Martin Wiesner

Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

-- Aristotle (384 - 322 BC)

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Leveraging Large Language Models to Improve the Readability of German Online Medical Texts: Evaluation Study Background: Patient education materials (PEMs) found online are often written at a complexity level too high for the average reader, which can hinder understanding and informed decision-making. Large ...

Leveraging Large Language Models to Improve the Readability of German Online Medical Texts: Evaluation Study

📔JMIR AI 2026;5:e77149
📚doi: 10.2196/77149

#GenAI #LLM #Readability

➡️ ai.jmir.org/2026/1/e77149

Die Zunahme an Predatory Practices – und kein Ende in Sicht? – ZB MED-Blog Unredliches Publizieren besteht längst nicht mehr nur aus Predatory Journals. Im Gegenteil: die Predatory Practices nehmen, befördert durch generative KI.

In unserem Blog finden Sie einen Beitrag, der einen Überblick über die Entwicklungen von #PredatoryPractices und weiterführende Informationen gibt: blog.zbmed.de/die-zunahme-...

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The one validated intervention to slow aging and extend healthspan is not for sale.
It's exercise.
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A meta-analysis of 13 studies comparing health care professionals vs generative A.I. showed the latter was more likely to be perceived as more empathetic in all but 1 study
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Comic. “Measure [Twice], cut [Once]” -Carpenty Proverb. [Scatter plot with number of measurements on y axis and number of cuts on x axis. Points in a descending line on graph: surveyor, surgeon, good carpenter, careless carpenter, really bad carpenter, serial killer]

Measure Twice, Cut Once

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Ruhig und gleichmäßig atmen.

Fast schon einen Flash-Back.

Comic. Bridge Types: Plank, Rope, Truss, Trestle, Arch, Suspended Arch, Draw, Suspension, Filler [bridge over hole filled in with rocks], Budget Overrun [bridge suspended by cables and extras], Jump [two ends of bridge are disconnected ramps; person crossing in the air on a skateboard], Halfhearted [bridge slopes down into hole], Waterbed [squiggly bridge above water as people crossing shake], L’engle [the hole the bridge is covering is warped so opposite sides of the bridge meet at one point underneath], Fun [bridge loops like a roller coaster; person skateboarding up the loop], Repurposed Elevator [horizontal elevator].

Bridge Types

xkcd.com/3097/

The remarkable benefit of exercise was just extended to improved survival after cancer in a randomized trial
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Der Sommer gehört den Kindern.

Eine Sammlung der Logos der Mitglieder der Allianz der Wissenschaftsorganisationen (AvH, DAAD, DFG, Fraunhofer, Helmholtz, HRK, Leibniz, Leopoldina, Max Planck Gesellschaft, Wissenschaftsrat)

Die Allianz der Wissenschaftsorganisationen hat Forderungen an die künftige Bundesregierung für ein zukunftsfähiges Wissenschaftssystem aufgestellt: www.allianz-der-wissenschaftsorganisationen.de/themen-stell...
@dfg.de @humboldt-foundation.de @wissrat.bsky.social

Incoming Asteroid xkcd.com/3049

Calling for your paper for the upcoming collection
Challenges in health data management
I’m honored to be serving as the collection’s Guest Editor and eager to read your submission. Learn more about the collection and how to contribute:
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#digitalhealth #datamanagement #medinf

Birthday cake adorned with the Wikipedia puzzle globe logo. Text says: Happy birthday to Wikipedia! Thank you to the nearly 260,000 volunteer editors that contribute to Wikipedia every month.

🎉 It is our birthday!

On this day in 2001, Wikipedia was launched.

Over two decades later, it has become one of the largest and most trusted sources of knowledge on the internet, with 63+ million articles in 300+ languages.

Read all about the history of Wikipedia ➡️ w.wiki/KYn

Preprints often make news. Many people don’t know what they are The public needs context about unreviewed manuscripts, survey suggests

There are many issues with preprints, but one of the biggest is when they are seen as credible before being peer-reviewed.

This is potentially very dangerous. A 🧵

🧪 #SciPub #AcademicSky

Reflection.
#Berlin #photograhy

Medical large language models are vulnerable to data-poisoning attacks - Nature Medicine Large language models can be manipulated to generate misinformation by poisoning of a very small percentage of the data on which they are trained, but a harm mitigation strategy using biomedical knowl...

On the other hand, "Poisoning" of Medical LLMs":
"We find that replacement of just 0.001% of training tokens with medical misinformation results in harmful models more likely to propagate medical errors."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Consumer perspectives on the national electronic health record and barriers to its adoption in Germany: does health policy require a change in communication? - BMC Health Services Research Background The national health record (ePA) was introduced January 1st, 2021 in Germany and is available to every person insured under statutory health insurance. This study investigated the acceptanc...

#OpenAccess 💡
"Consumer perspectives on the national electronic health record and barriers to its adoption in Germany: Does health policy require a change in communication?"

German #ePA | #Adoption #Communication #Expectations

bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Screenshot of the article.

“Collection of insane and fun facts about SQLite” avi.im/blag/2024/sq... #programming #databases #sqlite #compsci

"Why does the brain need billions of neurons to process 10 bits/second? Why can we only think about one thing at a time?"
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

From The Unbearable Slowness of Being

gematik macht Info-Veranstaltung zur ePA und die Server schaffen den Ansturm nicht. Und jetzt bin ich unsicher ob das gut oder schlecht ist.

Apache OpenNLP 2.5.1, fresh from the oven!

This patch release tackles 23 issues, introducing further, thread-safe versions of 🔑 components. Moreover, it includes 🪲 fixes, upgraded dependencies, improved dev 📚, and the inclusion of the #OpenNLP 1.2 models. #TheASF

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6 Highest-Paying Master’s Degrees To Pursue In 2025 If you're enroling on a master's degree program in 2025, you should evaluate its return on investment. Here are six high-paying master's degrees to study in 2025.

Health informatics is one of the six highest-paying master's degrees to pursue in modern times!
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Apache OpenNLP 2.5.0 is out!

In total, this release resolves 62 issues and brings several dependency updates, 🪲 fixes, substantial additions and some corrections 🏗️ for the API! #NLP #TheASF

Check out more here:
➡️ opennlp.apache.org/news/release...

New at Science
Evo, a large language of life (LLLM) genomic foundation model, predicting & generating tasks from molecular to genomic scale
science.org/doi/10.1126/...

23andMe is on the brink. What happens to all its DNA data? The once-hot Silicon Valley startup has seen its stock’s value decline 99% and is struggling to survive. That has put the spotlight on the genetic data it has on 15 million people.

The once-hot Silicon Valley startup has seen its stock’s value decline 99% and is struggling to survive. That has put the spotlight on the genetic data it has on 15 million people.