For most public jobs, there is a lot of practice and preparation.

This sounds like a very good thing. We obviously need to have a more resilient supply chain if we're going to take on an actual enemy.

It talked about how big Iran is as if that mattered. What about China or Russia? They're pretty big, aren't they?

Resiliency is good, but developing surge capacity is not free, and the US cannot afford it. Excessive military spending bankrupted the USSR.

The US has no chance of ever successfully engaging China in direct combat. China almost certainly has secret drones spread out in the mainland US that will destroy domestic US bases in a single day. As for China's own missiles, they're so spread out that they can never be neutralized.

"facial recognition" "dating app"

Was surprised to find it was Match and OkCupid and not Tinder/Grindr

That sounds like something a baseball umpire would say.

1000 in 10,000 mammograms come back positive by human radiologist.

50 in 10,000 are actually cancer.

It is interesting that the article did not say what the positive rate of detection was, or the false positive rate.

Either way, of course, The next step would be to have a human eyeball it. Probably in India or China or some other low-cost provider. Only the wealthiest can afford the immense salary of a US-based radiologist.

Fun fact: I know a radiologist and her visual acuity is freaky good. I doubt that AI will be able to beat her unless they force it into a multi-day marathon.

https://radltd.com/four-reassuring-statistics-about-abnormal...

Back before things got way worse, the false negative rate from a human human radiologist was 10 out of 10,000.

https://radiologybusiness.com/topics/medical-imaging/womens-...

It'd be about the same Jerry Springer style

Aren't most exUS stocks dominated by the US economy?

Getting mostly out of hateful 8 hype isn't bad though when they're going down...

https://investor.vanguard.com/investment-products/etfs/profi...

It took 200 years for Western Arabic numerals to take over accounting from Roman numerals.

That's a cautionary tale of entrenched interest if I ever heard one.

We are so much better off than in 1914 that it's ridiculous to even worry about the comparative value of an arbitrary unit of value exchange.