Arushi

We have just updated our long-term data on life expectancy around the world.

👇 The data by continent shows that life expectancy has more than doubled in every world region.

(Here is all our work on life expectancy: ourworldindata.org/life-expectancy)

Chart showing estimates of number of lives various vaccines have saved over 50 years

How many children’s lives has the measles vaccine saved in 50 years?

Around 90 million.

Important to remind ourselves that vaccines save lives

ourworldindata.org/data-insight... @ourworldindata.org

The average Nobel laureate grew up in an 87–90th percentile household.

Access to opportunity doubled from 1901–2023, but remains highly unequal.

Barriers are higher for women, but lower for Americans.

cepr.org/publications...

US airlines have transported passengers for more than two light-years since the last plane crash Sometimes, the most important news is when something isn’t happening.

Sometimes, the most important news is when something isn’t happening.

In my new @OurWorldInData article, I highlight that US airlines have transported passengers for more than two light-years since the last plane crash.
ourworldindata.org/us-airline-t...

A statistical approach to model evaluations A research paper from Anthropic on how to apply statistics to improve language model evaluations

www.anthropic.com/research/sta...

This is an excellent attempt (blog & paper) at bringing more statistical rigor to evaluation of ML models (this is specifically focused on LLM evals).

I feel like we need to have similar clear standards for many types of predictive models in biology. 1/

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Thanks, Srijit! 🌟