David Silver
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3629889 |
|---|---|
| NOME | David Silver |
| PRENOMES | David |
| SOBRENOME | Silver |
| ASSINATURA | SILVER D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Google DeepMind (United Kingdom) |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5197-2892 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 10 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1969 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Geographic Variation in Cesarean Sections in the United States
Analyzing data spanning three decades covering the near universe of births, we study county-level differences in Cesarean section (C-section) rates among first-time mothers of singleton births. Our research reveals persistent geographic variation in C-section rates for both low- and high-risk groups. Counties with elevated C-section rates consistently perform more C-sections across mothers at all levels of appropriateness for the procedure. These…
Regulated Revenues and Hospital Behavior
We study a 2008 policy reform in which Medicare revised its hospital payment system to better reflect patients’ severity of illness. We construct a simulated instrument that predicts a hospital’s policy-induced change in reimbursement using pre-reform patients and postreform rules. The reform led to large persistent changes in Medicare payment rates across hospitals. Hospitals that faced larger gains in Medicare reimbursement increased the volume…
Meaningful Work and the Purpose of the Firm
Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
Proteins are essential to life, and understanding their structure can facilitate a mechanistic understanding of their function. Through an enormous experimental effort 1–4 , the structures of around 100,000 unique proteins have been determined 5 , but this represents a small fraction of the billions of known protein sequences 6,7 . Structural coverage is bottlenecked by the months to years of painstaking effort required to determine a single prot…
Democratic Governance and the Ethics of Market Compliance
A general reinforcement learning algorithm that masters chess, shogi, and Go through self-play
One program to rule them all Computers can beat humans at increasingly complex games, including chess and Go. However, these programs are typically constructed for a particular game, exploiting its properties, such as the symmetries of the board on which it is played. Silver et al. developed a program called AlphaZero, which taught itself to play Go, chess, and shogi (a Japanese version of chess) (see the Editorial, and the Perspective by Campbel…
Mastering the game of Go without human knowledge
Mastering the game of Go with deep neural networks and tree search
Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning
It Does What It Says on the Tin!” Fostering Consumer Confidence in Assistive Technology (At)
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021
Defending the independence constraint
In an earlier paper I argued that Alvin Plantinga's defence of pure experiential theism (a theism epistemically based on religious experience) against the evidential problem of evil is inappropriately circular. Eric Snider rejects my argument claiming first that I do not get Plantinga's thought right. Second, he rejects a key principle my argument relies on, viz. the ‘independence constraint on neutralizers’. Finally, he offers an alternative to …
Internet/Cyberculture/ Digital Culture/New Media/ Fill-in-the-Blank Studies
Religious experience and the evidential argument from evil
This paper examines Alvin Plantinga's defence of theistic belief in the light of Paul Draper's formulation of the problem of evil. Draper argues (a) that the facts concerning the distribution of pain and pleasure in the world are better explained by a hypothesis which does not include the existence of God than by a hypothesis which does; and (b) that this provides an epistemic challenge to theists. Plantinga counters that a theist could accept (a…
Personal Identity and Psychological Continuity
In a recent article, Trenton Mericks argues that psychological continuity analyses (PCanalyses) of personal identity over time are incompatible with endurantism. We contend that if Merricks's argument is valid, a parallel argument establishes that PC-analyses of personal identity are incompatible with perdurantism; hence, the correct conclusion to draw is simply that such analyses are all necessarily false. However, we also show that there is goo…
No Safe Haven II
Interfacing American culture
Interfacing American Culture: The Perils and Potentials of Virtual Exhibitions David Silver (bio) Life History Manuscripts from the Folklore Project, WPA Federal Writers’ Project 1936–1940, located at http://lcweb2.loc.gov:8081/ammem/wpaintro/wpahome.html, summer 1995-present. American Memory Project, Library of Congress, exhibition designers. Remembering Nagasaki, located at http://netra.exploratorium.edu/nagasaki/, summer 1995-present. Sponsore…
History, Hype, and Hope
Internet/Cyberculture/ Digital Culture/New Media/ Fill-in-the-Blank Studies
Interfacing American culture
Interfacing American Culture: The Perils and Potentials of Virtual Exhibitions David Silver (bio) Life History Manuscripts from the Folklore Project, WPA Federal Writers’ Project 1936–1940, located at http://lcweb2.loc.gov:8081/ammem/wpaintro/wpahome.html, summer 1995-present. American Memory Project, Library of Congress, exhibition designers. Remembering Nagasaki, located at http://netra.exploratorium.edu/nagasaki/, summer 1995-present. Sponsore…
Personal Identity and Psychological Continuity
In a recent article, Trenton Mericks argues that psychological continuity analyses (PCanalyses) of personal identity over time are incompatible with endurantism. We contend that if Merricks's argument is valid, a parallel argument establishes that PC-analyses of personal identity are incompatible with perdurantism; hence, the correct conclusion to draw is simply that such analyses are all necessarily false. However, we also show that there is goo…
History, Hype, and Hope
Interfacing American culture
Interfacing American Culture: The Perils and Potentials of Virtual Exhibitions David Silver (bio) Life History Manuscripts from the Folklore Project, WPA Federal Writers’ Project 1936–1940, located at http://lcweb2.loc.gov:8081/ammem/wpaintro/wpahome.html, summer 1995-present. American Memory Project, Library of Congress, exhibition designers. Remembering Nagasaki, located at http://netra.exploratorium.edu/nagasaki/, summer 1995-present. Sponsore…
No Safe Haven II
Personal Identity and Psychological Continuity
In a recent article, Trenton Mericks argues that psychological continuity analyses (PCanalyses) of personal identity over time are incompatible with endurantism. We contend that if Merricks's argument is valid, a parallel argument establishes that PC-analyses of personal identity are incompatible with perdurantism; hence, the correct conclusion to draw is simply that such analyses are all necessarily false. However, we also show that there is goo…
Religious experience and the evidential argument from evil
This paper examines Alvin Plantinga's defence of theistic belief in the light of Paul Draper's formulation of the problem of evil. Draper argues (a) that the facts concerning the distribution of pain and pleasure in the world are better explained by a hypothesis which does not include the existence of God than by a hypothesis which does; and (b) that this provides an epistemic challenge to theists. Plantinga counters that a theist could accept (a…
Internet/Cyberculture/ Digital Culture/New Media/ Fill-in-the-Blank Studies
Defending the independence constraint
In an earlier paper I argued that Alvin Plantinga's defence of pure experiential theism (a theism epistemically based on religious experience) against the evidential problem of evil is inappropriately circular. Eric Snider rejects my argument claiming first that I do not get Plantinga's thought right. Second, he rejects a key principle my argument relies on, viz. the ‘independence constraint on neutralizers’. Finally, he offers an alternative to …
It Does What It Says on the Tin!” Fostering Consumer Confidence in Assistive Technology (At)
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021
Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning
Mastering the game of Go with deep neural networks and tree search
Mastering the game of Go without human knowledge
A general reinforcement learning algorithm that masters chess, shogi, and Go through self-play
One program to rule them all Computers can beat humans at increasingly complex games, including chess and Go. However, these programs are typically constructed for a particular game, exploiting its properties, such as the symmetries of the board on which it is played. Silver et al. developed a program called AlphaZero, which taught itself to play Go, chess, and shogi (a Japanese version of chess) (see the Editorial, and the Perspective by Campbel…
Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
Proteins are essential to life, and understanding their structure can facilitate a mechanistic understanding of their function. Through an enormous experimental effort 1–4 , the structures of around 100,000 unique proteins have been determined 5 , but this represents a small fraction of the billions of known protein sequences 6,7 . Structural coverage is bottlenecked by the months to years of painstaking effort required to determine a single prot…
Democratic Governance and the Ethics of Market Compliance
Meaningful Work and the Purpose of the Firm
Geographic Variation in Cesarean Sections in the United States
Analyzing data spanning three decades covering the near universe of births, we study county-level differences in Cesarean section (C-section) rates among first-time mothers of singleton births. Our research reveals persistent geographic variation in C-section rates for both low- and high-risk groups. Counties with elevated C-section rates consistently perform more C-sections across mothers at all levels of appropriateness for the procedure. These…
Regulated Revenues and Hospital Behavior
We study a 2008 policy reform in which Medicare revised its hospital payment system to better reflect patients’ severity of illness. We construct a simulated instrument that predicts a hospital’s policy-induced change in reimbursement using pre-reform patients and postreform rules. The reform led to large persistent changes in Medicare payment rates across hospitals. Hospitals that faced larger gains in Medicare reimbursement increased the volume…
Computer Science (9 obras) · Artificial Intelligence (5 obras) · Machine learning (5 obras) · Business (4 obras) · Psychology (4 obras) · Reinforcement learning (4 obras) · Sociology (4 obras) · Artificial Intelligence in Games (3 obras) · Artificial neural network (3 obras) · Economics (3 obras)