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summary: Researchers have developed a new approach to improve uncertainty estimation and increase predictive accuracy in machine learning models. Their method, IF-COMP, uses the minimum description length principle to provide more reliable confidence metrics for important AI decisions in critical contexts like healthcare.This scalable technique can be applied to large models and helps non-experts judge the reliability of AI predictions — findings that can lead to better decision-making in real-world applications.Key Facts:Increased accuracy: IF-COMP improves the estimation of uncertainty in AI predictions.Scalability: It can be applied to large, complex models in critical environments such as healthcare.easy to use: It helps…

Vahid Saleemi/AP/File Iran’s next president-elect, 69-year-old heart surgeon and member of parliament Massoud Pezeshkian, defeated hardline rival Saeed Jalili in Iran’s presidential election last week. CNN — Iranian President-elect Massoud Pezechkian said he looked forward to improved relations with Europe, even as he criticized the Europeans for backtracking on promises to ease the impact of U.S. sanctions. “Despite these missteps, I look forward to a constructive dialogue with European countries based on the principles of mutual respect and equal footing to steer our relations in the right direction,” Pezechkian wrote in the English-language Tehran Times newspaper. Pezeshkian added that there…

Stay up to date with free updatesJust sign up US Interest Rates myFT Digest – delivered straight to your inbox.Federal Reserve officials have given their strongest signal yet that they are preparing to cut interest rates, raising the prospect of relief for long-suffering U.S. borrowers for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic caused inflation to explode in the world’s largest economy.In multiple public comments this week, including at Chairman Jay Powell’s congressional hearing, central bank officials spoke with renewed confidence about having inflation under control and being ready to embark on a policy shift.Strengthening their confidence was better-than-expected economic…

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CNN — Alana Morris tuned in to last month’s presidential debate hoping to see President Joe Biden “blow away” former President Donald Trump. Instead, the 44-year-old cardiologist from Atlanta saw a candidate she barely recognized. She became saddened and worried that the president might have had a stroke or some other ailment, and stopped watching the event midway through. But the disappointment hasn’t deterred her from planning to vote for the president, as she considers the alternative — a second term for Trump — unacceptable. “Don’t rock the boat unless you have a plan to bring me back to land,”…

Even now, more than 25 years after it happened, Patty Glover still vividly remembers the first incident.Glover, then in his mid-30s, was standing in front of his bathroom mirror styling his hair while preparing for a job as a craps dealer in a Las Vegas casino when he felt a pain that felt like an ice pick stabbing him in the right side of the top of his head. The pain was so intense that Glover stumbled backwards, crashed into a closet door, and fell to his knees clutching his head. After about 10 bouts of intense pain lasting a…

Get your free copy of Editor’s DigestFT editor Roula Khalaf picks her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Would you be able to spend 378 days and nights in a dark space lit only by strip lights and a window with a fake planet in it, accompanied only by three coworkers? A week? Um, even a night?The first four members of NASA Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analogue (Chapea) The mission continued until the end, finally emerging last week. They spent more than a year in a hangar in Houston simulating a mission to Mars. The crew’s main concern wasn’t how…

The Princess of Wales is Patron of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club.Karwai Tan/WireImage Kate Middleton will play at Wimbledon on July 15, 2023Kate Middleton It will be Royal Box At Wimbledon this year.Kensington Palace has confirmed that the Princess of Wales, 42, will be attending Wimbledon’s men’s singles final on Sunday, July 14.But she won’t be able to watch the famous tennis tournament be crowned the women’s champion at the British Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in London on Saturday, July 13.Princess Kate, 42, has played at Wimbledon almost every year since her marriage. Prince William In…

BALTIMORE — Brandon Hyde is a minor league catcher turned manager. New York Yankees In the dugout, he planted his heels on his feet to gain more power, but was blocked by the backup catcher, who began the day celebrating his 25th birthday and ended it with the goal of putting out fireworks, not lighting them.”I thought it was a great birthday,” Austin Wells said late Friday night. Yankees win 4-1 over- Baltimore Orioles Be safe with rear visibility.”We were trying to minimize the damage.”It’s an appropriate sentiment for both the bench-emptying brawl that devastated the bottom of the ninth…

This image from a video provided by SpaceX shows the upper stage engine of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket during a launch from California on Thursday, July 11, 2024. The rocket carrying 20 Starlink satellites failed during an explosion, leaving the company’s internet satellites in a dangerous low orbit. Credit: SpaceX, via AP A SpaceX rocket has malfunctioned for the first time in nearly a decade, leaving the company’s internet satellite in a very low orbit, destined to fall into the atmosphere and burn up. The Falcon 9 rocket was launching from California on Thursday night carrying 20 Starlink satellites…