Keith Midson has added a photo to the pool:
Nelson Falls in the Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers National Park on Tasmania's west coast.
For Seoul, what to call the North is difficult when you view it as a rebel-held region awaiting reunification
On a mild spring morning in central Seoul this week, a room of academics and lawyers gathered to debate a question: what should South Korea call North Korea?
The task sounds deceptively simple but the answer is far from straightforward, and has provided fodder for columnists in recent years. The answer could even have repercussions for South Korea’s constitutional position.
Continue reading...Trump also said he may consider pulling US troops from bases in Italy and Spain, after being prompted by rightwing reporter – key US politics stories from Thursday 30 April
Donald Trump has again lashed out at Germany’s chancellor, Friedrich Merz, saying he should focus on “fixing his broken country” and trying to end the Russia-Ukraine war – and spend less time “interfering” in Iran.
Trump’s latest outburst came a day after he suggested the US military presence in Germany was being reviewed, with a “possible reduction” of troops under consideration. Then on Thursday, the president was baited into saying he may consider withdrawing troops from other US bases in Europe.
Continue reading...Panama-flagged Panormitis turns away without unloading as Kyiv vows to treat carriers of ‘stolen’ grain the same as Russian oil tankers. What we know on day 1,528
Continue reading...HUNTSVILLE (ANP) - In de Amerikaanse staat Texas is James Broadnax geëxecuteerd voor de dood van twee mannen bij een roofoverval in 2008. De 37-jarige man kreeg een dodelijke injectie in de gevangenis van Huntsville.
Broadnax werd veroordeeld voor het doodschieten van Stephen Swan en Matthew Butler bij een opnamestudio in Garland. Volgens aanklagers pleegde hij de roof samen met zijn neef Demarius Cummings, die levenslang kreeg. Broadnax hield vol dat hij niet de schutter was. Cummings zei onlangs in een video dat hij zelf had geschoten.
De zaak kreeg steun van rappers en artiesten als Travis Scott, Killer Mike, T.I., Fat Joe en LL Cool J. Zij maakten bezwaar tegen het gebruik van rapteksten van Broadnax in het proces. Volgens hen werden die gebruikt om hem als gevaarlijk af te schilderen.
Het Amerikaanse Hooggerechtshof wees de laatste beroepen af. Ook een gratieverzoek haalde het niet. Broadnax is de derde persoon die dit jaar in Texas is geëxecuteerd.
A new study from Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess found that an OpenAI reasoning model outperformed experienced ER doctors at diagnosing and managing patient cases using messy, real-world emergency department records. Researchers say the results don't support replacing doctors, but they do suggest AI could meaningfully reshape clinical workflows if tested carefully in prospective trials. NPR reports: The researchers ran a series of experiments on the AI model to test its clinical acumen -- including actual cases like the lupus patient who'd been previously treated at the emergency department at Beth Israel in Boston. The team graded how well the AI model could provide an accurate diagnosis at three moments in time, from the triage stage in the ER, up to being admitted into the hospital. Overall, AI outperformed two experienced physicians -- and did so with only the electronic health records and the limited information that had been available to the physicians at the time. "This is the big conclusion for me -- it works with the messy real-world data of the emergency department, " said Dr. Adam Rodman, a clinical researcher at Beth Israel and one of the study authors. "It works for making diagnoses in the real world."
Other parts of the study focused on case reports published in the New England Journal of Medicine and clinical vignettes to suss out whether the AI model could meet well-established "benchmarks" and game out thorny diagnostic questions. "The model outperformed our very large physician baseline," said Raj Manrai, assistant professor of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School who was also part of the study. The authors emphasize the AI relied on text alone, while in real life, clinicians need to attend to many other inputs like images, sounds and nonverbal cues when diagnosing and treating a patient. The findings have been published Thursday in the journal Science.
Other parts of the study focused on case reports published in the New England Journal of Medicine and clinical vignettes to suss out whether the AI model could meet well-established "benchmarks" and game out thorny diagnostic questions. "The model outperformed our very large physician baseline," said Raj Manrai, assistant professor of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School who was also part of the study. The authors emphasize the AI relied on text alone, while in real life, clinicians need to attend to many other inputs like images, sounds and nonverbal cues when diagnosing and treating a patient. The findings have been published Thursday in the journal Science.
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Segunda parte das ilustrações para a série Cotidiano, representando nada além da beleza da vida. A beleza que está nas coisas mais ordinárias e isso é transformado em arte, através de pequenos recortes que fazem parte da minha memória vivendo nos quintais das casas de vó.