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Why artificial intelligence can’t fix content moderation | The Verge
“Here are some things that algorithms don’t do: they don’t form a union, they don’t agitate for better working conditions, they don’t leak stories to journalists and academics,” said UCLA’s Sarah Roberts. “So we have to be very critical about that notion…. If you talk to actual industry insiders who will speak candidly and who are actually working directly in this area, they will tell you that there is no time that they can envision taking humans entirely out of this loop. And I believe that to be true. If for no other reason than what I just described, we need human intelligence to train the machines right.”
Viral UCLA gymnast Katelyn Ohashi returns to competition with iconic coach by her side | USA Today
[Katelyn] Ohashi, who decided to go pro to participate in the event at Times Union Center in Albany, New York, after graduating college, wasn’t the only UCLA superstar drawn in by the competition. Recently retired head coach Valorie Kondos Field, known as “Miss Val” among the gymnastics community, is helping facilitate the production of the gymnastics events…. In addition to judging performance quality on every event, Field is choreographing “a flash mob type event for after the awards with all of the athletes involved.” She hopes to include three-time Olympic gold medalist Jackie Joyner-Kersee and five-time Olympic gold medalist Nadia Comaneci in that performance.
Can California crack down on deepfakes without violating the First Amendment? | CALmatters
The focus on video and audio specifically could put this year’s proposal on firmer legal ground, said Eugene Volokh, a law professor at UCLA and the founder of the Volokh Conspiracy, a law blog hosted by the libertarian magazine, Reason. Unlike a comment on climate change or the fiscal impact of tax legislation, where there is plenty of “dispute about what the actual truth is…with altered video or altered images at least the person who is originating it will tend to know what’s true and what’s false,” he said. (Also: KPCC-FM’s “AirTalk”)
Summer hailstorm buried the Mexican city of Guadalajara under ice | Smithsonian
Although photographs of the event’s aftermath testify to tall hail drifts throughout the city, these monoliths were created by urban flash flooding that sent ice flowing into streets and culverts, not purely through accumulated ice dropped during the storm, as climate scientist Daniel Swain of the University of California Los Angeles explains on Twitter.
The Manor in Holmby Hills sets an L.A. County price record at $119.75 million | Los Angeles Times
UCLA real estate professor Paul Habibi said the Manor sale is a good sign for developers seeking massive sums for their estates because of the precedent it sets. “If $120 million is the new benchmark, that makes it more plausible to sell a home for $75 million or $100 million,” he said. Habibi emphasized caution, however, noting that while market conditions are ripe for such a transaction, buyers willing to drop nine figures on a house aren’t exactly dependent on the whims of the market.
Trump immigration proposal may mean sick kids lose health benefits | Reuters
Complicating matters, the proposed rule changes do not directly affect eligibility for Medicaid, SNAP (food stamps), or housing assistance, so the rules wouldn’t remove children from public benefits programs, said Steven Wallace, associate director of the Center for Health Policy Research at the University of California Los Angeles.
Kamala Harris rode the buses that integrated Berkeley schools | San Francisco Chronicle
Meanwhile, schools have become more segregated. A report in May by the UCLA Civil Rights Project found that the number of “intensely segregated” schools — those with nonwhite enrollment of more than 90% — more than tripled from 1988 to 2016, to 18.2% of the nation’s total.
Metro’s plan for bus-only lanes is L.A.’s latest existential battleground | LAist
According to Juan Matute, director of UCLA’s Institute of Transportation Studies, the freedom that driving yourself promises is an illusion, because when everyone opts for that autonomy and convenience, it just means more cars on the road — and more of that crippling traffic. That’s the existential debate at the heart of public transit projects like this, Matute said, in which L.A. motorists, who regional mobility has historically revolved around, would be losing ground — literally — and giving up their priority to the humble bus.
When your school is a health center. How clinics offer lifeline for uninsured kids | Sacramento Bee
Roughly 300,000 California children are anticipated to be uninsured next year despite being eligible for Medi-Cal benefits, according to the latest projections by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and the UC Berkeley Labor Center — although new state health care legislation is expected to lower that number. Experts say myriad reasons, both old and new, are to blame for the fact so many children are not enrolled, but school outreach helps ensure that access is still guaranteed.
The looming health crisis for migrant children | Washington Post Opinion
(Commentary co-written by UCLA’s Jennifer Silvers) Supporters of harsh immigration policies point to the short-term nature of detention as a partial defense, but the scientific evidence suggests exposure to a single brief stressful life event in childhood can produce lasting consequences. Children living in New York City had elevated rates of mental illness for at least six months after the 9/11 attacks, relative to levels before Sept. 11, 2001.
Can you forget things on purpose? | Gizmodo
“We can’t voluntarily forget in the sense of outright erasure. But in another very realistic sense, we are capable of voluntary forgetting, and it can happen pretty automatically…. It’s not an erasure: the way memory works, forgetting in particular, is that things become inaccessible, but they’re not gone. If they’re presented again, they can usually be recognized; they can be relearned,” said UCLA’s Robert A. Bjork.
What is the 16:8 diet and can it help you lose weight? | Women’s Health
“The 16:8 diet is where you eat for about eight hours of the day and then ‘fast’ for the rest of the day,” explains Dana Hunnes, PhD, RD, a senior dietitian at Ronald Reagan-UCLA Medical Center. Yep, that’s a full 16 hours of no snacking or grazing whatsoever…. “Recent studies indicate that you might lose weight on this diet because when you fast, you are burning more fat for energy than you are carbohydrates,” she explains.
Premenstrual dysphoric disorder is more common than you’d think | Teen Vogue
“Feelings of worthlessness, anxiety and guilt can start an emotional cycle that is hard to break through. You can see how this can impact work productivity and increase work absenteeism, and family life and relationships can suffer similarly,” said Aparna Sridhar, M.D., a specialist in obstetrics and gynecology at UCLA Medical Center.
