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The Coming AI Hackers(belfercenter.org)
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by disabled 5y ago
> I don't know much about the accessibility business, but my impression is that the screenreaders are all very expensive. Maybe providing a universal interface as described would level the playing field, maybe that's not desire
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by disabled 5y ago
I am the OP to this comment. Thanks, but I can only work part-time due to my disabilities. I have 2 rare neurological diseases affecting my peripheral nervous system plus type 1 diabetes. Even as an electrical engineering graduate student t
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by disabled 5y ago
Vuzix Blade (2021 version), maybe. I don’t have an AR headset but it is advertised as being usable while walking and exercising. See: http://files.vuzix.com/Content/pdfs/Vuzix-Blade-Upgraded-Sma... It runs Android
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by disabled 5y ago
I also would not be surprised if more American jobs are now hiring people on as contractors only, without the benefits.
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by disabled 5y ago
Luckily, I have a print-related disability. So... * I get access to 1,038,733 DRM-free books in several formats (including Word, EPUB, computer-narrated audio) via Bookshare.org * I get access to 40,000+ professionally narrated books via th
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by disabled 5y ago
> I found Orgmode was amazing for writing LaTeX documents - but I wasn't working with other people. This is probably the best way to type notes (and diagrams!) in class. It also works awesome for pretty much everything else in life
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by disabled 5y ago
> Of course, those insulin pumps are running insecure firmware allowing for adjustments to be made remotely by an sbc (Raspberry Pi) where the OpenAPS software lives and takes measurements from a GCM. Without the insecure remote interfac
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by disabled 5y ago
> Think handle every failure mode by panicking the OS, and the hardware fails in the wrong direction for the patient without software control. Thanks, I am aware of this. It's called a block diagram, and is standard safety design.
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by disabled 5y ago
Just FYI, the European Union made such projects illegal as of 26 May 2021. See Medical Devices Regulation (MDR) EU 2017/745: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELE... Also, the
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by disabled 5y ago
Yep. I am terrified for the people who are running open-source medical devices via community-based code and reversed-engineered medical devices. Something bad is bound to happen. Specifications and details here: https://openaps.r
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by disabled 5y ago
This is a good read: https://www.hklaw.com/en/insights/publications/2021/07/agree... For example Control/Command + F = "Ireland"
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by disabled 5y ago
Autoimmune autonomic ganglionopathy: https://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/diseases/11917/autoimmune-... It's immune-mediated autonomic neuropathy and causes autonomic nervous system failure. I am in pharmaceutic
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by disabled 5y ago
Or your other citizenships are solely from the European Union. (You can be a dual/tri/quad EU|German citizen)
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by disabled 5y ago
American here living abroad in Croatia, which does not have a tax or social security agreement with the US. The only reason why I do not renounce my American citizenship is because the very rare disease that I have was discovered on NIH gra
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by disabled 5y ago
Agreed, and great point, LOL! This doesn't solve the actual problem at hand. It's more like a token like "hey you can do it too". It does not give you the skills you need, like spatial skills, for example, which you lear
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by disabled 5y ago
There are several localized Swiss dialects and there are some Swiss German formal written publications in these local Swiss dialects that other Alemannic German readers have trouble understanding.
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by disabled 5y ago
Non-Swiss students have known to stay away from this university for awhile now. See: https://gmatclub.com/forum/university-of-st-gallen-hsg-mbf-2... This is a really good overview of one of the Financial Times' to
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by disabled 5y ago
Subcutaneous immunoglobulin greatly reduces reactions compared to intravenous. Either way, you are given prescriptions for acetaminophen/paracetamol and Benedryl. I don’t take them at all, nor am I required to. I also have to keep an E
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by disabled 5y ago
Through health insurance. It’s a medicine approved by government agencies (FDA, EU Medicines Agency, SwissMedic, etc.). It’s administered the same way as an insulin pump. The only big difference is that a much larger volume is being infused
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by disabled 5y ago
> Maybe we will get yearly shots to strengthen our immune system from [all kinds of infectious pathogens] I already do. I have to self-administer subcutaneous immunoglobulin twice per week due to having a rare immune mediated disease aff
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by disabled 5y ago
I actually use them for a special cause. I use them for solving for the specific parameters that make each type 1 diabetes patient individual and unique. Once the parameters are solved for, we can make a "virtual patient" and do s
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by disabled 5y ago
Yeah, the application is definitely interesting. > The idea of time-reversing Brownian motion is like saying that you're running thermodynamics backward--it only makes sense if you sample them forward, then move backwards along the
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by disabled 5y ago
Non-paywalled version: https://archive.is/m6KAI
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by disabled 5y ago
Here is the non-paywalled version of the original post: https://archive.is/m6KAI
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Massachusetts couple suing eBay after employees harassed and stalked them(bostonglobe.com)
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by disabled 5y ago
We already have this in Croatia! It works great! It’s called CARNET. See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CARNet You can also get extremely cheap access to CARNET via mobile and broadband providers in Croatia. They are
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by disabled 5y ago
I guess the AI caught COVID-19.
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by disabled 5y ago
The point I was trying to make is that in many countries in Europe, we can use our electronic IDs to do a lot of things in everyday life that cannot be done online in the US. You can see all of the services we can access in Croatia here: h
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by disabled 5y ago
Yep. All European Union countries are eventually going to use electronic IDs (eID) with Smartchips that can be read by a Smart Card reader. A number of governments already use eIDs, and have elaborate databases for citizens, such as Croatia

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