@trishgreenhalgh Dear Trisha, our department’s Safety officer is arguing that these masks would not provide additional benefit compared to surgical masks unless they are fit tested by a trained, qualified and experienced person, and this is not practical. Can you please advise if this is correct?
'UCU has called on university and college employers across the UK to 'raise their game' in the fight against Omicron by allowing vulnerable staff to work remotely and ensure higher quality face masks are freely available for all staff working in-person on campus.'
More than 1,000 faculty members at Univ of Michigan have vowed to teach online today, or to help those who do, defying an order from president Mark Schlissel. Faculty members say they don’t want to teach in person because of risks of getting COVID-19.
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While we wait to see the consequences of the last 6 months of the Western response to the pandemic, it is only fair to provide a reminder of the current record…
The second proceedings talk @foga2021 “Asymptotic Convergence Rates for Averaging Strategies” by Facebook AI Research and Paris Dauphine University is about to start
The first @foga2021 talk is about to start: “Non-local Optimization-Imposing Structure on Optimization Problems by Relaxation” by Nils Muller and Tobias Glasmachers
If you want to know why you should prefer worse individuals over better ones in evolutionary algorithms come to our Hot Off the Press talk at 11:10 CET @GeccoConf
This year with @pklehre we will cover the runtime analysis techniques for steady state EAs and generational EAs in two separate tutorials @GeccoConf, one on Saturday and the other on Sunday. We start with steady-state EAs today at 13:30 Lille time
My Government is systematically dismantling expertise in favour of ideology and loyalty. Just as one only had to look to Europe to see what was coming with COVID-19 in a few weeks, I fear we only have to look to the US to see what fruit this may start bearing in a few years.