Category: tech

05/09/2019

All that glitters in silicon San Francisco conducted its biennial point-in-time homelessness survey. The numbers are up sharply. Two observations:…

12/07/2019

Smombies everywhere My youngest daughter lived in South Korea for a while and I visited on a couple of occasions.…

10/07/2019

Software is eating.. Comparison of the accuracy of human readers versus machine-learning algorithms for pigmented skin lesion classification: an open,…

02/07/2019

The digital skin web On some Swedish trains, passengers carry their e-tickets in their hands—literally. About 3,000 Swedes have opted…

27/06/2019

On  ratio scales and the spirits of invention It is said that much of the foundations of 20th century physics…

12/06/2019

How the Nobel are fallen As John Hammerbacher, Facebook's first research scientist, remarked: "the best minds of my generation are…

12/06/2019

Surgeons? ”A lot of patients are still having open surgery when they should be getting minimal access surgery,” said Mr…

02/04/2019

A couple of articles from the two different domains of my professional life made me riff on some old memes.…

23/01/2019

News Feature: What are the limits of deep learning? | PNAS  In addition to its vulnerability to spoofing, for example,…

16/01/2019

Annual Review of the ‘business’ that is ed-tech  by Audrey Watters.