Well, if weight here is being used as a proxy for sex or gender, a larger woman would need the higher dose; a smaller man a lower dose. So why would you just not use weight as the measure for what dose a person should get? That would be a much more effective way of … Read more
Adam Sandler and Margot Robbie were 2023’s highest-paid actors — but one is definitely making more than the other (and all the rest, too) with the difference being … Netflix. Forbes put out a list of all the big-shot actors who cleaned up last year — and their ranking based on the numbers is interesting … Read more
MEXICO CITY — The flow of thousands of migrants daily through the treacherous migratory highway, the Darien Gap, has been cut off following the capture of a number of boat captains who had been ferrying the migrants to the starting point of their jungle trek. The stoppage began when Colombian law enforcement captured two boat … Read more
Last Monday, I discovered Walter the Producer, a Boston-based indie musician. His music isn’t on any of the playlists I follow, and he has less than 150,000 monthly listeners on Spotify. If I hadn’t searched for his song on Shazam while I was 2,000 miles away from home in a brewery in Phoenix, I probably … Read more
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has drafted plans to release thousands of immigrants and slash its capacity to hold detainees after the failure of a Senate border bill that would have erased a $700 million budget shortfall, according to four officials at ICE and the Department of Homeland Security. The bipartisan border bill that Republican … Read more
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Meta’s latest update to its code generation AI model, Code Llama 70B, is “the largest and best-performing model” yet. Code Llama tools launched in August and are free for both research and commercial use. According to a post on Meta’s AI blog, Code Llama 70B can handle more queries than previous versions, which means developers can … Read more
(Bloomberg) — The value of China’s stock market has never been this far behind that of the US, as the losses continue to pile up in a seemingly relentless equity rout. Most Read from Bloomberg The market capitalization of the US stock market is now $38 trillion greater than that of Hong Kong and China … Read more
Beyond Yoga Courtesy: Beyond Yoga Levi Strauss’ Beyond Yoga has tapped former Athleta CEO and longtime Gap veteran Nancy Green to be its next chief executive, as the company looks to scale beyond its modest roots and compete with industry leaders such as Lululemon and upstarts such as Alo Yoga and Vuori. Beyond Yoga’s founder … Read more
Flavio Coelho/Getty Images The skills gap that’s holding back progress in artificial intelligence (AI) is well documented, but another factor looms large: data complexity. The two leading obstacles to AI success, a new IBM study reveals, are limited AI skills and expertise (cited by 33% of respondents), followed by too much data complexity (25%). A majority of companies … Read more
Just how backed up are the venture capital markets today? Imagine a traffic jam in which every car is worth a billion dollars of illiquid capital. Now imagine that there are 1,000 cars in that traffic jam. Finally, realize that the 1,000 billion-dollar cars in front of you are only part of the issue. That’s … Read more