Interesting Links for 06-06-2023

[andrewducker]

1. The "death of self-driving cars" has been greatly exaggerated

2. Cameron-Osborne austerity left UK 'hugely unprepared' for Covid

(tags:Pandemic austerity UK doom )

3. Lung cancer pill which cuts risk of death by half 'should change the way patients are treated'

(tags:cancer medicine )

4. Austrian party reverses leadership result after spreadsheet hiccup

(tags:spreadsheet elections fail viaSwampers )

5. Twitter U.S. advertising sales sink to less than half of what they were a year ago

(tags:Twitter advertising Doom )

6. There's an unusual case of Covid that is being tracked through waste water - not not accurately enough to find the person

(tags:Pandemic infection USA )

Comments

3. Lung Cancer Pill

[snippy]

This is great - for people with that gene mutation, whose cancer is operable. Still, great!
My mother died of lung cancer almost 20 years ago. They didn't find it until after it had metastasized.

Re: 3. Lung Cancer Pill

[andrewducker]

Yeah, it's only going to affect a niche number of total cancer sufferers. Hopefully we can keep chipping away until we get all of them!

Sorry to hear about your mother - cancer is a horrible thing.

1 Self-driving cars

[anna_wing]

I'd also be interested to know what has been happening in Shenzhen since August 2022, when it promulgated its regulations for driverless vehicles.

https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/3187483/chinas-southern-tech-hub-shenzhen-becomes-first-city-mainland-regulate

Chongqing and Wuhan, too.

Re: 1 Self-driving cars

[andrewducker]

I found https://cryptonews.com/news/ponyai-introduces-driverless-robotaxi-service-shenzhen-following-successful-launch-guangzhou.htm and https://technode.com/2023/01/20/baidu-operates-self-driving-commercial-service-in-shenzhens-pingshan-district/
Would love to know how advanced they are!

Re: 1 Self-driving cars

[mellowtigger]

Interesting links. China seems to be leading most of the practical AI services in the world. Half a decade ago, iFlyTek produced an AI that passed China's written portion of their national medical licensing exam. They now offer a range of interesting products.

https://global.iflytek.com/

[hairyears]

(4) You know what I do for a living.

[andrewducker]

Undermine Austrian democracy?

[hairyears]

I noodle spreadsheets in a very large bank.

For the avoidance of doubt: not that spreadsheet.