been swabbed with vaginal fluids from their mothers achieved slightly more neurodevelopmental milestones at three and six months than c-section babies who did not receive this treatment. However, it is not clear whether these differences will be significant or long-lasting. Further studies are needed to determine the mechanism and how to maximize the potential benefits.
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