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by elcritch 1y ago
Specifically for doctors, that seems a reasonable point or question. I know intimately from my PhD studies that some procedures performed widely in the US aren't that effective (meniscectomies in particular). Though that's gotta b
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It’s not purely a bad thing per se if it attracts doctors who excel and are the best. However, it seems now more like straight-up profiteering the past decade or two by doctors as a whole but it’s harder to point a finger at. In contrast wi
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by elcritch 1y ago
Yes, it’s similar with ADHD as well. You really should seek a professional diagnosis before going around claiming it. Even then you’re not free of the consequences. Sometimes just have to push yourself and say learn to bite your tongue to n
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by elcritch 1y ago
Pretty sure with xtensa and gcc you can compile to PIC. Google says a linker only would need to modify the Global Offset Table and Procedure Linkage Table. That doesn't sound too terrible. Also 260kB of RAM on a 32bit processor could b
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by elcritch 1y ago
Looks fun! I recently updated my Nim wrapper for esp32 for esp-idf 5.5 [1]. I've been wanting to play with a graphics device, maybe via Tactility.. Also the integrated usb-phy on newer esp32s is pretty handy. I setup a driver to do PPP
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It made me laugh as an ADHDer. Totally what it's like sometimes! Though it took me a second because the page was St Anthony IIRC. I'm Eastern Orthodox so for a second I was like "how did my ADHD-self open this here, wtf?!&quo
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by elcritch 1y ago
Well me too, but it shows that there is some basis for the thinking. It's sort of surprising there's not more exploration into the area.
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by elcritch 1y ago
Looks like @cs702 [1] posted a related link where a NN follows an attractor pattern! I've only skimmed it but it very much looks like what I've been imagining. It'd be cool to see more research into this area. 1: https:&#x2F
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by elcritch 1y ago
This is how I envision LLMs working to some extent. As in that the "logic paths" follow something like this where the markov-chain-esque probabilities jump around the vector space. It reminds me that to get the answer I want that
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by elcritch 1y ago
Which is a bummer, however the basics are always critical. Numerical stability and known correctness is still (or was) a reason a lot of old fortran libraries were used for so long. I'm really surprised by the list of issues as some of
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by elcritch 1y ago
P.S. Next time I'll have to listen for b- words in Welsh to see if I can pick them out.
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> as English is to French. For basic grammar sure, but English has what 30-40% of its vocabulary from French? There's also a lot of influence from Latin and Greek in English as well. Likely it's just less cross-cultural sharing
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by elcritch 1y ago
Claude and ChatGPT can both search the web for you now. It’s actually quite handy as they can search for updated data on topics if prompted. Though I agree and believe personal LLM agents with access to our personal data would be much more
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by elcritch 1y ago
> Irish, Manx and Scottish Gaelic form the Goidelic languages, while Welsh, Cornish and Breton are Brittonic. All of these are Insular Celtic languages, Yeah though Brythonic and Goidelic both are considered to inherit from Insular Celti
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by elcritch 1y ago
As an American it seems to me that the UK government insists on finding a way to upset all sides on any given issue like illegal immigration. If anything it's the singular and unique skill of Whitehall.
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This shouldn’t be a controversial statement. It’s well documented that Hamas utilizes this strategy by their own statements. On the Israeli side it’s much harder to determine what tactics some (military) groups utilize.
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by elcritch 1y ago
Perhaps it's because I've been in tech for so long, but I can't comprehend PhD candidates not knowing about open source software.
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Fascinating, what surprises me is that it looks more "fractal" like than other chip dies I've looked at. Perhaps all the newest ones do, however it makes me wonder if part of Apples secret sauce is more sophisticated design t
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by elcritch 1y ago
> Maybe. My point wasn't that one was better or worse, and I did try to add some "balance" to that by including both W and O examples of presidential immunity :) For sure, president's from both major parties in the US
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by elcritch 1y ago
At one company we had a contractor come in say I can totally build a simple IoT dashboard with a few buttons and wanted to use Blazor. I used Phoenix LiveView, on rpi3’s and later rpi4’s just fine. So Blazor sounded similar and figured it’d
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by elcritch 1y ago
> Obama's love of drones and his ordering extra-judicial execution of US citizens Yes, so many Americans forget about this or gloss over it. Even the fact you’re getting downvoted show how biased most folks are. Trump has in many wa
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by elcritch 1y ago
Read about the great oxidation event other commenters have mentioned. Biology doesn't so much care about an ideal of balance. Our beloved natural balanced ecosystems are just an artifact of the fact that unbalanced systems change until
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by elcritch 1y ago
Great, and rats will become super adapted to space. Then they'll become endemic to any space habitats humanity builds. Terraforming planets sounds more plausible than not ending up with rats and cockroaches.
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by elcritch 1y ago
> Why are all of Israel's prime ministers either first or second generation immigrants of European persuasion? If so much of the population is either local to Palestine or at least the Middle East in general, shouldn't that be
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by elcritch 1y ago
Yeah depends a lot on scale. If the inventory system only holds thousands of items, UUIDs just add a lot of headache for little gain. Your distributed table case sounds like a great use case for UUIDv7.
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by elcritch 1y ago
I TA’ed a course at my state university a few years back. We had some program that attracted hundreds of students from the UAE. Many were obviously from wealthy families and drove Mercedes and BMWs, etc. The amount of cheating on exams and
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by elcritch 1y ago
I’d pay a subscription for that. There are so many hobbyist 3D printing things I’d like to do around my abode by taking some existing piece and tweaking it. Creating a model for a one off part is pretty tedious though.
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by elcritch 1y ago
The important piece missing from both of these comments IMHO, is that sunburns are the problematic piece. There's always going to be some risk from UV exposure, but as the parent comment points out we're evolved to deal with it an
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by elcritch 1y ago
Safety critical fields like aviation already have strict requirements. Usually there's very few software dependencies used in those projects. Expanding that to more fields would be interesting, but difficult and expensive across the bo
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by elcritch 1y ago
We should rally together to force game companies to use 32 bit timers rather than 64bit ones so we can keep finding these fun little glitches. The time to protect overflows is now! ;)

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