peterdeppisch

peterdeppisch, 4 months ago to Health

How better and cheaper software could save millions of dollars while improving Canada’s #health-care system.

https://theconversation.com/how-better-and-cheaper-software-could-save-millions-of-dollars-while-improving-canadas-health-care-system-221494

"Billions of Canadian tax dollars have been funnelled to private companies to develop proprietary medical software. More tax dollars were then paid to the same companies to use the software to run our medical system. "
#Propriety #Software #Canada #Province #HealthCare #Waste

peterdeppisch, 4 months ago to ArtificialIntelligence

Two-faced AI language models learn to hide deception.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00189-3

"‘Sleeper agents’ seem benign during testing but behave differently once deployed. And methods to stop them aren’t working."
#ArtificialIntelligence #Deception therefore you can't trust #AI.

peterdeppisch, 4 months ago to MultipleSclerosis

Can #autoimmune diseases be cured? Scientists see hope at last.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00169-7

"After decades of frustration and failed attempts, scientists might finally be on the cusp of developing therapies to restore immune ‘tolerance’ in conditions such as diabetes, lupus and multiple sclerosis."
#Diabetes #Lupus #MultipleSclerosis

peterdeppisch, 4 months ago to ontario

Ontario’s universities face a looming crisis. ‘Efficiencies’ aren’t the answer.

https://www.tvo.org/article/ontarios-universities-face-a-looming-crisis-efficiencies-arent-the-answer

"OPINION: Nearly half of the province’s publicly funded universities are heading for the red. The Tories’ response has been wholly inadequate — and unsurprising."
#DougFord #Ontario #onpoli #Universities #Education #Funding

peterdeppisch, 5 months ago to ontario

We tells kids to reach out if they’re struggling. But what if there’s no help available?

https://www.tvo.org/article/we-tells-kids-to-reach-out-if-theyre-struggling-but-what-if-theres-no-help-available

"OPINION: In health care, there literally is not one area that could not use more money. But the issue of mental-health care for children strikes me as particularly important"
#Ontario #DougFord #HealthCare #Children #onpoli

peterdeppisch, 5 months ago to environment

Impacts for half of the world’s #mining areas are undocumented.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-04090-3

"As the race to extract minerals and metals for clean-energy technologies accelerates, researchers must take more steps to map and study mines globally."

#Mining #Environment #Habitat

peterdeppisch, 5 months ago to ontario

New year, same broken transit in Ontario’s two biggest cities.

https://www.tvo.org/article/new-year-same-broken-transit-in-ontarios-two-biggest-cities

"OPINION: Riders have been conditioned to expect mediocrity and accept worse. It’s unlikely that 2024 will be the year anything changes."
#DougFord #Ontario #onpoli #Government UGH

peterdeppisch, 5 months ago to DadBin

Vaccines reduce the risk of long #COVID in children.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-04032-z

"A study shows that US children who received mRNA COVID-19 vaccines have some protection against developing long-lasting symptoms of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2."

#Children #Vaccinations #Covid

peterdeppisch, 5 months ago to Gold

Hunger for #gold means the Amazon has reached 'tipping point' of mercury contamination from illegal mining.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/mercury-poisoning-illegal-gold-mining-amazon-1.7069496

"Illegal gold mining in the Amazon has intensified, with one expert calling it a ‘transnational crime’"

#Gold #Mercury #Amazon

peterdeppisch, 5 months ago to random

Cambridge #StreetVet a 'lifeline' to rough sleepers and their pets.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-67808077

"A charity is offering care and support to the four-legged friends of a city's rough sleeping community.

Volunteers with StreetVet provide medical check-ups, treatment and outreach care in Cambridge city centre every week."
#Pets #RoughSleepers

peterdeppisch, 5 months ago to random

#Cancer-fighting CAR-T cells could be made inside body with viral injection.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03969-5

"Scientists are devising ways to edit the genomes of immune cells without having to extract them from those being treated."

#Cancer #ImmuneCells

peterdeppisch, 5 months ago to Birds

The daredevil flight to save #rare #birds.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20231130-the-scientists-flying-with-rare-birds

"It was mid-August, and Barbara Steininger, an Austrian biologist, was sitting in a rattling ultralight aircraft, flying across southern Germany. To her far left she could see a second aircraft and in it her colleague, Helena Wehner, a German geographer. Between them, flying in a perfect V formation, were 35 bald ibises: large, black, striking-looking birds with long beaks and halo-like tufts of feathers."
#Ibises

peterdeppisch, 5 months ago to random

Doug Ford’s three Rs: Reverse, retreat, renege

https://www.tvo.org/article/doug-fords-three-rs-reverse-retreat-renege

"OPINION: Thanks to constant government backpedalling, the problems facing Ontario still look a lot like the problems that were facing it in January."
#DougFord #onpoli #Reverse #Retreat #Renege

jeffowski, 5 months ago to random

#unionize #nobillionaires

theaardvark, 5 months ago to uk

Hello #UK #ADHD peoples....
My GP has given me an Adult "ADHD Self-Report Scale (ASRS-v1.1) Symptom Checklist" as part of trying to get medication prescribed.
Some questions ask about social interactions, but my answers will be impacted by my ASC1 ( #Aspergers ) traits (Questions 15, 17 and 18 just seem like they would be too rude to do.)
Is that likely to impact my NHS diagnosis?
#ActuallyAutistic #Autism
@actuallyadhd
@actuallyautistic

peterdeppisch, 5 months ago to random

What are #FarmAnimals thinking?

https://www.science.org/content/article/not-dumb-creatures-livestock-surprise-scientists-their-complex-emotional-minds

"New research is revealing surprising complexity in the minds of goats, pigs, and other livestock."
#ComplexMinds

peterdeppisch, 5 months ago to random

@vomph
How about some posts and a bio?
🙂​
Cheers,
Peter

peterdeppisch, 6 months ago to ontario

A collapsing #healthcare system is Ontario’s real ‘new normal’

https://www.tvo.org/article/a-collapsing-health-care-system-is-ontarios-real-new-normal

"OPINION: The biggest takeaway from the auditor general’s report? Our hospitals are in deep trouble."

#DougFord #Ontario #HealtCare #Hospitals

peterdeppisch, 6 months ago to random

'Useless' Organ That Doctors Often Remove Could Actually Fight #Cancer.

https://www.sciencealert.com/useless-organ-that-doctors-often-remove-could-actually-fight-cancer

"There's a small fatty gland that sits behind your sternum and is often said to be 'useless' in adulthood.

A recent retrospective study, however, suggests the thymus gland is not nearly as expendable as experts once thought."
#Cancer #Thymus

peterdeppisch, 6 months ago to OpenAI

What the #OpenAI drama means for AI progress — and safety.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03700-4?utm_source=Live+Audience&utm_campaign=2ccfe95815-briefing-dy-20231124&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b27a691814-2ccfe95815-50974792

"In the long term, Hinton and others worry about an AI system itself becoming a bad actor, developing sufficient agency to guide world events in a negative direction. This could arise even if an AGI was designed — in line with OpenAI’s ‘superalignment’ mission — to promote humanity’s best interests, says Hinton."
#OPenAI #AI #Intelligence #BadActor (What is #Humanity's best interest?) HUH?

peterdeppisch, 6 months ago to solar

Orkney develops #solar-powered boat for #Philippines.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjjpyn3e8z8o

"An Orkney company has helped to build a solar-powered version of a "#banca" boat which has been launched in the #Philippines.

The traditional vessels are typically made of wood and powered by a diesel engine.

The banca forms the backbone of coastal communities in the Philippines, providing lifeline sources of food, water, and livelihoods through tourism and fishing."

peterdeppisch, 6 months ago to random

This is why '#polycrisis' is a useful way of looking at the world right now.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/03/polycrisis-adam-tooze-historian-explains/

" You’re not alone if it seems there are multiple challenges affecting the world simultaneously - it can be summed up by the word ‘polycrisis’.
First coined in the 1970s, the word has been popularized by the historian Adam Tooze to describe the coming together of multiple crises."
#Polycrisis #Complexity #TheMarket governs the world.

peterdeppisch, 6 months ago to ontario

On housing, the Tories have wasted a whole year. So what’s next?

https://www.tvo.org/article/on-housing-the-tories-have-wasted-a-whole-year-so-whats-next?utm_source=TVO&utm_campaign=ec53df4eab-TVO-Today-Newsletter-MON_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_eadf6a4c78-ec53df4eab-74640230

"OPINION: The PCs have reversed their attempted changes to the Greenbelt and municipal official plans — and given themselves a new set of political obstacles"

#Ontario #Greenbelt #DougFord #Housing