by Ty Davison | Jul 4, 2020 | Essays
Another day in Oregon with 344 new cases, second highest (yesterday was higher). The United States will report over 50,000 new cases nationwide. The to-do list would have seemed somewhat simple: Mask, meet outdoors, physically distance, ventilate interior spaces with...
by Ty Davison | Jul 1, 2020 | News & Commentary
Gov. Brown warns Oregonians to mask up or see businesses close: Brown resisted saying what numbers of cases and hospitalizations would trigger her to impose new restrictions across the state. She said she would likely impose the restrictions the same way she granted...
by Ty Davison | Jul 1, 2020 | News & Commentary
Seattle’s “Summer of Love” ends early. The Grim Lessons of CHOP : This reached a breaking point about a week ago with two shootings in 48 hours. In one of them, a 19-year-old kid who was trying to get other protesters to stop setting off dangerous...
by Ty Davison | Jul 1, 2020 | News & Commentary
MIT apologizes, permanently pulls offline huge dataset that taught AI systems to use racist, misogynistic slurs: Special report MIT has taken offline its highly cited dataset that trained AI systems to potentially describe people using racist, misogynistic, and other...
by Ty Davison | Jun 29, 2020 | News & Commentary
Early research indicates the new variant is no more lethal but 10x more contagious. The coronavirus is mutating – The Washington Post: Studying both versions of the gene using a proxy virus in a petri dish of human cells, Choe and her colleagues found that...
