Another well-deserved jab from the Brits at The Economics over our nation’s kinda screwy approach to health. “Pharmaceutical firms and hospitals attract much of the public ire for the inflated costs. Much less attention is paid to a small number […]
There’s a perpetual shortage of doctors, which drives up compensation. The Economics blames the shortage on “a mismanaged training system that has artificially depressed the supply of medics.” Mismanaged implies its not intentional, but I’m not sure that’s accurate? This […]
“Passed every frame of a football video to gpt-4-vision-preview, and with some simple prompting asked to generate a narration.” ~ learn more
“Rather than the more traditional primary care that Forward offers at these clinics, the CarePod is an attempt to fully automate a check-up: A patient approaches the metallic, square 8×8 foot box, which is eight feet by eight feet, and […]
“Personally I built prototypes of all wearable AI form factors: pins, clips, watches, ear-pieces, necklaces, etc. Humane will have the following issues…” ~ learn more
I’ve always loved the idea of a venture studio, but for many years I remained a skeptic because I had seen very few successful examples. I’ve turned my skepticism into excitement in large part thanks to research that Max Pog […]
She’s the Cook County Treasurer. I hope this is real, though I’m still not sure. One problem is that July appears twice! But she does publish an annual calendar showcasing her collection of jackets — link to a story about […]
One is the Wicked Bible: “In a reprint of the King James Bible by royal printers Robert Barker and Martin Lucas, the word “not” was egregiously left out of the Seventh Commandment, “Thou shalt not commit adultery,” which was mistakenly […]
“The new study reveals a statistically significant reduction in HRV in response to grammatical violations. This reduction reflects the extent of the grammatical violations, suggesting that the more errors a person hears, the more regular their heartbeat becomes—a sign of […]
“The name is a reference to a story in the book The Pragmatic Programmer in which a programmer would carry around a rubber duck and debug their code by forcing themselves to explain it, line by line, to the duck.” ~ learn more