Abstract: This paper studies the problem of event detection in highly dynamic and uncertain environments where training data is limited and the number of observations is small. The objective is to ...

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The Marshall Project has reported extensively on hospital drug testing of pregnant patients. Hospitals routinely use drug tests that are fast and cheap, but are highly prone to misinterpretation and ...

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Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta Platforms Inc. said Thursday it will begin testing its crowd-sourced fact-checking program, Community Notes, on March 18. It will initially based on a ...