Re: Ferdinand Porche?
The EU already has a 45% tariff on all Chinese EVs to protect their home manufacturers.
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That's very welcome for England, Wales, and NI, but what about the poor Scottish Sub-postmasters who were similarly wrongfully convicted, in their case by Scottish Government Lawyers.
I've a sickening feeling that Scots Law may uphold all the unsound convictions north of the border to save face for both the Legal System and the Scottish Government. Would be par for the course.
Read the book "Vaxxers", the Oxford Team's account of the vaccine development. They knew the importance of the project (politicians and the media never properly understood vaccine development). UK Government funding was both belated and came in dribs and drabs. So the Oxford Team diverted funding from other projects and took some huge financial risks not knowing if Gov funding would ever come through at all.
It was a nailbiting game that fortunately worked out in the end. The UK owes a great debt to those researchers.
I actually liked W10 a lot, but my new PC has a 43 inch 4k screen and having taskbar buttons left-justified are a pain from the mouse-movement point of view.
So I like them centred, my muscle memory has quickly adapted, and I wouldn't go back now.
Maybe MS foresaw the rise of bigger screens.
As a clinician using computers in a major hospital I have to smile at your naive optimism. You have no idea what we deal with daily, and I work with recently installed and expensive systems.
In our prescribing system searches/filters only work from the beginning of a list of terms - you can't search on the second word/term. Wildcards are not implemented.
Multiple scrolling windows within scrolling windows - even worse mostly negotiated from Laptops with dodgy touchpads.
No confirmation messages ever: for example, order a blood test and click on "Submit", you go immediately back to the home page. No "order successfully sent" message. Did it go? Wait and see.
A near random position of buttons in screens: "next" at the top, next screen "next" at the bottom, next screen "next" on the right.
No "Print" buttons in one major package, all the print functions are called from buttons saying "Complete".
Labels that become buttons then revert back to labels without changing their appearance in any way.
An almost invisible very pale grey X in a white box as the close button in some windows.
I could add a hundred other basic interface disasters to this list. Medical software interfaces are clearly written by disinterested 16-year-olds doing School projects.
I get the GDPR breach, but what was the "actual harm" / "actual clinical benefit" assessment in this case?
There will be a clamp-down, but multi-way communication between busy clinicians will become more cumbersome and unreliable.
I remember one guy saying he tracked the influence of their new Smart Meter on the familiy's use of electrical appliiances / lights etc with his kids. He thought it would be a great life lesson for them to learn to be careful and frugal in their use of resources. After the first month, with house lights more off than on and appliance use minimised the family saved £1.49.
They all ended up wiser.
I like W10, it's been stable and fast for me and does not get in the way of what I do.
I can live without all the additional mouseclicks that the W11 interface apparently imposes.
Oh, and my very fast, reliable and silent PC is not able to upgrade to W11 without some possibly support-breaking kludge - so not a difficult decision.
Well Google NPfIT and read about what happened. As both a keen amateur computer coder and clinician I was fascinated to follow the progress of this mind-bogglingly expensive digitalisation of my profession in the early 2000s. I attended presentations from the IT teams, and had hands-on demos of their interfaces (in weird, expensive, air-conditioned coaches specifically adapted for the purpose).
And it was the most disappointing, half-baked, badly thought-out computerisation of anything I have ever seen. It was clear after even a few minutes experience that the major IT companies involved had failed to grasp any of the subtleties of clinical management and interactions. I just remember an awful sinking feeling that the whole thing was going to fail ... and it did. Spectacularly.
We perhaps got PACS (a useful sort of Youtube for X-rays), although the idea and the initial development of that pre-dated NPfIT. And a global database of names and addresses. And that was pretty much it for 6.2 billion UKP.
We totally don't want doctors from 5+ years ago to do anything clinical without an extended induction. They could help by turning patients which is a team effort, arranging blood tests, or taking rubbish bins out though.
"Payroll" do not run clinical services.
In this case, is there any point? I can confidently, instantly, and correctly identify the examples given from across the room. The ECG is a millivolt signal which in the real world always has some perturbations - we are used to this. This particular example is a disastrous performance for the AI.
"The Liberation Serif font, which is the default, does not look good on screen, in Windows at least. The kerning is not quite right, which affects readability."
It's not just Liberation Serif ... LibreOffice cannot kern ANY font correctly: Arial, Times New Roman, etc etc.
I dearly wish they would fix this instead of playing about with things like auto-redaction. And yes, I know we have to forgive LO all its rough edges because it's an open source project, but do none of the code contributors care about the poor typeface rendering?
Ach, I'm always tempted to have a go. But LibreOffice Writer is still unable to render and kern fonts to anywhere near the quality of MS Word and I hate having my eyes jarred by every document I load or create. So I uninstall yet again and wait for the next version. Anybody know if font rendering and kerning has been fixed in v 6.4?
In ECGs in women, overall: the heart rate is faster, left axis deviation is twice as common, ST and T-wave abnormalities are almost twice as common, LBBB (left bundle branch block) is slightly more common, etc etc etc for all other ECG parameters.
So I could probably give you a decent guess, from a standard 12-lead ECG, whether it was male or female. I doubt the AI is doing anything more.
But there is a more reliable and faster way to determine whether someone is biologically male or female.
ps the title is slightly misleading, it's not from your "heartbeat" but from a 12-lead ECG (which is a complex surface electrical representation of your "heartbeat").
You state "The brexitters assure us that 'no deal' and WTO rules will be absolutely fine." ... well, no Brexiter I have listened to (the pub doesn't count) has said this - although that bald statement is probably truer than the "utter disaster" ones if you really insist on polarising things.
Brexiters state that a friendly, mutually beneficial deal would be better for both the UK and the EU than WTO. The EU looks like it may deny us this. However, UK under WTO will be a constantly improving scenarion depending on the scale and nature of the preparations made in the run-up. That is now key. WTO trading will be a bit scrappy for a while, but the UK is not a trivial player in world trade terms and will do at least OK, and I like to thing probably rather well in the longer term.