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Alex Merwin
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Views my own. Helping early-stage health & bio companies innovate & scale at AWS. Sci-fi nerd doing loads with AI, who's also into climbing routes, photography, board games and single malts. Doing my best to raise a good kid along the way.
Christmas parties… here we go. Season is here!
November 28, 2024 at 8:30 AM
#tired!

Share something with me to cheer me up #bluesky
November 27, 2024 at 9:48 PM
AI isn’t just tech—it’s geopolitics. Nations will race for dominance unless verifiable restraints are set. Time to stop pretending it’s not a geopolitical issue.

More on this in The Age of AI: www.goodreads.com/book/show/56...

#AI #Geopolitics #TechPolicy #ArtificialIntelligence
November 20, 2024 at 4:24 PM
Any #ProductivityNerds out there into Getting Things Done by David Allen? The book changed my life 15 years ago when I was consumed by work; but even at that point it was super dated. Any key lessons still apply? For me; I still embrace a ‘processing’ mindset when triaging my inbox in the AM
November 20, 2024 at 4:16 PM
EUV lithography: shooting soft X-rays at molten tin droplets 50,000x/sec to etch transistors smaller than viruses. The tech that powers your iPhone didn’t just ‘happen’—it’s built on decades of public funding (think Apollo, Warp Speed). Gov’t drives innovation. Learn more: bit.ly/3Oj2Wq8
November 20, 2024 at 4:09 PM
#Americans > putting aside your political views, do you think the upcoming Trump presidency will be helpful or harmful for #DigitalHealth / #HealthTech founders working to deploy innovations in US health systems? Thinking from a regulatory / compliance perspective
November 20, 2024 at 11:39 AM
Reposted by Alex Merwin
Empowering patients to manage their health is key to easing the strain on the NHS. At Aide, we help people feel more confident in managing long-term conditions, improving outcomes for everyone. #SelfManagement #DigitalHealth

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
NHS ‘will be overwhelmed unless patients look after themselves’
The public must be motivated to take charge of their own health, a Labour adviser has said
www.thetimes.com
November 19, 2024 at 6:09 PM
"Life is long if you know how to use it." (Seneca, On the Shortness of Life)
goodreads.com/book/show/97412.On_the_Shortness_of_Life

#StoicWisdom #TimeManagement #IntentionalLiving #SenecaQuotes
November 19, 2024 at 7:43 AM
Reposted by Alex Merwin
In a study looking at the accuracy of medical diagnoses, doctors who were given ChatGPT-4 along with conventional resources did only slightly better than doctors who did not have access to the bot. And, to researchers’ surprise, ChatGPT alone outperformed the doctors
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/h...
ChatGPT Defeated Doctors at Diagnosing Illness
A small study found ChatGPT outdid human physicians when assessing medical case histories, even when those doctors were using a chatbot.
www.nytimes.com
November 18, 2024 at 5:30 PM
"The pressure remains all in one direction, toward doing more, because the only mistake clinicians seem to fear is doing too little."

—Atul Gawande, Being Mortal

#MedBluesky #Healthcare #BeingMortal #MedicalEthics

📚 www.goodreads.com/book/show/20...
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
In Being Mortal, author Atul Gawande tackles the hardes…
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20696006-being-mortal​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
November 18, 2024 at 9:40 AM
Early crocuses pushing through fallen leaves. Love how London blends seasons together, signs of life even in fall.

#London #LumixMFT #PanasonicLumix #Photography
November 18, 2024 at 8:28 AM
1920: Physics enters a golden decade, reshaping science for a century. Today, it is biology‘s turn. Tools like AlphaFold opened new frontiers, but the startups building on this foundation—transforming drug discovery, synthetic life, & beyond—reveal how early we still are. #TechBio #CompBio #SynBio
November 18, 2024 at 8:22 AM
Reposted by Alex Merwin
November 18, 2024 at 6:05 AM
Hey Bluesky; anyone know of feeds here / people to follow focused on…

#HealthAI
#MedScribes
#MedicalImaging
#ClinicalTrialsInnovation
#TechBio
#PharmaTech

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Great to meet you all!
November 16, 2024 at 12:30 PM