Moses Coulee today. Daniel Coe (WGS), Jerome Lesemann (VIU), Jordan Carey (CWU), Karen Capuder (CTCR), & Joel Gombiner (WGS).

New NEJM paper finds that LLMs are poor at autonomous coding --> prone to hallucinations.

It's actually a good tailwind for building in this space since you need to fine tune models with training data likely from a health system or rev cycle partner.

This is clearly not heading in the right direction: 3-month annualized change in core PCE #inflation up to +4.4% in March

Not great!!

Latest update at zacklabe.com/climate-change… #ClimateChange

CATL’s new LFP battery promises a 10-min charge for 370 miles of range interestingengineering.com/energy/catls-n…

Why does the United States still import crude oil? Answer: Not all crude oil is the same. The U.S. produces more light crude oils, but U.S. refineries are geared to process medium-heavier crude oils. This difference is made up with imports of heavy crude oils - mainly from Canada

Nemat Shafik - Columbia University Prez only has 1 well-cited publication in her life, in Oxford Econ Papers 1994.
This paper is lifted almost entirely from a 1992 report coauthored with consultant not credited in the publication.
This is wholesale intellectual theft, not subtle plagiarism

20-50% of milk samples in the U.S. are now testing positive for avian flu, which is also spreading to and killing cats in close contact with cows on farms (who are likely drinking raw milk).

tick tock

statnews.com/2024/04/25/h5n…

Republic Bank out of Philadelphia failed today, the latest FDIC failure going back to November.

And it was apparently b/c of its mortgage biz, which like First Republic Bank, relied upon growing its 'jumbo residential mortgage portfolio at below-market interest rates.'

Per a…

Four female officers are planning to sue Seattle Police over allegations of sexual harassment. Their alleged perpetrators are Chief Adrian Diaz, Lt. John O’Neil and a human resources investigator who handled their complaints. kuow.org/stories/seattl…

One-year population change by county

via ResiClub

Canada needs to improve indoor air quality for kids as an early wildfire season looms, advocates say trib.al/6X4KQlb

El Nino still hangs on, with a tiny spot of cold in the far east.

If app-based food delivery was actually a viable business, they would just hire employees as drivers and get on with it.

Police arrested Pikesville High School’s former athletic director & charged him w/ allegedly using AI to impersonate Principal Eric Eiswert, leading the public to believe Eiswert made racist and antisemitic comments behind closed doors.
thebaltimorebanner.com/education/k-12…

After weeks of talking to on the ground people and looking at available data, I am pretty certain that the outbreak is much more widespread than official numbers. And the lack of timely sharing of data and no clear answers to many key questions is alarming.

We need to step up.

Stagflation makes intuitive sense to me with massive wealth inequality. An increasingly small group of people just pay more and more for the same set of goods and services, because they can.

Moving a bit towards stagflation. Tough place for policy.

Well, it is all stolen and so is the rest of the country. But the 'crime' alleged here is not selling off/giving away that western part to private owners (the feds tried, all through the 19th/early 20th centuries!).
Also, they couldn't even draw that line accurately...

The Healthcare Big Short: There was a 50% chance your data was stolen. Change Healthcare, owned by UnitedHealth, has been hacked 2x in 2 months. They process 50% of all Healthcare Bills. Ransom was paid both times. The 2nd time after they leaked your data for all to see.…