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Does no one check things anymore

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

discussion today if companies make (any software but particularly AI) product so great it 'beats' doctors, why are doctors still the ones liable for when it goes wrong? especially as you ask doctors to trust black boxes either your product is that you can also take responsibility, or......

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

"The world of mathematics was shaken to its core today as IBM unveiled its new "DeepCalc" model, an advanced #AI system capable of beating top humans at adding, subtracting, dividing or multiplying numbers as long as 8 digits, compared against the world's best mathematicians with a slide-rule." 1/

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

Overheard during rounds "That patient hallucinates more than Chat GPT"

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

www.theguardian.com/wellness/ng-... I rather have a human note with errors and imperfections than the perfect predictive text

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

Now let’s play “what comments and thoughts does kasia have”

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

I gotta say I find a lot of AI discourse around higher ed very confusing. "if ChatGPT can write your essays is college even worth it?" did people think math teachers were assigning problem sets because *they* couldn't figure out the answers?

submitted 16 hours ago • 182 comments

Were in a heatwave and the heating is on, NHS in a nutshell

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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Four weddings and a Keir Starmer

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on the note of medical writing and documentation, whilst it is important to see it as an art and thinking/processing, it is important not to forget that the medicolegal-fear-driven need for documentation has gone through the roof. my worry is that the AI-fication of medical documentation 1/n

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

has anyone been to hinksey pool since they introduced the one hour slot booking system?

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Not sure how I can get the attention of @pattonoswalt.bsky.social but I need to talk to him about my idea for a sequel to Ratatouille in which Remy and his friends open up a tropical island bakery. It’ll be titled “Pie Rats of the Caribbean”

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Finde den Fehler.

submitted 1 day ago • 131 comments

If you see productivity as patients seen per hour sure When I spend a summer at a plastic bottle factory at the production line, that felt like a similar target

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

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there is no greater joy than cycling around. reminiscing on how in poland/germany growing up meant getting your own bike and cycling to primary school. not sure how many kids these days get this sort of freedom? why do we have cities build around the need to get everywhere by car

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Up and about in #oxford

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