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This medical startup uses LLMs to run appointments and make diagnoses
"Our focus is really on what we can do to pull the doctor out of the visit," says Akido's CTO. Imagine this: You've been feeling unwell, so you call up your doctor's office to make an appointment. At the appointment, you aren't rushed through describing your health concerns; instead, you have a full half hour to share your symptoms and worries and the exhaustive details of your health history with someone who listens attentively and asks thoughtful follow-up questions. You leave with a diagnosis, a treatment plan, and the sense that, for once, you've been able to discuss your health with the care that it merits. AI companies have stopped warning you that their chatbots aren't doctors Once cautious, OpenAI, Grok, and others will now dive into giving unverified medical advice with virtually no disclaimers. You might not have spoken to a doctor, or other licensed medical practitioner, at all.
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Fabrication and Characterization of Additively Manufactured Stretchable Strain Sensors Towards the Shape Sensing of Continuum Robots
Moyer, Daniel C., Wang, Wenpeng, Karschner, Logan S., Fichera, Loris, Rao, Pratap M.
This letter describes the manufacturing and experimental characterization of novel stretchable strain sensors for continuum robots. The overarching goal of this research is to provide a new solution for the shape sensing of these devices. The sensors are fabricated via direct ink writing, an extrusion-based additive manufacturing technique. Electrically conductive material (i.e., the \textit{ink}) is printed into traces whose electrical resistance varies in response to mechanical deformation. The principle of operation of stretchable strain sensors is analogous to that of conventional strain gauges, but with a significantly larger operational window thanks to their ability to withstand larger strain. Among the different conductive materials considered for this study, we opted to fabricate the sensors with a high-viscosity eutectic Gallium-Indium ink, which in initial testing exhibited high linearity ($R^2 \approx$ 0.99), gauge factor $\approx$ 1, and negligible drift. Benefits of the proposed sensors include (i) ease of fabrication, as they can be conveniently printed in a matter of minutes; (ii) ease of installation, as they can simply be glued to the outside body of a robot; (iii) ease of miniaturization, which enables integration into millimiter-sized continuum robots.
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Lawyer accused of enabling Mexican Mafia rackets could avoid prison with guilty plea
Things to Do in L.A. Tap to enable a layout that focuses on the article. Gabriel Zendejas Chavez leaves the federal courthouse in downtown Los Angeles. Indicted in 2018 in an investigation of the Mexican Mafia's rackets in L.A. County jails, Chavez pleaded guilty in federal court to a rarely filed charge called "misprision of a felony." A lawyer accused of helping members of the Mexican Mafia traffic drugs, collect extortion money and expose government informants pleaded guilty Thursday in a deal with prosecutors that may spare him prison time. Gabriel Zendejas Chavez, who was indicted in 2018 in an investigation of the Mexican Mafia's rackets in L.A. County jails, told U.S. District Judge George Wu he was guilty of a rarely filed charge of "misprision of a felony."
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Exploring Embeddings for Measuring Text Relatedness: Unveiling Sentiments and Relationships in Online Comments
Olakangil, Anthony, Wang, Cindy, Nguyen, Justin, Zhou, Qunbo, Jethwa, Kaavya, Li, Jason, Narendra, Aryan, Patel, Nishk, Rajaram, Arjun
After the COVID-19 pandemic caused internet usage to grow by 70%, there has been an increased number of people all across the world using social media. Applications like Twitter, Meta Threads, YouTube, and Reddit have become increasingly pervasive, leaving almost no digital space where public opinion is not expressed. This paper investigates sentiment and semantic relationships among comments across various social media platforms, as well as discusses the importance of shared opinions across these different media platforms, using word embeddings to analyze components in sentences and documents. It allows researchers, politicians, and business representatives to trace a path of shared sentiment among users across the world. This research paper presents multiple approaches that measure the relatedness of text extracted from user comments on these popular online platforms. By leveraging embeddings, which capture semantic relationships between words and help analyze sentiments across the web, we can uncover connections regarding public opinion as a whole. The study utilizes pre-existing datasets from YouTube, Reddit, Twitter, and more. We made use of popular natural language processing models like Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) to analyze sentiments and explore relationships between comment embeddings. Additionally, we aim to utilize clustering and Kl-divergence to find semantic relationships within these comment embeddings across various social media platforms. Our analysis will enable a deeper understanding of the interconnectedness of online comments and will investigate the notion of the internet functioning as a large interconnected brain.
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US charges ex-Apple engineer with stealing trade secrets to benefit China
The US has charged a former Apple engineer accused of stealing the company's technology on autonomous systems, including self-driving cars, and then fleeing to China. The department of justice on Tuesday announced charges in that case and several others involving the alleged theft of trade secrets and efforts to steal technology to benefit China, Russia and Iran. Two of the cases involved what US officials called procurement networks created to help Russia's military and intelligence services obtain sensitive technology. "We stand vigilant in enforcing US laws to stop the flow of sensitive technologies to our foreign adversaries," Matt Olsen, the head of the justice department's national security division, told reporters. "We are committed to doing all we can to prevent these advanced tools from falling into the hands of foreign adversaries."
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Original Apple Computer Built By Jobs And Wozniak Sells For $400k
An original Apple computer, hand-built by company founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak 45 years ago, sold for $400,000 at auction in the United States on Tuesday. The functioning Apple-1, the great-great-grandfather of today's sleek chrome-and-glass Macbooks, had been expected to fetch up to $600,000 when it went under the hammer in California. The so-called "Chaffey College" Apple-1 is one of only 200 made by Jobs and Wozniak at the very start of the company's odyssey from garage start-up to megalith worth $2 trillion. What makes it even rarer is the fact the computer is encased in koa wood -- a richly patinated wood native to Hawaii. Only a handful of the original 200 were made in this way.
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Original Apple Computer Built By Jobs And Wozniak To Be Auctioned
An original Apple computer, hand-built by company founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak 45 years ago, goes under the hammer in the United States on Tuesday. The functioning Apple-1, the great-great-grandfather of today's sleek chrome-and-glass Macbooks, is expected to fetch up to $600,000 at an auction in California. The so-called "Chaffey College" Apple-1 is one of only 200 made by Jobs and Wozniak at the very start of the company's odyssey from garage start-up to megalith worth $2 trillion. What makes it even rarer is the fact the computer is encased in koa wood -- a richly patinated wood native to Hawaii. Only a handful of the original 200 were made in this way.
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Original Apple Built By Jobs And Wozniak Auctioned
An original Apple computer, handbuilt by company founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak 45 years ago, goes under the hammer in the United States on Tuesday. The functioning Apple-1, the great, great grandfather of today's sleek chrome-and-glass Macbooks, is expected to fetch up to $600,000 at an auction in California. The so-called "Chaffey College" Apple-1, is one of only 200 made by Jobs and Wozniak at the very start of the company's oddessy from garage start-up to megalith worth $2 trillion. What makes it even rarer is the fact it is encased in koa wood -- a richly pattinated wood native to Hawaii. Only a handful of the original 200 were made in this way.
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'Holy grail' of vintage tech to hit the auction block
Apple's new-model, top-of-the-line MacBook Pro laptop computer could set you back nearly $4,000 before taxes. But that will seem like a Black Friday steal when a 45-year-old Apple computer goes on sale this week in Monrovia, where it may fetch six figures or more. On Tuesday, John Moran Auctioneers will auction off a functioning Apple-1 computer hand-built by Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs and others in a Los Altos, Calif., garage in 1976. The system was the rock upon which the trillion-dollar Apple empire was built. In his 2011 biography "Steve Jobs," Walter Isaacson quotes Wozniak as saying of the Apple-1: "We were participating in the biggest revolution that had ever happened, I thought. I was so happy to be a part of it."
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Apple-1 computer, 'holy grail' of vintage tech, to be auctioned off in Southern California
Apple's new-model, top-of-the-line MacBook Pro laptop computer could set you back nearly $4,000 before taxes. But that will seem like a Black Friday steal when a 45-year-old Apple computer goes on sale this week in Monrovia, where it may fetch six figures or more, even without a 16-inch, high-definition screen and the latest microprocessors. On Tuesday, John Moran Auctioneers will auction off a functioning Apple-1 computer hand-built by Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs and others in a Los Altos, Calif., garage in 1976. The system was the rock upon which the trillion-dollar Apple empire was built. In his 2011 biography "Steve Jobs," Walter Isaacson quotes Wozniak as saying of the Apple-1: "We were participating in the biggest revolution that had ever happened, I thought. I was so happy to be a part of it."
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