Live with a man 40 years. Share his house, his meals. Speak on every subject. Then tie him up, and hold him over the volcano’s edge. And on that day, you will finally meet the man. – Adlai Niska citing the fictional despot Shan Yu in Firefly, 1x10: War Stories …

OpenAI’s ChatGPT is not only a powerful tool for content creation but has also emerged as a potential alternative for a variety of internet search activities — including those relating to information gathering or research — with efficiency over accuracy and completeness as its primary appeal. However, as a fine-tuned…

Three years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the medical, public health and disaster preparedness communities are trying to isolate lessons learned from the harrowing experience of a global outbreak that resulted in little shy of seven million deaths. There remains considerable disagreement as to what ought or ought not have been…

2022 has been an interesting year for healthcare AI/ML. It saw, among others, a consolidation of pandemic-induced practices, such as a shift towards virtual care (especially in primary care), into the ‘new normal’ of healthcare delivery. The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred providers and payors alike to rethink traditional models of…

I don’t think about memes a lot — or much of them — but lately this one has been on my mind: We have billionaires taking joyrides to space, and yet we keep manually updating Excel spreadsheets to uphold what we know as “order” in our world. …

In 1945, influential scientist and government advisor Vannevar Bush published As We May Think, an article of remarkable foresight. In less than a dozen pages, he outlined many futuristic technologies that have come to pass, including hypertext, the personal computer and speech recognition. …

2021 was an exciting year for data science: despite COVID–19 pandemic-related layoffs and budget reductions, the field continued to flourish. According to a survey commissioned by Anaconda, only 37% of companies decreased their investment in data science. …

When you leverage data science expertise from outside your company for a project, you face a multi-layered challenge. There’s likely to be a gap in domain knowledge between your in-house experts and the data scientists, existing workflows that won’t readily accommodate new processes and meanwhile, the lack of a common…