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by gjulianm 6mo ago
That might have an effect, but these studies are probably mostly selecting for people who can tolerate a hostile environment for longer, which are usually healthier. I find it unlikely that sauna alone explains the fantastic, almost miracul
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by gjulianm 6mo ago
> Hammam's temperatures are around 40-50 degrees Celsius and humidity is close to 100%. Which makes it absolutely unbearable. By the way, that combination of temperature + humidity will cause severe hyperthermia (which can be deadly
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by gjulianm 6mo ago
I doubt they would replicate it or any of the magical effects of saunas. Lots of the sauna studies suffer from the same issue where people self-report sauna usage rather than being assigned randomly to a treatment group. In countries where
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by gjulianm 8mo ago
> and all of a sudden one of them starts changing in size at a rate disproportionate to its history, that's probably cause to dig a little deeper. That sentence is doing a lot of heavy lifting. - What's "disproportionate t
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by gjulianm 8mo ago
> we wait until something is clearly wrong to get the MRI. f you want to find an MRI scan of an early stage asymptomatic cancer, the only data on that will be the exceedingly rare case that someone has something else unrelated wrong Not
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by gjulianm 8mo ago
And the fact that they have a complaint (or have known risks) makes it easier to classify, compare and understand the data.
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by gjulianm 8mo ago
> That's actually exactly why it's important to have MRIs more frequently to be able to establish baselines and identify trends as they develop. How? How do you establish baselines? How do you build a classification of incident
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by gjulianm 8mo ago
> What this fails entirely to capture is that doing something to increase your odds of survival, damn the consequences, is an individual choice. What you're failing to capture is that this is a hard problem because it's both an
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by gjulianm 8mo ago
Unfortunately that "chosen threshold" is really hard to know, specially if you want to balance individual and population level necessities.
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by gjulianm 8mo ago
See https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38926075/ . I was not aware of the ERSPC which came out late last year and gives better outcomes for screening, but overall the evidence is not super clear yet. There are possibly cer
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by gjulianm 8mo ago
> Maybe the right answer isn't to do a biopsy, but to monitor the area with follow-up scans? Doctors have already thought of this. Several issues with it: * Monitoring still causes anxiety and mental health issues which come with re
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by gjulianm 8mo ago
> This is much more sensible than just not testing at all and letting people die from cancer. This is not what happens. You're assuming that if the cancer does not get detected by the screening then it never gets detected. What actu
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by gjulianm 8mo ago
> If the test detects cancer that doesn't need treatment, don't treat it!! How do you know which ones to treat and which ones to leave?
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by gjulianm 8mo ago
> With my change: 95% of people who are shown scans have cancer and are treated earlier. Without my change: many of those 95% die Why? What happens if the cancer still doesn't respond to treatment even when detected early? Or, to th
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by gjulianm 8mo ago
> it's likely this result in innovations that would drive down costs, improve accuracy, as well as producing a much larger corpus of data with which to guide diagnosis and reduce false positives. Why is it likely? We already have a
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by gjulianm 8mo ago
The argument for better screening would require that finding those asymptomatic cancers actually improves survival rates. There are several reasonable scenarios where early screening doesn't improve it: * The cancer is aggressive and r
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by gjulianm 8mo ago
> Swap out "AI" for any other group and see how that sounds. - AIs should not take issues that are designed to onboard first time contributors - Experienced matplotlib mantainers should not take issues that are designed to onbo
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by gjulianm 8mo ago
Honestly, I've been using the frontier models and I'm not sure where people are seeing these massive improvements. It's not that they're bad, it's just that I don't see that much of an improvement the last 6 mo
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by gjulianm 8mo ago
> The goal is to assess the current capabilities of a largely autonomous software-building pipeline: it's not yet limitless, but better than it was. What a shocker. Of course, but we're trying to assess the capabilities by look
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by gjulianm 8mo ago
> This was the equivalent of a "weekend project", and it's amazing I mean, $20k in tokens, plus the supervision by the author to keep things running, plus the number of people that got involved according to the article...
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by gjulianm 8mo ago
> Read the freaking article The freaking article omits several issues in the "compiler". My bet is because they didn't actually challenged the output of the LLM, as it usually happens. If you go to the repository, you&#x27
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by gjulianm 8mo ago
The goalpost is not moving. The issue is that AI generates code that kinda looks ok but usually has deep issues, specially the more complex the code is. And that's not being really improved.
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by gjulianm 11mo ago
> What I want to see is mathematicians employ the same rigor of journalists using abbreviations: define (numerically) your notation, or terminology, the first time you use it, then feel free to use it as notation or jargon for the remain
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by gjulianm 11mo ago
> why do u think I am capable of memorizing the Greek one No one memorizes the Greek alphabet. We just learn it as we go because it’s useful to have different types of letters to refer to different types of objects. That’s it. > I tri
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by gjulianm 11mo ago
Again, learning notation is part of the process of learning math. No one is gatekeeping anything, at no point you need to do an exam or magically be aware of notation that you never saw. Every book and every class will define new notation a
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by gjulianm 11mo ago
I do not have any confusion with the notation, I am confused about what the argument you’re trying to convey with English words.
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by gjulianm 11mo ago
The only thing that sentence says is that it’s impossible to understand math without understanding the language of math and how it is constructed. Not sure how that is controversial or gatekeeping. If you are annoyed at that comment saying
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by gjulianm 11mo ago
I know it is a matrix, the notation is not confusing at all. I am saying that the concept of a matrix as a set of numbers arranged in a rectangles and the concept of operations on a matrix are very different things, the confusion will not c
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by gjulianm 11mo ago
Well, obviously they will be confused because you jumped from a square of numbers to a bunch of operations. They’d be equally confused if you presented those operations numerically. I am not sure what it is you want to prove with that examp
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by gjulianm 11mo ago
The article does not complain about notation. It describes how the different fields of mathematics are so deep and so abstract that it’s hard to understand them as a professional mathematician in a different field. That’s a hard problem wor

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