A question about 3I/ATLAS
I’ve been following Avi Loeb’s fascinating writings (and interviews) on 3I/ATLAS, the third interstellar object that has entered our solar system. But I’m increasingly concerned about the tone of Loeb’s public commentary, which is self-promoting and unusually dismissive of other scientists. He often casts himself as a modern Galileo – upright, embattled, and ultimately vindicated […]
AI AI Oh!
Old Macdonald had a farm, AI AI Oh!He used AI to milk the cows, AI AI Oh!With a long moo here,And a short moo there,It taught them Morse in a very short course,And now the moos are plotting a coup – AI AI Oh! Old Macdonald had a farm, AI AI Oh!He used AI to […]
Prenatal diseases and the New York Times
Understanding Medical Test Results On January 2nd, 2022, the NYT ran an article “When They Warn of Rare Disorders, These Prenatal Tests are Usually Wrong“, which showed that current tests for rare prenatal diseases have very high false positive rates. For example, the false positive rate for the test for Prader-Willi syndrome (“a condition that […]