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Record W2467617491

On the Net : Worshipping at the altar of the Palm Pilot

2000· article· en· W2467617491 on OpenAlexvenueaboutno aff
Michael O'Reilly

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Medical Association Journal · 2000
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicHealthcare Policy and Management
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAltarSkepticismComputer scienceSoftwareSet (abstract data type)Internet privacyWonderWorld Wide WebHistoryArt historyPhilosophyEpistemology
DOInot available

Abstract

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You either have the religion or you don‚t. That sentiment seems to sum things up when it comes to those little hand-held devices known as PDAs (personal digital assistants). Doctors who use devices such as the Palm Pilot say they are the greatest thing since the stethoscope. Meanwhile, those on the outside shake their heads in amused scepticism. As Dr. Gordon Hollway, a physician in Marathon, Ont., puts it: ”I always used to have a bunch of different things in different places. I‚d also have some addresses scribbled in my wordprocessing or email software, and then I‚d forget to update my address book and I‚d be left wondering which one was the most up-to-date version. Or I‚d be somewhere and someone would talk about a meeting and I wouldn‚t be able to reschedule it because I didn‚t have my Daytimer. Now, as long as I bring [my PDA] with me, I know I‚ll have all the basics that I need.” Wherever you fall in this theological debate, there is no doubt these devices are spreading like mad, and particularly within medicine. And with the modern software and capabilities of the new models, they are literally becoming a doc‚s best friend. One of the best sites for all that is Palm in medicine is at (www.pdamd.com). This site includes links to medically oriented software, online forums, reviews, and even a set of testimonials from physicians who love their Palms. An entire section is devoted to selecting the right PDA and there is a set of tutorials on how to make the best use of your new technological wonder. Another great site is Healthy PalmPilot (www.healthypalmpilot.com), created by Toronto physician Eric Tam. As he explains things, it was his quest for ”near lab-coat weightlessness” that led him to start using a PDA. His site includes more than 500 downloadable software resources for the practising physician, everything from organizers and patient management tools to diagnosis databases and wellness software. For those who still think the whole PDA phenomenon is laughable hype, take a look at Jim Thompson‚s Silly Pages site (www.jimthompson.net). Thompson, an emergency physician from PEI, is a Palm prophet who provides lots of good PDA resources, but he also knows how to laugh at the whole thing. He asks: ”Do we really need to say things like, ’Hey, look what I got on my Palm last night.‚?” Good question. —

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Commentary · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.148
Threshold uncertainty score0.496

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0070.002
Scholarly communication0.0050.007
Open science0.0010.004
Research integrity0.0020.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.1480.094

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.034
GPT teacher head0.227
Teacher spread0.193 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreCommentary

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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