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Is it safe to go to a holiday get-together?

“This is not going to dig us out of what’s ahead this next month,” Natalie Dean, a biostatistician at the University of Florida, warned about Thanksgiving and the coming holiday season. If the preparations for vaccines don’t hit any major snags, we can realistically hope for large-scale distribution to begin …

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Beekman 1802’s Rose Apothecary Collection Makes Me Feel Like I Live In Schitt’s Creek

If there’s one thing you should know about Schitt’s Creek it’s that I love every single character equally. You will, too. And how often does that happen? With most TV shows there’s usually at least one boring or frustrating subplot—even your own family is likely cast with an insufferable character …

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Google’s MinDiff aims to mitigate unfair biases in classifiers

Best practices for a successful AI Center of Excellence A guide for both CoEs and business units Download Guide Google today released MinDiff, a new framework for mitigating (but not eliminating) unfair biases when training AI and machine learning models. The company says that MinDiff — the culmination of years …

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