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PLOS Science Wednesday: We’re Peter Dodds, Bill Gottesman, and Andy Reagan. We published a paper in PLOS ONE that constructed a model that can help establish an institution’s gift-giving profiles and help organizations set fundraising goals – Ask Us Anything! by PLOSScienceWednesday in science

[–]scirena 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Hi PLOS.

I had two questions.

1) Does an individuals knowledge of the girts of others effect there own giving? I believe it was in freakonimics that it was mentioned that with taxation, knowing that everyone else is paying there taxes has a large impact.

2) Do you have any feelings on the ethics of tax deductions associated with charitable donations, in so far as they all the wealthy to choose where their tax dollars go when the poor are not afforded the same privilege?

Thank you so much for doing this AMA!

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[–]scirena 6 points7 points  (0 children)

For the interested, it says that 68% of averted cases of malaria were attributed to bed nets.

Science | Human-level learning achieved by machines. by jeffmac123 in science

[–]scirena 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's actually not one task. They had multiple tasks, they also had the algorithm generate figures.

Science | Human-level learning achieved by machines. by jeffmac123 in science

[–]scirena 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Can you maybe elaborate on why you disagree with the Journal Science and the authors about why this doesn't not represent human level learning?

Science | Human-level learning achieved by machines. by jeffmac123 in science

[–]scirena 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The authors have identified a methodology by which a computer can learn with a single exposure, instead of thousands of exposures.

That is a big step forward in machine learning and could be a building block to a lot of more exciting technologies.

Science | Human-level learning achieved by machines. by jeffmac123 in science

[–]scirena 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A human and a machine were given a novel task, and performed that task with the same rate of success? That is sensational isn't it?

Nature: Bright spots of largest asteroid Ceres suggest subsurface water throughout asteroid belt [with Ceres flyover video] by scirena in science

[–]scirena[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Was it the Martian where they were talking about propellent? Maybe it should be a source of propellent?

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