In human society one does not always equal one because our way of communicating is so convoluted and weird.
United Healthcare (UHC) is still complete shit. They seemingly have no logic or data science being done with the incredible patient / customer data they have. UHC will basically force you into using OptumRX for your pharmacy, and their web portal is still pathetic. You would think that a diabetic who used an insane amount of insulin for a couple of years, then went without refilling an insulin prescription for more than two years, might be a red flag on their side. At the minimum they should reach out and say “Hey, we noticed you’re a diabetic and you haven’t refilled insulin, is everything okay?” Or reach out and say, “Hey, apparently since you have a cure to diabetes, can you keep it quiet so we can keep squeezing people dry? And making insane profits off of their conditions? Thanks!” But they don’t do any of that.
CGM software, I’m looking at you Abbott FreeStyle Libre 3. If I look at my blood sugar and it is 169, and I have an alarm set for 170 as a threshold, then seconds later the alarm may go off even with the screen still on? There is no logic to realize that the person is literally looking at their blood sugar, and don’t need an alarm. Either suppress the alarm for five to 15 minutes, because by that point you need to factor in insulin taking effect if they already dosed, or put a pop up saying, “Would you like to dismiss the upcoming alarm?” There are half a dozen better UI/UX solutions here, and you opted not to do any of them. Just a reminder that I have called out so many problems in your product already, spent too many hours on the phone educating your reps on diabetes 101, and helped debug all kinds of issues in your poorly-designed software.
I recently watched a raven dragging small roadkill out of the road to the side because it’s safer and easier to access the food. Corvid intelligence is impressive.
It’s incredible how many people will sit in a standstill on the highway and not pay three bucks to use the express lane. It really calls into question the value of the express lane and the revenue it generates versus the inconvenience for everyone. Since it’s using one full lane with very little traffic, it makes no sense. When you dig into the cost of adding a new lane that becomes Toll/Express, it will really make you pissed.
If we had a truly seamless, secure system for micro-transactions, I would love to see Archive.org get one penny each time someone used it. It would fund them very well and they could capture even more data. Note, I took this note a week before they came under sustained DDoS attack.
Andrea: Beavers are considered a nuisance animal in Mississippi. Wtf is wrong w Mississippi?! We need to liberate the beavers of Mississippi!
Jericho: So weird how different states consider different animals a nuisance, but never humans…
As so-called “artificial intelligence” actually gets worse, we need to rebrand it to “AAI” or Artificial American Intelligence. Seems more on point.
It’s not long before the term AI is just too common, and hell, we’re basically here. So we’re gonna start seeing variations as a company tries to set itself apart. Maybe “enriched” or “high” or some other qualifier because marketing people are stupid when they come up with these terms. “AI 2.0” or “AI 3.0”, just like we saw with the “Web 3.0” which was sad then, and more sad now.
Why is it that gas pumps and ATMs seem to have computers with the same computing power as a 30 year old Casio watch?
Back in the day when we were talking about the Internet we used the term “walled gardens” for services like America Online (AOL), CompuServe, or anything else like those services. There’s a lot of irony here, if you jump 20 or 25 years forward. Now, there are these walled gardens between intelligence companies, all of which do Open Sourced Intelligence (OSINT) to some degree, where you have to pay to get “their” intel. If they all do it and it is all open information, you are literally paying for what is public. The only differences is what… who gathers the most? Or analyzes the data better or less? Kind of interesting to me, and I have worked for intelligence firms for 13 years now.
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