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Only 2% of the public believes that a new development will improve their area. No wonder they fight them!
Create Streets’s Nicholas Boys Smith (@boys_nicholas) joined the Works in Progress Podcast to explain what planners and developers have been getting wrong, how to create…
In 2016 Geoffrey Hinton said “we should stop training radiologists now" since AI would soon be better at their jobs.
He was right: models have outperformed radiologists on benchmarks for ~a decade.
Yet radiology jobs are at record highs, with an average salary of $520k.
Why?
In 2016, Geoffrey Hinton warned students not to train as radiologists, the field was so ripe for AI automation.
Today, there are more new radiologist jobs than ever and radiologist wages are up 48%. Yet AI *has* exploded in the field.
So what happened?
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Systems thinking promises to give us a toolkit to design complex systems that work from the ground up. It fails because it ignores an important fact: systems fight back.
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France built 40 nuclear reactors in a decade. Here’s how they did it, and how the world can follow their lead today.
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In my new piece with @WorksInProgMag (x.com/WorksInProgMag…) we explore the looming threat dams on transboundary rivers pose to downstream democracies. In Asia, China plans to build dams on the headwaters of rivers that serve the needs of 2 billion people. What can we do?
In my new piece with @WorksInProgMag (x.com/WorksInProgMag…) we explore the looming threat dams on transboundary rivers pose to downstream democracies. In Asia, China plans to build dams on the headwaters of rivers that serve the needs of 2 billion people. What can we do? https://t.co/1JIkdxLbng
Chinese dams will hold billions of people downstream to ransom. Could solar-powered desalination make them irrelevant?
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Science has forgotten that the greatest breakthroughs often come from outsiders who are able to take a fresh perspective.
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Antibody therapies are four of the world’s ten best selling drugs. If they were cheaper, they could prevent millions of deaths from rabies, malaria, and dengue.
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We disinfect water before we drink it. Germicidal ultraviolet could make airborne disease as rare as those carried by water.
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Outsiders drive many of science's biggest breakthroughs. A draper discovered bacteria. An actress helped invent WiFi.
But there's not enough room for them in modern science.
In @WorksInProgMag , @LauraLungum and I explore why this matters and what to do about it! 🧵(1/10)
The world is warming faster than we can cut emissions. Volcanoes are already cooling the planet, with particles that reflect sunlight. Maybe we can too.
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