Just a thought: AirPod hearing aids messing up social cues
When the AppleWatch came out, we had to get used to folks looking at their watch for messages and not think looking at their watch meant they were in a rush. No...
Author: charlie
Sidebar: Analyzing the clinical trials mentioning Oura (with Claude.ai)
Part of: Oura Ring: on therapeutics and digital biomarkers In early November, I did a quick search for ‘Oura’ on clinicaltrials.gov and found 80 trials publishe...
Sidebar: Digital biomarker-guided therapy with the Oura ring – Parkinson’s Disease example
Part of: Oura Ring: on therapeutics and digital biomarkers Let’s investigate Parkinson’s for digital biomarker-guided therapy: One challenge in Park...
Oura Ring: on therapeutics and digital biomarkers
Recently, Oura, the smart ring and wellness company, announced a significant partnership with Dexcom, a maker of glucose sensing medical devices. The ...
Tired words: AI
I would like to propose AI as a mundane, overused, and abused word. AI – Everywhere you go these days, companies say they do things using AI. That’s...
Just a thought: AI agents are mobile coupons all over again
A new phrase is bubbling up: ‘agentic AI’. That’s the AI as agent that goes out and does your bidding. The concept keeps coming up all the tim...
Does genAI have a (Gödel) incompleteness problem?
I use ChatGPT (whom I call Geoffrey) and, much more, recently, Claude (whom I call Claude), quite a bit. I use it as a sparring partner, helping me hone ideas a...
Arc’teryx’s exo-underpants and a bright future as I get old
I keep telling my wife that when we’re broken down oldies (coming soon) we’ll have self-driving cars and exoskeletons to help with our mobility issu...
Instructions on how to use a phone one-handed bring back memories of the same idea years ago
This triggered an old funny memory (tho I might have the timing wrong). As phones got bigger, they got harder to handle with one hand. But there are some ways t...
Meta releases their Llama AI model as open source: what should we think of that?
Llama 3.1 outperforms OpenAI and other rivals on certain benchmarks. Now, Mark Zuckerberg expects Meta’s AI assistant to surpass ChatGPT’s usage in the coming m...