MP Podcast — 22

MP Podcast — 22

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Measles Outbreak: to vaccinate, or not to vaccinate?
Bill Gates comments on artificial intelligence.
Indiana may allow college students to carry concealed weapons, to combat sexual assaults.

“The measles vaccine is actually one of the most effective vaccines in the world. According to Greg Wallace, lead of the measles, mumps, rubella and polio team at the CDC, two doses are 97 percent effective against infection. (Compare that to 88 percent for two doses of the mumps vaccine from the MMR shot.) It’s a live version of the virus, just weakened—or attenuated—so it doesn’t cause severe symptoms. The vaccine replicates just like the full-on measles virus, inciting your immune system to produce antibodies against it. Those antibodies then protect against actual measles as well.”
  ― Katie M. Palmer (Wired)
“Even in the next 10 problems like vision and speech understanding and translation will be very good, mechanical robot tasks like picking fruit or moving a hospit

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