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by alphaoverlord 10y ago
What is the difference between this and aic/bic?
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by alphaoverlord 11y ago
As a physician, I find comments like this disturbing. Barring special circumstances (cancer related pain), there is almost no need for chronic opiates. In fact, the body rapidly becomes accustomed to opiates and will require higher and high
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by alphaoverlord 12y ago
I absolutely agree with Shinkei. I had a few more thoughts, but summarizing, I worry that this is a case of an 1) incidentally found, 2) benign, 3) asymptomatic, 4) slow or non-growing mass was removed despite the recommendations of multipl
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Providing Optimal Care: Responding to “Man Saves Wife’s Sight by 3D Printing”(medium.com)
2 points by alphaoverlord 12y ago|0 comments
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by alphaoverlord 12y ago
There was a recent Washington Post article which showed the exponential distribution of drinking the US now - ie. the vast majority of drinks of a very small sliver of the population. I wonder if that was true then as well, or more uniform
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by alphaoverlord 12y ago
This blog post seems like a jumble of ideas that are neither consistent or connected. It starts with colleges should be more than job training centers, then ends with trying to create an accreditation process to prove value to external enti
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by alphaoverlord 13y ago
Thats actually not true. The readmission penalties make it so hospitals are not paid at all for the readmission.
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by alphaoverlord 13y ago
Really? That article has no data. It only says: “When you look at senior management, you tend to see men disproportionately represented. So while there may be less than 5% of all nurses who are male, you see a much larger percentage than 5
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by alphaoverlord 13y ago
I am a current UCSF medical student and I majored in statistics in undergrad. I program in R and python. In undergrad, did consider doing an internship at a tech company as a data scientist, so I feel like I understand the perspective from
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by alphaoverlord 13y ago
Contrast this with stack ranking and other metrics for developers and PMs. Can you now see the OPs reservations about such a system? Particularly as the article critiques the system as flawed.
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Warren Buffett offers $1 billion for perfect March Madness bracket (forbes.com)
70 points by alphaoverlord 13y ago|70 comments
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by alphaoverlord 13y ago
The article does mention and debuffs it. Its the difference between 32 and 40% Its based off one study of small sample size and is not biologically plausible. >The incidence of what are known as serious adverse events — a catchall catego
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by alphaoverlord 13y ago
And finally there is Dr. Oz, who talked well, was attractive, knew Oprah and was interested in talking about all sorts of diseases and conditions outside his training. He has a TV show, multiple book deals, is a millionaire, and doesn'
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by alphaoverlord 13y ago
That's really cool. Where did you get your ECG machine? I'd be interested in getting one if its that cheap.
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by alphaoverlord 13y ago
I got one for free for a demo and while it was interesting, I can't think of a good use case. A single lead ECG is not useful for much more than heart rate, and there are already many interesting ways to get that ( light sensor on phon
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by alphaoverlord 13y ago
I think the parent comment's argument is that improvement on specific items isn't well correlated with "better health". Even interventions aimed at specific metrics have shown to have no or negative consequences. For exa
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by alphaoverlord 13y ago
haha, good catch! thanks.
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by alphaoverlord 13y ago
> People often forget that the medical profession's highest priority isn't the health of you, the patient. If you were to grab a medical ethics book you will first be told that the well being of the population as a whole surpas
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by alphaoverlord 13y ago
It's never just about the product. There's also the market, the logistics, and the peripherals. Even if it is the same product and "before its time", it's still before its time.
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by alphaoverlord 13y ago
Other than for research, surgeries are not routinely recorded.
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by alphaoverlord 13y ago
Because that's not how diabetes works
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by alphaoverlord 13y ago
Again, my first paragraph is: > I'm all for people having the freedom to eat whatever they want and I really like the quantified self aspect of seeing how diet affects how they feel and metrics of health, but I have to say the auth
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by alphaoverlord 13y ago
I'm all for people having the freedom to eat whatever they want and I really like the quantified self aspect of seeing how diet affects how they feel and metrics of health, but I have to say the author grossly does not understand the m
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by alphaoverlord 13y ago
Why would this not just cause inflation to a point most people need to work again?
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by alphaoverlord 13y ago
There are significant risks to such an experiment, and it's a shame that there isn't any record of what happened to him after the fact or his long term health. There is a significant body of literature suggests that in addition to
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by alphaoverlord 13y ago
Actually unlike antibiotics, there is limited evidence of rrsidtence to antifungals. Amphotericin and fluconazole have been around forever and still useful.
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by alphaoverlord 13y ago
Perhaps the game is less deterministic if you can choose any board as soon as the board is won - not when it is filled. Then, you can only force 3 moves before you have to give up control. Then approaches like the Orwin gambit would not wor
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by alphaoverlord 13y ago
Perhaps the game makes more sense if you can choose any board as soon as the board is won - not when it is filled. Then, you can only force 3 moves before you have to give up control.
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by alphaoverlord 14y ago
Why is it reasonable to assume that? Its fiat on both examples and both examples currently are impossible.
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by alphaoverlord 14y ago
> It seems a little premature to jump to that conclusion. The US and Great Britain are entirely different countries with different geography, climate, history, culture, laws, economies, etc. I would say that there is also significant in

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