Friday, June 27, 2014

A warning to family physicians doing educational modules - cultural competency isn't your worst option

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The American Board of Family Medicine  requires recertification every seven years. The standard modules are rigorous; perhaps absurdly so. T...
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Apple kills Aperture. Observations.

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In an alternate universe…. Today in a terse but clear posting on the Aperture web site Tim Cook apologized for the difficult decision to e...
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Friday, June 20, 2014

We are older than the universe

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There are seven billion humans alive now, each the star of the show. In a decade we will, collectively, gather 60-70 billion years of exper...
Friday, May 30, 2014

Don't lose the birthdate for your Fakebook account

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Yahoo! has been an excellent spam-mail service. I use my Yahoo email whenever I want to avoid spam — such as when I have to deal with Ticket...
Thursday, May 29, 2014

Beats and Hachette, Amazon and Apple

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The only way I can make sense of the Beats acquisition is to assume that Apple is responding to landscape changes like the end of broadcast ...
Saturday, May 24, 2014

Who killed American broadcast TV time-shifting -- and how did they do it?

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I’ve been gnawing on this story for a year or two, figuring that sooner or later a real journalist would solve the mystery for me. That hasn...
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Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Reconstructing our medical evidence base by algorithmic trust assignment across the medical literature

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Over the past two decades it has become apparent that the knowledge base for clinical medicine has been corrupted by publication bias, posit...
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Saturday, May 03, 2014

Thinking tools 2014 - holding steady but future unclear

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Revisiting  something I wrote 14 years ago  reminded me of the tools I use to think about the world. Once those tools were conversation, pap...
Friday, May 02, 2014

Google decay: Custom search engines

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If you're a longtime user of Google properties, it's not unusual to come across abandoned and neglected properties. Weed infested, b...
Tuesday, April 29, 2014

illumiNITE Reflective Wind Pants: a weirdly unique product

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Have you ever tried to buy high visibility wind pants? Something in bright orange for example? Good luck with that. Ninja black is the rule...
Saturday, April 26, 2014

Apple and healthcare -- what if Cook went for the ring?

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Everyone expects Apple to soon sell some personal monitoring device like the suspiciously defunct Nike Fuel Band. We remember that the “revo...

Salmon, Picketty, Corporate Persons, Eco-Econ, and why we shouldn't worry

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I haven’t read Picketty ’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century . I’ll skim it in the library some day, but I’m fine outsourcing that work to...
Saturday, April 19, 2014

The Einstellung effect: simple truths we cannot see.

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Epistemic closure (in political thought) . Confirmation bias  [6]. Availability heuristic  ( Kahneman System 1 ). Premature cognitive commit...
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Sunday, April 13, 2014

Beijing Genomics Institute - the second coming of eugenics

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Via Funny Times  [1], I came across allegations of a confident eugenics program (emphases mine): NEWS of the WEIRD - Current News Beijin...
Saturday, April 12, 2014

Exercising hard as an old person - one year of CrossFit

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Dave Foley, who is 67 to my 55, describes what it’s like to run hard as a senior citizen … Silent Sports: Getting along with getting old P...