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Epigenetics, or What I Mean by “Reprogram Your Genes”

You can’t change your genes. But you can program them. The modern world presents a number of problems for our genes. The world we’ve constructed over the last 50 years is not the environment in which our genetic code evolved. Our genes don’t “expect” historically low magnesium levels in soil, …

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What To Do With Sweaty Post-Workout Hair

I never thought I’d be a runner. I simply didn’t believe my body, plied with spaghetti and less flexible than steel, could do it! But then again, I also never thought I’d live through a pandemic, or deal with many of the other stressors that have kept me sad and …

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Salesforce researchers claim new method mitigates AI models’ gender bias

Researchers at Salesforce and the University of Virginia have proposed a new way to mitigate gender bias in word embeddings, the word representations used to train AI models to summarize, translate languages, and perform other prediction tasks. The team claims that correcting for certain regularities — like word frequency in …

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