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Yeah but in South Africa medical aid rates are regulated by the government and all companies have to stick with that rate. The idea is that if you keep your customers healthy then there are fewer claims.
Oh for sure. It's a carrot-type program though. So you don't get any penalties for not doing something, but you get rewards for doing things.
Largest medical insurance company (Discovery Health) in South Africa has just launched a sleep rewards program as part of their wellness program (Vitality). The idea is that you get rewarded for getting good sleeping scores... which is not entirely in your control, but anyway. Their model is built by looking at years of sleep data combined with health insurance claims. They place a large emphasis on sleep regularity. Anyway, just interesting to see this study come up and it seems to match up sort of with the Vitality stuff. There will ofc be many confounding variables though...
GOTO3 and loop? Don't you mean GOTO2 and loop ;)
Yep, same in South Africa. I still haven't accepted those T's & C's from a few years ago so can't chat with most businesses. In some cases there is no other option, so I just... don't use that company.
On the other hand, I've convinced a lot of my friends to get Signal. I'm the only person that they speak to on Signal, but that's fine ;)
My take from going through comments on HN is that many people are being mandated to use them, not that they are just giving in. Maybe I'm misreading, but that was my impression.
I’m now paying for Kagi :/
Let’s do both?
I was discussing a change we wanted to make to some tables in one of the DBs, but it would require a lot of effort because of the sheer size. Anyway, after saying how much effort would be required the response I got was to “please ask ChatGPT.” It gave a slightly different response, but changed it after I presented it with my solution and agreed that was the better approach. Just… sigh
I gave exactly the same comment to a colleague at work today :D
Seen it used in some of the fraud models (I work in insurance). So that's both from the perspective of people trying to claim fraudulently and from suppliers over charging. I can't say how much of a lift we actually get vs existing ML models
How often does it correctly identify that the blog post was actually written by Claude or ChatGPT etc? :)
I see, yes, you need to have two, otherwise science cannot happen
How many countries should be included before it should be published?
Sunshine in the UK?? :P
I read the title and felt personally attacked :(
Yep. We work with CMT and we’ve both done extensive testing on this. I think that often people don’t necessarily know what a hard braking event actually means, or how it’s quantified. Giving that realtime feedback helps close that gap in understanding
I’ve played guitar for 20 years, but I’ve decided to do something different and just got some drums. I need to spend some time away from work lest I suffer from burnout again…
If anything I’ve learnt more because I’m having to go and find bugs in areas that I’m not super clued up on… yet ;)
Yes, we are. South African company.
Haha no - then it wouldn't have got a gold medal ;)
I was included in Strava’s beta testing for their AI offering (Athlete Intelligence). It was useful in no way at all, and the prod version out now is no better. Disabled that.
My bank also started offering a chatbot through WhatsApp to let you query transactions etc, but it hallucinated stuff so I’ve stopped that too.
Haha that’s exactly why I clicked on the story :)
Yep. I skipped a tech conference in Feb where we announced a major partnership with a Canadian company (I’m from South Africa). I do not want to travel to the US in the current climate.
Mine won’t activate because I have Siri and my iPhone set to different versions of English… according to Apple. Both are set to English (South Africa), but it still thinks they are different and so won’t activate. I am not complaining!
This is exactly what a dentist tried to do to me! My normal dentist wasn’t available so I saw another one (she had great google reviews!). This dentist said I had a tooth that was bad and she would have to do an implant, but then I should do all the teeth around it because otherwise “it will look weird”. She told me it was urgent and had to be done in like a month. Quote was about $10k (I live in South Africa and this amount of money is even more ridiculous here). Then gave me all the info on how I could finance it. I went back to my normal dentist and she said yeah, just need one filling and we’re good. Saw another dentist too, and she also agreed I didn’t need a full set of new teeth.
Anyway, I was chatting to a friend after this experience and it turned out this dentist had sexually harassed him in addition to doing a bunch of unneeded procedures (without telling him what she was doing).
Think of all that time spent commuting that could be used delivering share holder value... Now it's wasted, just so that people can come in to the office. SO MUCH WASTED POTENTIAL SHARE HOLDER VALUE
The best one I got recently was after I pointed out that the method didn’t exist, it proposed another method and said “use this method if it exists” :D
There are many countries where this is not true. Look up loadshedding in South Africa, for example.
“Remain neutral on all topics.
Do not start responses with the word "Certainly".
Do not ever lie to me.”
Still doesn’t listen to the second instruction most of the time, and then apologises when I point it out.