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Better #healthcare tests, faster: Final installment in this series shows how technology can improve tests, help develop new tests, and allow more home testing wp.me/p4DF3H-9zDG

Some people's brains don't tell them when to stop eating - this doesn't solve #obesity, but it assuage guilt for those of us who struggle with #weightloss. The hormone to blame may have been found statnews.com/2023/06/12/obe…

Association for Computing Machinery's ACM U.S. Technology Policy Committee releases its "Principles for the development, deployment, and use of #generativeAI technologies" with a roster of contributors that includes leading computer scientists. The recommendations are pretty standard. bit.ly/43DKY7F

Most people have experienced some trouble with their #HealthInsurance, and when you're sick (which we all are sometimes) the problems increase. I wish the figures had been broken down more by race and gender. KFF Health News survey. kff.org/private-insura…

It's #Bloomsday2023, the day each year to honor James Joyce's Ulysses. I do so through quotes scattered through my web site. praxagora.com

Today being World #RefugeeDay, declared by the United Nations, I offer my poem Anticipación praxagora.com/poetry_publish…

#MachineLearning versus structured data - one of the themes I cover in my story Hardware Guy praxagora.com/fiction/hardwa…

#5G is an amazing technology. It widens the digital divide, and is so expensive that companies are tempted to cheat and then use their political clout to deny business to companies doing 5G right. And of course, the risk of airplane crashes. iotworldtoday.com/connectivity/a…

The Meaning of #IndependenceDay: A cute tale about intrepid high school students and #censorship, interweaved with light legal research bit.ly/aI3sNr

An immersive, social, virtual environment as I imagined it in 1997 in "The Bug in the Seven Modules" - today is Nathaniel Hawthorne's birthday, so I'm reposting praxagora.com/parody/bug7mod…

A truly historic computing milestone: #Apple's app store launched on this date in 2008. But why did Apple do it? Hardly anybody knows the real reason praxagora.com/backtraces/cha…

Open data platform simplifies payment estimates - how to cut the cost of "no surprise" billing healthcareittoday.com/?p=2302653

Short story "Financing Scram": a little mystery with blockchain at the center praxagora.com/fiction/financ…

"They built", written in honor of Sanjit Roy and the Barefoot College, just published on page 8 of Issue 10 of the Tiger Moth Review static1.squarespace.com/static/5d23544…

U.S. cuts to #publichealth funding are not mere cost savings, but reflect a political attack on society's responsibility for protecting us from harm cnn.com/2023/07/14/hea…

A large language model #AI (a version of GPT-4) to diagnose medical conditions. Unimpressive start. Generating plausible diagnoses is even easier than generating plausible chess moves. But to "win" at diagnosis, you need to know many, many human factors. bit.ly/3K5AZjS

The memo acknowledges the need to draw in "underserved communities"

My poem "Safe word" was just published in the most recent issue of The Waiting Room Journal (available for presale) nervousghostpress.org/books

Signs that Internet corporations are getting old: They're all adopting bland names that mean nothing. The Internet as a medium and technology, however, is still vibrant and will contribute a lot to our lives.

There is store of wisdom among us to found a new Jewish polity, grand, simple, just, like the old—a republic where there is equality of protection, an equality which shone like a star on the forehead of our ancient community. –George Eliot, 1876