6 October 2023
This editorial is bonkers. It criticizes Kaiser for controlling medical costs … and tries to use the Kaiser experience as just another reason why ‘single-payer’ does not work.
Single-payer healthcare only works until the reality of rationing bites.
Have they tried to get a referral from United Healthcare lately? Traditional healthcare insurance rations to preserve profits. Business rations resources to make their numbers. Which principle is WSJ applying?
If you thought local news was dead, this opinion piece argues otherwise. Whether this evidence indicates a trend is debatable. However, local news is important for the future of our republic.
I had just finished reading a Bloomberg Headline Story noting that their economists were predicting 160,000 new Jobs in September – a slow down in jobs production. Just as I finished, the numbers were released – 336,000 new jobs.
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Scientific American article discusses the energy requirements for AI via an interview of Alex de Cries, a data scientist and Ph.D. candidate studying the energy costs of emerging technologies. He suggests that sustainability of AI should be included as a risk factor for AI developments. Data centers, whether or not AI is hosted by them,…
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Intel is not making delivery commitments for new supercomputer at Argonne. Energy Department has 10 companies engaged in a research center focused on quantum computing. Jesus pointed out that power corrupts – remember the temptations? OpEd written by former Liberty student notes how power is taught to be valued at Liberty, as she acknowledges: None of…
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Ok — there are lots of thoughts here … but 18 Jul 2011 – The CEO of GM talks about how, through the generosity of the American people, GM is being transformed — ”We are in the midst of transforming an iconic American company so 20 and 30 years from now (taxpayers) will look at…
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Washington Post article discusses number of school districts sending employees to Disney University to learn how to motivate staff. Other systems engage businesses in an advisory fashion. Bottom line – the fundamentals of sound management can work within an educational context – provided adjustments are made to fit the context.
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A story about how Lawrence Krauss found that explaining Richard Feynman’s life and work via Feynman’s papers was an elegant way to explain the quantum physics which Feynman advanced. Perhaps we should teach science by giving students the personal and historical context along with the science that was discovered. Hmmm… physics as history, literature, philosophy (back to natural…
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The next wave of high ed transformation (previous wave involved public defunding). Texas has some good ideas. The highlights of their proposal to improve performance (along with metrics). Metrics proposed seem to be fixed to task completion, goal attainment.
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Eric Schmidt gave the MacTaggart Lecture at the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival — full transcript here — some takeaways — Of course, while I’m optimistic that computer science and the Internet are forces for good, I’m not naive. As JFK put it, “I’m an idealist without illusions”. There are many challenges we’re still grappling…
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These two exercises look good — probably a great way to lose weight while writing… http://www.thepostgame.com/blog/training-day/201108/lose-fat-2-exercises
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Bean Bag 1, affectionately known as BB1, met an unfortunate demise this week. BB1 was murdered, see picture of suspect. BB1 and BB2 have attended both Emory and Georgia Tech. A friend of the arts, computer scientist, honorary member of ADPi, and a wanna be zombie.BB2, a constant companin is moribund over the loss. BB2…
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Scoble pr0vides an excellent interview with Victoria Bellotti. She manages PARC’s Socio-Technical and Interaction Research. A good description of what ethnographers do, and how their research helps in the arena of social-technical interaction.
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Given many public comments on the idea of hiring an administrator who wrote about Marx at KSU, I think this article from Salon raises good questions. And it has a great quote for the President of Columbia University in 1948: There will be no administrative suppression or distortion of any subject that merits a place…
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This NYT editorial by Krugman — notes dangers of chilling thought and speech in academia. See previous post on this topic.
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