AI is making inroads across the entire healthcare industry — from genomic research to drug discovery, clinical trial workflows and patient care. In a fireside chat Monday during the annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang took the stage with industry leaders progressing each of these areas to advance biomedical science and meet the global demand for patient care. Healthcare has a more severe labor shortage than any other field — […]

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Use Gemini, Search, Pixel and more to make holiday planning feel effortless in 2025.

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California’s recent wildfires were fought by over 780 inmate firefighters who received rigorous taxpayer-funded training. But until recent reforms, many of these trained firefighters faced insurmountable barriers to employment after release—state licensing laws blocked them from the very careers they’d prepared for. lead , Cato scholar Stephen Slivinski examines this issue in a new Washington Post opinion piece, revealing how occupational licensing laws create employment barriers for 70 million Americans with criminal records. The evidence is clear: employment is […]

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Dimensionality reduction techniques like PCA work wonderfully when datasets are linearly separable—but they break down the moment nonlinear patterns appear. That’s exactly what happens with datasets such as two moons: PCA flattens the structure and mixes the classes together.  Kernel PCA fixes this limitation by mapping the data into a higher-dimensional feature space where nonlinear patterns become linearly separable. In this article, we’ll walk through how Kernel PCA works and use a simple example to visually compare PCA […]

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Even with the holidays coming up, the digital rights news doesn’t stop. Thankfully, EFF is here to keep you up-to-date with our EFFector newsletter! In our latest issue, we’re explaining why politicians latest attempts to ban VPNs is a terrible idea; asking supporters to file public comments opposing new rules that would make bad patents untouchable; and sharing a privacy victory—Sacramento is forced to end its dragnet surveillance program of power meter data. Prefer to listen in? Check out our audio companion, where […]

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Slouching from probable cause into mere officer suspicion The post Is the Supreme Court about to legalize SWATting? appeared first on Downsize DC.

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Tweet … is from page 130 of Norbert Michel’s superb and data-rich 2025 book, Crushing Capitalism: How Populist Policies are Threatening the American Dream: Regardless of the politics, the evidence simply does not connect widespread economic difficulties to “trade with China” or competition with “cheap labor.” The evidence also fails to support the widely repeated claim that the typical American worker’s real wages have not budged in decades. Although there is no single “right” way to measure income […]

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