Cancer-detecting dogs can have an accuracy rate as high as 99%, and researchers are looking into how they detect “cancery” smells. In an experiment, two dogs were trained to detect a serious form of prostate cancer through urine; their findings were then fed through an AI so it could learn how the dogs smell cancer. Although it yielded promising results, it’s still limited; so far, it can only detect severe forms of prostate cancer. Read full article here
Education
Overcoming Bias
Kai Cheng’s professor had a brilliant scheme. In his first lecture, he promised that each lecture would feature a “Lie of the Day”. But why? It made his students more attentive and analytical, poring over every detail of his lecture and making sense of why things were true. It was such a powerful teaching method that his students digested his most technical lectures quite easily because they tried so hard to catch his lie. The kicker? There was no lie in that first lecture; he had lied about that too! Read full article here
Merv
August 17, 2022
