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Arrrgh as the miserable Chikungunya virus is arriving in Europe, along with mosquitoes spreading through warmer climateArrrgh as the miserable Chikungunya virus is arriving in Europe, along with mosquitoes spreading through warmer climate
It will be a problem, especially in the Mediterranean.
#Health #Medicine #Europe #EU #UE #Mediterranean #Climate #ClimateCrisis
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I think the thing that makes me saddest about this whole “use an LLM to generate code” thing is that many of my heroes are no longer my heroes.I mean, Deepmind’s Alphafold won the literal Nobel Prize in Chemistry, to universal agreement?
So Terence Tao and others exploring Deepmind’s ANNs for other sciences seems like a pretty obvious thing to do.
It’s not that all ANN’s became bad just because LLMs hallucinate.
And yes, the key difference is that in Science/Math you can have automated and/or experimental checking of results, unlike for code security, the statistically average Redditor, or MechaHitler
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Deep Sea Mining:Deep Sea Mining:
Interesting interview with the UN official trying to agree some basic environmental rules for half the ocean floor.
She basically says a moratorium won’t happen as too many countries (like the USA) will go ahead anyway. What a species we are.
https://www.euractiv.com/news/interview-the-race-to-agree-global-rules-on-deep-sea-mining/
#Ocean #Mining #Environment #Pollution #Biodiversity #Conservation #UN #Geopolitics #Sea #Law #InternationalLaw
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“The Recalibrating Climate Risk report explains why economic models used by governments, central banks and investors are increasingly understating climate risks as the world moves towards 2°C.”“The Recalibrating Climate Risk report explains why economic models used by governments, central banks and investors are increasingly understating climate risks as the world moves towards 2°C.”
It’s “led by the University of Exeter’s Green Futures Solutions team[and]… draws on expert judgement from climate scientists”
https://greenfuturessolutions.com/news/recalibrating-climate-risk/
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MSF: Attacks on medical care in armed conflict reach record levelsMSF: Attacks on medical care in armed conflict reach record levels
“In 2025, the World Health Organization's Surveillance System for Attacks on Health Care (SSA) reported a total of 1,348 attacks on medical facilities, resulting in the deaths of 1,981 people”
https://www.msf.org/attacks-medical-care-armed-conflict-reach-record-levels
#Health #Medicine #HumanRights #IHL #War #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Genocide