The largest randomized trial of medical A.I. —Over 100,000 women in Sweden —radiologist + AI vs 2 radiologists, in follow-up —AI added led to 29% more cancer detected, 44% reduced workload, and —Less cancer dx in subsequent 2 years, and, when found, less aggressive thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Felix Klein lectured “On Hilbert’s first note on the foundations of physics" at the Mathematical Society of Göttingen #OTD in 1918. He included excerpts from letters in which he and Hilbert give priority to Emmy Noether’s results on conservation of energy in general relativity. (1/n) 🧪 ⚛️ 👩‍🔬

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In 1977, American physicist John H. Van Vleck won the Nobel prize for his work on magnetism. In his Nobel lecture, amid a discussion of rare earth elements, one sentence leaps out: "Miss Frank and I made the relevant calculations." Who was Amelia Frank? theconversation.com/who-was-amel...

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Credit in research goes hand in hand with responsibility. In this week’s editorial we argue that when things go wrong & a retraction is needed, if it is clear who among the authors is responsible they should be named in the retraction note. COPE agrees 🧪 #AcademicSky www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Math has publication fraud, too. For a long time, mathematicians thought that as long as they keep away from predatory journals or paper mills, the problem does not affect them. This turned out to be wrong.

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