Retired after 35 years in IT. Arthritis and a long wait for a hip replacement (36 weeks) led to a retirement project on NHS performance data.
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Latest threads on NHS performance data for all four UK countries:
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George Donald @gmdonald.bsky.social retweeted
There is no such thing as a "civil offence". Schillings are a disgrace.
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NHSE also points to high demand growth since spring
The public data shows for planned (electice) care, growth isn't particularly high, but it's still climbing & will definitely pile problems on problems it continues
A&E different - attends high in heatwave but admissions down
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Claims of huge costs to the UK from an EU SPS deal are pure invention, bear no resemblance to economics, have never been peer reviewed, aren't shared by industry, and should not be transmitted by anyone serious.
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my hot take on why Jensen had to go and what happens next (free post) garymarcus.substack.com/p/je…
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From a prevention of future deaths report - WTF is the NHS playing at? No paeds nursing experience and unable to carry out the appropriate examination.
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AI coding agents still need human cleanup in roughly three out of four tasks.
If only someone could have foreseen this!
@GaryMarcus Any thoughts on the same.
Source --> the-decoder.com/ai-coding-ag…
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Provider suspends 29 staff over snooping ift.tt/JgwX6EN
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Senator Blumenthal is a good man, who has served his country with honor.
Investigating him in order to intimidate him is complete bullshit.
(And also, as noted below, probably illegal.)
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All-hands meeting, three weeks before the IPO.
CEO: We are going to cure cancer, Alzheimer’s, heart disease and mental illness. In under a decade.
Room: applause
CEO: Step one. SWE-bench.
Room: nodding
CEO: Step two. The coding agent runs for 30 hours without stopping.
VP: Incredible for patients.
CEO: Step three. Terminal-Bench.
Intern: Sorry, quick question. Why don’t we talk to the people who have worked on these diseases for decades and ask them what they need?
CEO: Who are you?
Intern: The intern. I just think the bottleneck might be trials, or wet lab time, or patient data. Probably not how fast we merge pull requests.
CEO: Step four. The agent opens its own pull requests.
Room: applause
Intern: One oncologist could tell us in an hour if any of this is on the path.
CEO: Why are you still here?
Intern: Most Alzheimer’s drugs failed after they hit the target. They just didn’t help patients. A faster agent doesn’t fix that.
CEO: Can someone find out who this is?
Room: applause
CEO: Step five. A better coding agent.
Dario Amodei says cancer, Alzheimer’s, heart disease, and mental illness will be relics of the past in less than a decade, and that "we can create an age of miracles"
“You know, if today we look at things like cancer, Alzheimer’s, heart disease, mental illness, these will be relics of the past in, I think, less than a decade."
"And I believe that the company which gets the risks right will also be the company that has the license to operate that society trusts and society believes can build the benefits in the right way."
"I think if we do this right, we can create an age of miracles where humanity is able to solve problems that have eluded us for millennia."
"We have to make sure that all the risks, all the ways that things can go wrong with this technology, we very carefully address those risks as we bring the benefits, and as we have a viable business at the same time.”
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The number of patients in England being treated in corridors/unsuitable hospital settings rose to more than 110,000 in October. Up from around 99,000 the previous month. NHS England said October was the busiest month ever for A&E.
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Young disabled people shouldn’t have to trade financial security for better employment support. They need both.
Today’s Milburn reporting has me thinking about the young people we’ve spoken to through
@jrf_uk research.
thetimes.com/uk/politics/art…
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NHS England has awarded a contract worth almost £48 million to support the development of a national single patient record.
eu1.hubs.ly/H0zR2Rv0
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Everyone defending Jensen is trying to make it about the sex.
It’s not about the sex.
It’s about how he enabled and even lobbied for Chinese AI, about how he subverted US policy, and how he carelessly left himself vulnerable to both blackmail and espionage.
And it’s about how he utterly blew off the problems inherent appearance of conflict of interest, to the peril of his company, his country, and his industry.
He also left Nvidia open to endless litigation and investigation (which is why they may be forced to fire him despite his immense talents).
The fact that he also slept with an employee is just icing on the cake, in a way that further emphasizes his poor judgment, and that would only make the shareholder lawsuits worse.
Firing him will be a huge blow, but keeping him on is no longer tenable, either.
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Third subpostmaster conviction that was based on Capture system evidence referred to Court of Appeal #PostOfficeScandal computerweekly.com/news/3666…
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though sounds as if we may be seeing the last of any covid data publication
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Hospital beds occupied by covid patients - the North East and Yorkshire seems high?
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Chair of @EliLillyandCo joins the chorus of people who know something about biology who say that Dario is absolutely full of shit.
Many of those who have spoken out are lifetime medical researchers who are very AI positive.
But we all know that on the eve of the IPO Dario has grossly misled the public about what is actually near-term possible.
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Exclusive: The first regional coordination centre (RCC) using Palantir’s technology replaced an existing system that offered greater functionality, a HealthTech supplier has claimed.
eu1.hubs.ly/H0zQF6x0
