Fact-based contrarian thoughts about software
Following is information on my jobs, education, publications and patents. Publications Blackliszt.com blog This has over 500 posts and has gotten over 150,000 page views. It presents facts and view on software and technology that are effective in practice but contrary to the leading views of academia, management and big tech. Document Capture for Document [ ]
What's so good about people who are 'normal?' I'm a software guy. As in hard-core programming for decades. Many of the great programmers I've known aren’t 'normal,' Managers usually don’t like them. They don’t “fit in.” They’re not “team players.” And so forth. Society puts labels on such people, and thinks they need “treatment” to [ ]
We've learned a great deal about the covid vaccine since it came out. Part of what we learned is that the statistics underlying 'safe and effective' contradict what all the authorities want us to believe. There's a statistic called NNT which was disclosed in the FDA's EUA (Emergency Use Authorization) document that stated that only [ ]
A substantial and growing number of people are turning to AI tools like Chatgpt for medical advice even a growing number of doctors! Can you get valuable health advice from a generative AI tool like ChatGpt? Answer: the experiments described below show that you’ll get the advice that is most beneficial to the medical-industrial [ ]
Voter ID and Paper Ballots are a great first step for preventing voting fraud. But they aren’t nearly enough. What happens when the paper ballots are submitted? How are they counted – by humans or by machines? How can we be sure that what’s counted matches what’s on the paper ballots? How are the totals [ ]
A version of what most people think of as AI (enhanced random forest decision tree machine learning) can indeed first automate medical diagnosis, and then go on to use the feedback data to personalize and enhance medical diagnosis. The result should be fast, accurate and cost-effective, and should greatly reduce medical costs. However, not only [ ]
One good way to get an understanding of the vast array of medical services and treatments is to organize them into a spectrum based on some parameter. I earlier looked at medical innovations based on how “fancy” they are, from AI to cleanliness. https://blackliszt.com/2016/09/healthcare-innovation-from-washing-hands-to-ai.html Another useful spectrum is the time relationship between a medical…
The US has the highest per-capita cost of medical services of any nation. At the same time, average life expectancy has been going down. What can be done to reduce costs while at the same time improving our health? Change won’t be easy. There is a monopoly of providers, health institutions, insurers, pharma, regulating government [ ]
Lots of people will tell you how to become a computer programmer. Go to college and major in Computer Science is the most wide-spread advice. In the last few years things called “coding academies' have emerged as quicker, more affordable paths to that goal. There is a faster, better way to acquire the skill of [ ]
There has been a decades-long evolution towards creating an effective clinical diagnosis and treatment AI system, essentially automating the mental part of what doctors do. A solid basis for the content of the system has already been built in the form of medical text books, procedures, published databases, studies and clinical standards such as HEDIS. [ ]