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On humpback whales and communication

Last night, 60 Minutes did a piece on humpback whales. Two quick side notes before I get going here: (a) with the amount (and the distances) that Scott Pelley travels for his long-form features, how does he ever host the nightly news?… Continue Reading

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IBM’s Watson might legitimately be the future of health care

This article appeared in the UK edition of Wired in February, but it got upvoted on Reddit today and I saw it there; I’m not sure if the precise original publication date matters, because I don’t think it’s breaking news. People… Continue Reading

Where ObamaCare’s website seems to have screwed up

Start here. According to one specialist, healthcare.gov contains 500 million — yes, 500 million — lines of software code. By contrast, a large bank’s computer system will typically contain 100 million lines of code. Additionally, the project management here seems like a bit… Continue Reading

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What exactly is geoengineering?

I was looking around for something to write about for the initial post on this new blog concept. I thought about tackling ObamaCare, because I don’t completely understand it (despite the fact that I worked with a health care company… Continue Reading