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   by aabajian 9y ago

   I had an ah-ha moment reading about digital light synthesis. This is how 3D printing should be done; not just printing molten materials, but chemically forming them. It might be possible to print CPUs this way.
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   by aabajian 9y ago

   I think the takeaway (along with the lucky discount from the university), is that the consumer needs for CPU/GPU power has not increased that dramatically in the last five years. VR, 3D gaming, deep learning, 4K rendering, etc. are a
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   by aabajian 9y ago

   It's worth noting that the incredible success of Epic EMR software is because it tightly controls all of the administrative billing issues, NOT because it makes clinician's lives easier. There are endless check boxes in Epic and
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   by aabajian 9y ago

   I grew up in the mountains of Southern California. No mentors, nothing other than an 80386 running DOS 5.0 and QBASIC. There was a book on BASIC at the local library which became a staple of my programming education.
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   by aabajian 10y ago

   Don't have time right now to go into detail, but in radiology the biggest problem is rising volumes with lower reimbursement. I addressed this in another thread, but it's an arms race between vendors to maximize radiologist throug
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   by aabajian 10y ago

   This is quite interesting. The obvious business case is for missed-diagnoses reimbursement. U.S. hospital reimbursement is based on a monstrous coding system (e.g. ICD-10). A subset of these codes are Hierarchical Condition Categories (HCCs
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   by aabajian 10y ago

   I almost purchased a condo in East Palo Alto back in 2013 for $300K. That same 1-bedroom is now selling for $680K; biggest missed opportunity of my life. Here it is on Zillow: https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/
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   Ask HN: Is there a physical device that works as a hardware VPN?

   2 points by aabajian 10y ago|1 comments
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   by aabajian 10y ago

   Computer-science wise: I'm a rather good developer, according to my supervisors. I'm quite comfortable with Java, Python and a bit of Swift. I love writing code, starting with BASIC when I was 11 years old. Medicine-wise: I&#x27
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    by aabajian 10y ago

    I actually got my master's in the middle of medical school (I took a leave of absence). My undergrad degree is in computer science as well. It's my long-term goal to start a radiology informatics company.
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    by aabajian 10y ago

    I'm a graduating medical student with a master's in computer science. In a lot of ways CS is the polar opposite of medicine; one values derivation and automation while the other emphasizes memorization and one-on-one interactions
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    by aabajian 10y ago

    My point would be to see how much the model is relying on punctuation. It could provide insight as to why character-based models outperform word-based models for sentiment analysis.
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    by aabajian 10y ago

    I'm trying to understand this statement: "The sentiment neuron within our model can classify reviews as negative or positive, even though the model is trained only to predict the next character in the text." If you look close
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    by aabajian 10y ago

    This is interesting. At first I was on the side of Nissan Computer Corp., but on thinking about it: it's only because of Google that I know Nissan.com is not the motor company. This must have been a major pain for Nissan motors before
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    by aabajian 10y ago

    Worth noting that Gates leads by a $10 billion margin.
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    by aabajian 10y ago

    I'm surprised there are no comments on your question...so let me be the first. I'm a medical student about to start residency. I also have a master's degree in computer science. I read a lot of articles about AI in medicine,
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    by aabajian 10y ago

    I already have a nomination. The guy who wrote this blog post: http://adilmoujahid.com/posts/2016/06/introduction-deep-lear... It's the only way I could get a working model of Caffe while understanding t
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    by aabajian 10y ago

    Hi kolbe, have you seen this research paper: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v533/n7602/full/nature1... They train a model that translates signals from the motor cortex to directly stimulate th
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    by aabajian 10y ago

    I'm interested in this per my earlier discussion on machine learning in radiology (see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13571847 ). It's disappointing that you have to be in the Bay Area to participate. I&#x27
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    by aabajian 10y ago

    Try The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds for the 3DS. If that doesn't take you back, nothing will.
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    by aabajian 10y ago

    Oh great, I come to HN for tech news and see this. As a graduating medical student doing a surgical prelim, I'm certainly not looking forward to 28 hour work days. I think what many don't realize is that day-to-day medicine is sup
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    by aabajian 10y ago

    I'll never for Meebo. It just worked, and Google shut it down.
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    by aabajian 10y ago

    One of my first jobs involved encrypting medical data in the client-side browser. The plan was to generate a new RSA private/public key pair whenever a new user joined. The keys themselves were encrypted using the user's password
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    by aabajian 10y ago

    Leap day bug?
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    by aabajian 10y ago

    Microcenter has a tradition of getting really good cuts before/just after a new product comes out. I remember the Surface RT + Keyboard sale they had for Black Friday: https://www.neowin.net/news/micro-center-selli
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    by aabajian 10y ago

    Lots of skeptical comments below. I tend to believe the result, given that Intel has slashed prices on its Kaby Lake/Skylake processors in anticipation of the Ryzen launch: http://wccftech.com/intel-amd-price-war-ryzen-
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    by aabajian 10y ago

    People in the AI community have spoken out against Watson because it's more marketing than tech. Some feared that it was setting machine learning / AI up on a pedestal that would give false hopes. It looks like those fears are now
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    by aabajian 10y ago

    >>"Between 1999 and 2004, just 2% of Princetonians came from the families in the lowest 20% of earnings, while 3.2% came from families in the top 0.1%" These kinds of statistics are appalling to me. I wonder if they continue
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    by aabajian 10y ago

    This is an outstanding writeup, but I wonder if it glosses over the real problem: >>The standby (secondary) is only used for failover purposes. >>One of the engineers went to the secondary and wiped the data directory, then ran
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    by aabajian 10y ago

    >>But of your job is to look at data and make descisions based on that data, you're gonna be the first to go. I posted the other day about machine learning and radiology. It's the type of job that squarely fits your definiti