Mapped: The 10 U.S. States With the Lowest Real GDP Growth
“Delaware witnessed the slowest growth in the country, with real GDP growth of -1.2% over the year as a sluggish finance and insurance sector dampened the state’s economy.”
“There are a few pretty big takeaways here. For one, the fact that agriculture takes up almost half of habitable land. Humankind has, over the past 1000 years, turned 120,000 square kilometers of wild habitat into farmland — an area equal to the USA 13 times over.
That, of course, makes agriculture the absolute number one cause of deforestation and our planet’s diminishing biodiversity.”
You can still see some trends, for example, people who use Ivory for iOS posted 49% of their images with alt text, compared to Mastodon's 17.8% for Android and 20% for iOS users.
But I am not sure if there is enough data to draw solid conclusions.
"From this graphic, we can see that Asia and Latin America emerge as the primary sources of immigration, collectively accounting for 81% of America’s 46.2 million immigrants."
"Researchers publish largest-ever dataset of neural connections
A cubic millimeter of brain tissue may not sound like much. But considering that that tiny square contains 57,000 cells, 230 millimeters of blood vessels, and 150 million synapses, all amounting to 1,400 terabytes of data, Harvard and Google researchers have just accomplished something stupendous."
"Infant mortality rates have plummeted over the last 50 years.
Globally, they’ve fallen by over two-thirds, from around 10% in 1974 to less than 3% today.
The study’s researchers estimate that 40% of this decline is due to vaccines."
Hannah Ritchie (2024) - “Vaccines have saved 150 million children over the last 50 years” Published online at OurWorldInData.org. Retrieved from: 'https://ourworldindata.org/vaccines-children-saved' [Online Resource]
🇨🇳 Was the global decline of extreme poverty only due to China?
"The large economic growth that lifted 800 million Chinese people out of extreme poverty since 1990 was a major contributor to the global decline in poverty. But the non-Chinese world also achieved a very large reduction."
Was the global decline of extreme poverty only due to China?
"The large economic growth that lifted 800 million Chinese people out of extreme poverty since 1990 was a major contributor to the global decline in poverty. But the non-Chinese world also achieved a very large reduction."
Visualizing Global Inflation Forecasts (2024-2026)
"After hitting a peak of 8.7% in 2022, global inflation is projected to fall to 5.9% in 2024, reflecting promising inflation trends amid resilient global growth."
45 nations just signed a #declaration to "commit to promote…#OpenScience principles & practices for #data management…, including the Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, & Reusability (#FAIR) principles & frameworks for ethical data governance, such as the Collective Benefit, Authority to Control, Responsibility, & Ethics (#CARE) principles,…& ensure the equitable access to scientific literature and research data from public funding." https://legalinstruments.oecd.org/en/instruments/OECD-LEGAL-0501
"the #scientific method can be enriched by using large #databases but not replaced by it. If #ecology aims to be a predictive science, we should focus more on a #mechanistic understanding than on describing correlations with vast amounts of #data"
"All tested LLMs performed poorly on medical code querying, often generating codes conveying imprecise or fabricated information. LLMs are not appropriate for use on medical coding tasks without additional research."