COVID-19 risk halved when airplane middle seats empty, expert statistician says
A new paper...has underlined the risk to an uninfected passenger from an infected passenger when the middle seat is left vacant during a flight.
A new paper...has underlined the risk to an uninfected passenger from an infected passenger when the middle seat is left vacant during a flight.
John Van Reenen discusses his proposal for the US to create what he calls a “Grand Innovation Challenge Fund.”
... the top ten countries by projected daily infection rates at the end of winter 2021 are India with 2.87 lakh infections per day ...
Prof. Erin L. Kelly writes: "Working smarter includes dropping some tasks and meetings and turning off technologies from time to time."
People are less likely to share false stories about COVID-19 after they've been asked to evaluate the accuracy of another headline.
"With COVID-19, as with climate, we need to explore a variety of possible futures in order to set policy."
It is, or will soon be, impossible to increase computing power at the same rate for continued rapid advances in AI.
“The airlines are setting their own policies but the airlines and the public should know about the risk implications of their choices."
Michellana Jester writes: "...the new habits we're having to integrate now may already be pushing us to our emotional and physical limits."
A key principle in asset pricing theory is that investors are compensated for bearing systematic risk, but not idiosyncratic risk.