Bruce Nye, MSCE, RN
@thaumaturgern.bsky.social
Solutions Architect, Trauma RN, Advocate, Philosopher, Thaumaturge.
Reimagining Healthcare Operations through Operational Excellence and Intelligent Automation for patients, providers, and payors.
Be careful how you interpret the world, it *is* like that
Reimagining Healthcare Operations through Operational Excellence and Intelligent Automation for patients, providers, and payors.
Be careful how you interpret the world, it *is* like that
Just so happy I didn't miss my favorite friendly competition ❤️. Lord knows our food banks need lots of help this year!
December 2, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Just so happy I didn't miss my favorite friendly competition ❤️. Lord knows our food banks need lots of help this year!
The person is young and never knew about the fight we all led to care for, and find effective treatment, for AIDS. They grew up in a world of safe sex, and anti-retrovirals that work. It was an opportunity to teach that caring buys time and time gains progress. A good lesson for us all.
December 2, 2025 at 6:00 AM
The person is young and never knew about the fight we all led to care for, and find effective treatment, for AIDS. They grew up in a world of safe sex, and anti-retrovirals that work. It was an opportunity to teach that caring buys time and time gains progress. A good lesson for us all.
I talked with someone who asked about my cancer treatment. I reminded them that advances in controlling the disease have made the difference. My example was that in 1981 an HIV diagnoses was a death sentence, today with treatment those infected can and do lead normal, safe, and vibrant lives. /1
December 2, 2025 at 6:00 AM
I talked with someone who asked about my cancer treatment. I reminded them that advances in controlling the disease have made the difference. My example was that in 1981 an HIV diagnoses was a death sentence, today with treatment those infected can and do lead normal, safe, and vibrant lives. /1
I get the initial reaction, we saw it again with SARS-COV2. But why does that narrative stick so hard when the facts (and interventions) completely change the risk? All I can come up with is a connection to an inner bigotry, and that's hard to fight. It was then, and it still is today.
December 2, 2025 at 5:49 AM
I get the initial reaction, we saw it again with SARS-COV2. But why does that narrative stick so hard when the facts (and interventions) completely change the risk? All I can come up with is a connection to an inner bigotry, and that's hard to fight. It was then, and it still is today.
I remember my father, a surgeon, wanting to come with me to protest the LA County Nurses who were refusing to care for "AIDS patients".
I remember the incredible cruelty and disdain, the fear.
I remember the loss of so many friends and acquaintance.
#NeverAgain
I remember the incredible cruelty and disdain, the fear.
I remember the loss of so many friends and acquaintance.
#NeverAgain
December 2, 2025 at 5:32 AM
I remember my father, a surgeon, wanting to come with me to protest the LA County Nurses who were refusing to care for "AIDS patients".
I remember the incredible cruelty and disdain, the fear.
I remember the loss of so many friends and acquaintance.
#NeverAgain
I remember the incredible cruelty and disdain, the fear.
I remember the loss of so many friends and acquaintance.
#NeverAgain
After reading the OP article I could probably write the prompt for GPT-5 Thinking's model that would produce that prose.
Caught up in the belief that the LLM / GPTs have a finger on the pulse of today, editors pass this stuff through without question other than 'will it capture readers'.
We are here
Caught up in the belief that the LLM / GPTs have a finger on the pulse of today, editors pass this stuff through without question other than 'will it capture readers'.
We are here
November 11, 2025 at 2:46 PM
After reading the OP article I could probably write the prompt for GPT-5 Thinking's model that would produce that prose.
Caught up in the belief that the LLM / GPTs have a finger on the pulse of today, editors pass this stuff through without question other than 'will it capture readers'.
We are here
Caught up in the belief that the LLM / GPTs have a finger on the pulse of today, editors pass this stuff through without question other than 'will it capture readers'.
We are here
It's a known problem in LLM's that they will gravitate towards a statistical mean aligned with the prompt dialog. Building the counterfactual argument is expensive and often difficult to do (think pseudoscience vs fact filtering). This is a whole 'next generation' step to building interactive GPTs.
November 7, 2025 at 5:54 PM
It's a known problem in LLM's that they will gravitate towards a statistical mean aligned with the prompt dialog. Building the counterfactual argument is expensive and often difficult to do (think pseudoscience vs fact filtering). This is a whole 'next generation' step to building interactive GPTs.
Love you George, but it's "has" not "wants" full control. Wresting control out of their hands is going to require a full-court press - legislative, executive, and judicial.
October 27, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Love you George, but it's "has" not "wants" full control. Wresting control out of their hands is going to require a full-court press - legislative, executive, and judicial.
I and a colleague predicted it in 1987. We coined a term for it - InfoTox: When the amount of information available becomes toxic to the un/under-educated.
Worst part? It's a self-spreading contagion with no known cure.
Worst part? It's a self-spreading contagion with no known cure.
September 14, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I and a colleague predicted it in 1987. We coined a term for it - InfoTox: When the amount of information available becomes toxic to the un/under-educated.
Worst part? It's a self-spreading contagion with no known cure.
Worst part? It's a self-spreading contagion with no known cure.
Boiled down, it's a perceptron - a simple logic formula that, when assembled in a matrix and trained with bias and weights, produce probability of 0 or 1. Easy to train for patterns, differentiation, prediction. Matrix algebra that runs them needs city sized generators and HVAC. But they are fun!!!
September 14, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Boiled down, it's a perceptron - a simple logic formula that, when assembled in a matrix and trained with bias and weights, produce probability of 0 or 1. Easy to train for patterns, differentiation, prediction. Matrix algebra that runs them needs city sized generators and HVAC. But they are fun!!!
That we are "offloading our thinking" is the truest testament that we have forgotten the difference between "thinking" and "guessing".
In its present state AI is nothing more that a matrix statistical prediction engine.
In its present state AI is nothing more that a matrix statistical prediction engine.
September 13, 2025 at 11:32 PM
That we are "offloading our thinking" is the truest testament that we have forgotten the difference between "thinking" and "guessing".
In its present state AI is nothing more that a matrix statistical prediction engine.
In its present state AI is nothing more that a matrix statistical prediction engine.
Studying George Washington's Farewell Address... He was prescient in calling us to the better angels of our nature and delineating some of the clear consequences of failing to lean forward towards that, but falling back to the crudity of "human nature".
September 13, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Studying George Washington's Farewell Address... He was prescient in calling us to the better angels of our nature and delineating some of the clear consequences of failing to lean forward towards that, but falling back to the crudity of "human nature".
I have two dogs (Gizmo and Josie) and my big orange tabby Schrodinger. Everytime I pick up the velvet bags that hold their ashes I break. It's been over 7 years now from Josie, 6 for Gizmo, 6 for Schrodinger. Grief has its own time.
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September 13, 2025 at 2:45 AM
I have two dogs (Gizmo and Josie) and my big orange tabby Schrodinger. Everytime I pick up the velvet bags that hold their ashes I break. It's been over 7 years now from Josie, 6 for Gizmo, 6 for Schrodinger. Grief has its own time.
❤️❤️❤️
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Sorry but it has to be Eva and Ryan Gosling...
July 30, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Sorry but it has to be Eva and Ryan Gosling...
I'll endorse that as a KPI. It fits right in with "But we've already done that.", "We've always done it that way.", and "That's not what they're doing" (when presented proof that they **are** doing exactly that).
June 30, 2025 at 9:55 PM
I'll endorse that as a KPI. It fits right in with "But we've already done that.", "We've always done it that way.", and "That's not what they're doing" (when presented proof that they **are** doing exactly that).
One can always take the first case and find the scaling, if nothing else, through division and replication (that's how load balancers work). But the other is a lost cause, and it amazes me how often the sunk cost fallacy takes hold in those circumstances as they try to get it to work.
June 10, 2025 at 5:58 PM
One can always take the first case and find the scaling, if nothing else, through division and replication (that's how load balancers work). But the other is a lost cause, and it amazes me how often the sunk cost fallacy takes hold in those circumstances as they try to get it to work.
The opening lines from "We are the Champions" by Queen.
May 31, 2025 at 3:38 PM
The opening lines from "We are the Champions" by Queen.
In fact, some of those biological system complexities actually get in the way of "modern medicine" because they work so efficiently to solve the problem that we have to, in essence, turn them off in order to actually effect the cure lest they kill the patient. Dijkstra completely ignored biolology.
May 31, 2025 at 3:26 PM
In fact, some of those biological system complexities actually get in the way of "modern medicine" because they work so efficiently to solve the problem that we have to, in essence, turn them off in order to actually effect the cure lest they kill the patient. Dijkstra completely ignored biolology.
The art of rhetoric is buried now under layers of showmanship. There are days I honestly wish we could go back and unplug AOL from the 'internet' in September of '93. But that won't do now will it? We need to work harder to find ways to address and abate the information toxicity.
May 31, 2025 at 3:39 AM
The art of rhetoric is buried now under layers of showmanship. There are days I honestly wish we could go back and unplug AOL from the 'internet' in September of '93. But that won't do now will it? We need to work harder to find ways to address and abate the information toxicity.
Oh those old days before the Endless September. Getting your ass kicked soundly because you're a pretender was a real risk. It kept the peace in ways that seem to have been lost in today's world. I loved the usenet groups, approach humbly, ask questions, and learn from the best.
May 31, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Oh those old days before the Endless September. Getting your ass kicked soundly because you're a pretender was a real risk. It kept the peace in ways that seem to have been lost in today's world. I loved the usenet groups, approach humbly, ask questions, and learn from the best.
The "single step" processing methods above simply cannot do. That's why people of color look better in movies than they would ever look out-of-camera without a lot of special lighting (who want's to carry a 5-6 light setup on location for portraits?).
May 9, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The "single step" processing methods above simply cannot do. That's why people of color look better in movies than they would ever look out-of-camera without a lot of special lighting (who want's to carry a 5-6 light setup on location for portraits?).
The dynamic range of color film and the dye process (Either C41 or K-14) just does not compare to good old-fashioned B&W and post-processing at times. The color timer's job in day's of old (but they still exist today) was to deal with the changes in internegative for film to get that balance /1
May 9, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The dynamic range of color film and the dye process (Either C41 or K-14) just does not compare to good old-fashioned B&W and post-processing at times. The color timer's job in day's of old (but they still exist today) was to deal with the changes in internegative for film to get that balance /1
So right! The warm tone of Kodachrome made doing photos of non-paste people a challenge. Lighting had to be sharp and strong to bring out both features and tone. OTOH, for the really pasty-white folk they'd get a bit of color - unless you wanted to get the snow-white (Edgar Winter) look.
May 9, 2025 at 4:38 PM
So right! The warm tone of Kodachrome made doing photos of non-paste people a challenge. Lighting had to be sharp and strong to bring out both features and tone. OTOH, for the really pasty-white folk they'd get a bit of color - unless you wanted to get the snow-white (Edgar Winter) look.