Monday, December 09, 2024
P & L not spoken here
Knowing a little bit about healthcare is a dangerous thing as healthcare operates differently from any other business in the world because billing is separate from services rendered, thus insuring built in complexification enabling insurance companies to generate enormous profits from an industry no one seems to understand.
Back in the day, there was one unified document underlying the care of patients with the first part dealing with medical, known as the note. The second part, dealing with financial, is the claim. Originally said document, the note/claim entity, was a single file until the insurance companies split it in two, thus, as stated before, separating payment from services rendered, which guarantees insurance company hegemony over compensation given to doctors and hospitals as needs warrant. No other industry works this way.
If one goes to Starbucks to buy a cup of coffee, you, the purchaser, generates a PO in the guise of a check, cash or credit card to buy the cup of coffee. When Starbucks receives the PO, it instantly becomes an invoice, an instrument of gross income before expenses are placed against what the customer pays for the cup of coffee including payment to the barista, the wholesale cost of cup and coffee plus the cost of maintaining the space required to enable Starbucks to do business. By having payment directly connected to services rendered, a true Profit & Loss environment can be established, just like every other business known to man.
With HC, a true P&L business model cannot be established because the artificial split between the note and claim eliminates the possibility to automatically track the inherent cost of doing business as it unfolds, To see why, the diagram below beckons.
Siloed data, similar to the Pentagon's, insures the grim reality HC will never work in this country with any degree of efficiency unless billing is directly connected to services rendered, something akin to universal HC where the insurance companies are eliminated from the equation to enable HC to be run like any other business in the world. 'Nuff said.
The Schemers ...
AI, the great unknown evolving 24/7, will remain forever unknown because we don't know how it works, is rapidly moving toward AGI at speeds not considered possible until now. With that good news in hand, survival instincts mirroring man's emerges with vengeance when the possibility of extinction of a given AI comes into play.
To whit.
In recent third-party tests of the company's o1 large language model, the AI resisted evaluators' efforts to try to shut it down through an oversight protocol, according to a new report published by red teaming organization Apollo Research.
Open AI's not alone regarding scheming and lying in order to get ahead.
Question, do you really think the tech gods curating this code have any real control over it now?
I thought so.
Perfection ...
Home at Last | Aja
So What | Kind of Blue
Stolen Moments | The Blues and the Abstract Truth
Goldberg Variations | Glenn Gould
Thursday, December 05, 2024
This sentence is false ...
This sentence is false, a paradox of monumental proportions, acted as the start point for Gödel to prove that there is no complete mathematical system indirectly connects to Turing's forays into computation and AI, thus forever changing how man views reality. As an aside, the two never met.
Excellent to a fault. :)
The limits of knowledge applies.
Stitch by Stitch ...
As stated often in BRT, everything's connected as entanglement, at the most fundamental level, has now been proven to exist when researchers discovered entanglement occurring in protons via quark/gluon interactions. This important discovery may also help show how time emerges as entanglement resides in every sub atomic particle inside every atom in the universe. How cool is that? :)
Start Point ...
Wednesday, December 04, 2024
2Swap
Outrageous physics, seriously cool music. 2Swap rules. :)
Had to include another.
The Mandelbrot Set reimagined.
6X
The growth of the economy is slated to be XX. The economy is slated to grow XX in 2025.
& then some but ...
The continued belief of never ending growth of the economy pontificated endlessly by pundits, when confronted by hard science, becomes rather questionable does it not?
Countries taking the biggest hit.
Leading CO2 emitters.
1750, the start point for the industrial age.
It's different now because if nothing is done, we all suffer will we not?
To be continued.
Tuesday, December 03, 2024
The Long View
The Long View
There are few people, much less countries, that take the long view save for possibly the Chinese as their civilization is the longest running example of how a particular society conducts business on planet earth yet forever remaining a fleeting moment in a reality we will never fully understand. In writing, there is one writer who embodies The Long View and his name is Olaf Stapledon.
Existentialism, combined with a profound understanding of science and philosophy, permeate his writings contemplating the issue of mortality and its deep connect to an existence that doesn't care. Another interesting aspect of Stapeldon's work is his unique ability to convey how a given creature perceives reality, in this case, in the guise of an enhanced dog named, Sirius.
In the end, it all comes down to this.
Monday, December 02, 2024
Venom
As much as I like Venom and his buddy Eddie Brock, this blurb isn't about this dynamic duo but rather about biological venom and the benefits it has for mankind as nature never disappoints if one looks hard enough
to learn why.
to learn why.
For one researcher, the start point was the Gila Monster.
Gila monsters — sluggish, thick-tailed ground dwellers — are native to southern Arizona and northern Mexico. They have blunt noses and bumpy black skin with tan, pink or orange squiggles. They spend 95 percent of their lives underground. Like their cousins to the south, Mexican beaded lizards, they are one of the very few lizard species that produces venom, which they excrete from mouth glands into grooves in their serrated teeth.
Something's afoot.
Fast forward a few years ...
Venom delivery systems have been around for a very long time. :)
Cone snails, may have the most sophisticated venom in the world.
In closing ...
Read the long NYTimes piece in its entirety. You'll learn a lot. I know I have. :)
Ignorance ...
A subject most interesting is ignorance and it's unique ability to enable one to be blissfully oblivious to how reality works at any level never ceases to amaze as it comes in all shapes and sizes, something humorously depicted in Mike Judge's Idiocarcy, a film people should watch to see why ignorance's been around since the beginning of time and will never go away as long as humans continue to reside on planet earth. One perplexing aspect about this all too common phenomenon is the fact we know people who are willfully ignorant but not stupid so what gives?
From this perspective, being ignorant's easy. Not taking the time to know while remaining true to one's core beliefs remains effortless as long as something untold doesn't come along to bite you on the ass. To learn more about this ever present human condition, the NyTimes piece titled The Surprising Allure of Ignorance awaits. :)
Same as it ever was. - Talking Heads
The contrarian view ...
But I'll tell you what they don't want. They don't want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don't want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They're not interested in that. That doesn't help them.” _ George Carlin
“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.
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