24 April 2026

The air is full of DNA. It's been like this for a very long time, so I'm not particularly concerned. But it is a different way of viewing the world. We breathe in more than just gases. This is why we are concerned with airborne viruses and spores.

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The Stanford Freshmen Who Want to Rule the World. One of the strong reasons for going to a place like Stanford is not just the classes you take, but opportunities like this. And the professors you get to work with. It's a different world from the paradigm of just passing your classes, getting your degree and looking for a paying job afterwards.

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For much of the history of computing, it was reasonably safe to assume that a machine was doing what you told it to do (and what its creators promised it would do), because its operations were local.
If you scratch the surface just a bit, however, none of this is true when applied to modern technologies, and these assumptions are not safe.
It's very different in the unsupervised world of autonomous agents. And in a world where people don't code themselves anymore, and just let Claude or Codex write the instructions, I think there are potential problems ahead.

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Two articles regarding AI in medicine that should give you pause:
There is much that needs to be done in healthcare AI.

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Competence is lonely. Nobody talks about why. Is it competence? Or something else? But I understand what the author is saying. As we age, we become differentiated cells. Good for a specific purpose. But when we retire, and the organ no longer needs the cell, what does the cell do? Just wait for senescence? 

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City, county councilmembers move to dissolve KCRHA after audit flags $13M unaccounted for. 🤦🏻‍♂️ King County is just as mismanaged as Multnomah County.

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