Sunday, March 1, 2020
CDC guidance of evaluating and testing for Coronavirus
Official health update of what to do to Medical officers distributed by CDC - centres of Disease control and prevention
Recognising the systems
- fever/ short of breath - and sending them for testing -
- Someone who has been in close contact with a positively identified carrier
How to test for SARS-CoV-2.
- collect and test upper respiratory tract specimens (nasopharyngeal AND oropharyngeal swabs).
- test lower respiratory tract specimens, if available.
- For patients who develop a productive cough, sputum should be collected and tested for SARS-CoV-2. The induction of sputum is not recommended.
- For patients for whom it is clinically indicated (e.g., those receiving invasive mechanical ventilation), a lower respiratory tract aspirate or bronchoalveolar lavage sample should be collected and tested as a lower respiratory tract specimen.
- Specimens should be collected as soon as possible once a PUI is identified, regardless of the time of symptom onset.
How to handle specimens
See Interim Guidelines for Collecting, Handling, and Testing Clinical Specimens from Patients Under Investigation (PUIs) for COVID-19 (https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-nCoV/lab/guidelines-clinical-specimens.html) and Biosafety FAQs for handling and processing specimens from suspected cases and PUIs (https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/lab/biosafety-faqs.html).
https://emergency.cdc.gov/han/2020/han00428.asp
Explanation by World Health Organisation of what Coronavirus is and show it can be spread
Saturday, February 29, 2020
Best Marketing Strategy Ever - Apple - think different
Friday, February 28, 2020
Deep Learning and the Alpha Node - will you be the next victim of AI
No matter how experienced or qualified you are - your job will be effected by big data and the “AI machine”
Take the example of a recruiter in the IT industry
Can your decisions and years of experience be transformed into the "Decision Matrix” or the "alpha node"?
Thr “alpha node” will make all the decisions and functioning in the organization on your behalf providing the requisite competitive advantage and that too with greater efficiency - based on big data and the deep neural networking learning that will be calculated through the relevant algorithms of quantum computing.
So let's find the ideal Post for an organisation
The alpha node
- will learn the skills, traits, and the intellectual map for the role.
- pool candidates that come from a certain sample space not leveraging the true pool of candidates.
- would get access to candidates' digital profile mapping all the critical skills, along with the knowledge required. The bias of Harvard, MIT would end, as the cognitive construction that only those institutes produce top graduates invoking a bias. (Flawed?)
- The "alpha hire" would be bias-free and won't require degree and experience rather skill and that is what required by 2025 to survive for corporations.
- the vision would triumph in alpha hire rather than experience, the critical point is what can you do for an organization and how??
- The written or AI-based oral interviews can gauge the candidate's logical understanding, focusing on routine points of what have the candidate had done in the past;
- post-selection may still be at your disposal? From bonuses to your efficiency - nope - everything will be in under alpha node
The matrix is powerful and all situational based decision could be carried out by it.
Maybe the HR data scientists will also be hired by "alpha node" to keep innovating the model.
So the competitive advantage of an organisation and simultaneously cost-cutting will make Corporation go for the "alpha node hire"
How can the “alpha node” respect diversity and vision before it's too late?
Is there a place for human gut feel and intuition?
What do you think
Tuesday, February 11, 2020
Innovation vs Process
We have been talking of how corporates need to innovate.... innovation comes from people who think differently - the misfits.....
Is there a place for misfits in an enterprise ?
I mean look at the stats - there are many creative “geniuses “ running around The Valley and Incubators around the world - the reality is that 9 out of 10 start ups end bellyup...
It’s difficult to create a structure or organisation around these humans and innovators - it’s actually counterintuitive to the way they operate or want to operate.
“Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules… You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things… they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do. — Steve Jobs, 1997”
No matter how brilliant your product or service or innovation is - without a process to capture their genius it is just chaos.
A culture of team and encouraging misfits, genius and brilliant jerks ….. Is their a place for both ?
If so how do you do this ?
Also see “celebrating the misfits vs Atlassian ideal - is there place for both”
https://australianinnovation.blogspot.com/2019/08/so-do-you-celebrate-misfits-or-focus-on.html