A penguing puts a wing around its partner in a consoling way. A film crew are making a documentary in the distance.

It's okay Amy. We don't want to be in their stupid film anyway.

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.

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.

The Swapper Original Soundtrack, by Carlo Castellano 13 track album

Carlo Castellano's eerily strange soundtrack to The Swapper (which is also an excellent game).

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Freedland in the G seems to have grasped some of the problem. Note the NHS is talking about more "AI" to stop people talking to them

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.

All the USB cables longer than 10cm.

MonoLisa A font family designed for software developers. Font follows function.

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...

Can you and your loved ones answer these questions? 1. On a scale of 1 to 5, where do you fall on this continuum: 1 = Let me die without medical intervention; 5 = Don’t give up on me no matter what, try any proven and unproven intervention possible. 2. If there were a choice, would you prefer to die at home, or in a hospital? 3. Could a loved one correctly describe how you’d like to be treated in the case of a terminal illness? 4. Is there someone you trust whom you’ve appointed to advocate on your behalf when the time is near? 5. Have you completed any of the following: written a living will, appointed a health care power of attorney, or completed an advance directive? Engagewithgrace.org The One Slide Project

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...?

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...

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?

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It's so easy (and low cost) to implement verified handles under a domain, I'd actually wondered if we might also see third party handle services beyond just employees. It would be cool if professional bodies with solid identity processes started offering handles to members, for example.

Photograph of decongestant spray next to superglue. The containers look superficially quite similar.

Had a cold this week and spotted this pair on my desk. Good reminder of a design choice to watch out for in healthcare software. Sometimes controls with different jobs should look similar for familiarity and consistency, but other times they should look different for safety.

Andy, tell me a bit more about the shadow digital and data committee? How do you structure the conversation, and does its value flow into the main committee?

Would love to be included if you've space in the next batch, Tom.