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by Gatsky 4y ago
One new reason to ignore this advice: so people know you are not chatGPT.
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Bryan Caplan’s advice: “Stop paying attention to things that aggravate you unless (a) they concretely affect your life AND (b) you can realistically do something about them. Start by ceasing to follow national and world news.”
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“Bookmark this comment. See you in 2022.”(twitter.com)
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by Gatsky 4y ago
And for only 5 minutes?
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Frankly, the average diagnostic performance of the stethoscope doesn’t justify this approach [1]. The real world performance will be even worse. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7192898/
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Mindfulness in this study: > Participants were informed they should sit down in a chair or, if they preferred, to lie down, and then to set a timer for 5 min. Then they were told to close their eyes and to start breathing while focusing
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by Gatsky 4y ago
All good points, but you would surely agree that despite that it is better than the stethoscope? Particularly in ambulatory care rather than ED, where there isn’t a CT scanner down the corridor. ED docs are forever trying to diagnose aortic
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by Gatsky 4y ago
TLDR: Yes. An inordinate amount of time is spent teaching auscultation (using a stethoscope) to doctors. The diagnostic performance isn’t that great even under ideal conditions. Having bedside ultrasound would really improve things for pati
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Could include a default 15-20% gratuity that gets tacked onto the bill at the end? I’ve been to places outside of the US that do this. It’s ‘opt-out’ tipping.
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A bit of self-knowledge goes a long way. If you are prone to procrastination, tend to have grandiose visions of what you’re going to do, like to avoid conflict, reach for various ad hoc rationalisations when you underperform, like to really
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by Gatsky 4y ago
Obvious that these authors listed ChatGPT to get attention. The papers themselves are very short. The medxriv preprint [1] should be a blogpost. The paper in Oncoscience is nonsense [2]. It was submitted on Dec 14th and accepted on Dec 15th
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You're getting some flack for this comment, but others have said similar things: https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/_/__CnDwAAQBAJ?hl=en... "I took six undergraduate mathematics courses. Until
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Yes, tailored screening is one aspect. Prophylactic surgery is another option. There are also pharmacological measures eg tamoxifen to reduce risk of breast cancer in BRCA1/2 carriers. Then there are clinical trials of preventative int
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The Sinclair study is pretty contrived work frankly, as the commentary points out. We use cancer treatments in humans which can induce the same sort of DNA damage, and those people don’t seem to exhibit dramatically accelerated ageing. This
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Ashkenazim have relatively high rates of inherited BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations. These are associated with high lifetime risk of breast and ovarian cancer, but also prostate and pancreatic cancer. If someone with Ashkenazi heritage gets one of
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by Gatsky 4y ago
There are not really any lifestyle interventions with good quality evidence for preventing cancer. This is my list: Definitely worth doing: - Don't smoke anything that burns or chew tobacco. - Depending on your age and sexual experienc
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This is great progress. Important to note this is not an average effect across all cancers. Some cancers still have terrible outcomes eg pancreatic cancer, GBM, small cell lung cancer, stomach and esophageal cancer, certain types of breast
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Perhaps there is a role for those writing tools which record everything you write as you go including edits, revisions etc. Faking this reliably will be pretty tedious. It'll be like showing how you arrived at the answer in maths. You
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South Australia is an interesting example. It is a big state, but 77% of the 1.8mil population live in the capital city. The average population density of the whole state is 1.7 persons per sqkm. It has a temperate climate, and gets quite a
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by Gatsky 4y ago
I see a reasonable number of these University press releases on HN. This was a preclinical lab study. There are literally hundreds of thousands of these studies, and yet as you may readily observe, cancer is still killing lots of people. Th
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I would disagree with this statement. The core teachings, and canonical status of the bible, is very consistent across the major denominations. Perhaps if you could provide a more specific example it would be more enlightening as to your po
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by Gatsky 4y ago
“What are you drinking, the water or the wave?” The Magus, by John Fowles
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Incorrect. They controlled for changes in weight, it is not confounded by weight loss. RCT >> cross sectional analyses.
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I have a theory that the Nature group, ostensibly a bunch of academic journals, actually wants to become the NYTimes. They have chosen a custom font, they publish increasingly editorialised political content, and they produce these hype tra
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There are randomised controlled trials of diets (without caloric restriction). They show that some diets are better than others for real clinical endpoints, eg mediterranean vs low fat diet for secondary prevention of cardiac events [1]. Th
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Old explainer thread on twitter from one of the authors: https://twitter.com/lordgrilo/status/1506294750621716482
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Hey, that’s a good idea! Keyboard Karaoke!
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I find this comment strange and wrongheaded. The world is better off for having this criticism out there, and we should thank Guzey for making the effort. Unlike Walker, he doesn’t get paid to do it.
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Could be another dotcom era Cisco, which still hasn’t regained it’s peak [1]. Cisco had the biggest market cap in the world for a while. Tesla could be an even worse investment if it ends up being just an overvalued car company. It also has
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Follow the advice of the hedge fund people in other comments. Richer, Wiser, Happier by William Green was a good book. It talks about investing longterm. Having a very long time horizon as you do is a considerable advantage. The other mai

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