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About 32 per cent of eligible Albertans are still without a first dose of COVID-19 vaccine, but a portion of those people aren&#8217;t declining because of questions with the science.
This group makes up a population that is known as &#8220;vaccine hesitant&#8221; &#8212; a group Alberta Health Services is now working to get on board for its COVID-19 vaccine rollout.
		
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				Doctor says Alberta needs to get creative, bring vaccine to people to boost 1st dose uptake			</a>
		
	
&#8220;We call it hesitancy because it doesn&#8217;t mean you&#8217;re an anti-vaxxer if you didn&#8217;t get your vaccine yet,&#8221; medical officer of health for the Edmonton Zone Dr. Grace Salvo said.
Though it&#8217;s hard to say exactly who these folks are and what they&#8217;re thinking, Salvo said there are three broad categories that make up the hesitant group: people looking for convenience, those searching for confidence in the vaccine itself and those who are simply complacent.
		
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&#8220;Those (are) people who think it doesn&#8217;t affect them or it isn&#8217;t that serious,&#8221; Salvo explained. &#8220;The people who think if they get COVID it&#8217;s not a big deal.&#8221;
Salvo said each group is motivated by something different and AHS is working to target each of them.
Those apathetic to the shot need frequent reminders of how dangerous COVID-19 can be.
&#8220;Think about Dr. Hinshaw&#8217;s campaigns. We tell people how many deaths are happening every day. We also look at vulnerable populations and work with trusted community physicians.&#8221;
Pharmacist Balsam Alabdali said she&#8217;s seen a number of people show up for their first dose recently with a clear incentive &#8212; the convenience of not quarantining after international travel once fully vaccinated.
		
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				Fully vaccinated Canadian travellers can skip hotel quarantine come July: feds			</a>
		
	
&#8220;They want to travel&#8230; they want to get Alberta&#8217;s restrictions eased. They have new motivation,&#8221; Alabdali said
Salvo said similar incentives of a more normal life is offered at the provincial level.
&#8220;If you think of some of the orders in the previous weeks &#8212; it&#8217;s less convenient if you&#8217;re a close contact to someone who is COVID-19 positive. If you&#8217;re fully immunized, you don&#8217;t have to quarantine. If you&#8217;re partially immunized, you have a shorter quarantine,&#8221; Salvo said.
		
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				Three-day COVID-19 vaccination blitz underway at Telus Convention Centre			</a>
		
	
Others seek the knowledge of those they trust. Alabdali said she has had people ask if she is vaccinated herself.
&#8220;They want to see that we, as pharmacists and health care workers, believe in the vaccine. Some of them, after I tell them &#8216;yes&#8217;, will then say &#8216;Okay. I will get the vaccine.'&#8221;
&#8220;The safety profile of the vaccine is really excellent,&#8221; Salvo said. &#8220;And the uptake so far has also been quite excellent.&#8221;
Alabdali said if someone calls her pharmacy for their first dose, she acts quickly.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t want to lose them&#8230; because they made the decision late. That means they were hesitant at the beginning.&#8221;

When it comes to vaccine hesitancy, it’s not black and white. There’s a portion of the population who needs a bit more motivation before they roll up their sleeves.

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The sun and moon combined to create a dazzling ring of fire over northern Canada early Thursday during a rare annular <a href="https://globalnews.ca/tag/solar-eclipse" target="_blank" rel="noopener" target="_blank">solar eclipse</a> that was at least partially visible across much of the country.
Early risers captured spectacular footage of the eclipse, which played out around 6 a.m. over much of Canada.
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Skywatchers in Nunavut, the Northwest Territories and the northern parts of Ontario and Quebec saw the eclipse as a black hole with a fiery ring around it in the morning sky.
Others in the eastern half of Canada saw the event as a significant partial solar eclipse, with the moon blocking all but a sliver of the rising sun at dawn.
	
		
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
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The eclipse was also visible in many parts of the Northern Hemisphere, including the eastern United States and parts of Europe, Russia and China.
	
		
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
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An annular eclipse is a rare form of total solar eclipse, in which the moon is at its farthest point from Earth when it moves to block the view of the sun from the Earth. This makes the moon appear too small to fully block out the sun. Instead, it allows a ring of solar light to shine around it. That light creates the dramatic ring of fire effect.
Several observatories captured incredible photos and videos of the rare event, while many photographers also shared their own footage of the eclipse online.
	
		
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
			
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Thursday&#8217;s solar eclipse was the most spectacular and easy-to-watch event on the calendar for 2021. One more total solar eclipse is expected in December, though it will only be fully visible in Antarctica.

The sun and moon put on an incredible show across much of Canada early Thursday.

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Hundreds of early risers in Montreal gathered at the Olympic stadium to observe a partial eclipse of the sun Thursday morning.
The rare phenomenon was visible across Quebec and much of eastern Canada.
Beginning as early as 5 a.m. and hitting its peak at around 5:39 a.m. about 80 per cent of the sun&#8217;s surface viewable from Earth was covered by the passing of the moon.
From Montreal, onlookers saw a black crescent slide over the orange globe.
Amateur astronomers and families stood with their heads up in awe, many watching the solar event for the first time.
&#8220;It&#8217;s like vertigo. You feel the great distance and the celestial bodies moving,&#8221; Felix Lamarche said.
Shania-Li Thibeault woke up at 3 a.m. on her own birthday to experience the rare event.
&#8220;It&#8217;s my 18th birthday today so it&#8217;s a good gift,&#8221; Thibeault said.
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An annular eclipse is a rare form of <a href="https://globalnews.ca/tag/solar-eclipse" target="_blank" rel="noopener" target="_blank">solar eclipse</a> that occurs when the moon is at the farthest point in its orbit around the Earth.
That makes the moon look slightly smaller from the Earth’s perspective — the opposite of the so-called “supermoon,” when the moon is closer and looks bigger in the sky.
In this case, the slightly smaller-looking moon did not completely cover the disc of the sun as viewed from Earth.
Instead, it allowed the sun to shine around the edges of the disc of the moon at the moment of maximum eclipse, creating a so-called “ring of fire” effect.
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If you missed this partial eclipse, don’t worry.
Mark your calendars because a total solar eclipse will occur on April 8, 2024.
The last one to be observed from Quebec was in 1932.
— with files from Josh K. Elliott

Hundreds of Montrealers rose at the crack of dawn to view the partial solar eclipse.

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Machine learning models have already mastered Chess, <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/24/alphago-beats-planets-best-human-go-player-ke-jie/" target="_blank">Go</a>,<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/01/deepminds-agent57-ai-agent-can-best-human-players-across-a-suite-of-57-atari-games/" target="_blank"> Atari games</a>, and more, but in order for it to ascend to the next level, researchers at Facebook intend for AI to <a href="https://ai.facebook.com/blog/launching-the-nethack-challenge-at-neurips-2021/" target="_blank">take on a different kind of game</a>: the notoriously difficult and infinitely complex Nethack.
&#8220;We wanted to construct what we think is <a href="https://nethackchallenge.com/" target="_blank">the most accessible &#8216;grand challenge&#8217;</a> with this game. It won&#8217;t solve AI, but it will unlock pathways towards better AI,&#8221; said Facebook AI Research&#8217;s Edward Grefenstette. &#8220;Games are a good domain to find our assumptions about what makes machines intelligent and break them.&#8221;
You may not be familiar with Nethack, but it&#8217;s one of the most influential games of all time. You&#8217;re an adventurer in a fantasy world, delving through the increasingly dangerous depths of a dungeon that&#8217;s different every time. You must battle monsters, navigate traps and other hazards, and meanwhile stay on good terms with your god. It&#8217;s the first &#8220;roguelike&#8221; (after Rogue, its immediate and much simpler predecessor) and arguably still the best — almost certainly the hardest.
(It&#8217;s free, by the way, and you can <a href="http://nethack.org/" target="_blank">download and play it on nearly any platform.</a>)
Its simple ASCII graphics, using a g for a goblin, an @ for the player, lines and dots for the level&#8217;s architecture, and so on, belie its incredible complexity. Because Nethack, which made its debut in 1987, has been under active development ever since, with its shifting team of developers expanding its roster of objects and creatures, rules, and the countless, countless interactions between them all.
And this is part of what makes Nethack such a difficult and interesting challenge for AI: It&#8217;s so open-ended. Not only is the world different every time, but every object and creature can interact in new ways, most of them hand-coded over decades to cover every possible player choice.
<a href="https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/NetHack_level2.jpg" target="_blank"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-2164028" loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-2164028" src="https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/NetHack_level2.jpg" alt="" width="1024" srcset="https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/NetHack_level2.jpg 1264w, https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/NetHack_level2.jpg?resize=150,40 150w, https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/NetHack_level2.jpg?resize=300,80 300w, https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/NetHack_level2.jpg?resize=768,204 768w, https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/NetHack_level2.jpg?resize=680,181 680w, https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/NetHack_level2.jpg?resize=50,13 50w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a>Nethack with a tile-based graphics update &#8211; all the information is still available via text.
&#8220;Atari, Dota 2, StarCraft 2&#8230; the solutions we&#8217;ve had to make progress there are very interesting. Nethack just presents different challenges. You have to rely on human knowledge to play the game as a human,&#8221; said Grefenstette.
In these other games, there&#8217;s a more or less obvious strategy to winning. Of course it&#8217;s more complex in a game like Dota 2 than in an Atari 800 game, but the idea is the same — there are pieces the player controls, a game board of environment, and win conditions to pursue. That&#8217;s kind of the case in Nethack, but it&#8217;s weirder than that. For one thing, the game is different every time, and not just in the details.
&#8220;New dungeon, new world, new monsters and items, you don&#8217;t have a save point. If you make a mistake and die you don&#8217;t get a second shot. It&#8217;s a bit like real life,&#8221; said Grefenstette. &#8220;You have to learn from mistakes and come to new situations armed with that knowledge.&#8221;
Drinking a corrosive potion is a bad idea, of course, but what about throwing it at a monster? Coating your weapon with it? Pouring it on the lock of a treasure chest? Diluting it with water? We have intuitive ideas about these actions, but a game-playing AI doesn&#8217;t think the way we do.
The depth and complexity of the systems in Nethack are difficult to explain, but that diversity and difficulty make the game a perfect candidate for a competition, according to Grefenstette. &#8220;You have to rely on human knowledge to play the game,&#8221; he said.
People have been designing bots to play Nethack for many years that rely not on neural networks but decision trees as complex as the game itself. The team at Facebook Research hopes to engender a new approach by building a training environment that people can test machine learning-based game-playing algorithms on.
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The <a href="https://github.com/facebookresearch/nle" target="_blank">Nethack Learning Environment</a> was actually put together last year, but the Nethack Challenge is only just now getting started. The NLE is basically a version of the game embedded in a dedicated computing environment that lets an AI interact with it through text commands (directions, actions like attack or quaff)
It&#8217;s a tempting target for ambitious AI designers. While games like StarCraft 2 may enjoy a higher profile in some ways, Nethack is legendary and the idea of building a model on completely different lines from those used to dominate other games is an interesting challenge.
It&#8217;s also, as Grefenstette explained, a more accessible one than many in the past. If you wanted to build an AI for StarCraft 2, you needed a lot of computing power available to run visual recognition engines on the imagery from the game. But in this case the entire game is transmitted via text, making it extremely efficient to work with. It can be played thousands of times faster than any human could with even the most basic computing setup. That leaves the challenge wide open to individuals and groups who don&#8217;t have access to the kind of high-power setups necessary to power other machine learning methods.
&#8220;We wanted to create a research environment that had a lot of challenges for the AI community, but not restrict it to only large academic labs,&#8221; he said.
For the next few months, NLE will be available for people to test on, and competitors can basically build their bot or AI by whatever means they choose. But when the competition itself starts in earnest on October 15, they&#8217;ll be limited to interacting with the game in its controlled environment through standard commands — no special access, no inspecting RAM, etc.
The goal of the competition will be to complete the game, and the Facebook team will track how many times the agent &#8220;ascends,&#8221; as it&#8217;s called in Nethack, in a set amount of time. But &#8220;we&#8217;re assuming this is going to be zero for everyone,&#8221; Grefenstette admitted. After all, this is one of the hardest games ever made, and even humans who have played it for years have trouble winning even once in a lifetime, let alone several times in a row. There will be other scoring metrics to judge winners in a number of categories.
The hope is that this challenge provides the seed of a new approach to AI, one that more fundamentally resembles actual human thinking. Shortcuts, trial and error, score-hacking, and zerging won&#8217;t work here — the agent needs to learn systems of logic and apply them flexibly and intelligently, or die horribly at the hands of an enraged centaur or owlbear.
You can check out the rules and other <a href="https://nethackchallenge.com/" target="_blank">specifics of the Nethack Challenge here</a>. Results will be announced at the NeurIPS conference later this year.

Machine learning models have already mastered Chess, Go, Atari games, and more, but in order for it to ascend to the next level, researchers at Facebook intend for AI to take on a different kind of game: the notoriously difficult and infinitely complex Nethack. “We wanted to construct what we think is the most accessible […]

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Twenty of the tallest buildings and most stunning architectural marvels are currently housed inside of the <a href="https://www.flyingeze.com/tag/saskatchewan-science-centre" target="_blank" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Saskatchewan Science Centre</a>, but they are significantly scaled-down, a 1-to-200 ratio to be exact, and are made of Lego.
The exhibit is called Towers of Tomorrow and was built by Robin Sather, one of only two <a href="https://www.flyingeze.com/category/lego" target="_blank" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Lego</a> certified professionals, or LCPs, in Canada.
“I definitely bring Lego magic and Lego fun and experiences to places that are not generally going to see it,” Sather said. “So, having it in Regina is fantastic and it’s really a great opportunity for people there, Lego fans and architecture fans to see something that they probably wouldn’t get to see if it wasn’t for the LCP program.”
		
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Saskatchewan Science Centre staff, including vice president of operations Ryan Holota, are looking forward to having more people back in the building.
“One of the things that’s most exciting for us, as people return to the exhibit floor, is to be really able to engage them again, to get them really doing those hands-on, immersive activities that the science centre is known for,” Holota said.
According to Sather, the entirety of the Lego build takes around 2,400 hours and nearly 600,000 bricks to complete.
And while everyone who attends the exhibit will be able to pick their own favourite structure, Sather loves the Shanghai Tower, aptly nicknamed the guitar pick tower.
		
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“Imagine taking those and stacking hundreds of them, but each level turns a little bit as it goes up, so it’s like this stack of turned guitar picks,” Sather said.
According to Holota, the science centre’s main objective is to get people excited about <a href="https://www.flyingeze.com/category/science" target="_blank" rel="noopener" target="_blank">science</a>, technology, engineering and math, and the Towers of Tomorrow exhibit is a great intersection of all of those things.
“It’s really exciting to bring Lego here and to have everybody come back and be able to learn and play and explore and have fun together,” he said.
The exhibit is open Thursday to Sunday throughout the summer.
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VICTORIA &#8211; The acting head of the Royal British Columbia Museum&#8217;s archives says the institution will work closely with Indigenous groups as it processes and documents records from a religious order that ran residential schools across the province.
Genevieve Weber says the museum has about 250 boxes of materials, a third of which relate to residential schools run by the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate.
		
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She says the records range from financial statements and letters to diaries of daily life, known as a Codex Historicus.
She says the museum started to receive and process the records in 2019, and has been reaching out to Indigenous communities mentioned in them to discuss how they would like to proceed in terms of disclosure.
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Weber says the focus is to determine with Indigenous communities, such as the Tk&#8217;emlúps te Secwepemc in Kamloops, what personal details in the records they are comfortable releasing so as not to cause further harm.
She says the records should be available to researchers by 2022.
		
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&#8220;In the past, when we&#8217;ve done engagement, it&#8217;s normally after the records have been available to the general public for some time. But we felt it was really important, due to the sensitive nature of these records, to reach out to Indigenous communities first,&#8221; Weber said.
The First Nation announced last week that it had found what are believed to be the remains of 215 children at the site of the Kamloops Indian Residential School. Since then, there have been calls for better access to records from the schools across the country. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau also urged the Catholic Church to release more documents on Friday.
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The Oblates ran 10 residential schools across British Columbia.
Father Ken Thorson, the provincial superior of the Oblates, said the organization had looked at making the records available in 2015 but the effort stalled.
		
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Weber said having access to the records has already resulted in some developments in identifying residential school students. She travelled to Kamloops, where she was able to share digitized photo albums and listen to residential school survivors.
&#8220;We were able to identify a number of people in the album who had not been identified,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Instead of having a photo album with no names identified, we now have an album with about 80 people identified in it.&#8221;
This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 4, 2021.

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With wildfires becoming an ever more devastating annual phenomenon, it is in the whole planet&#8217;s interest to spot them and respond as early as possible — and the best vantage point for that is space. OroraTech is a German startup building a constellation of small satellites to power a global wildfire warning system, and will be using <a href="https://ororatech.com/2021/06/01/ororatech-successfully-closes-e5-8m-series-a-to-launch-first-satellites-to-tackle-global-wildfire-and-climate-crisis/" target="_blank">a freshly raised €5.8M (~$7M) A round</a> to kick things off.
Wildfires destroy tens of millions of acres of forest every year, causing immense harm to people and the planet in countless ways. Once they&#8217;ve grown to a certain size, they&#8217;re near impossible to stop, so the earlier they can be located and worked against, the better.
But these fires can start just about anywhere in a dried out forest hundreds of miles wide, and literally every minute and hour counts — watch towers, helicopter flights, and other frequently used methods may not be fast or exact enough to effectively counteract this increasingly serious threat. Not to mention they&#8217;re expensive and often dangerous jobs for those who perform them.
OroraTech&#8217;s plan is to use a constellation of about 100 satellites equipped with custom infrared cameras to watch the entire globe (or at least the parts most likely to burst into flame) at once, reporting any fire bigger than ten meters across within half an hour.
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To start out with, the Bavarian company has used data from over a dozen satellites already in space, in order to prove out the service on the ground. But with this funding round they are set to put their own bird in the air, a shoebox-sized satellite with a custom infrared sensor that will be <a href="https://spire.com/press-release/leading-wildfire-monitoring-provider-ororatech-partners-with-spire-to-launch-first-satellite-in-2021/" target="_blank">launched by Spire later this year.</a> Onboard machine learning processing of this imagery simplifies the downstream process.
14 more satellites are planned for launch by 2023, presumably once they&#8217;ve kicked the proverbial tires on the first one and come up with the inevitable improvements.
&#8220;In order to cover even more regions in the future and to be able to give warning earlier, we aim to launch our own specialized satellite constellation into orbit,&#8221; said CEO and co-founder Thomas Grübler in a press release. &#8220;We are therefore delighted to have renowned investors on board to support us with capital and technological know-how in implementing our plans.&#8221;
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Those renowned investors consist of Findus Venture and Ananda Impact Ventures, which led the round, followed by APEX Ventures, BayernKapital, Clemens Kaiser, SpaceTec Capital and Ingo Baumann. The company was spun out of research done by the founders at TUM, which maintains an interest.
&#8220;It is absolutely remarkable what they have built up and achieved so far despite limited financial resources and we feel very proud that we are allowed to be part of this inspiring and ambitious NewSpace project,” APEX&#8217;s Wolfgang Neubert said, and indeed it&#8217;s impressive to have a leading space-based data service with little cash (it raised an undisclosed seed about a year ago) and no satellites.
It&#8217;s not the only company doing infrared imagery of the Earth&#8217;s surface; <a href="https://www.flyingeze.com/news/satellite-vus-5m-seed-round-will-fuel-the-launch-of-its-thermal-imaging-satellites" target="_blank">SatelliteVu recently raised money</a> to launch its own, much smaller constellation, though it&#8217;s focused on monitoring cities and other high-interest areas, not the vast expanse of forests. And ConstellR is aimed (literally) at the farming world, monitoring fields for precision crop management.
With money in its pocket Orora can expand and start providing its improved detection services, though sadly, it likely won&#8217;t be upgrading before wildfire season hits the northern hemisphere this year.

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Alberta Premier Jason Kenney is tying part of the province&#8217;s &#8220;Open For Summer&#8221; plan to the number of people who roll up their sleeves and receive a COVID-19 vaccine in the coming weeks.
		
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&#8220;You can do your part to speed up the full reopening by getting vaccinated as soon as possible,&#8221; Kenney said Wednesday, as he announced the province&#8217;s three-step plan for reopening the economy.
<blockquote>&#8220;Get vaccinated as quick as you can.&#8221;</blockquote>
However, many Albertans continue to have questions and concerns about COVID-19 vaccines and if it&#8217;s safe for them to take the jab.
Global News has received a number of inquiries from viewers and readers on the topic, and we posed a few of them to two infectious disease experts from the University of Calgary (U of C) Cumming School of Medicine.
Q: I got my AstraZeneca (vaccine). A week after the shot I got an allergic reaction… I don’t want go through this again by taking my second dose. What does one do if you cannot take any other vaccines and are only stuck with one?
Anyone who experienced an allergic reaction to a COVID-19 vaccine should consult their family doctor before receiving their second dose, according to Dr. Christopher Mody, the U of C department head for microbiology immunology and infectious diseases.
&#8220;These kinds of reactions are very nuanced,&#8221; Mody said in response to the question.
<blockquote>&#8220;Do allergic reactions occur to the vaccine? The answer is yes. Most of those are based on the preservative that&#8217;s used.&#8221;</blockquote>
Mody explained that vaccines often use a compound called polyethylene glycol to preserve the shot, which can cause an allergic reaction.
&#8220;People that have a reaction to a COVID-19 vaccine will have a history of allergic reactions to other vaccines,&#8221; he said.
As of May 28, 404 adverse events have been reported to Alberta Health following vaccination, including 98 allergic reactions.
		
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Q: Why it is safe to get vaccinated when I already have COVID-19 antibodies? What is it that vaccination gives me that having had COVID-19 did not give me?
When a person recovers from COVID-19, their natural immunity from the virus doesn&#8217;t last as long as protection from a vaccine, according to U of C infectious disease researcher Dr. Craig Jenne.
&#8220;You&#8217;ll have some protection right away, but that will fade faster than if you were vaccinated,&#8221; Jenne said in response to the question.
<blockquote>&#8220;We could have a scenario where you think you&#8217;re protected and in a matter of four or five months, that protection drops.&#8221;</blockquote>
Mody added that those who get vaccinated after being infected have a much greater antibody response compared to those who never had COVID-19.
&#8220;The antibody response is almost 10 times what it would be if you&#8217;d never had COVID and got your first dose of vaccine&#8230; It&#8217;s a smoking response.&#8221;
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Vaccines also appear to provide much better protection against COVID-19 variants, according to Jenne. He said those who recover from the virus are likely only protected against the version they were infected with.
		
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Q: Is there any information about what impact this vaccine might have on fertility? What advice should a parent give to a youngster if asked this question?
Concerns over the COVID-19 vaccine&#8217;s impact on fertility is only &#8220;theoretical&#8221; at this point, explained Mody. He said he knows of no information &#8220;where somebody has taken a group of people that received the vaccine and said that their fertility is impaired compared to another group.&#8221;
&#8220;One of the things that we&#8217;re watching closely for is whether or not any of the antibodies that are produced in response to the spike protein cross-react with any other human antibody. We would have expected that would start to emerge very quickly afterwards,&#8221; Mody said.
<blockquote>&#8220;It&#8217;s something that we&#8217;re looking for really closely, [but] no evidence yet.&#8221;</blockquote>
Jenne added that some people who were vaccinated in the United Kingdom during clinical trials got pregnant after receiving their jabs.
&#8220;The other piece though, is all of these vaccine components we&#8217;ve actually studied for years and years,&#8221; said Jenne.
&#8220;We actually know the mechanics of these vaccines quite well and there&#8217;s absolutely no signal there that would suggest this could have any impact in the future on things such as fertility.&#8221;
If you have questions about COVID-19 or any other news story, feel free to email yourquestionscalgary@globalnews.ca
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As AI has grown from a menagerie of research projects to include a handful of titanic, industry-powering models like GPT-3, there is a need for the sector to evolve — or so thinks Dario Amodei, former VP of research at OpenAI, who struck out on his own to create a new company a few months ago. <a href="https://www.anthropic.com/" target="_blank">Anthropic</a>, as it&#8217;s called, was founded with his sister Daniela and its goal is to create &#8220;large-scale AI systems that are steerable, interpretable, and robust.&#8221;
The challenge the siblings Amodei are tackling is simply that these AI models, while incredibly powerful, are not well understood. GPT-3, which they worked on, is an astonishingly versatile language system that can produce extremely convincing text in practically any style, and on any topic.

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But say you had it generate rhyming couplets with Shakespeare and Pope as examples. How does it do it? What is it &#8220;thinking&#8221;? What knob would you tweak, what dial would you turn, to make it more melancholy, less romantic, or limit its diction and lexicon in specific ways? Certainly there are parameters to change here and there, but really no one knows exactly how this extremely convincing language sausage is being made.
It&#8217;s one thing to not know when an AI model is generating poetry, quite another when the model is watching a department store for suspicious behavior, or fetching legal precedents for a judge about to pass down a sentence. Today the general rule is: the more powerful the system, the harder it is to explain its actions. That&#8217;s not exactly a good trend.
&#8220;Large, general systems of today can have significant benefits, but can also be unpredictable, unreliable, and opaque: our goal is to make progress on these issues,&#8221; reads the company&#8217;s self-description. &#8220;For now, we’re primarily focused on research towards these goals; down the road, we foresee many opportunities for our work to create value commercially and for public benefit.&#8221;

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Excited to announce what we’ve been working on this year &#8211; <a href="https://twitter.com/AnthropicAI?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank">@AnthropicAI</a>, an AI safety and research company. If you’d like to help us combine safety research with scaling ML models while thinking about societal impacts, check out our careers page <a href="https://t.co/TVHA0t7VLc" target="_blank">https://t.co/TVHA0t7VLc</a>
&mdash; Daniela Amodei (@DanielaAmodei) <a href="https://twitter.com/DanielaAmodei/status/1398306463945158656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank">May 28, 2021</a></blockquote>

The goal seems to be to integrate safety principles into the existing priority system of AI development that generally favors efficiency and power. Like any other industry, it&#8217;s easier and more effective to incorporate something from the beginning than to bolt it on at the end. Attempting to make some of the biggest models out there able to be picked apart and understood may be more work than building them in the first place. Anthropic seems to be starting fresh.
&#8220;Anthropic’s goal is to make the fundamental research advances that will let us build more capable, general, and reliable AI systems, then deploy these systems in a way that benefits people,&#8221; said Dario Amodei, CEO of the new venture, in a short post announcing the company and its $124 million in funding.
That funding, by the way, is as star-studded as you might expect. It was led by Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn, and included James McClave, Dustin Moskovitz, Eric Schmidt, and the Center for Emerging Risk Research, among others.
The company is a public benefit corporation, and the plan for now, as the limited information on the site suggests, is to remain heads-down on researching these fundamental questions of how to make large models more tractable and interpretable. We can expect more information later this year perhaps as the mission and team coalesces and initial results pan out.
The name, incidentally, seems to derive from the &#8220;Anthropic principle,&#8221; the notion that intelligent life is possible in the universe because&#8230; well, we&#8217;re here. Perhaps the idea is that intelligence is inevitable under the right conditions, and the company wants to create those conditions.

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Oxford University is launching an effort to bring together academic, industry and government experts from around the world to use the lessons learned from <a href="https://globalnews.ca/tag/covid/">COVID-19</a> in the fight against future pandemics.
The Pandemic Sciences Centre will unite Oxford researchers in disciplines ranging from immunology and public health to computing and social sciences in an effort to improve the rapid identification of and response to emerging threats, the university said in a statement released Friday.
		
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The center will seek to form partnerships with experts around Britain and in other countries, in hope of avoiding the disjointed policies and international competition that slowed the response to COVID-19.
&#8220;The reality is this was a bad pandemic, but it was nowhere near as bad as it could have been,&#8221; John Bell, the Regius professor of medicine at Oxford University, told the Associated Press. &#8220;And I think the imperative to get ourselves better organized for a whole range of potential pandemics is now going to be apparent to everybody.&#8221;
Oxford scientists, who have been studying global infectious diseases for decades, were at the forefront of developing the COVID-19 vaccine that is being manufactured by AstraZeneca, the second to win authorization for widespread use around the world. They also were behind research that showed that a cheap, widely available steroid could reduce deaths by up to one-third in severely ill patients, and were instrumental in setting up the Lighthouse Labs used to ramp up Britain&#8217;s coronavirus testing capacity.
Oxford hopes to raise 500 million pounds ($710 million) from philanthropists, industry and governments over the next few months to fund the center.
		
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&#8220;We&#8217;ve done a lot of the heavy lifting in the pandemic,&#8221; Bell said. &#8220;And I think globally we&#8217;re probably some steps ahead of other universities in America and Europe and so on, in terms of what we&#8217;ve contributed.&#8221;
Peter Horby, a professor of emerging infectious diseases at Oxford and the center&#8217;s inaugural director, said the pandemic has shown that an alliance of science, the public sector and industry can create spectacular advances.
&#8220;But it should not take a pandemic to make this happen,&#8221; he said in the statement. &#8220;This level of innovation and multi-sectoral collaboration must be applied, day in and day out, to prevent another catastrophe like Covid-19.&#8221;

The center will seek to form partnerships with experts around Britain and in other countries to create a unified pandemic response.

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