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Interactive procedures in SAS

SAS software supports two kinds of procedures: interactive and non-interactive. Most SAS procedures are non-interactive. They begin with a PROC statement, include one or more additional statements, and end with a RUN statement. When SAS encounters the RUN statement, the procedure executes all statements, then exits. On the other hand, [...]

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Understand the PUT and INPUT functions in SAS

In SAS, the INPUT and PUT functions are powerful functions that enable you to convert data from character type to numeric type and vice versa. They work by applying SAS formats or informats to data. You cannot fully understand the INPUT and PUT functions without understanding formats and informats in [...]

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Run-time variations of the INPUT and PUT functions in SAS

The INPUT function and PUT function in SAS are used to apply informats and formats (respectively) to data. For both functions, you must know in advance which informat or format you want to apply. For brevity, let's consider only applying a format. To use the PUT function, you must know [...]

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Automate the creation of a range attribute map in SAS

In SAS, range attribute maps enable you to specify the range of values that determine the colors used for graphical elements. There are various examples that use the GTL to define a range attribute map, but fewer examples that show how to use a range attribute map with PROC SGPLOT. [...]

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Levy flight and vectorizing a simulation in SAS

A previous article shows a simulation of two different models of a foraging animal. The first model is a random walk, which assumes that the animal chooses a random direction, then takes a step that is distributed according to a Gaussian random variable. In the second model, the animal again [...]

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Introducing PROC SIMSYSTEM in SAS Viya

When the SAS Global Forum 2020 conference was cancelled by the global COVID-19 pandemic, I felt sorry for the customers and colleagues who had spent months preparing their presentations. One presentation I especially wanted to attend was by Bucky Ransdell and Randy Tobias: "Introducing PROC SIMSYSTEM for Systematic Nonnormal Simulation". [...]

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Canadian Visa Processing In India Gets A Boost: These 2 Indian Cities Will Be Able To Process More Visas

The process of getting a visa to Canada has now been made easier for Indians.  As per the latest news, the government of Canada has decided to add two Indian cities, Delhi and Chandigarh, under Canada’s Indo-Pacific strategy.  Canada To Strengthen Visa Infrastructure In Delhi And Chandigarh The Canadian government has opted to strengthen the […]




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‘This is punitive’: Kansas Senate committee considers poison pill wind energy bills

Senators heard three hours of testimony from anti-wind sources and just one hour from proponents of renewable energy




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The Disastrous Sin of Lying (Ephesians 4:25)

Check here each week to keep up with the latest from John MacArthur's pulpit at Grace Community Church.




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Mobilizing the Pacific Diaspora: A Key Component of Disaster Resilience

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Court turns down amnesty bid in COSAS 4 murders




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National disaster! Water issues halts Constitutional Court in-person hearings




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SIU investigates corruption allegations against SASRIA following July 2021 unrest




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Apartheid era cop to face music for Cosas Four




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El patrón de Dios para las esposas, 1ª Parte A

La enseñanza bíblica en profundidad de John MacArthur lleva la verdad transformadora de la Palabra de Dios a millones de personas cada día.




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El patrón de Dios para las esposas, 1ª Parte B

La enseñanza bíblica en profundidad de John MacArthur lleva la verdad transformadora de la Palabra de Dios a millones de personas cada día.




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El patrón de Dios para las esposas, 2ª Parte A

La enseñanza bíblica en profundidad de John MacArthur lleva la verdad transformadora de la Palabra de Dios a millones de personas cada día.




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El patrón de Dios para las esposas, 2ª Parte B

La enseñanza bíblica en profundidad de John MacArthur lleva la verdad transformadora de la Palabra de Dios a millones de personas cada día.




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Springfield Confidential: Dishing with Miss Sassy

A small incident in the mounting mayhem of the 2024 elections crystalized the state of the dark art of politics in these United States. In Springfield, Ohio, a small midwestern industrial city, a woman named Anna Kilgore noticed that her cat, Miss Sassy, had been missing for a few days. Kilgore notified the police that she […]




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From Assassination Survivor to Successful Chocolatier




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Experts Pool: Senior Disaster and Climate Risk Financing Specialist

ADB has a vacancy for the position of Experts Pool: Senior Disaster and Climate Risk Financing Specialist in the Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department. The deadline for submitting applications is on 11 January 2022.




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2000 disassembly guide

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Climate and Disaster Resilience Enhancement Program (Subprogram 1)

The proposed program will support the enhancement of Pakistan's resilience to disasters triggered by natural hazards and the impacts of climate change. Through an integrated approach, the program will support (i) strengthened institutional capacity for strategy, planning, and response; (ii) increased investment in disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate resilience; and (iii) enhanced disaster risk financing (DRF) using a risk-layered approach.




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If an asteroid were heading towards Earth, could you avert disaster?

From nuclear strikes to giant spikes, discover the systems in place to prevent a collision and test your decision-making to see if you could avoid a catastrophic impact




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Watch Philippines typhoon disaster film winner of Earth Photo 24 award

A documentary film about three young survivors of super-typhoon Odette, a tropical cyclone that hit the Philippines in 2021, wins the New Scientist Editors Award at Earth Photo 2024




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If an asteroid were heading towards Earth, could you avert disaster?

From nuclear strikes to giant spikes, discover the systems in place to prevent a collision and test your decision-making to see if you could avoid a catastrophic impact




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Preexisting Health Issues Add to Problems for Disaster Survivors

Title: Preexisting Health Issues Add to Problems for Disaster Survivors
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Arkansas Law Restricting Abortion Pills Remains on Hold

Title: Arkansas Law Restricting Abortion Pills Remains on Hold
Category: Health News
Created: 8/24/2018 12:00:00 AM
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Assassin's Creed Shadows will reboot Assassin's Creed's patchy modern-day story

Put your hand up if you'd forgotten that every Assassin's Creed game is, strictly speaking, set in the present day. I know I had. That's not the actual distant past you're parkouring through. That isn't actual Renaissance architecture you're clambering on. It's a holographic Animus simulation, conjured from ancestral memories flash-frozen within your DNA - convenient, inasmuch as it means that any inconsistencies are your DNA's fault, not Ubisoft's. If the ledge-mantling animations are glitchy, that's simply because you have bad genes.

We can both be forgiven for losing sight of Assassin's Creed's modern day narrative frame. Ubisoft themselves have downplayed it since the era of Desmond Miles, the watery Peter Parker figure who served as puppetmaster protagonist for AC games up to Assassin's Creed 3. In Assassin's Creed Shadows, however, they're planning to bring back the modern day setting in a big way, though details are scanty.

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What the new tax year means for your finances - from income to ISAs



Benefit increases, new investment opportunities, and several tax changes are due to come into effect in April.




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If an asteroid were heading towards Earth, could you avert disaster?

From nuclear strikes to giant spikes, discover the systems in place to prevent a collision and test your decision-making to see if you could avoid a catastrophic impact




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Trump to name former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee as ambassador to Israel

In the midst of the Israel-Hamas war, President-elect Donald Trump announced he will nominate Huckabee, a loyalist and former Republican governor, to serve in the key post as ambassador to Israel.




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'We basically lost everything': Bats force Sask. family to abandon house

Rachelle and Kelly Swan bought their house in Spiritwood two years ago. They gave up their keys to the bank voluntarily in May, closing the door on the bat-infested house.  



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Le comptable disparu de Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu aurait été assassiné

Un mois après la mystérieuse disparition d’un comptable sans histoire de Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, le corps de l’homme de 68 ans a été retrouvé.




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Le Canadien, un vrai désastre pour tout le Québec et la télé

Geoff Molson, Kent Hughes et Martin St-Louis avaient promis que le Canadien de Montréal serait dans le «mix» cette saison.




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Is AI Search a Medical Misinformation Disaster?



Last month when Google introduced its new AI search tool, called AI Overviews, the company seemed confident that it had tested the tool sufficiently, noting in the announcement that “people have already used AI Overviews billions of times through our experiment in Search Labs.” The tool doesn’t just return links to Web pages, as in a typical Google search, but returns an answer that it has generated based on various sources, which it links to below the answer. But immediately after the launch users began posting examples of extremely wrong answers, including a pizza recipe that included glue and the interesting fact that a dog has played in the NBA.

Renée DiResta has been tracking online misinformation for many years as the technical research manager at Stanford’s Internet Observatory.

While the pizza recipe is unlikely to convince anyone to squeeze on the Elmer’s, not all of AI Overview’s extremely wrong answers are so obvious—and some have the potential to be quite harmful. Renée DiResta has been tracking online misinformation for many years as the technical research manager at Stanford’s Internet Observatory and has a new book out about the online propagandists who “turn lies into reality.” She has studied the spread of medical misinformation via social media, so IEEE Spectrum spoke to her about whether AI search is likely to bring an onslaught of erroneous medical advice to unwary users.

I know you’ve been tracking disinformation on the Web for many years. Do you expect the introduction of AI-augmented search tools like Google’s AI Overviews to make the situation worse or better?

Renée DiResta: It’s a really interesting question. There are a couple of policies that Google has had in place for a long time that appear to be in tension with what’s coming out of AI-generated search. That’s made me feel like part of this is Google trying to keep up with where the market has gone. There’s been an incredible acceleration in the release of generative AI tools, and we are seeing Big Tech incumbents trying to make sure that they stay competitive. I think that’s one of the things that’s happening here.

We have long known that hallucinations are a thing that happens with large language models. That’s not new. It’s the deployment of them in a search capacity that I think has been rushed and ill-considered because people expect search engines to give them authoritative information. That’s the expectation you have on search, whereas you might not have that expectation on social media.

There are plenty of examples of comically poor results from AI search, things like how many rocks we should eat per day [a response that was drawn for an Onion article]. But I’m wondering if we should be worried about more serious medical misinformation. I came across one blog post about Google’s AI Overviews responses about stem-cell treatments. The problem there seemed to be that the AI search tool was sourcing its answers from disreputable clinics that were offering unproven treatments. Have you seen other examples of that kind of thing?

DiResta: I have. It’s returning information synthesized from the data that it’s trained on. The problem is that it does not seem to be adhering to the same standards that have long gone into how Google thinks about returning search results for health information. So what I mean by that is Google has, for upwards of 10 years at this point, had a search policy called Your Money or Your Life. Are you familiar with that?

I don’t think so.

DiResta: Your Money or Your Life acknowledges that for queries related to finance and health, Google has a responsibility to hold search results to a very high standard of care, and it’s paramount to get the information correct. People are coming to Google with sensitive questions and they’re looking for information to make materially impactful decisions about their lives. They’re not there for entertainment when they’re asking a question about how to respond to a new cancer diagnosis, for example, or what sort of retirement plan they should be subscribing to. So you don’t want content farms and random Reddit posts and garbage to be the results that are returned. You want to have reputable search results.

That framework of Your Money or Your Life has informed Google’s work on these high-stakes topics for quite some time. And that’s why I think it’s disturbing for people to see the AI-generated search results regurgitating clearly wrong health information from low-quality sites that perhaps happened to be in the training data.

So it seems like AI overviews is not following that same policy—or that’s what it appears like from the outside?

DiResta: That’s how it appears from the outside. I don’t know how they’re thinking about it internally. But those screenshots you’re seeing—a lot of these instances are being traced back to an isolated social media post or a clinic that’s disreputable but exists—are out there on the Internet. It’s not simply making things up. But it’s also not returning what we would consider to be a high-quality result in formulating its response.

I saw that Google responded to some of the problems with a blog post saying that it is aware of these poor results and it’s trying to make improvements. And I can read you the one bullet point that addressed health. It said, “For topics like news and health, we already have strong guardrails in place. In the case of health, we launched additional triggering refinements to enhance our quality protections.” Do you know what that means?

DiResta: That blog posts is an explanation that [AI Overviews] isn’t simply hallucinating—the fact that it’s pointing to URLs is supposed to be a guardrail because that enables the user to go and follow the result to its source. This is a good thing. They should be including those sources for transparency and so that outsiders can review them. However, it is also a fair bit of onus to put on the audience, given the trust that Google has built up over time by returning high-quality results in its health information search rankings.

I know one topic that you’ve tracked over the years has been disinformation about vaccine safety. Have you seen any evidence of that kind of disinformation making its way into AI search?

DiResta: I haven’t, though I imagine outside research teams are now testing results to see what appears. Vaccines have been so much a focus of the conversation around health misinformation for quite some time, I imagine that Google has had people looking specifically at that topic in internal reviews, whereas some of these other topics might be less in the forefront of the minds of the quality teams that are tasked with checking if there are bad results being returned.

What do you think Google’s next moves should be to prevent medical misinformation in AI search?

DiResta: Google has a perfectly good policy to pursue. Your Money or Your Life is a solid ethical guideline to incorporate into this manifestation of the future of search. So it’s not that I think there’s a new and novel ethical grounding that needs to happen. I think it’s more ensuring that the ethical grounding that exists remains foundational to the new AI search tools.




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Create Halloween images and learn SAS basics

Learn how to take simple x/y coordinates, and create map polygons shaped like holiday images, that can be plotted using SAS/Graph's PROC GMAP.




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Registration for SAS Global Forum 2015 is now open

Act now for the best deal on SAS Global Forum 2016 registration. You already know that SAS Global Forum will pay for itself in learning opportunities.




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SAS and Hadoop Technology: The Overview

Currently, more than 20 SAS products, solutions, and technology packages interact with Hadoop. Read this book to understand how to maximize your big data assets.




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File menu options in SAS Visual Analtyics Viewer

SAS admins need to know about these menu options that may not be available in SAS Visual Analytics Viewer.




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Be a SAS certified data scientist

This new program offers two immersive program levels, industry-recognized credentials, classroom instruction, around-the-clock access to SAS software and course materials, and more.




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Spatial Dependence, Nonlinear Panel Models, and More New Features in SAS/ETS 14.1

This paper highlights the many enhancements to SAS/ETS software and demonstrates how these features can help your organization increase revenue and enhance productivity.




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SAS/STAT Users Still Moving to the SAS 9.4 Platform?

 We introduced a Topics tab in the online documentation a few releases ago, and there are corresponding pages in our focus area that briefly describe the topic areas and the procedures that perform analyses for those areas.




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Using SAS Simulation Studio to Test and Validate SAS/OR Optimization Models

This paper begins with a look at both optimization modeling and discrete-event simulation modeling, and explores how they can most effectively work together to create additional analytic value. It then considers two examples of a combined optimization and simulation approach and discusses the resulting benefits.




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Tips and Strategies for Mixed Modeling with SAS/STAT Procedures

This paper provides recommendations for circumventing memory problems and reducing execution times for your mixed-modeling analyses, as well as showing the new HPMIXED procedure can be beneficial for certain situations, as with large sparse mixed models.




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Statistical Model Building for Large, Complex Data: Five New Directions in SAS/STAT Software

This paper provides a high-level tour of five modern approaches to model building that are available in recent releases of SAS/STAT.




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An Overview of ODS Statistical Graphics in SAS 9.4

 This paper presents the essential information that you need to get started with ODS Graphics in SAS 9.4.




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Last Call for SAS Global Forum Papers

You have just a few more days to submit your paper proposal for the 2017 SAS® Global Forum in Orlando on April 2–5. The call for papers ends and registration begins October 3.




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SAS Samples62362: Estimate and test differences, ratios, contrasts, or other functions of means in generalized linear models




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128579: security status of Benazir Bhutto when she was assasinated

It was made clear to the PPP representatives that certain dangers were inherent in the return of Bhutto to Karachi, mostly directed by elements from the northern areas.