David Hanauer

AI-supported coding paper concluded: “After completing the study, developers estimate that allowing AI reduced completion time by 20%. Surprisingly, we find that allowing AI actually increases completion time by 19%—AI tooling slowed developers down.” metr.org/Early_2025_AI_…

EMERSE version 7 is now officially released! This version has many updates, including incorporation of natural language processing (NLP) capabilities.

2023 Predictions for AI (and how they turned out) in the State of AI Report from Air Street Capital. docs.google.com/presentation/d…

Interesting paper looking at "leaving science as a scholarly theme": how many people who publish a paper continue to publish (or stop) over time. For medicine, by 5 years about 75% are still publishing; by 10 years 55%; by 20 years about 35%. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

EMERSE Community Meeting, Tuesday October 1, 2024, 1-2 PM ET. Topic: Version 7 release, with embedded natural language processing (NLP) and other new features/capabilities. Open to everyone. Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Promising stats from self-driving company Waymo waymo.com/safety/impact/

This potato salad was made with a lot of style.

'Artificial Intelligence' in goods & service descriptions decreased purchased intention: "the negative mediating effect of emotional trust on the impact of AI term on purchase intention was stronger for high-risk products, compared to low-risk products." tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

This brand name is only half right.

OpenAI's levels of AI capabilities. We're getting close to level 2: Level 1: Current Chatbots Level 2: Solves problems at level of a PhD Level 3: Takes actions on a user's behalf Level 4: Can innovate Level 5: Performs work of entire organizations theverge.com/2024/7/11/2419…

The Catcher in the Rytary Bravelle New World Robaxin Crusoe Scarlet Letairis The Bell Jardiance Song of Solumedrol The Sun Also Rizatriptan Nineteen Eighty-Forteo On the Rodocaine The Picture of Doriden Gray A Passage to Inderal (3/3)

Mobic Dick Alesse in Wonderland The Count of Montelukast A Taleranol of Two Cities The Sound and the Furosemide One Hundred Years of Solatene Don Quibron-T Madame Boniva The Calomist of the Wild Gonal-f with the Wind Adventures of Huckleberry Finasteride (2/3)

The drug Anakinra sounds similar to the famous novel "Anna Karenina". One could even combine them to form the title "Anakinra Karenina". This got me thinking: maybe other novels could also be renamed/rebranded with drug names. A few of my suggestions: Warfarin and Peace (1/3)

Report on Riskiest Connected Devices in 2024: "Medical information systems...store very sensitive information which is valuable on the dark web...Despite the criticality of their data, thousands of these systems can still be found exposed online." forescout.com/research-labs/…

Open letter about risks of AI, from former employees of OpenAI & Google: "...risks range from..entrenchment of.. inequalities, to manipulation and misinformation, to the loss of control of autonomous AI systems potentially resulting in human extinction." righttowarn.ai

A functional ball bearing joint made from two 3D printed rings and some glass marbles.

🚨NEW PAPER ALERT🚨 📜 Researchers analyzing EHR-linked biobanks need to consider recruitment mechanisms, their target populations, and use weights! 👏s/o to the team: @BhramarBioStat, @XuShiBiostat, @ChrisFriese_RN, @informaticsGeek, & Co. academic.oup.com/jamia/advance-…

The aurora in Ann Arbor last night

"high risk of morality", found in clinical notes, visualized with DALL-E

I tried to make a heatmap of counties in Michigan using Excel. Excel sent the data to Bing to generate the image, and what I got back was...not Michigan (left, in the image). For comparison, a true outline of the state is on the right.