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Fighting Food Poisoning In Las Vegas With Machine Learning
aarondubrow writes: Computer science researchers from the University of Rochester developed an app for health departments that uses natural language processing and artificial intelligence to identify likely food poisoning hot spots. Las Vegas health officials recently used the app, called nEmesis, to improve the city's inspection protocols and found it was 63% more effective at identifying problematic venues than the current state of the art. The researchers estimate that if every inspection in Las Vegas became adaptive, it could prevent over 9,000 cases of foodborne illness and 557 hospitalizations annually. The team presented the results at the 30th Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence conference in February.
How dare they use complaints to find and shut down the business of hard working food poisoners!
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emesis /emsis/
noun technical
the action or process of vomiting.
Someone has a sense of humor at the University of Rochester!
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Do we really need an artificially intelligent app to tell us not to eat the comp'd seafood?
Next you'll be saying I should avoid the gas station sushi that I got free with a fill up!
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And why are so many ethnic restaurants located right next to animal clinics?
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I am not aware of any norovirus outbreak on a cruise ship that was tied to the food. Norovirus is spread by two groups of idiots: those who don't wash their hands after using the bathroom, and those who don't wash their hands prior to eating. You would not believe the number of people who not only pass by the hand sanitizer they offer at the entry to dining rooms, but also REFUSE to use it even when requested by a crew member.
Anti-bacterial hand sanitizers are not the way to go. You just get more resistant bacteria. And I believe it goes much deeper than just washing your hands. These ships are floating cesspools and fire hazards. Even the ventilation system is suspect.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Then it would be more friendly to leave out a bottle of gin
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Nice Philip J. Fry ref., but it was an interstellar truck stop...
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Contains NO triclosan or any known carcinogen. Type44Q must have heavy metal poisoning from prolonged exposure to his tinfoil hat.
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