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Jeremy Howard — The Simple but Profound Insight Behind Diffusion

Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI

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Is There a Mask That Stops COVID?

"There are people who said like our masks don't provide respiratory protection from these airborne particles, and that here's a video of them not going through the mask," he says. "So I kind of went all in on just trying to say to people, oh, no, there's actually a thing that stops the thing that infects us so we should wear them." He finds it extraordinarily bizarre that everybody didn't just go, 'Look at that video of it working. Therefore, it works' The author is still flabbergasted that high quality medical masks are widely available but factories have been shutting down because demand is low.

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