Tag: algorithms

• Some must watch, while some must sleep

  I’ve been retired from active medical practice for a few years now; I can’t say I miss the hours or the stress, but what I did enjoy, however, were the patients and the adventure of solving their problems. It was always a journey, and like visiting a city for the first time, there was a […]

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  June 8, 2022

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  algorithms, Anna Harris, artificial intelligence, context, data points, diagnosis, Lisa Herzog, Maastricht University, medicine, mushroom foragers, patterns, Peter Spiegler, University of Groningen

• He’s mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf

  I am an obstetrician, and not a neuropsychiatrist, but I feel a definite uneasiness with the idea of messing with brains –especially from the inside. Talking at it, sure –maybe even tweaking it with medications- but it seems to me there is something… sacrosanct about its boundaries. Something akin to black-boxhood -or pregnant-wombhood, if you […]

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  January 16, 2019

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  algorithms, Alik Widge, Black box, Boston, brain, brain implants, closed-loop stimulation, DARPA, deep-brain stimulation, Edward Chang, epilepsy, ethics, Harvard University, journal Nature, Massachusetts General Hospital, mental illness, mood disorders, neuropsychiatry, Omid Sani, Parkinson’s disease, personality, Science, unintended consequences, University of California San Francisco, University of Southern California in Los Angeles