That’s pretty cool. All I know about CPR is that doing it right is traumatic and may break the subject’s ribs. And Staying Alive. That’d give me pause before just winging it as a bystander.

I’m frankly shocked 45% of men received CPR from bystanders. I had no idea CPR training was that widespread.

The local police should also need to go to court to access their own cameras. The 4th amendment protects against police surveiling people without a warrant.

As far as I understand it, the alternatives do not include a nationwide search as part of their features. Flock is actually especially bad on that front.

That said, I think most of the emotional revulsion against Flock is just the idea of persistent tracking of everyone by your local police force, and that isn’t mitigated by a brand switch.

One slide in that day’s presentation showed that in April alone, Mythos had uncovered 90 “critical” bugs and 141 “important” ones in SharePoint, Microsoft’s widely used collaboration software. In the first half of May it found even more.

If an organization the size of Microsoft is struggling to fix 231 bugs in a month, that’s an indictment of Microsoft, not an example of some impossible task. Tech companies have been laying off people left and right and this is a threat to their core business. Most of these shouldn’t be more than adding some input checking.

This is like saying computational biology is not suited for real science, as AlphaFold beat existing docking search algorithms on accuracy. Neither means you just get an answer spit out and your science is done, but it doesn’t mean they’re not productive tools in the process.

And all of these predictive methods, ML and not, are biased to existing data, because that’s all the information we have to guide their development and gauge their success.