gdebel

9 ms·

31.
by gdebel 6y ago
Haha, you are perfectly right. I totally admit that I'm an amateur with a low level of ML expertise. One the other hand, ML researchers with a deep knowledge expertise are extremely hard to find, even among statisticians / progra
32.
by gdebel 6y ago
I'm an eye surgeon and self-taught machine learning practitioner, I started to learn Python in 2016 when the deep learning hype was at his highest. After 3 years of research, playing with datasets, extracting and cleaning data from EMR
33.
by gdebel 6y ago
I had to think a little to answer. I don't know any book to learn to cook "as usual" (by the standards of my family for example). However, a good place to find such recipes could be a website called "Marmiton" , whe
34.
by gdebel 6y ago
I respectfully disagree. Flour is basically crushed wheat. Refined sugar is not crushed beet, and you would have to eat a lot of beet to eat the same amount of sugar that you eat in a typical "industrial food" diet. I would not ta
35.
by gdebel 6y ago
Right but don't you think that olive oil for example was eaten since centuries? I often refer myself to the so-called "Mediterranean diet" as a good reference when I'm asking myself if I should eat something. This is bas
36.
by gdebel 6y ago
I made clear I have no anti-american views (and I don't feel like US citizens, generally speaking, are so much more open to external opinions than Europeans by the way). The problem is not related to the quality of soil or to the borde
37.
by gdebel 6y ago
Exactly! No-fat is a strange concept. Fat is not inherently bad, too much added fat is. But I'm pretty sure you can eat 500mg of natural good yogurt a day without being sick. Well, I never tried.
38.
by gdebel 6y ago
You are right you can find vegetables. But they will have a weird taste and/or have a sweetened sauce (or, you just have to sweeten it in order to eat it). This is the same in fast-food restaurants in France thought, Not a critic towar
39.
by gdebel 6y ago
Haha, you're right kids don't usually eat croissant before school. This is more a Sunday morning dish (when daddy had the courage to wake up earlier to buy them). Good bread is not expensive in France by the way ! (There would be
40.
by gdebel 6y ago
I can eat a spoon of salt, or yeast. It is not particularly good but I know what it is, and I know the toxic dose. I won't eat a spoon of sodium benzoate or E324 or I don't know which food additive, I can't buy it in a food s
41.
by gdebel 6y ago
I'm French (and incidentally a doctor,and my post is not judgemental in any way, this is not the point). Everytime I travel to the USA, I'm puzzled by how difficult it is to "eat normally" (= by my own standards). You ca
42.
Ask HN: DIY Coronavirus Mask?
3 points by gdebel 7y ago|2 comments
43.
by gdebel 7y ago
French Ophthalmologist here. The part that describes how easy it is to obtain glasses without a doctor's prescription is totally false. People do need a prescription made less than 3 years ago (and optometrists do not exist here, you h
44.
by gdebel 7y ago
Ciclosporin 2% eyedrops and/or punctum plugs may be useful. I home she'll get better eventually.
45.
by gdebel 7y ago
Ok I get it! It is very simple : RLE implies the removal of the cristalline lens and insertion of an artificial lens that corrects the initial ametropia. The procedure is exactly the same as cataract surgery. The problem is that the lens i
46.
by gdebel 7y ago
It depends a lot on your age, and also on your refraction. Refractive lens exchange can be a good option for high myopia/hyperopia after 60, and can be considered after 45. This is hard to give an advice with no context, the topic is
47.
by gdebel 7y ago
Actually, we looked yesterday how many eye surgeons underwent LASIK/PRK in the previous 5 years to write a study about this specific topic (this . We found 16 people. LASEK had a surge of interest 5-10 years ago because it was tought
48.
by gdebel 7y ago
Halos are frequent especially in the months after surgery. They tend to reduce with time. They are usually not noticed in everyday life but rather by night, while driving for example (dilated pupils). They also depend on the type of treatme
49.
by gdebel 7y ago
I'm interested in data sciences and coding (Python) for research, and I am/was involved in two startups. I visit HN at least 4-5 times a day ;-)
50.
by gdebel 7y ago
Refractive surgeon here. I work in a well-known eye hospital in Paris. I operated my sister (PRK) and my best friend (LASIK). My mother underwent PRK when I was a child and I think the amount of admiration/gratefulness that she had fo
51.
by gdebel 7y ago
Eye surgeon here. Good job and interesting story! As a side note: for optical reasons, the spherical equivalent of the lens (which will determine if you are overcorrecting or not) is calculated by adding the sphere value + half the cylinder