Doctors, Nurses and the Paperwork Crisis That Could Unite Them. Most important, the experience of nurses is often invisible to doctors, even though they typically work alongside them. There are examples of respectful working friendships on the front lines, but the legacy of hierarchy persists, and keeps us from focusing on our common struggles. Doctors would be wise to let nurses take the lead. For years, nurses have organized to improve hospital working conditions, in particular fighting for better staffing levels. The Service Employees International Union and National Nurses United represent nurses all over the United States, and in general are good at getting their demands met. Doctors, on the other hand, have no similar organizations, no national unions and little experience in activism on workplace issues. Maybe it’s the myth of the single, heroic doctor that keeps them from recognizing the strength in collective efforts.
The Times is committed to publishing a diversity of letters to the editor. The Panama Papers Mapped. I'm sure that we are going to see a lot of interactive mapped visualizations of the data exposed by the Panama Papers over the next few months. So far the two most popular interactive maps have been simple visualizations of the number of companies in the Mossack Fonseca database from countries around the world. This Esri UK map, the Panama Papers: Mapped, uses scaled circle markers to show the number of companies in each country mentioned in the database.
You can click on a country's marker to view the number of clients, beneficiaries, and shareholders mentioned in the papers from the selected country. One thing that the map clearly reveals is the large role that the three UK Crown dependencies of Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man play in offshore tax evasion. Brian Kilmartin's map (which I think was the first map of the Panama Papers) is very similar to the Esri UK map. How Afraid of Watson the Robot Should We Be? -- NYMag. Watson was just 4 years old when it beat the best human contestants on Jeopardy! As it grows up and goes out into the world, the question becomes: How afraid of it should we be? Illustrations by Zohar Lazar On the first weekend of January, many of the leading researchers in artificial intelligence traveled to Puerto Rico to take part in an unusual private conference. Part of what made it unusual was its topic: whether the rise of intelligent machines would be good or bad for people, something endlessly discussed by the public but rarely by the scientists themselves.
But the conference’s organizers were interesting, too. The researchers in the audience found themselves presented with two propositions. Tegmark’s conference was designed to sketch that demon so that the researchers might begin to see the worries as more serious than science fiction. Watson has now been trained in molecular biology and finance, written a cookbook, been put to work in oil exploration. “Jeopardy! Knowledge Doubling Every 12 Months, Soon to be Every 12 Hours. Knowledge Doubling Curve Buckminster Fuller created the “Knowledge Doubling Curve”; he noticed that until 1900 human knowledge doubled approximately every century. By the end of World War II knowledge was doubling every 25 years. Today things are not as simple as different types of knowledge have different rates of growth.
For example, nanotechnology knowledge is doubling every two years and clinical knowledge every 18 months. Human Brain Indexing Will Consume Several Billion Petabytes In a recent lecture at Harvard University neuroscientist Jeff Lichtman, who is attempting to map the human brain, has calculated that several billion petabytes of data storage would be needed to index the entire human brain. Linear to Exponential Growth of Human Knowledge A transition from the linear growth of human knowledge to the exponential growth of human knowledge has taken place.. Related Articles on IndustryTap: David Russell Schilling More articles from Industry Tap... The Law of Accelerating Returns. An analysis of the history of technology shows that technological change is exponential, contrary to the common-sense “intuitive linear” view. So we won’t experience 100 years of progress in the 21st century — it will be more like 20,000 years of progress (at today’s rate).
The “returns,” such as chip speed and cost-effectiveness, also increase exponentially. There’s even exponential growth in the rate of exponential growth. Within a few decades, machine intelligence will surpass human intelligence, leading to The Singularity — technological change so rapid and profound it represents a rupture in the fabric of human history. The implications include the merger of biological and nonbiological intelligence, immortal software-based humans, and ultra-high levels of intelligence that expand outward in the universe at the speed of light. You will get $40 trillion just by reading this essay and understanding what it says. Now back to the future: it’s widely misunderstood.
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The impossibility of being an expert: empowering physicians with new-new information. The godfather of evidence-based medicine, Dr. David Sackett, said that the practice of evidence-based medicine integrates: Individual clinical expertiseA patient’s values and expectationsThe best available external clinical evidence. If a physician’s got the first issue covered, and a patient is very engaged in their health in full collaboration with their physician, there’s still the third issue to deal with: the proliferation of medical information and keeping up with the literature.
It’s impossible to be an expert, claimed two Welsh med school professors in the British Medical Journal in an honest appraisal of the “avalanche of information.” Today, med students training in cardiac imaging who read 40 papers a day for five days a week would need 11 years to get current with the specialty. Dr. In his blog post, The Case for New Physician Literacies in the Digital Age, Dr. This last point is the opportunity, Dr.
Dr. The challenge for the physician of whom Dr. There are 25,400 scientific journals and their number is increasing by 3.5% a year. More scientific and medical papers are being published now than ever before. Is it possible to be an expert nowadays, asks BMJ. Every doctor has an ethical duty to keep up to date. Is this just getting more difficult or has it already become impossible? Since Alvin Toffler coined the phrase “information overload” in 1970, the growth of scientific and medical information has been inexorable. There are now 25 400 journals in science, technology, and medicine, and their number is increasing by 3.5% a year; in 2009, they published 1.5 million articles. PubMed now cites more than 20 million papers. One response of the medical profession to the increasing scientific basis and clinical capacity of medicine has been to increase subspecialisation.
I described my approach in 5 Tips to Stay Up-to-Date with Medical Literature: 1. 2. 3. The impossibility of being an expert: empowering physicians with new-new information. Key Findings from U.S. Digital Marketing Spending Survey, 2013. Following years of accelerated digital spend, marketing’s allocations to digital channels have leveled off. In 2022, digital channels accounted for 56% of total marketing channel spend, little changed from last year. Multichannel marketing spend is an essential component of any marketing budget. With so many different channels and platforms to choose from, CMOs must make informed decisions about which media investments will generate the best ROI — for customer awareness, consideration, conversion, and loyalty and advocacy.
CMOs must be very strategic to align the right channel, be it digital or traditional, to the right journey point in an effort to deliver a customer experience that changes the customer in some way and makes them feel more confident about their choices. According to Gartner, CMOs are up to the challenge: More than half (50.5%) of CMOs’ channel budget is allocated to consideration and conversion. The burning question: Is this the right allocation? World Internet Users Statistics Usage and World Population Stats.
20th WCP: What Is Information? In the books and papers on brain science, cognitive science, etc., one of the most frequently used terms is information. We are told that brains and their various subunits — down to the level of a single neuron — process information, store it, retrieve it, transmit it, etc. They do, indeed. The point, however, is that we are not told what information is.
Perhaps information is meant to be understood in the sense first given by C. Shannon? If so, it would be a huge misunderstanding for at least two reasons. I suppose that what is taken for granted here is a commonsense, mentalistic connotation: information is thought to be a piece of knowledge. Consider the genetic code, for example. My thesis is that "information" is — epistemologically — a realist category: what I call information is something "out there" in the objective reality, not just a useful term of art residing in the investigator's mind only.
What, then, is information? And finally, Information is an abstract entity. Public Speaking: For the average person speaking at a normal pace, what is the typical number of words they can say in one minute. Was Eric Schmidt Wrong About the Historical Scale of the Internet? Last August we quoted outgoing Google CEO Eric Schmidt saying “There was 5 exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003, but that much information is now created every 2 days, and the pace is increasing.”
RJMetrics co-founder and CEO Robert J. Moore calls tk. According to Moore, a more honest quote would have been “23 Exabytes of information was recorded and replicated in 2002. We now record and transfer that much information every 7 days.” A lot less impressive a figure, huh? Moore writes that he used Schmidt’s figure in a talk about big data at TEDxPhilly. Moore believes that the claim that five exabytes of data is created every two days comes from a May 2010 IDC report titled “The Digital Universe Decade – Are You Ready?”
Moore had a harder time tracking down a source for the claim that only five exabytes of data had been created from the dawn of time until 2003. You make a totally valid point. Photo credit: nasa1fan/MSFC. Executive Summary. How much new information is created each year? Newly created information is stored in four physical media print, film, magnetic and optical and seen or heard in four information flows through electronic channels telephone, radio and TV, and the Internet. This study of information storage and flows analyzes the year 2002 in order to estimate the annual size of the stock of new information recorded in storage media, and heard or seen each year in information flows. Where reliable data was available we have compared the 2002 findings to those of our 2000 study (which used 1999 data) in order to describe a few trends in the growth rate of information.
Print, film, magnetic, and optical storage media produced about 5 exabytes of new information in 2002. Ninety-two percent of the new information was stored on magnetic media, mostly in hard disks. How big is five exabytes? Source: Many of these examples were taken from Roy Williams Data Powers of Ten web page at Caltech. A. B. C. D. A. B.
Fungi.png (PNG Image, 800 × 600 pixels) - Scaled (96%) Reconstructing the tree of life. March 2008 Ernst Haeckel's Monophyletic tree of organisms, 1866. Biologists at the time identified three major groups of species: animals, plants and protista; primitive, mostly unicellular, organisms. Modern biologists also classify all life into three groups, but now animals and plants are considered to belong to the same group, with two different types of bacteria making up the other two groups. Next year is a great one for biology: not only will we celebrate 150 years since the publication of On the origin of species, but also 200 years since the birth of its author, Charles Darwin.
And two important anniversaries these are indeed: Darwin's theory of evolution through natural selection revolutionised vast swathes of human thought, from hard science to religion. Mathematics has remained largely untouched by this revolution. But it's not all about quantity. The tree of life A modern phylogenetic tree. Trees like these are not only used to represent the evolution of a group of species. The Dawn of the Information Age. The Dawn of the Information Age When people picture the decade of social change, for most the “Flower Power” movement of the 1960s springs to mind.
But few stop to consider the massive cultural revolution that is occurring right in front of their eyes. The advent of the internet is fundamentally changing the way that society functions by empowering the individual. This phenomenon is known as the Information Age and promises to have far-reaching effects in the years to come. Can modern society learn to adapt in order to benefit from this new emerging power-structure? Or will the cost prove too great with potential political upheaval to follow? One morning in the late 1990s, the price of life insurance fell dramatically and without warning.
A crucial aspect of the internet is the surging popularity of social networks like Facebook. In 1989, a British scientist named Tim Berners-Lee would invent the network that would evolve into the internet as we know it today. History of Psychology. The following program was originally written for a two-week section of an orientation course for psychology majors and minors. Thus, it is rather humble in its scope. I chose to focus on the intellectual history from which psychology emerged as well as the cultural context in which it continued to evolve. Much of the history of psychology itself I leave to the various content-specific courses within the department (e.g.
Abnormal Psychology and Theories of Learning). I have relied primarily upon secondary sources while writing this history, and while some of major errors that can occur with that approach have come to my attention and have been rectified other errors probably remain. In my selection of topics I have been at least somewhat affected by what is interesting--what gives the history of psychology its unique zing--I hope you enjoy it. In my own mind history should begin at the bottom of a page, and then progress upward. Dawn of the Information Age.
World War II created a need for more advanced information processing systems for war technology (e.g. radar and sonar) which led to the development of electronic computers. Computers are unique in that they neither generate power nor manufacture a tangible product, they simply process information. Understanding the computer required the development of new ways to model the flow and transformation of information. These models were to have a strong influence on cognitive psychology (see 'Human Information Processing' in this history). In a related development, the war led to advances in goal-directed/self-regulating systems (e.g. guided missiles, which must regulate their behavior to stay on course to their target) A new branch of mathematics, named 'cybernetics' was developed to model the behavior of these goal-directed/self-regulating systems. The anthropologist Gregory Bateson took the principles of cybernetics and applied them to the life sciences.
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