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Ok, this title is straight up ridiculous. "In early 2017, a doctor at the Louis Pasteur Center for Medical Research, in Kyoto, saw a television segment about t

Ok, this title is straight up ridiculous. "In early 2017, a doctor at the Louis Pasteur Center for Medical Research, in Kyoto, saw a television segment about the BakeryScan. He realized that cancer cells, under a microscope, looked kind of like bread. He contacted brain, and the company agreed to begin developing a version of BakeryScan for pathologists." There, saved you a (paywalled) click. a consulting company which gained attention through their program "BakeryScan" got hired to develop something for pathologists.

melling 6y ago
People that read the New Yorker want to learn and to be entertained. I don’t think we should so quickly discount the style of writing: “One morning in the spring of 2019, I entered a pastry shop in the Ueno train station, in Tokyo. The shop worked cafeteria-style. After taking a tray and tongs at the front, you browsed, plucking what you liked from heaps of baked goods. What first struck me was the selection, which seemed endless: there were croissants, turnovers, Danishes, pies, cakes, and open-faced sandwiches piled up everywhere, sometimes in dozens of varieties. But I was most surprised when I got to the register. At the urging of an attendant, I slid my items onto a glowing rectangle on the counter. A nearby screen displayed an image, shot from above, of my doughnuts and Danish. I watched as a set of jagged, neon-green squiggles appeared around each item, accompanied by its name in Japanese and a price. The system had apparently recognized my pastries by sight. It calculated what I owed, and I paid.”
- zwieback 6y ago
  Agreed, there's so much complaining about the state of journalism these days. Like the New Yorker or not but it is a good place to go for high quality longform pieces that are read by a large audience.
- latenightcoding 6y ago
  Fair point. I guess I was just surprised this made it to the front page of HN

melling 6y ago

People that read the New Yorker want to learn and to be entertained. I don’t think we should so quickly discount the style of writing: “One morning in the spring of 2019, I entered a pastry shop in the Ueno train station, in Tokyo. The shop worked cafeteria-style. After taking a tray and tongs at the front, you browsed, plucking what you liked from heaps of baked goods. What first struck me was the selection, which seemed endless: there were croissants, turnovers, Danishes, pies, cakes, and open-faced sandwiches piled up everywhere, sometimes in dozens of varieties. But I was most surprised when I got to the register. At the urging of an attendant, I slid my items onto a glowing rectangle on the counter. A nearby screen displayed an image, shot from above, of my doughnuts and Danish. I watched as a set of jagged, neon-green squiggles appeared around each item, accompanied by its name in Japanese and a price. The system had apparently recognized my pastries by sight. It calculated what I owed, and I paid.”

zwieback 6y ago
Agreed, there's so much complaining about the state of journalism these days. Like the New Yorker or not but it is a good place to go for high quality longform pieces that are read by a large audience.
latenightcoding 6y ago
Fair point. I guess I was just surprised this made it to the front page of HN