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You can write about AI

You can write with AI

But please, if you're going to attempt to say something about AI...something any of us would ever want to read...something that reflects your originality and humanity...please, just, don't write it with AI.

That's all I ask.

I would love to have some better tools in this day and age - specifically, I'd love to have devices that could offer real-time airborne monitoring for pathogens. I'd like two versions: a room air monitor for constant surveillance -- like in an ER or a classroom. Second, I'd like something that operated as a kind of breathalyzer, so you could for example invite people over to dinner with your grandmother, and test them all at the door to protect her. Something easier, less invasive, and more accurate than current home tests, especially when it comes to presymptomatic / asymptomatic cases.

Every few months I see a paper about this sort of thing or a startup, but then it seems to go nowhere.

Does anyone know of people or groups working in this space? I'd be happy to be beta tester. I'm immune-compromised and the lack of progress in technical solutions to airborne infection control after 5 years is a major bummer.

I became disabled a few years ago, and the most likely scenario for me is that I will stay on disability for the foreseeable future. But from time to time, I think about my halcyon days doing QA, which was a job I really liked.

This leads me to wonder -- is manual QA even a valid career path anymore? Or are these jobs being eaten by automation, AI, and the usual protestations that "devs do their own QA" and "we don't need QA"...in other words, forcing your users to become unpaid beta testers for a finished product and hoping for the best?

Just curious.

I'm being given a personal FAR-UVC device of 10 watts, and I want to test its efficacy on sars-cov-2.

My background is in QA, and also now patient advocacy. I am disabled and I'm part of a larger disabled community, and we are trying to figure out how to protect ourselves during medical appointments in unmasked facilities.

I've purchased some dosimeter cards from Intellego, but I'm having trouble figuring out exactly how to use them to figure out time / efficacy of disinfection.

One card changes color at 3, 6, 10, 20, and 30 mj/cm2. But I'm still seeing conflicting info in the research about exactly what intensity works to reduce sars-cov-2. Also there is a duration issue. The card shows when I've reached that amount of exposure but not the other question of duration (like 30 seconds at 3 mj/cm2).

I do not have $3,000 for a digital dosimeter.

Suggestions welcome!