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3 Questions: Devavrat Shah on curbing online misinformation
... be tweaked to curb the spread of misinformation and promote a diversity of viewpoints. Image: Allegra Boverman Article Author ... thought that he must indeed be carrying a dog if three people have told him so. Without even bothering to look at the animal, he let ...
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Making cities smarter
... are safe and efficient bike lanes, and anyone can order a cheap ride from an autonomous, minimal-emissions vehicle. Because fewer people drive, and almost no one idles in traffic, air quality is high. There ...
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Three questions with LIDS student Igor Kadota
... March 13, 2019 Igor Kadota is a PhD candidate with the Laboratory for Information & Decision Systems (LIDS) ... that make this a unique research environment are passionate people and research excellence. People at LIDS are all at the top of their ...
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Habits in Consumer Purchases: Evidence from Store Closures
... in particular, the widespread experience of shopping in a store. In-store shopping is a repetitive behavior happening in the same ... Although in the short run habits are formed to help people achieve their goals, in the long run, they could lead to non-optimal ...
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Systems scientists find clues to why false news snowballs on social media
... Amir Ajorlou, and graduate student Chin-Chia Hsu — built a theoretical model to study how news spreads on a Twitter-like social network ... their point of view: The key assumption in the model is that people bother to share something with their followers if they think it is ...
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A game changer takes on cricket’s statistical problem
... Jehangir Amjad has done something few people can: He found a way to combine his favorite sport with his work. A longtime cricket ...
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Computers that power self-driving cars could be a huge driver of global carbon emissions
... autonomous vehicles, each driving for one hour per day with a computer consuming 840 watts, would consume enough energy to generate about ... of time driven in autonomous vehicles might increase because people can multitask while driving and the young and the elderly could drive ...
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Explained: Generative AI - How do powerful generative AI systems like ChatGPT work, and what makes them different from other types of artificial intelligence?
What do people mean when they say “generative AI,” and why do these systems seem to ... Original Article MIT News A quick scan of the headlines makes it seem like generative artificial ... that seems to have been written by a human. But what do people really mean when they say “generative AI?” Before the generative ...
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From undisciplined to interdisciplinary
... MIT News In 1996, when he was a high school senior in the small town of Cluny, in the Burgundy region of ... preparatory schools,” Rigollet says. “They didn’t want people who were burned out at the end of high school and couldn’t push it, ...
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Optimization and Adaptation in Machine Learning and Life
... degree in 2019 and is continuing for his doctorate, finding a way forward despite the significant alterations to study, work, and life ... was something I was looking for, and at MIT, lots of people are doing it.” Alireza’s main interest is optimization. “What ...