Seek to understand

Seek first to understand

A recent study suggests that doctors often diminish effective time with patients by talking about themselves in a manner that does not improve the patient visit and is sometimes disruptive to it. Good care requires hearing what the patient has to say, as the doctor cannot set proper goals for a visit without knowing the patient's agenda. Listening to the patient is the key both to good patient ...

attempt to understand good governance

good governance is an idea which has many advocates and opponents. from last years of 1980s this term became common. however, there is not any clear definition or description for good governance or even governance. though unanimity on its characteristics is invisible, it is possible to consider eight characteristics for god governance: participation, accountability, transparency, rule of law, r...

To understand deep learning we need to understand kernel learning

Generalization performance of classifiers in deep learning has recently become a subject of intense study. Deep models, which are typically heavily over-parametrized, tend to fit the training data exactly. Despite this overfitting, they perform well on test data, a phenomenon not yet fully understood. The first point of our paper is that strong performance of overfitted classifiers is not a uni...

Startups That Seek to “Disrupt” Get More Funding Than Those That Seek to “Build”

Maasai couples seek safer solutions to infertility.

Bull World Health Organ 2010;88:885–886 | doi:10.2471/BLT.10.031210 Infertility is a public health problem that affects all societies, not least traditional ones such as the Maasai of East Africa. In this Bulletin interview, Weiyuan Cui talks to Dr Yadira Roggeveen, a medical officer at Endulen Hospital in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in the United Republic of Tanzania. Maasai couples seek ...