Mark White
@mjwhite.net
NHS clinical scientist and acute hospital CTO in London. Health tech architecture, medical imaging, software development. Christian, parent, guitarist. Views my own.
It'll really be more newsworthy if we ever start finding the converse surprising ("doctors made a diagnosis that AI missed!").
January 17, 2025 at 11:25 PM
It'll really be more newsworthy if we ever start finding the converse surprising ("doctors made a diagnosis that AI missed!").
My biggest cultural impact issue with Teams is that everybody defaults to DMs most people of the time, however hard you try with channels. It's really reduced open, multi-participant discussion compared to Slack.
January 9, 2025 at 7:05 PM
My biggest cultural impact issue with Teams is that everybody defaults to DMs most people of the time, however hard you try with channels. It's really reduced open, multi-participant discussion compared to Slack.
Chicken farmers do this with Eggcel.
January 7, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Chicken farmers do this with Eggcel.
Real NHS engineering would be distributing the bells then also building an network of microphones to recognise the bell sounds and trigger SMS alerts.
January 5, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Real NHS engineering would be distributing the bells then also building an network of microphones to recognise the bell sounds and trigger SMS alerts.
Carlo Castellano's eerily strange soundtrack to The Swapper (which is also an excellent game).
carlocastellano.bandcamp.com/album/the-sw...
carlocastellano.bandcamp.com/album/the-sw...
The Swapper Original Soundtrack, by Carlo Castellano
13 track album
carlocastellano.bandcamp.com
January 5, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Carlo Castellano's eerily strange soundtrack to The Swapper (which is also an excellent game).
carlocastellano.bandcamp.com/album/the-sw...
carlocastellano.bandcamp.com/album/the-sw...
A fun ChatGPT game is to find reasonable-sounding single prompt queries which get you plausible sounding but factually wrong answers from popular misconceptions in the training data.
It gives (subtly) wrong answers about how airplane wings work, for example.
It gives (subtly) wrong answers about how airplane wings work, for example.
January 3, 2025 at 9:28 PM
A fun ChatGPT game is to find reasonable-sounding single prompt queries which get you plausible sounding but factually wrong answers from popular misconceptions in the training data.
It gives (subtly) wrong answers about how airplane wings work, for example.
It gives (subtly) wrong answers about how airplane wings work, for example.
I feel like that's a bit hard on scientists. I could start calling myself a digitalist now though...?
Anyone with management responsibilities can also now be a humanist.
Anyone with management responsibilities can also now be a humanist.
December 29, 2024 at 6:06 PM
I feel like that's a bit hard on scientists. I could start calling myself a digitalist now though...?
Anyone with management responsibilities can also now be a humanist.
Anyone with management responsibilities can also now be a humanist.
Have tried asking them to join mainstream usage, but they say they've tried integrating, and it just doesn't make any difference.
December 28, 2024 at 6:07 PM
Have tried asking them to join mainstream usage, but they say they've tried integrating, and it just doesn't make any difference.
What if the next firmware update silently adds different assumptions? Would failing to say "tea, early grey, hot, in a cup, aperture upwards" produce a scalding hot puddle? I really want my replicator to have well-documented defaults.
December 21, 2024 at 10:22 AM
What if the next firmware update silently adds different assumptions? Would failing to say "tea, early grey, hot, in a cup, aperture upwards" produce a scalding hot puddle? I really want my replicator to have well-documented defaults.
I always wondered why he had to qualify it as "hot". Would the replicator default to "tea, earl grey, cold" if he didn't specify the temperature? That seems like some really risky UI design if so.
December 21, 2024 at 10:20 AM
I always wondered why he had to qualify it as "hot". Would the replicator default to "tea, earl grey, cold" if he didn't specify the temperature? That seems like some really risky UI design if so.
I also like that Scrubs *looks* like most of the hospitals I've worked in - pokey corridors, squeaky doors, entrance feels like a warehouse in a car park. Not entirely made of glass, fountains and indoor plants.
December 20, 2024 at 7:57 AM
I also like that Scrubs *looks* like most of the hospitals I've worked in - pokey corridors, squeaky doors, entrance feels like a warehouse in a car park. Not entirely made of glass, fountains and indoor plants.
There could be a whole untapped sphere of weirdly terrifying terminology here. Precision dentistry, anyone? Precision informatics?
December 14, 2024 at 3:09 PM
There could be a whole untapped sphere of weirdly terrifying terminology here. Precision dentistry, anyone? Precision informatics?
Even if the delivery conflicts were solved, I think contracted discoveries still tend not to conclude "no problem to solve". Your premise as a customer is usually that you think there is a problem to solve, and consultants might prefer not to pour cold water on their customer's bright ideas.
December 13, 2024 at 8:31 PM
Even if the delivery conflicts were solved, I think contracted discoveries still tend not to conclude "no problem to solve". Your premise as a customer is usually that you think there is a problem to solve, and consultants might prefer not to pour cold water on their customer's bright ideas.
Cashew Nut. Guess I'm providing an incompetent comedy foil for all the cool pilots. I'll probably eject by mistake while trying to turn on the radio or something.
December 8, 2024 at 8:40 PM
Cashew Nut. Guess I'm providing an incompetent comedy foil for all the cool pilots. I'll probably eject by mistake while trying to turn on the radio or something.
Curious about why those people to see both ends of the spectrum negatively: too specialist or too generalist.
Another perspective is these are just different skills. Somebody with unusual niche knowledge plus the ability to do big picture systems thinking can be awesome in a team.
Another perspective is these are just different skills. Somebody with unusual niche knowledge plus the ability to do big picture systems thinking can be awesome in a team.
December 5, 2024 at 10:48 PM
Curious about why those people to see both ends of the spectrum negatively: too specialist or too generalist.
Another perspective is these are just different skills. Somebody with unusual niche knowledge plus the ability to do big picture systems thinking can be awesome in a team.
Another perspective is these are just different skills. Somebody with unusual niche knowledge plus the ability to do big picture systems thinking can be awesome in a team.
All the USB cables longer than 10cm.
December 4, 2024 at 9:06 PM
All the USB cables longer than 10cm.
Obsidian looks even better with a decent monospaced font. I really like MonoLisa (www.monolisa.dev) for Markdown if you don't mind spending. But there's a whole other rabbit hole of fixed width typography to fall down if you're inclined... (www.programmingfonts.org).
MonoLisa
A font family designed for software developers. Font follows function.
www.monolisa.dev
November 30, 2024 at 10:51 PM
Obsidian looks even better with a decent monospaced font. I really like MonoLisa (www.monolisa.dev) for Markdown if you don't mind spending. But there's a whole other rabbit hole of fixed width typography to fall down if you're inclined... (www.programmingfonts.org).
I do like a paper book for travel: makes you choose carefully and commit! Plus it's the right size for putting my watch and glasses down on overnight when sleeping somewhere unfamiliar...
November 28, 2024 at 9:50 PM
I do like a paper book for travel: makes you choose carefully and commit! Plus it's the right size for putting my watch and glasses down on overnight when sleeping somewhere unfamiliar...
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Conversations about the end of life don't have to be tragic and sad. There can be laughter. There can be the relief of knowing that legal documents exist. Talk to your loved ones.
November 26, 2024 at 5:01 PM
Conversations about the end of life don't have to be tragic and sad. There can be laughter. There can be the relief of knowing that legal documents exist. Talk to your loved ones.
Sometime the act of reaching for an app/pen to jot down a reminder is enough to displace it from my brain!
My phone takes a screenshot if I press volume and power buttons together - so maybe if I press both my earlobes when I have an idea...?
My phone takes a screenshot if I press volume and power buttons together - so maybe if I press both my earlobes when I have an idea...?
November 22, 2024 at 9:48 AM
Sometime the act of reaching for an app/pen to jot down a reminder is enough to displace it from my brain!
My phone takes a screenshot if I press volume and power buttons together - so maybe if I press both my earlobes when I have an idea...?
My phone takes a screenshot if I press volume and power buttons together - so maybe if I press both my earlobes when I have an idea...?
I do wonder how long it'll take to automatically tune out synthetic-perfect writing! Perhaps patients will be delighted to get an authentic brusque one-liner with no punctuation from their doctor, instead of three friendly AI-drafted paragraphs...
November 20, 2024 at 1:08 PM
I do wonder how long it'll take to automatically tune out synthetic-perfect writing! Perhaps patients will be delighted to get an authentic brusque one-liner with no punctuation from their doctor, instead of three friendly AI-drafted paragraphs...
Agree - lots of people find it helpful to improve writing, which seems fair enough if it's not generating the content. Digital tools like that have been around for years, and in the end are kind of similar to asking a friend to proofread...
November 20, 2024 at 1:00 PM
Agree - lots of people find it helpful to improve writing, which seems fair enough if it's not generating the content. Digital tools like that have been around for years, and in the end are kind of similar to asking a friend to proofread...
Great thread.
I wonder if any styles of GenAI use in job applications might be positive rather than negative - i.e. amplify good candidates we'd otherwise miss, and which as recruiting managers we'd support?
I wonder if any styles of GenAI use in job applications might be positive rather than negative - i.e. amplify good candidates we'd otherwise miss, and which as recruiting managers we'd support?
November 20, 2024 at 8:12 AM
Great thread.
I wonder if any styles of GenAI use in job applications might be positive rather than negative - i.e. amplify good candidates we'd otherwise miss, and which as recruiting managers we'd support?
I wonder if any styles of GenAI use in job applications might be positive rather than negative - i.e. amplify good candidates we'd otherwise miss, and which as recruiting managers we'd support?