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The Two Most Important Things for a Good First Impression
June 12, 2016
Harvard Business School professor and social psychologist Amy Cuddy has been studying first impressions for many years and has learned that there are two key things that people ask themselves (usually subconsciously) when first evaluating a new person: Can I trust this person? Can I respect this person? These questions can be boiled down to two traits: Warmth and competence. Having a warm personality lets people know they can trust you. Showing confidence and competence in your skills...
June 12, 2016
Harvard Business School professor and social psychologist Amy Cuddy has been studying first impressions for many years and has learned that there are two key things that people ask themselves (usually subconsciously) when first evaluating a new person: Can I trust this person? Can I respect this person? These questions can be boiled down to two traits: Warmth and competence. Having a warm personality lets people know they can trust you. Showing confidence and competence in your skills...
NOAA’s Forecast Model Improved Yet Again, Now in 4-D
June 12, 2016
NOAA’s powerful new supercomputers paved the way for another upgrade to the U.S. Global Forecast System (GFS), NOAA’s primary model for weather prediction. The upgrade builds on last year’s significant boost to the GFS, which more than doubled the resolution of the model grid from 27 kilometers to 13 kilometers, resulting in higher resolution model output and more precise weather forecasts and warnings. Today’s shift to four-dimensional ensemble hybrid data assimilation takes into account...
June 12, 2016
NOAA’s powerful new supercomputers paved the way for another upgrade to the U.S. Global Forecast System (GFS), NOAA’s primary model for weather prediction. The upgrade builds on last year’s significant boost to the GFS, which more than doubled the resolution of the model grid from 27 kilometers to 13 kilometers, resulting in higher resolution model output and more precise weather forecasts and warnings. Today’s shift to four-dimensional ensemble hybrid data assimilation takes into account...
Quest for Robo-Yellen Advances as Computers Gain on Rate Setters
June 12, 2016
Move over Janet Yellen, automation in the workplace is about to get personal. Instead of relying on the Federal Reserve chair, imagine using a computer to transform mountains of raw economic data into reliable predictions for unemployment, inflation and gross domestic product. What’s the best level for the federal funds rate? “The capability is here,” says Andrew Lo, director of the Laboratory for Financial Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, near Boston. “The...
June 12, 2016
Move over Janet Yellen, automation in the workplace is about to get personal. Instead of relying on the Federal Reserve chair, imagine using a computer to transform mountains of raw economic data into reliable predictions for unemployment, inflation and gross domestic product. What’s the best level for the federal funds rate? “The capability is here,” says Andrew Lo, director of the Laboratory for Financial Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, near Boston. “The...
DeepMind moves to TensorFlow
June 11, 2016
At DeepMind, we conduct state-of-the-art research on a wide range of algorithms, from deep learning and reinforcement learning to systems neuroscience, towards the goal of building Artificial General Intelligence. A key factor in facilitating rapid progress is the software environment used for research. For nearly four years, the open source Torch7 machine learning library has served as our primary research platform, combining excellent flexibility with very fast runtime execution, enabling rapid...
June 11, 2016
At DeepMind, we conduct state-of-the-art research on a wide range of algorithms, from deep learning and reinforcement learning to systems neuroscience, towards the goal of building Artificial General Intelligence. A key factor in facilitating rapid progress is the software environment used for research. For nearly four years, the open source Torch7 machine learning library has served as our primary research platform, combining excellent flexibility with very fast runtime execution, enabling rapid...
Announcing SyntaxNet: The World’s Most Accurate Parser Goes Open Source
June 11, 2016
How does SyntaxNet work? SyntaxNet is a framework for what’s known in academic circles as a syntactic parser, which...
June 11, 2016
How does SyntaxNet work? SyntaxNet is a framework for what’s known in academic circles as a syntactic parser, which...
Meet ‘Ross,’ The Newly Hired Legal Robot
June 11, 2016
One of the country’s biggest law firms has become the first to publicly announce that it has “hired” a robot lawyer to assist with bankruptcy cases. The robot, called ROSS, has been marketed as “the world’s first artificially intelligent attorney.” ROSS has joined the ranks of law firm BakerHostetler, which employs about 50 human lawyers just in its bankruptcy practice. The AI machine, powered by IBM’s Watson technology, will serve as a legal researcher for the firm. It will...
June 11, 2016
One of the country’s biggest law firms has become the first to publicly announce that it has “hired” a robot lawyer to assist with bankruptcy cases. The robot, called ROSS, has been marketed as “the world’s first artificially intelligent attorney.” ROSS has joined the ranks of law firm BakerHostetler, which employs about 50 human lawyers just in its bankruptcy practice. The AI machine, powered by IBM’s Watson technology, will serve as a legal researcher for the firm. It will...
SCOTCA: Elder Abuse Does Not Apply to Healthcare Provider’s Failure to Refer to Specialist
June 10, 2016
Today, the Supreme Court of California in Winn v. Pioneer Medical Group, held that “the Act does not apply unless the defendant health care provider had a substantial caretaking or custodial relationship, involving ongoing responsibility for one or more basic needs, with the elder patient. It is the nature of the elder or dependent adult’s relationship with the defendant –– not the defendant’s professional standing –– that makes the defendant potentially liable for neglect. Because...
June 10, 2016
Today, the Supreme Court of California in Winn v. Pioneer Medical Group, held that “the Act does not apply unless the defendant health care provider had a substantial caretaking or custodial relationship, involving ongoing responsibility for one or more basic needs, with the elder patient. It is the nature of the elder or dependent adult’s relationship with the defendant –– not the defendant’s professional standing –– that makes the defendant potentially liable for neglect. Because...
Artificial Intelligence in Legal, ‘So Hot Right Now’
June 10, 2016
Panelists at the Stanford CodeX FutureLaw Conference separated fact from fiction, explaining how AI truly functions in today’s...
June 10, 2016
Panelists at the Stanford CodeX FutureLaw Conference separated fact from fiction, explaining how AI truly functions in today’s...
Manifest Disregard of Manifest Disregard
June 10, 2016
After Hall Street Associates LLC v. Mattel, Inc., 552 U.S. 576 (2008), the Fifth Circuit concluded that “manifest disregard of the law” was no longer available as a nonstatutory ground for vacatur of an arbitration award under the FAA. Since then, other circuits have considered whether “manifest disregard” can be a statutory basis for vacatur. In McKool Smith PC v. Curtis Int’l, the losing party in an attorneys fee dispute mounted such a challenge to the arbitrator’s award in favor...
June 10, 2016
After Hall Street Associates LLC v. Mattel, Inc., 552 U.S. 576 (2008), the Fifth Circuit concluded that “manifest disregard of the law” was no longer available as a nonstatutory ground for vacatur of an arbitration award under the FAA. Since then, other circuits have considered whether “manifest disregard” can be a statutory basis for vacatur. In McKool Smith PC v. Curtis Int’l, the losing party in an attorneys fee dispute mounted such a challenge to the arbitrator’s award in favor...
Financial Data shows Seismic Shift Continues in Texas Legal Market
June 9, 2016
A new Texas Lawbook study of legal industry finances in Texas shows that elite, wealthy corporate law firms – most of them based outside of the state – are achieving enormous financial success by stealing the best lawyers and the highest paying business clients away from large, full service legacy Texas law firms. At the same time, dozens of national and regional law firms, including many that focus on upper middle market corporate clients in the healthcare, manufacturing, retail, technology...
June 9, 2016
A new Texas Lawbook study of legal industry finances in Texas shows that elite, wealthy corporate law firms – most of them based outside of the state – are achieving enormous financial success by stealing the best lawyers and the highest paying business clients away from large, full service legacy Texas law firms. At the same time, dozens of national and regional law firms, including many that focus on upper middle market corporate clients in the healthcare, manufacturing, retail, technology...
