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Comment · 2 months ago
What are you proposing happens to providers who freely contract with patients at rates above Medicare reimbursement?
Comment · 6 months ago
I agree with you. What would an effective immigration enforcement agency look like?
Comment · 6 months ago
I am against Flock as a company.

Are they "installing a Global Positioning (GPS) tracking device on a vehicle and using the device to monitor the vehicles movement"? No.

Comment · 6 months ago
What would an effective immigration enforcement agency look like, in your opinion?
Comment · 11 months ago
It's been really disheartening to see the impact of media / hype mongering on groups within research institutions.

IMO, it's clear there is massive demand for any research that shows large positive or negative impacts of AI on the economy. The recent WSJ article about Aiden Toner-Rodgers is another great example of demand for AI impact outstripping the supply of AI impact. Obviously this thread's example is just shoddy research vs. the outright data fraud of Toner-Rodgers, but it's hard to not see the pattern.

I hope that MIT and other research institutions can figure this out...

Comment · 11 months ago
This is the same group (Ayush Chopra & Ramesh Raskar) that previously published the highly circulated (clickbait) article saying that 95% of AI pilots were failing based on extremely weak study design and questions that didn't even support the takeaways.

Anything coming from Ayush and Ramesh should be highly scrutinized. Ramesh should stick to studying Camera Culture in the Media Lab.

I will believe a study from MIT when it comes out of CSAIL.

Comment · 1 year ago
This study was led by a PI in the MIT Media Lab who studies cameras and their impact on society.

There's a reason it has a catchy headline, there's a reason you needed to fill in an email form to get access to the study, and there's a reason why the 2nd author has an agentic AI startup.

I thought it was a low quality article with no data or in detail methods. MIT needs to do better. This is the second article of this type in the last few months that caught headlines.

Comment · 1 year ago
This reads a little bit like AI. Particularly the sentence flow of the final few lines.
Comment · 2 years ago
Market-share is a cumulative metric, representing the sum of all purchases over several years. Sales is a flow metric, representing the sum of purchases in a given year. Market-share can increase, yet sales can be down in a given year.

Not everything is a conspiracy.

Comment · 3 years ago
This is one person's commentary without evidence?
Comment · 3 years ago
Does anyone know what this actually means for real estate brokerage fees?

There are few markets which have supported 3-5% brokerage fees (even i-banking is <100bps at scale now) so I'm curious where the fees will settle.

Comment · 3 years ago
This is really disappointing. Truly, some people just want to watch the world burn...
Comment · 3 years ago
Given she was not only livestreaming but also physically harming patients, I'm a little surprised that she is only having her license yanked.
Comment · 3 years ago
Well put and I have also witnessed the same patterns at GP/LP meetings.

Ironically, Calpers' excuse for their poor returns is that the "top tier" VCs (such as Sequoia) now exclude them due to their public reporting requirements, and therefore they are forced to deploy to tier 2 managers.

Comment · 3 years ago

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