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The best evidence today actually says that you don't need to finish your course [0]. Not that you are wrong in the human consumption aspect. but finishing cours
by robbiep 11y ago
The best evidence today actually says that you don't need to finish your course [0]. Not that you are wrong in the human consumption aspect. but finishing courses could strengthen resistance and spread of resistant organisms by creating a selective pressure in the organism (the human) to only have bacterial colonization from those that are resistant
[0] https://www.mja.com.au/insight/2015/5/stop-antibiotics-experts https://www.mja.com.au/insight/2015/5/stop-antibiotics-exper...
- austinjp 11y agoWhile that's interesting I don't think it's "best evidence". Unfortunately our mechanisms for determining best evidence are woefully slow, complex, and expensive. Systematic reviews, for instance. Either this process needs to be improved (an excellent candidate for AI) or a nearly-as-good surrogate needs to be supported by policy makers.
- robbiep 11y agowhat are your thoughts on how an AI would perform this task?
- austinjp 11y agoMy thoughts on this are loosely formed :) However.... The systematic review and meta-analyses processes involve reading screeds of text and data; organising it; analysing it; weighing it against measures of quality; and conducting (often counter-intuitive) statistical procedures. This is the sort of thing that takes humans a loooooong time and is prone to error. A domain-specific AI would surely excel at tasks like this.