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CollapsingBanditsandTheirApplicationtoPublic HealthInterventions

Neural Information Processing Systems

Neither (i) nor (ii) are known for general RMABs. Therefore, to capture the scheduling problems addressed inthiswork,weintroduce anewsubclass ofRMABs,Collapsing Bandits, distinguished by the following feature: when an arm is played, the agent fully observes its state, "collapsing" any uncertainty, but when an arm is passive, no observation is made and uncertainty evolves.



Seven million cancers a year are preventable, says report

BBC News

Seven million people's cancer could be prevented each year, according to the first global analysis. A report by World Health Organization (WHO) scientists estimates 37% of cancers are caused by infections, lifestyle choices and environmental pollutants that could be avoided. This includes cervical cancers caused by human papilloma virus (HPV) infections which vaccination can help prevent, as well as a host of tumours caused by tobacco smoke from cigarettes. The researchers said their report showed there is a powerful opportunity to transform the lives of millions of people. Some cancers are inevitable - either because of damage we unavoidably build up in our DNA as we age or because we inherit genes that put us at greater risk of the disease.


The Download: chatbots for health, and US fights over AI regulation

MIT Technology Review

Plus: how wastewater tracking could help curb measles' rise in the US. Can ChatGPT Health do better? For the past two decades, there's been a clear first step for anyone who starts experiencing new medical symptoms: Look them up online. The practice was so common that it gained the pejorative moniker "Dr. But times are changing, and many medical-information seekers are now using LLMs. According to OpenAI, 230 million people ask ChatGPT health-related queries each week.


Heist game Relooted gets a release date

Engadget

Apple's Siri AI will be powered by Gemini Reclaim stolen African artifacts with your crew on February 10. The intriguing Africanfuturist heist game,, is out on February 10. Developed by independent South African studio Nyamakop, the game focuses on a ragtag crew from Johannesburg that liberates real-life African artifacts from a series of fictionalized Western museums. You have to carefully plan each heist with your fellow teammates, knowing where to place each crew member and how you're going to get in and out in one piece. Once you've grabbed the artifact you're looking for in each mission, an alarm will sound and you have a limited amount of time to escape, so good preparation is vital.