I’m taking a short trip so, on a whim, I’m using an iPad+keyboard as my ‘computer’. There is clearly a need to ‘get with the program’ and learn all of the proper tricks but I have to say, the overall experience is quite horrible.

Text editing using the trackpad is tedious, the browser often defaults to the ‘mobile site’, using Safari-in-Chrome sucks, and iPhone apps don’t use the full screen so feel very odd, and it just occasionally locks up?

It’s all survivable, I’ll learn to cope but… why?

PEOPLE OF THE AIRPLANE LISTEN TO ME

TOSS YOUR MASSIVE CARRY-ON BAG INTO THE FIRST OVERHEAD COMPARTMENT YOU SEE, REGARDLESS OF WHERE YOUR SEAT IS ACTUALLY LOCATED

YOUR BAG’S COMFORT IS PARAMOUNT, ALSO THERE IS NO WAY THIS STRATEGY COULD HAVE SECOND ORDER REPERCUSSIONS FOR ANYONE ELSE

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"The (mistaken) idea seems to be that any hypothesis—no matter how bigoted—can be safely postulated and tested because the ‘scientific method’ weeds out untruths and leave the truths stand. This, however, overlooks two important false assumptions: that hypotheses themselves are value neutral, and that we have unlimited resources to debunk misconceived ideas." By @Iris

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Nature published an article titled "Google AI has better bedside manner than human doctors — and makes better diagnoses"

The article's only value is as a case study on the relationship between AI hype, corporate interests, and the media (but I repeat myself). I did a thread on this one already, but here it is fleshed out as a full post for the record:

https://theluddite.org/#!post/google-medical-ai