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TRB releases new report identifying deficiencies impacting e-scooter rider safety

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According to the US Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics, there were at least 158 US cities with e-scooter systems as of July 2022, nearly double the 87 systems in operation in 2019. Personal ownership of e-scooters is also growing and projected to increase throughout this decade.

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Construction can turn green

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But there’s so much more to sustainability than what we can do in our personal lives. The statistics are similar around the world. This pilot project in Norway is a statement to the industry that an emission-free construction site is indeed achievable, and will probably be the future standard. Someone had to be first!

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Big Data Could Accelerate Drug Approvals

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The analytics programs use machine learning, statistical modeling, natural language processing, predictive modeling, and related techniques to evaluate information. A reliable, standardized QA tool could augment or even replace traditional audits, he suggests. These include technical standards and best practices.”

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Pfizer’s Edge in the COVID-19 Vaccine Race: Data Science

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When blood and other kinds of samples are brought to the lab, each sample has to be received, tracked, divided up, and analyzed with complex robotics and instruments, and then statistical analysis is performed and final data generated. If the virus is neutralized in the blood, that tells us that the person had built up immunity.

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The Engineer Behind Samsung’s Speech Recognition Software

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The model was commercialized in 2019 and is now part of Samsung’s Galaxy phone. It suppresses the effects of background noise by using statistics to estimate characteristics. He is the youngest person to be an executive vice president at the company. It won them the 2019 IEEE Signal Processing Society’s Best Paper Award.

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Do We Dare Use Generative AI for Mental Health?

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Woebot relies on a rules-based engine that resembles a decision tree of possible conversational paths; ChatGPT uses statistics to determine what its next words should be, given what has come before. The process for creating AI classifiers that comply with regulatory standards was involved—each classifier required months of effort.

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Tesla Autopilot’s emergency vehicle response feature is addressing a deadly problem no one wants to talk about

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But statistics prove the real story. Law shared with Teslarati that over the course of his career, he has been personally involved in an accident four times, the first of which happened when he was just 18 years old. These drivers consciously made an intentional personal decision to carelessly disregard the life of a responder.

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