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by caycep 5y ago
No - Medicare for all is what is being proposed. There is a stark difference between Medicaid and Medicare. Medicare, for those who can enjoy it (65+ or meeting criteria for chronically disabled), is pretty good insurance. You have your p
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by caycep 5y ago
I feel like this review is more even headed...but they don't seem overly concerned by the close-to-300W elephant in the room...
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by caycep 5y ago
Ha! I thought "they meant literally" when I read the headline...
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by caycep 5y ago
well....M1 Max single core also beating a 5950x But tbh, it doesn't seem the new hotness in chips is single core CPU, it's about how fancy you spend the die space in custom processors, in which case the M1 will always be tailored
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by caycep 5y ago
it is hard to say...anecdotally, I've seen generally that the further the electrode is located away from the posterior subthalamic nucleus, the higher the PW is needed to achieve any effect. Maybe the electrode probably needs it to s
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by caycep 5y ago
The problem w/ PD-DBS is...the practice of implanting and programming the gizmos is much less standardized that it should be. Yes, there is some patient to patient variability...but you can kind of predict what will happen and how th
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by caycep 5y ago
Well, it's an N-1 study/case report. The next step is to get Francis Collins or Elon to cough up another R01 grant's worth of monopoly bux to fund the larger trial...
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by caycep 5y ago
well...you can turn that Neuropace device they are using on and off w/ its smartphone controller...
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by caycep 5y ago
I would generally agree with this...the electrodes and microcontrollers we have tend to be relatively crude. BUT...I would say apathy as a broad symptom/syndrome is known to be associated w/ an untreated Parkinsonian state...so if
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by caycep 5y ago
No, it's a stimulating electrode implanted surgically in selected brain targets. The difference is: TMS is inaccurate/broad/hard to target, and wears off either when you shut off the TMS or a few days to weeks later. Think a
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by caycep 5y ago
typically this is done via sham stim. i.e. implant both groups, but don't turn on the control group for the blinded phase. Helps that DBS technique has had 40 years or so to refine itself so its adverse-effect rate is reasonably well
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by caycep 5y ago
I think the interesting thing about this paper is: 1) it is a closed loop approach, using the Neuropace device to stimulate based on local field potential recordings from sensing electrodes listening...somewhere (once I bug my librarian to
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by caycep 5y ago
Where are they implanting it in her trial? There's a big and somewhat raucous debate on 5 different (brain) targets so far, but imaging/tractography has come a long way since they started doing it. for the CBT thing...could they
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by caycep 5y ago
plus, it's hard to compartmentalize science. Once you get the bomb, it's not that hard for other people to figure out. So do you ban all German scientists and get the bomb 20 years later (and maybe let the Russians poach them, b
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by caycep 5y ago
For a minute, I got excited that someone was trying to use mRNA against the amyloid hypothesis!
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by caycep 5y ago
From what I can tell, the A-10 has become a hellfire or even JDAM slinging platform like every other plane, the big advantage, if any, is loiter time. It sounds like they've found it easier stay far away from anyone shooting lead o
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by caycep 5y ago
I'm just amused that the first thing they can think of is whisky... This would be the most hi tech rum-runner (er whisky?) ever...
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by caycep 5y ago
I would say politics is germane to everything tech; just tech folks don't like to think of it this way. But it can't be ignored since Big Tech, social media, miniaturization of computers, etc, have arguably played an integral rol
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by caycep 5y ago
You can argue perhaps the central concern of all of this is, "What happens to TSMC?"...everything else follows...
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by caycep 5y ago
I suspect also there's a greater need to "shadow" Chinese subs in the south china sea given expected increase in naval activity there
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by caycep 5y ago
I need to look this up, but there was an geology/astrobiology faculty at Caltech looking at the computation abilities of certain crystal formations.
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by caycep 5y ago
that being said, I wonder if enough quantifiable data exists to estimate the amount of computation possible, i.e. basic computer science/turing machine/kolmogorov complexity stuff?
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by caycep 5y ago
It piggybacks onto the standard CT software - no additional scans require, it just pulls data off of the PACS.
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by caycep 5y ago
also, maybe there's more number of scans, so higher N datasets to train on? Our hospital bought an AI stroke detector (viz.ai). The "AI" part is laughable but it allows the hospital to collect some extra HHS/medicare fe
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by caycep 5y ago
I glance at his blog on my RSS reader...he likes to talk and can talk intelligently. My (layperson) gist is that his economist posts are middling at best, but he is a decent consumer of art and culture at least
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by caycep 5y ago
Totally, and way more fun to watch and even ride in too. I feel like pro cycling is way too cold and clinical these days.
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by caycep 5y ago
When I first saw the presentations going around regarding the recording and decoding (and reconstruction of vocal cord/oral muscle movements) the one thing I wasn't sure of was - how much of the signal was vibration artifact? Ne
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by caycep 5y ago
I think the better way to view it amongst policymakers on both sides are: do you make your policy decisions to create an antagonistic relationship like US vs. USSR? Or a cooperative one like US-UK or US-Japan? For whatever reasons (an
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by caycep 5y ago
Someone is going to suggest unplugging it and plugging it in again, i'm sure
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by caycep 5y ago
I kind of wonder - maybe it's a sign of what a company like MS is, and its strengths. i.e. they are focusing on being a good platform/services company, and end user UI/UX is really more of an afterthought for them. If som

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