J Med Internet Res 2023;25:e48659 Background: Large language model (LLM)–based artificial intelligence chatbots direct the power of large training data sets toward successive, related tasks as opposed to single-ask tasks, for which artificial intelligence already achieves impressive performance. The capacity of LLMs to assist in the full scope of iterative clinical reasoning via successive prompting,… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: August 2023
How to Extract Text From Images in Web Browsers
MakeUseOf: “Extracting text from images can be useful for various reasons. Text extraction is most useful for research purposes when an image includes some text-based info. It’s quicker and more convenient to extract required text from an image rather than manually noting it all down within a word processor. Many users utilize Windows or Mac… Continue Reading
8 Really Good Reasons to Try Mastodon
Grant Gulovsen, LinkedIn. “Mastodon is one of the many Twitter alternatives currently available (others you may have heard of include Threads and Bluesky). I have been using Mastodon for a little over six months and enjoy it immensely – in fact I enjoy it so much that I deleted my Twitter account in its entirety.… Continue Reading
DHS Community Leaders New Resources to Prepare for Extreme Temperature Events
“With roughly 130 million Americans across 22 states under heat alerts, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) are releasing new resources to help communities manage extreme heat, which is growing in intensity due to the climate crisis. Heat remains the number one weather-related cause of death in… Continue Reading
America Is Using Up Its Groundwater Like There’s No Tomorrow
“Overuse is draining and damaging aquifers nationwide, a New York Times data investigation revealed…Global warming has focused concern on land and sky as soaring temperatures intensify hurricanes, droughts and wildfires. But another climate crisis is unfolding, underfoot and out of view. Many of the aquifers that supply 90 percent of the nation’s water systems, and… Continue Reading
Generative AI and intellectual property
Benedict Evans: “If you put all the world’s knowledge into an AI model and use it to make something new, who owns that and who gets paid? This is a completely new problem that we’ve been arguing about for 500 years. OpenAI is no longer open about exactly what it uses, but even if it… Continue Reading
Mapping Diversity
“Mapping Diversity is a platform for discovering key facts about diversity and representation in street names across Europe, and to spark a debate about who is missing from our urban spaces. We looked at the names of 145,930 streets across 30 major European cities, located in 17 different countries. More than 90% of the streets… Continue Reading
The end of the Googleverse
The Verge: “For two decades, Google Search was the invisible force that determined the ebb and flow of online content. Now, for the first time, its cultural relevance is in question.Google officially went online later in 1998. It quickly became so inseparable from both the way we use the internet and, eventually, culture itself, that… Continue Reading
Air Quality—A Major Issue of Our Time
Ground Truths – The war on bad air from raging wildfires to respiratory viruses, inside and outside – “I’m Eric Topol and I’m really delighted to have with me in person, Professor Linsey Marr from Virginia Tech. And we’re going to be discussing air quality. and I’m going to go back to a remarkable op-ed… Continue Reading
The U.S. “Housing Recession”
CRS Insight – The U.S. “Housing Recession” August 21, 2023: “Economists often look to the housing market as an indicator of the health of the economy. As the COVID- 19 pandemic accelerated, the housing market was relatively strong, characterized by robust demand, rising prices, and increased construction. Since the latter half of 2021, spending on… Continue Reading
Tracking Federal Awards: USAspending.gov and Other Data Sources
CRS Report – Tracking Federal Awards: USAspending.gov and Other Data Sources, Updated August 23, 2023. USAspending.gov, available at https://www.USAspending.gov, is a government source for data on federal awards by state, congressional district (CD), county, city, and zip code. The awards data in USAspending.gov are provided by federal agencies and represent contracts, grants, loans, and other… Continue Reading
Sorry, But LinkedIn Is Cool Now
Bloomberg [read free link] – “The biggest social media platforms all have their niches. Twitter is for arguing with strangers. Instagram is for showing off the best of your 500 selfies. Facebook is for learning too much about an acquaintance from college. And LinkedIn is for updating the obligatory professional profile when you’re looking for… Continue Reading
