Psychiatric patient sues for cost of bringing up child

Bringing Up Turing's 'Child-Machine'

Turing wrote that the "guiding principle" of his investigation into the possibility of intelligent machinery was "The analogy [of machinery that might be made to show intelligent behavior] with the human brain." (Turing 1948) In his discussion of the investigations that Turing said were guided by this analogy, however, he employs a more farreaching analogy: he eventually expands the analogy fro...

Patient sues over CMPA's ability to "insure".

E64 CMAJ, March 1, 2016, 188(4) ©2016 8872147 Canada Inc. or its licensors A psychiatrist was found guilty of sexually abusing his patient and the patient was awarded $550 000 in damages, but a New Brunswick court ruled she’s not entitled to compensation from the Canadian Medical Protective Association (CMPA), which provides liability coverage to physicians. Now the patient is suing the New Bru...

Bringing up Children

Bringing Up IAC

Intelligent Adaptive Curiosity (IAC) is an attempt at motivation-based robot learning. IAC has very limited ability to predict and categorize time-dependent elements of its environment, however. In this paper, we attempt to integrate IAC’s strong points into a more capable learning algorithm. We implement this by adding a simple recurrent network as a memory module for the previously memory-les...

Are child passengers bringing up the rear? Evidence for differential improvements in injury risk between drivers and their child passengers.

Since nearly half of children fatally injured in automobile crashes were restrained, optimizing occupant protection systems for children is essential to reducing morbidity and mortality. Data from the Partners for Child Passenger Safety study were used to compare the differential injury risk between drivers and their child passengers in the same crash, with a focus on vehicle model year. A matc...