Andy Oram

@praxagora

Editor, community activist. Specializing in open source, software engineering, and health care, also write about policy. On a break from X/Twitter.

Arlington, Massachusetts, USA praxagora.com/andyo/ Joined March 2009

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Andy Oram @praxagora Jul 29, 2023

There is store of wisdom among us to found a new Jewish polity, grand, simple, just, like the old—a republic where there is equality of protection, an equality which shone like a star on the forehead of our ancient community.
–George Eliot, 1876

Andy Oram @praxagora Jul 25, 2023

Signs that Internet corporations are getting old: They're all adopting bland names that mean nothing. The Internet as a medium and technology, however, is still vibrant and will contribute a lot to our lives.

Andy Oram @praxagora Jul 21, 2023

My poem "Safe word" was just published in the most recent issue of The Waiting Room Journal (available for presale) nervousghostpress.org/books

Andy Oram @praxagora Jul 20, 2023

The memo acknowledges the need to draw in "underserved communities"

Beth Simone Noveck @bethnoveck Jul 20, 2023

.@WhiteHouse @OMBPress issues guidance to agencies encouraging proactive public engagement in rulemaking: "Broadening public participation and community engagement..can help agencies produce more responsive, effective, durable, and equitable regulations" whitehouse.gov/wp-content/upl…
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Andy Oram @praxagora Jul 20, 2023

A large language model #AI (a version of GPT-4) to diagnose medical conditions. Unimpressive start. Generating plausible diagnoses is even easier than generating plausible chess moves. But to "win" at diagnosis, you need to know many, many human factors. bit.ly/3K5AZjS

www.statnews.com Preparation over panic: How a Boston hospital is priming medical residents for an era of AI medicine “It's going to be utterly, utterly transformative, and medical education is not ready,” said Adam Rodman of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.