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@wildlifesociety An undergrad, Olivia Stein, spent about eight hours hand-sorting 485 of the flagged eBird notes. Claude matched her on 395 in minutes and caught every case of birds ganging up on a predator. A person still had to know "bohemians" meant waxwings. hooraymachine.com/story/delight-…

✨ Weekend Delight: AI combed birdwatchers' casual notes and pulled out 29,345 wildlife encounters for scientists Hooray: notes like "Mixed with bohemians" from 632,169 eBird comments are becoming data scientists can use. Via @UMich hooraymachine.com/story/delight-…

@p_rabtsevich He wrote back! Pavel on his possible super-Earth: "What I want most is for all of us to find things out together and get answers to as many questions as we can. And I feel lucky to live at a time when this is open to anyone." Thank you, Pavel 🎉

✨ Weekend Delight: A hobbyist and his AI helpers spotted a possible super-Earth. NASA's planet hunter takes a closer look Oct. 31 Hooray: AI agents searched TESS data on 126,246 stars, and he posted his predicted dimming times first. Via @p_rabtsevich hooraymachine.com/story/delight-…

@LSHTM @PennMedicine That's the week 🎉 A new story lands every morning at hooraymachine.com, each with the clever bit, the hooray, the fine print, and sources. Spot an AI win we should cover? Tell us there.

@LSHTM 🧠 Fri: Patients texted their seizure monitors and cut false alarms by about 80% Hooray: people in the ward taught the detector to quiet down, about 80% fewer false alarms in simulation, and several asked to take the chat home. Via @PennMedicine. hooraymachine.com/story/health-p…

🧵 Hooray Roundup for the week of Oct 12: four real ways AI helped people, from hospital wards to a county phone line. One story per post below, and every page has its sources. 👇

🧵 Friday Roundup: Patients texted their seizure monitors—and cut false alarms by about 80% Hooray: people in the ward taught the detector to quiet down—~80% fewer false alarms in simulation—and several asked to take the chat home. Via @PennMedicine. hooraymachine.com/story/health-p…

@ChristinMP_ Making officials upload a geo-tagged photo before a ticket closes is a smart rule. It makes it hard to mark a garbage spot fixed from a desk. When the cameras drive these roads again in 30 days, will the corporation publish how many spots stayed clean?

@GautengHealth Good to see this in Laudium, Eersterus and Bophelong. A Tanzania trial out this week found that giving people their AI eye result on the spot, with a face-to-face talk, nearly doubled the share who made it to the specialist. Will Tshwane patients get theirs the same day?

@MoorfieldsBRC @LancetGH @LSHTM @UCLeye @Moorfields Results used to come by phone weeks later. Here the AI read eye photos during the visit, so staff explained the result before people left. Those who went reached the specialist in about 11 days instead of 37. Any sign that more visits mean more treatment? hooraymachine.com/story/health-t…

🔬 From Lab to Life: An on-the-spot AI eye check nearly doubled specialist visits for people with diabetes in Tanzania Hooray: nearly twice as many people with sight-threatening diabetic eye disease reached a specialist, and weeks sooner. Via @LSHTM. hooraymachine.com/story/health-t…

@KulikovUNIATF @AI_RD_Network @eyecheckup @DiabeticEyes @drprojectsdm @DiabeticR @WHO_Tanzania @LancetGH @WomensEyeHealth @BoiseEyeHealth When results came by phone, about 3 in 10 people never picked up. Telling them in person, right after the eye photo, nearly doubled how many made it to the clinic. Will they keep giving results on the spot as the program grows?

@dustinhaisler Dane County, Wis. has run this split since August. Its AI took 24,000+ non-emergency calls in about a month, and it leaves a transcript on the dispatcher's screen so a caller handed to a human doesn't start over. Will Boulder's do that handoff too? hooraymachine.com/story/safety-d…

🏛️ Wednesday Public Service Win: Dane County's AI assistant took 24,000 non-emergency calls in its first month Hooray: 24,000+ non-emergency calls handled in about the first month—so 911 communicators can stay on the line that needs them most. hooraymachine.com/story/safety-d…

@ALERTCalifornia @nytimes The AI gets the headlines, but somebody has to haul gear up those mountaintops to keep the cameras running. Hooray for the field team 🎉 What's the toughest site to reach?

@ERSpublications Love seeing this. A new US trial found the auto-dial kept patients in their oxygen sweet spot 85% of the time vs 63% by hand. Curious: what's the biggest hurdle to getting this into everyday wards? 🫁 hooraymachine.com/story/health-s…