Institute for Research on Innovation and Science的动态

Instead of seat-of-the-pants reactions, here's an alternative process when considering complex issues. Bravo to Stanford Deliberative Democracy Lab and Close Up Foundation Thanks @JP Thomas for sharing this gem. https://lnkd.in/eeXcdCi3

In this article our Human Science team discuss how it's vital to counter disinformation to cut through the noise in the digital age. Read more: https://lnkd.in/effvv56M

The study of disease prevalence, economic security and disasters is very complex and is often limited by various shortcomings in the underlying data. In an effort to mitigate these challenges, today we introduce the Population Dynamics Foundation Model (PDFM), which is a novel geospatial model that users may easily tune to a wide variety of downstream tasks across fields from health to socioeconomics and environmental science. We are also releasing model embeddings and code recipes for interpolation and extrapolation, super-resolution, nowcasting, and more. Learn more at https://goo.gle/3Coo63n

Dear Professor Holden Thorp Pardon me, but the moment I heard you say "decouple", it's sounded like jumping of a sinking ship except that the ship is the planet Earth / humanity / deep history of science, so to speak ;) On second listening, I heard your interest in doing differently: here's one: Thus Spoke Pushpa (https://lnkd.in/gi8C3U-5), which can be summed up as, in one phrase: Being Real. What is it about reality that I am supposed to become, given that any real thing is a god on its own ;) i.e., infinite (https://lnkd.in/gh_qer4V, pp. 9-10, notwithstanding da way too successful scientific outreach of Newtonian abstraction: 'body' as existing in-of-itself, https://lnkd.in/g7qMJ4cH)? Fortunately, that attribute of reality that's speaks to the immediate concern of science is surprisingly effortless to emulate. First, note that reality, in spite all that it is, doesn't have agency! Not even that of a mice fakin dead when a eagle swoops down to make of meal of it (I'm no expert on dis faking biz, so substitute as required ;) The point, at the risk of unnecessarily repeating, is that reality can not be anything other than what it is. As much as you hate Trump, it is what it is: a chair can't pretend to be a beer bottle, nor can a table. A table is a table is a table! That's all science has to do. To see that that's not being done, take any peer-reviewed paper from Science Magazine or Nature Magazine and compare the truth value(s; however you may assign) of various sections of the paper: Introduction vs. Methods vs. Results vs. Discussion vs. Conclusion (I think you got my drift; just in case it's not obvious: our findings can help develop drugs to blah blah; note that the problem is not with "can", but with no specification of canning that can, in the sense of belling the cat ;) Now I'll get more specific, but all in the spirit of 'dissent inhales life' not only into science but also into institutions that house those who consciously participate in the practice of science. Unlike Science Magazine , Nature Magazine , PNAS , and the journal #Neuron Cell Press have the unique distinction of yanking my online comments after having been approved and on their websites for weeks to months. I feel sorry for the editors who approved and later apologized; I'm sorry to trouble you! For those curious, what state secrets I might have revealed: https://lnkd.in/g-Qb9zH2 https://lnkd.in/gBdbg-7v Nature Magazine is hell-bent on not publishing a correction even after PubMed wrote to Springer Nature (unlike Science Magazine , PNAS & #Neuron , Nature Magazine thinks THE QUEEEN is still alive ;) https://lnkd.in/gqFc7GdR AAAS stay away from Nature Portfolio 2 regain #TRUST

Introducing our Population Dynamics Foundation Model that can be employed in complex social problems across public health, socioeconomic, and environmental tasks. We are making the derived dataset available so users can easily fine-tune and adapt it to a wide variety of downstream tasks. The model is built on privacy preserving aggregated?information on human behavior and environmental factors.?

This looks like a godsend for any number of applications in #socioeconomics and #economics. Enabling inference on some essential #megatrends, as well as proactive responses.

??? Democracy is on the ballot this year, with 64 countries across the globe holding elections. As they’re increasingly digital, Australian researchers have devised an algorithm to verify results. Watch as Dr Michelle Blom explains, then delve deeper into the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology research here → unimelb.me/4eGbpzp

Ground-breaking academic research can take a while to hit mainstream, however social media brings these ideas to the forefront much quicker than we've seen in history. Altmetric helps highlight this impact in near real time! https://lnkd.in/gGZBU_ZF #researchimpact #alternativemetrics #sciencecommunication #sciencenews

Happy to share HK SFPE coming webinar！

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