Florida asked Deloitte how much work it would be to modify their Deloitte-built Medicaid system, so that benefit-termination emails to people would say *why* their benefits were being terminated. Deloitte said it would take 28,000 hours of work. That's a year of work for 15 people. Conservatively, that would have cost Florida $4 million (but I bet it was more like $10 million). https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/deloitte-run-medicaid-systems-errors-cost-millions-take-years-to-fix/
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[spraying tea out of my nose] https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/deloitte-run-medicaid-systems-errors-cost-millions-take-years-to-fix/[spraying tea out of my nose] https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/deloitte-run-medicaid-systems-errors-cost-millions-take-years-to-fix/
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I have questions, but I think my leading one is this: What happened to Owen?I have questions, but I think my leading one is this: What happened to Owen?
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Over a decade ago, I worked on a presidential papers project.OCRing handwriting is a vastly more valuable use of LLMs than chatbots or image generation. I spent years of my career on OCRing big corpuses of text, and boy was it bad. I love the idea of a small LLM optimized for handwriting recognition. The National Archives and the Library of Congress both contain huge amounts of valuable information that’s hard to read for humans and unsearchable (and I'm sure there are lots of other such collections). It's nice seeing a legitimately good LLM use case.
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Over a decade ago, I worked on a presidential papers project.Over a decade ago, I worked on a presidential papers project. The audacious goal was to scan in all presidential papers, make them available for download, and extract any possible data. But until the advent of the typewriter, virtually no data *could* be extracted, other than the odd letterhead. My proposal was to collect the images, build a processing pipeline, and when OCR of handwriting was possible, do it then.
Well, ChatGPT *nailed* this. So many handwritten documents can be discoverable!
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Plastic recycling is a myth created and propped up by the petroleum industry. https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/texas-resident-used-apple-airtags-to-discover-plastics-taken-to-houston-recycling-centers-arent-being-recycledPlastic recycling is a myth created and propped up by the petroleum industry. https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/texas-resident-used-apple-airtags-to-discover-plastics-taken-to-houston-recycling-centers-arent-being-recycled
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I'm reviewing a bunch of government IT consulting firms' websites today, and it sure is a tell when they've pivoted their offerings to be all about AI.I'm reviewing a bunch of government IT consulting firms' websites today, and it sure is a tell when they've pivoted their offerings to be all about AI. DevOps…with AI! Agile...with AI! Cloud...with AI!
These are companies that are not interested in improving government—they’re going to sell agencies whatever agencies think they want, regardless of whether it improves government in any way. The same companies were all about blockchain five years ago. They make the world worse.