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>so much potential for software to improve that field

Reading Dr Fei Fei Li's "The worlds I see" really drove this home. And not just ecology, Soooo many fields would benefit from that type of interdisciplinary communication. Medicine, 100k people die a year from medical mistakes. Some would be remedied with something as simple as a sensor that detects when a patient has been still too long.

It's basically a book on the history of computer vision paired with a biography, and it's amazing to see how much early psychological, neurological work went in to the early field of computer vision. And how much cooperation needed to happen for ai to even come near healthcare. Really made me appreciate how interconnected nearly all intellectual pursuits are.