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Rachel Thomas, PhD - “AI will cure cancer” misunderstands both AI and medicine
Rachel Thomas, PhD - “AI will cure cancer” misunderstands both AI and medicine
an AI researcher going back to school for immunology
AI is great at finding patterns in existing data. However, AI will not be able to solve this problem of missing and erroneous underlying data
Medical data is often limited by the categories of billing codes, by what doctors choose to note from a patient’s account
The many other factors that influence medical care, including the systematic disregard for patients’ knowledge of their own experiences, are often ignored in these discussions
·rachel.fast.ai·
Rachel Thomas, PhD - “AI will cure cancer” misunderstands both AI and medicine
RSS: The forgotten protocol that still matters​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
RSS: The forgotten protocol that still matters​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
I'm fully back on the RSS train and while I have a few feeds I just quickly swipe through the quality content ratio is very high.
"Sure, that sounds great for a media nerd or tech geek, but I'm a normal person. Is RSS really for me?" I would argue that the answer is an emphatic yes, perhaps now more than ever.
It's the Marie Kondo method of information consumption - only content that sparks joy, delivered in a way that itself sparks joy.
·joanwestenberg.com·
RSS: The forgotten protocol that still matters​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
Goodbye, Work Friends
Goodbye, Work Friends
I didn't realize Dr. Gay had a column! Nice final entry.
I want everyone to make a living wage and have excellent health care and the means to retire at a reasonable age. I want all of us to want this very simple thing for one another.
I wish we lived in a world where I could offer you frank, unfiltered professional advice, but I know we do not live in such a world.
·nytimes.com·
Goodbye, Work Friends
I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again — Ludicity
I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again — Ludicity
Pretty much spot on
spending half of the planet's engineering efforts to add chatbot support to every application under the sun when half of the industry hasn't worked out how to test database backups regularly
through the power of talking to each other like adults, we somehow solve problems
you're out here saying that the best way to remain competitive is to roll out experimental technology that is an order of magnitude more sophisticated than anything else your I.T department runs, which you have no experience hiring for
Todoist has a feature that allows you to convert filters on your tasks from natural language into their in-house filtering language
it did not end up being the crazy productivity booster that I thought it would be, because programming is designing and these tools aren't good enough (yet) to assist me with this seriously
·ludic.mataroa.blog·
I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again — Ludicity
Pluralistic: Microsoft pinky swears that THIS TIME they’ll make security a priority (14 Jun 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Pluralistic: Microsoft pinky swears that THIS TIME they’ll make security a priority (14 Jun 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Or, as Bruce Schneier puts it: "Anyone can design a security system that you yourself can't think of a way of breaking. That doesn't mean it works, it just means that it works against people stupider than you."
the Solarwinds attack relied on defects in the SAML authentication system that Microsoft's own senior security staff had identified and repeatedly warned management about
·pluralistic.net·
Pluralistic: Microsoft pinky swears that THIS TIME they’ll make security a priority (14 Jun 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow