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Ruha Benjamin on deep learning: Computational depth without sociological depth is ‘superficial learning’ Holocaust

Ruha Benjamin on deep learning: Computational depth without sociological depth is ‘superficial learning’

Princeton University associate professor of African American Studies and Just Data Lab director Dr. Ruha Benjamin said engineers creating AI models should consider more than data sets when deploying systems. She further asserted that “computational depth without historic or sociological depth is superficial learning.” “An ahistoric and asocial approach to…
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April 29, 2020
AP Top News at 10:35 a.m. EDT Kashmir

AP Top News at 10:35 a.m. EDT

The coronavirus is sending the U.S. economy into the biggest and fastest collapse since the Great Depression, with output reported shrinking at an alarming rate Wednesday and the number of Americans thrown out of work estimated at nearly 30 million. Science, meanwhile, provided a glimmer of hope when a biotech…
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April 29, 2020
Assange’s Extradition ‘Unthinkable’ With New Evidence of Espionage, Defence Coordinator Says Julian Assange

Assange’s Extradition ‘Unthinkable’ With New Evidence of Espionage, Defence Coordinator Says

UK14:31 GMT 29.04.2020(updated 15:40 GMT 29.04.2020) Get short URLLONDON (Sputnik) - The political nature of Julian Assange’s extradition process to the United States can be proven beyond any reasonable doubt, as it involves large-scale espionage operations, violations of attorney-client privilege and cross-Atlantic legal pressures, Baltasar Garzon, coordinator of Assange’s legal…
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April 29, 2020
Top Russian intelligence general ran Ukraine separatists when MH17 was shot down, report finds BUK-Missile

Top Russian intelligence general ran Ukraine separatists when MH17 was shot down, report finds

MH17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine in in July 2014One of the men charged over the shootdown of Malaysian airlines flight MH17 has refused to deny taking orders from a senior Russian general who has been named as a potential suspect.Colonel General Andrei Burlaka, the deputy head of the Russian Federal Security…
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April 29, 2020
AP Top News at 10:18 a.m. EDT Kashmir

AP Top News at 10:18 a.m. EDT

Scientists on Wednesday announced the first effective treatment against the coronavirus — an experimental drug that can speed the recovery of COVID-19 patients — in a major medical advance that came as the economic gloom caused by the scourge deepened in the U.S. and Europe. The U.S. government said it…
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April 29, 2020
Florida to unveil reopening plan as data shows painful contraction of U.S. economy Vietnam

Florida to unveil reopening plan as data shows painful contraction of U.S. economy

MIAMI (Reuters) - The governor of Florida, among the last to lock down his state against the U.S. coronavirus outbreak, announced on Wednesday he would permit a limited economic reopening next week while leaving restraints intact for the dense greater-Miami area. Florida became the latest, and one of the two…
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April 29, 2020
Research highlights impact of plastic pollution on marine life Plastic Pollution

Research highlights impact of plastic pollution on marine life

Credit: CC0 Public Domain New research from Queen's University Belfast and Liverpool John Moores University reveals how the microplastic pollution crisis is threatening biodiversity. Currently up to 10 percent of global plastic production ends up in the sea although the understanding of how this affects marine life is limited. The…
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April 29, 2020