This is great. Some good nostalgia vibes.

The fact that it’s not exhaustive and is a reflection of the creator’s taste is a feature, not a bug.

People sometimes do things because they enjoy doing them, even if they aren’t particularly good at them.

I have two problems with that. One is, you can do what you like quietly and without disturbing anyone around you. Second is the Dunning Kruger effect: witnessing it first hand is never fun.

And both of those problems are yours, not your neighbor’s.

To your neighbor, doing it badly is still doing the thing.

This is great, well done.

thanks! it was a fun weekend hack to put together. glad you liked it.

That’s correct

If you want to hear a great ICMP joke just ping me

The HHS is asking for recommendations on how to leverage AI for healthcare: https://www.hhs.gov/press-room/hhs-ai-rfi.html

This is probably part of an effort to position them a potential vendor to help the government with this.

As an interventional radiologist, I want it to be easier to see images from outside hospitals. Epic has nearly solved the problem of seeing outside medical records. Yet, I still can't see the images for the CT scan you had from the hospital across the street unless I call the file room and get the images transferred.

I imagine once data sharing is more robust, it would be easier to validate AI models (at least specifically for radiology).

> This is probably part of an effort to position them (...)

who is "them" referring to in this sentence?

OpenAI

> Where are these insurance companies' profit margins coming from?

Vertical integration.

UnitedHealthcare's (Larger insurance company in the US) profits are effectively limited by the Medical Loss Ratio rules from the Affordable Care Act.

But they are owned by UnitedHealth Group, which also owns OptumHealth (the largest network of physicians in the US), OptumRx (pharmacies), and OptumInsight (technology consulting, which goes into the COGS for UnitedHealthcare). This is where they make their profits.

UHG controls which physicians + pharmacies are in their network and what their negotiated rates for many services are (the exception being medicare + medicaid).

Here's a write up on their strategy: https://www.unionhealthcareinsight.com/post/unitedhealth-gro...

And an infographic that breaks it down: https://static.wixstatic.com/media/be1b8b_b0d4ebb04ce04b44a3...

Are they limited by medical loss ratios, or does that just inflate costs to get more profit?

United Health needs to be broken up.

They are a racket.

This circumvents the whole thoughtfulness of gifting thing.

I predict a resurgence in homemade gifts will the eventual backlash to this flavor of soulless consumerism.

Time to go ask ChatGPT what thoughtful homemade gifts I can make for my loved ones.

“Blook User”