Found in a tomb, so I don’t think I’m going far out on a limb if I say that I don’t think it works all that well.
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Jones reported that he was walking on the walkway near the Girl Scout cabin…
Because Dog knows, you have to protect yourself from those Brownie mofos.
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Two in five ‘AI startups’ have no AI, mega-survey of nearly 3k firms finds
One pint of beer please, Mr Barman. I am 18 today, honest!
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/03/05/40_per_cent_of_ai_startups_have_no_ai/
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The first ZX Spectrum prototype laid bare… (What? It was acceptable in the '80s)
Clear! Museum hopes to bring silicon back to life over next few weeks
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/03/05/the_first_zx_spectrum_prototype_laid_bare/
The infamous AI gaydar study was repeated – and, no, code can’t tell if you’re straight or not just from your face
What are these pesky neural networks really looking at?
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Another study disproving any link between vaccination and autism; this time from Denmark.
Full text is free.
Abstract
Background:
The hypothesized link between the measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism continues to cause concern and challenge vaccine uptake.
Objective:
To evaluate whether the MMR vaccine increases the risk for autism in children, subgroups of children, or time periods after vaccination.
Design:
Nationwide cohort study.
Setting:
Denmark.
Participants:
657 461 children born in Denmark from 1999 through 31 December 2010, with follow-up from 1 year of age and through 31 August 2013.
Measurements:
Danish population registries were used to link information on MMR vaccination, autism diagnoses, other childhood vaccines, sibling history of autism, and autism risk factors to children in the cohort. Survival analysis of the time to autism diagnosis with Cox proportional hazards regression was used to estimate hazard ratios of autism according to MMR vaccination status, with adjustment for age, birth year, sex, other childhood vaccines, sibling history of autism, and autism risk factors (based on a disease risk score).
Results:
During 5 025 754 person-years of follow-up, 6517 children were diagnosed with autism (incidence rate, 129.7 per 100 000 person-years). Comparing MMR-vaccinated with MMR-unvaccinated children yielded a fully adjusted autism hazard ratio of 0.93 (95% CI, 0.85 to 1.02). Similarly, no increased risk for autism after MMR vaccination was consistently observed in subgroups of children defined according to sibling history of autism, autism risk factors (based on a disease risk score) or other childhood vaccinations, or during specified time periods after vaccination.
Limitation:
No individual medical charts were reviewed.
Conclusion:
The study strongly supports that MMR vaccination does not increase the risk for autism, does not trigger autism in susceptible children, and is not associated with clustering of autism cases after vaccination. It adds to previous studies through significant additional statistical power and by addressing hypotheses of susceptible subgroups and clustering of cases.
Primary Funding Source:
Novo Nordisk Foundation and Danish Ministry of Health.
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Hipster whines at tech mag for using his pic to imply hipsters look the same, discovers pic was of an entirely different hipster
YEAH! SCIENCE
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/03/06/hipsters_all_look_the_same_fact/
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He’s no hipster. His beard’s not bushy or silly enough.
The linked paper’s impressive. I’m thrilled to say I understand at least one or two words…
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Cruelly accurate. I laughed and sympathise with the red puppet in the yellow M t-shirt.
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That’s Mario.
I like Mario - like an updated Bert.
Mario is the best.
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Hipsters are kids who are rebelling against their parents, the Yuppies, who were rebelling against their parents, the Hippies.
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I do like a good misanthropic puppet 
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