There’s an interesting take over at recode on Zoom fatigue and the pandemic-forced trend towards geographically distant but still face-to-face interaction, aka telepresence. 

Even after the pandemic ends, video chat will play an increasingly important role at work, for school, in health care, and in our relationships with friends and family. The pandemic not only pushed this technology into new scenarios of our daily lives but also forced people to learn how to use it. Folks that hadn’t tried Zoom, FaceTime, or

Goodhart’s Law is named for Charles Goodhart, a British economist who in 1975 popularized the idea that

Any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes.

I think it was meant humorously, but the pungent truth of the statement made it stick.

The point is sound.  Essentially, any statistic that becomes a target ceases to be a good measurement.

Chasing a statistic causes people and organizations to ignore the unintended or secondary/tertiary/etc. consequences, which may, in fact, MATTER A WHOLE LOT.

Prranshu Yadav has a good post featuring four “profound ways

The point:  today’s AI programs wouldn’t choose Steve Jobs for the job/jobs he had. The AI programs in use today are really filter and high level analysis tools.  There is an opportunity to forge a new way of measuring people that leverages both AI and the intangible traits that likely matter equally, if not more, than the things on paper.

Resumes aren’t typically worth much more than a few minutes of your time, and yet Steve Jobs’ 1973 resume sold for $174,000 as if it were a piece of art–and in many ways

I just learned about HARPA in the Avicenna Alliance Monthly Newsletter…

HARPA, as per the website, is focused on disease treatments, but I think it will go beyond that.

I also smell AI, M&S, ML, Data Analytics, AR/VR, more mRNA efforts, etc. – tons and tons of things will fit into this program.  This looks to be a $300 Billion initiative.

HARPA is a federal initiative proposed by the Suzanne Wright Foundation…

Check out this blueprint for the organization.

HARPA will…

• Develop and apply state-of-the-art tools and technologies to enable vast improvements
  

Simulation-based medical training is considered an effective tool to acquire/refine technical skills, mitigating the ethical issues of Halsted’s model. This review aims at evaluating the literature on medical simulation techniques based on augmented reality (AR), mixed reality (MR), and hybrid approaches.

Applied Sciences doi: 10.3390/app11052338 Authors: Rosanna Maria Viglialoro Sara Condino Giuseppe Turini Marina Carbone Vincenzo Ferrari Marco Gesi Simulation-based medical training is considered an effective tool to acquire/refine technical skills, mitigating the ethical issues of Halsted’s model.

Source: Applied Sciences, Vol. 11, Pages 2338: Augmented Reality, Mixed Reality, and Hybrid Approach in

Have you ever thought about where you can leverage a particular technology throughout the entirety of an industry?  When I transitioned from defense work into the U.S. healthcare industry about ten years ago – and particularly focused on the modeling and simulation toolset – I created a concept map that helped me get my head around the myriad areas within the healthcare industry where, broadly, modeling and simulation can be used to impart value.

Here’s that concept map, also hosted (and easier to read) at www.medsimcmaps.org.

I was hoping to be able to embed the video found here within this blog post, but, alas, the good folks at Harvard Business Review made that a bit too difficult, so I’m providing the link.

Michael Porter and Jim Heppelmann do a terrific job explaining why anyone – especially anyone in business – should give a darn about augmented reality, or AR.  For those who like to read, there’s a great article from 2017 that accompanies the video, too.

Augmented reality, a set of technologies