This computer can predict when you will die – with 90pc accuracy
The problem is no one knows exactly how
17 March 2021 • 6:00am
When Covid-19 first hit Europe, doctors were uncertain about how this new and deadly disease affected patients and what they would need during treatment.
To give hospitals a glimpse of the future, a team of computer science researchers at the University of Copenhagen developed a machine that could predict how likely Covid patients were to die from the disease – with 90pc accuracy.
To create the algorithm driving the calculation, researchers input data from 4,000 Danish Covid patients. It included their age, sex, body mass index (BMI), lab tests, vital signs, prescriptions, consultations as well as their other conditions they had.
WOW UK S 21 Day Digital Festival Marking International Women s Day 2021 Starts Today
There will be over 30 ticketed talks, discussions and workshops featuring some of the world s most exciting performers, activists and voices.by BWW News Desk
WOW - Women of the World s UK March flagship Festival will, for the first time, take place online. Starting today, the festival celebrating women and girls, which is usually held at the Southbank Centre, will run for three weeks (1st - 21st March) with a line-up of over 30 ticketed talks, discussions and workshops featuring some of the world s most exciting performers, activists and voices.
With the support of WOW s global founding partner Bloomberg, alongside the UK, WOW Festivals and events will take place across the world in partnership with The WOW Foundation in regions including Australia, Bangladesh, Istanbul, Nepal, New York, Pakistan and Taiwan.
Movie Review – Eight for Silver (2021)
Starring Boyd Holbrook, Kelly Reilly, Alistair Petrie, Roxane Duran, and Áine Rose Daly.
SYNOPSIS:
In rural 19th-century France, a mysterious, possibly supernatural menace threatens a small village. John McBride, a pathologist, comes to town to investigate the danger – and exorcise some of his own demons in the process.
While the post-
Twilight era ushered in an abundance of inventive and left-field vampire films, werewolf cinema hasn’t ever really had the same reactionary, watershed moment. But Sean Ellis’ (
Metro Manilla, Anthropoid)
Eight for Silver does just enough tinkering with the prototypical lycanthrope formula to deliver an entertaining time, in spite of its excessive length and oft-plodding pace.
Sundance 2021: Genre films that stood out, from A Glitch in the Matrix to Prisoners of the Ghostland Starry studio projects and A-list auteurs aren t the lifeblood of a breakout festival like Sundance. Recent years have proven one of the best ways to break out at the festival is through genre filmmaking. Prahlad Srihari February 04, 2021 08:12:45 IST
As it s the first major film festival in the calendar, Sundance functions as a barometer of emerging trends and outliers. 2020 was a genre-busting production. It was a sci-fi movie that got all too real. It was a horror movie about isolation. Mostly, it was a disaster movie that even Roland Emmerich could not have imagined. The way the pandemic irrevocably reshaped our lives was reflected in many of the films in this year s line-up.
Amelia Crouch, Alistair Petrie and cast in Eight for Silver
Brooding and baleful, even if it loses bite after a strong opening.
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Boyd Holbrook plays a late 19th century pathologist investigating a violent curse laying waste to landowners and villagers in Sean Ellis reanimation of the werewolf legend.
Writer-director Sean Ellis revisits the werewolf legend as a fogbound descent into Victorian Gothic in
Eight for Silver. Led by Boyd Holbrook as a pathologist in the late 1800s who knows a thing or two about nightmarish curses, stalking lycanthropic beasts and family tragedy, the film is more suspenseful than scary, higher on sustained atmosphere than well-rounded characters. But it moves along at a stately pace and remains involving, driven by eerie ambient music, soupy chiaroscuro visuals and sporadic bursts of blood, gore and body horror. It won’t disturb Lon Chaney Jr. in his grave, but still offers meat for genre fans to chew on.