An interesting sidelight to that HuffPo article on obesity that was going round the other day. If an AI can predict obesity rates based on satellite imagery of the physical layout of neighbourhoods, that’s pretty good evidence that at least some of the problem is based on environmental factors rather than individual ones (which we knew, but it makes it clearer).

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