2023 Healthcare MiniGuide – Marcus P. Zillman’s guide addresses the challenging landscape of healthcare information that proliferates on the internet. A large measure of the information hosted on self described authoritative health and healthcare sites is grounded in speculative, e-commerce drive subject matter. Search engines drive traffic to these sites with no transparent and accountable… Continue Reading
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Do classified document revelations highlight problems at the National Archives?
The American Prospect – “Presidential Document Scandals Should Take Down America’s Secrecy Industry We classify way too many documents. Unfortunately, that will probably not be the takeaway from recent events. America has a problem with classified information. But this problem isn’t the one you’ve been hearing about for the past few weeks, with the revelations… Continue Reading
Time Savings When Working from Home
NBER – Time Savings When Working from Home – Cevat Giray Aksoy, Jose Maria Barrero, Nicholas Bloom, Steven J. Davis, Mathias Dolls & Pablo Zarate. Working Paper 30866. DOI 10.3386/w30866. Issue Date January 2023. “We quantify the commute time savings associated with work from home, drawing on data for 27 countries. The average daily time… Continue Reading
NIST Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework
NIST AI 100-1 Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework (AI RMF 1.0) January 2023 – “…As directed by the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Act of 2020 (P.L. 116-283), the goal of the AI RMF is to offer a resource to the organizations designing, developing, deploying, or using AI systems to help manage the many risks of… Continue Reading
Demonstrating Law Library Value Through Mission-Centered Assessment
Watson, Amanda and Karel, Amanda and Runyon, Amanda and Street, Leslie, Demonstrating Law Library Value Through Mission-Centered Assessment (December 5, 2022). Law Library Journal (Forthcoming)., Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4294285 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4294285 “This paper presents a history of evaluation in U.S. academic law libraries, shares survey results about our collective professional mindset, and offer practical steps… Continue Reading
New Online Tool Provides Health Snapshot of All 435 U.S. Congressional Districts
“Today, researchers at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, in partnership with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), unveiled the Congressional District Health Dashboard (CDHD), a new online tool that provides critical health data for all 435 congressional districts and the District of Columbia. The dashboard incorporates 36 key measures of health, such as deaths from… Continue Reading
Mapping Journalism on Social Platforms
A collaborative list curated by Francesco Zaffarano [with over 750 entries] – this is a global list and includes journalists and media across sectors who are posting on Twitter, LinkedIn, and TikTok. This project does not include those on Mastotodon. [Reminder – beSpacific is on Mastodon – updated daily] Continue Reading
Books Unbanned
“Brooklyn Public Library is adding our voice to those fighting for the rights of teens nationwide to read what they like, discover themselves, and form their own opinions. Inspired by the American Library Association’s Freedom to Read Statement, BPL’s Books Unbanned initiative is a response to an increasingly coordinated and effective effort to remove books tackling… Continue Reading
OpenAI has hired an army of contractors to make basic coding obsolete
Semafor: “OpenAI, the company behind the chatbot ChatGPT, has ramped up its hiring around the world, bringing on roughly 1,000 remote contractors over the past six months in regions like Latin America and Eastern Europe, according to people familiar with the matter. About 60% of the contractors were hired to do what’s called “data labeling”… Continue Reading
DetectGPT: Zero-Shot Machine-Generated Text Detection using Probability Curvature
Neowin: Stanford introduces DetectGPT to help educators fight back against ChatGPT generated papers Source: Eric Mitchell, Yoonho Lee, Alexander (Sasha) Khazatsky, Christopher D. Manning, Chelsea Finn – Stanford University – “The fluency and factual knowledge of large language models (LLMs) heightens the need for corresponding systems to detect whether a piece of text is machine-written.… Continue Reading
Layoffs by Email Show What Employers Really Think of Their Workers
The New York Times: “…As someone who’s managed people in newsrooms and digital start-ups and has hired and fired people in various capacities for the last 21 years, I think this approach is not just cruel but unnecessary. It’s reasonable to terminate access to company systems, but delivering the news with no personal human contact… Continue Reading
Spontaneous Norms in Law and Economics: A Sketch Typology
Zdybel, Karol B. (2023) : Spontaneous Norms in Law and Economics: A Sketch Typology, ILE Working Paper Series, No. 66, University of Hamburg, Institute of Law and Economics (ILE), Hamburg. European Doctorate in Law and Economics. “This article offers a concise typology of spontaneous norms – i.e., norms that are formed or sustained through decentralized… Continue Reading
