I must be only one in a million

The Perfecting Equilibrium Digest, January 21-27, 2025

I must be only one in a million
I won't let the day pass without her

It's too late to be grateful
It's too late to be late again
It's too late to be hateful
The European cannon is here (I can feel it)

Should I believe that I've been stricken?
Does my face show some kind of glow?

It's too late to be grateful
It's too late to be late again
It's too late to be hateful
The European cannon is here, yes, it's here

It's not the side effects of the cocaine
I'm thinking that it must be love

Editor’s Note: As is my habit every year and against all sensible advice, I’ll be taking the first week of February off to commemorate another turn around old Sol. Perfecting Equilibrium will publish on its normal schedule supplemented with Best of Perfecting Equilibrium pieces from the archives.

Comments of the Week

Godwin Josh on Stargate AI can cure cancer (LinkedIn): LLMs excel at identifying patterns and relationships within vast datasets, leveraging techniques like transformer networks and attention mechanisms. However, translating these insights into actionable medical interventions requires robust integration with clinical knowledge bases and expert validation. Can you elaborate on how to effectively bridge the gap between LLM-derived insights and clinically relevant treatment recommendations?

Feola replies: I will. This article was the first in a series; we're going to step through how to build such a thing over the coming months, then look at ways to improve these systems through appropriate data architectures.

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Lynn W Gardner on Stargate AI can cure cancer: Chris, hold my Diet Coke (sorry I don’t do the Dew, to much sugar and caffeine, I have enough problems). As you point out Apple has built their business model on hooking users into proprietary software and hardware. the comparison to Microsoft as the polar opposite is well thought out, but not quite applicable as Microsoft makes only software for others that manufacture hardware. Also you are quite correct companies change cables to obsolete the hardware, which really is annoying, speaking as someone who has a 16-prong VTR and cable but only a 1984 monitor with the correct receiving port. It is the comparison to medical records and data that does not work. You have countless clinics and hospitals that collect data but it is stove piped from city to city, county to county, state to state, county to country. Not to mention the vast array of systems and software that house the data. Perhaps one could start with the VA as they have data on veterans nation wide supposedly in a single medical records system. However you would run the risk of lack of diversity in the population as individuals that are veterans may not be a representative sample of the population as a whole. Just my thoughts.

Feola replies: As usual my clever, experienced readers jump right past the end and into the future. I’m breaking this problem down into a series. First up: Is it possible for a massive AI to cure cancer? Yes! It’s possible. Next up: How would we build such a thing? We’ve started this off with the look at workflow; we’re going to next dive into agents, CAGs and RAGs. Finally we’ll look at the practical obstacles such as your point about the current stovepiping of data. Spoiler alert: Information Age solutions require Information Age data architectures; specifically, Distributed Data Management Systems such as PrivacyChain.

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My brain is a peculiar place; it likes to play word association, and then play back songs with those words. Here are the songs playing in my mind as I wrote these articles.

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Friday January 31 - Foto.Feola.Friday: Boxed Kodak Ektachrome 100 vs. reloaded Kodak Ektachrome 100d in the Pentax 17 half-frame film camera.

Sunday, February 2 — When the world changed overnight; I know. I was there: We are a perverse species. We harbor our hurts, and immortalize them. It’s evolution: people who didn’t obsessively think about how Uncle Bob was eaten by the large cat with saber teeth probably also ended up as kitty chow.

Miracles won’t kill you, so we forget the miracles.