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A profile of Byron Cook, a VP at Amazon who is leading the company's effort to reduce AI hallucinations with a feature called Automated Reasoning Checks (John Pavlus/Fast Company)
https://www.fastcompany.com/91446331/amazo

Amazon takes on AI's biggest nightmare: Hallucinations
Byron Cook, a distinguished scientist at Amazon, is is helping the company use an obscure type of AI to minimize AI's worst side effect.

Eagles GM Howie Roseman on decision to keep A.J. Brown at deadline: 'Don't get rid of guys like that' https://www.nfl.com/news/eagles-gm-howie-roseman-explains-decision-keep-aj-brown-trade-deadline

A federal vaccine committee decided on Friday to end the decades-long recommendation that all newborns be immunized at birth against hepatitis B,
a highly infectious virus that leads to chronic liver disease in most infected children.
The vote was a victory for Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has sought for decades to overhaul the childhood vaccine schedule.
But the divisiveness and dysfunction of the committee in making the decision raises questions about the r…

C.D.C. Vaccine Committee Ends Recommendation That All Newborns Receive Hepatitis B Shots
In a move toward Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s goal of upending vaccine policy, the committee recommended delaying the shots for infants whose mothers test negative for the virus.

heise | Auswandern nach Polen: Was ITler verdienen, Lebenshaltungskosten und Steuern
Das "Silicon Valley Europas" lockt mit Jobs in der Techbranche und niedrigen Preisen. Wir erklären, ob die Rechnung für IT-Experten wirklich aufgeht.

CDC advisers drop decades-old universal hepatitis B birth dose recommendation, suggest blood testing after 1 dose: And time rolls backwards again …
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/anti-science/cdc-advisers-drop-decades-old-universal-hepatitis-b-birth-dose-recommendation-suggest

amazon_copurchases: Amazon co-purchasing network (2003)
Network of items for sale on amazon.com in 2003 and the items they "recommend" (via the "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought" feature). If one item is frequently co-purchased with another, then the first item recommends the second.
This network has 410236 nodes and 3356824 edges.
Tags: Economic, Commerce, Unweighted

🎲 TextBandit: Evaluating Probabilistic Reasoning in LLMs Through Language-Only Decision Tasks
#llm

TextBandit: Evaluating Probabilistic Reasoning in LLMs Through Language-Only Decision Tasks
Large language models (LLMs) have shown to be increasingly capable of performing reasoning tasks, but their ability to make sequential decisions under uncertainty only using natural language remains underexplored. We introduce a novel benchmark in which LLMs interact with multi-armed bandit environments using purely textual feedback, "you earned a token", without access to numerical cues or explicit probabilities, resulting in the model to infer latent reward structures purely off linguistic cu…

'The DOJ claimed Richman’s emails & text messages show Comey lied about using him as a conduit to convey information to reporters about the investigations. But in an emergency filing on Friday night, Richman argued that the DOJ had obtained his files in violation of his constitutional rights, and that it should not be permitted to use them in any new attempt to re-indict Mr. Comey.'
Judge Halts Justice Dept. Effort to Seek New Comey Indictment - The New York Times
https://archive.ph/1I09y

Nvidia announces the Alpamayo family of AI models, tools, and datasets for AVs, and details a collaboration with Mercedes-Benz on its first full-stack AV effort (Larry Dignan/Constellation Research)
https://www.constellationr.com/blog-news/i

A look at how Mercedes Benz, Nvidia collaborated on autonomous vehicles
Nvidia outlined its Alpamayo open AI models and datasets to bring reasoning to autonomous vehicles. At CES 2025, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Mercedes Benz with Alpamayo will hit the road in the first quarter. Huang said Alpamayo and its collaboration with Mercedes Benz is its first full-stack effort for autonomous vehicles (AVs). The approach with Alpamayo revolves around reasoning-based vision language action (VLA) models that bring human thinking to autonomous vehicle designs. "Our vision is…

New dietary guidelines delayed again
as RFK Jr. plans to reject expert panel's recommendations
Kennedy wants to stress saturated fats and discourage ultraprocessed foods.
The administration will miss its legal deadline to release the update.

New dietary guidelines delayed again as RFK Jr. plans to reject expert panel's recommendations
Kennedy wants to stress saturated fats and discourage ultraprocessed foods. The administration will miss its legal deadline to release the update.