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What even is this assignment Interview 1 CS student They do not believe this technology has its use in too many industries. It's far too specific on handwriting detection which is only useful for any industry that directly involves handwritten notes or overall image detection. For instance, a home system that learns your work/sleep schedule and has everything prepared for you ahead of time has no need for handwriting detection. They do not know much about pharmacies, but this technology only really benefits anyone handling the prescriptions, since most of the rest of the industry doesn't really use handwritten notes at all. They simply don't have any real use for this technology. Interview 2 Coworker I feel like I fall outside "the boundary" you talk about. I personally don't want my job taken. I like my job. It is easy and I make money. The tiny amount of time saved in prescription handling doesn't really justify me not having my job. I don'...

Haha look at me I'm pretending I'm a CapITaLISt HO HO LOL GIvE mE MonEy I hATe EmPLoYeEs Words? So there I am at work, tap tap tap, typing away at a computer. Sounds like a normal desk job right? It's a bit too normal. All I do is type up prescriptions digitally. Ten hours a day, four days a week. It's bad enough for me with ADHD, but with 500 employees on the floor doing this day in and day out, it can be pretty mind numbing for anyone. And I'm thinking to myself as I am working, that I felt like a robot, and not in a good way. Then it hit me. There's literally millions upon millions of these prescriptions entered and stored. And we have machine learning algorithms to take thousands of images and learn what's in them and export them to text or even a new image. What I'm saying is why don't we literally let a robot take my job? Walgreens would be saving by not having to employ 500 monkeys at typewriters. What could go wrong with the employees an...

My job is weird. I don't mean this negatively. I mean this in the sense why are humans still doing this? Data entry of prescriptions? It seems like this is something a robot should be doing. And I don't mean this in a "robots should take our jobs" sense (even though they should). I mean this in the sense of why are we relying on humans to mash out what's written on prescriptions when the technology exists to better extract data from handwritten text and even better so from printed text. My point is we already have millions of training examples correctly documented. If we used these as training data for a machine learning algorithm, it would be able to create immediate more accurate prescriptions for pharmacists. Not only that, but imagine how good AI could become at reading handwriting if it can decipher doctor cursive! This potentially has many uses outside of the pharmacy just in terms of technological advancement alone. Now this is just one possible solution...

Problem: My job (pharmaceutical data entry for transcribing prescriptions) is too tedious for humans to do, and there's a lot of room for error, and it'd drive most people nuts to sit 8 hours a day, 5 days a week (or 10 x 4 in my case) for months on end. There is probably an easier way to do this to shorten prescription processing time, error possibilities, and tediousness. It's possible this can be improved by automation, but this presents issues with the employed and may not help much. There is still plenty of room for improvement especially if I think my own job is unnecessarily tedious and repetitive. Questions: 1) Who do you think has this problem, aside from the data entry technicians, pharmacists, and doctors? Who could benefit from improving prescription processing? 2) What do you think the issues are with this? Is this really an issue? Given that about 500 people would lose entry level jobs over it if the system is greatly improved, is a loss of 500 data entry ...

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/disney-world-fight-for-15-minimum-wage_us_5b8457c8e4b0162f471b7d44 1) This is local news to me, and technically speaking I've been watching the Fight for 15 for a while. I know this is a recent issue so I deliberately searched for this topic. 2) An opportunity exists here, since Disney is one of the largest employers in all of Florida, and one of the most prominent companies in all of America. If Disney starts paying their employees a livable wage, maybe the other disgustingly ruthless employers (I'm looking at you, Amazon and Walmart) will pay their employees much better and give them a chance to you know. Live. 3) The "customer" here in this case is the employee, but they're actually getting paid a wage that allows them not to have to sell their kidneys just to buy food, and thus they can use that extra money to actually buy proper food and afford medical treatment for once. 4) This opportunity is not difficult to exploit....

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/sns-bc-us--disney-labor-20180827-story.html Disney offers 46 percent raises, could use more part-timers Disney is underpaying workers, and several unions are working together to form a proposal to help get workers $15 an hour. This proposal is would raise employee pay by 46% over the course of 3 years. This also means Disney is going to be hiring more part timers. The problem is that under the unfortunately structured economic system we have, people have to work at least two full time jobs just to survive at minimum wage. Raising the pay to $15 per hour helps allow people to you know, actually afford to live, instead of debating whether they need groceries or necessary meds more one week because of how disgustingly expensive they are. This proposal will most likely pass through, since it seems that Disney is all for it. The proletariat has this problem. They have to cut their hands and sell their kidneys just to survive in this world. This...