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by jrpt 3y ago
The recommendation to not do widespread PSA testing is extremely controversial. Also, as an individual, you should make decisions for yourself, not based on some population-wide study. I think you should always do regular PSA testing, but d
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by jrpt 3y ago
Coroners will list immediate, intermediate, and underlying (proximate) cause of death. In that case the immediate cause of death would be say sepsis after surgery, but the proximate cause of death is the cancer. If you are looking at cause-
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by jrpt 3y ago
Come on, it isn’t anything to do with being a “marketing stunt.” Often products like this are expected to lose money at first, but they hope with enough R&D and scale that they can make it successful eventually. For example, you are poi
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Man lives 10 mo without recurrence after groundbreaking glioblastoma treatment(twitter.com)
31 points by jrpt 3y ago|4 comments
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by jrpt 3y ago
If you're going to go look for devices to help, you should consider something like the Cala kIQ: https://calahealth.com/ It is covered by some insurance and there are also clinical trials that you could get in which wo
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by jrpt 3y ago
In that case, you have early onset essential tremor, not age-related essential tremor. I believe only age-related essential tremor has increased risk of dementia. For example: In an adjusted model, ET cases with tremor onset after age 65 ye
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by jrpt 3y ago
First off, there's two different kinds: in young people and in old people (known as age-related or late-onset essential tremor). It's the same disorder but evidently different etiologies. Personally I believe it will be cured with
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by jrpt 3y ago
I’m not an anti-car person but I think you have a few misconceptions: - A lot of well off people who could flag a taxi or Uber still take the NYC subway because it is very convenient and has incredible coverage. All sorts of New Yorkers use
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by jrpt 3y ago
There’s already a lot of common sense things people can do: night lights, padded floor mats by the bed, handrails by the stairs, not leaving stuff on the ground where you might trip over it. I think I’d do that stuff before some sort of sma
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by jrpt 3y ago
It isn’t standard to take part in clinical trials. Only about 5% of adults with cancer partake in a trial.
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by jrpt 3y ago
A lot of things can cause cancer. For example, prostatitis and inflammation likely cause cancer, and likely are also correlated with it metastasizing. (I'm not claiming it's the cause or a sole reason but the evidence suggests it
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by jrpt 3y ago
Because cancer isn't a parasite. They are your own cells, just with various mutations. A parasite is a foreign living organism that lives off of another, for example, a parasitic worm. Anyone can easily confirm cancer cells are genetic
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by jrpt 3y ago
I’m talking about long-term incontinence which is what people are most concerned about. You probably are reading about short-term incontinence. If you are having a radical prostatectomy done, you probably are hoping to live at least ten mor
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by jrpt 3y ago
The vast majority of radical prostatectomies don’t have incontinence (like 95%), and impotence isn’t common either. Furthermore, they’re usually in older men who are already impotent. Many years ago incontinence was a side effect but it isn
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by jrpt 3y ago
I’m not anti-roundabout but for $15 million could they have made it a highway interchange instead, raising one road, lowering the other to go under? Looking online it seems like it’d cost about the same amount for an interchange.
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by jrpt 3y ago
What are you trying to do more specifically? You can use https://docalysis.com/ for most document RAG tasks.
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by jrpt 3y ago
I agree that there's been some progress in therapies and robot-assisted surgery, but the reason for the improvement in mortality seems more to do with early detection. Cancer deaths overall are also improving due to fewer smokers, but
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by jrpt 3y ago
I run https://Docalysis.com/ and there’s a few use cases. The first is getting information out of various reports and papers by chatting with it, which is faster than reading an entire document. Another is automating data e
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by jrpt 3y ago
They are going to add more abilities onto the system, for example, toolformers or goal planning (like the recent Q* stuff at OpenAI people are talking about). This will make the overall product very powerful. But even if you’re looking just
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by jrpt 3y ago
It seems like that would be better.
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by jrpt 3y ago
It’s not a really a “big lie” when they are upfront about RLHF. The H stands for human.
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by jrpt 3y ago
The problem with ChatGPT document upload is it tries to have the AI write and execute code on the spot for things you ask it. It will write code to read a PDF, then execute it. But this isn’t optimized for the job at hand. I run https:&#x2
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by jrpt 3y ago
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with processing by itself, it’s what goes in the food that is problematic. I think just saying processing is harmful is like saying baking is harmful. They should be focused on what the food actually is,
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by jrpt 3y ago
This is very important and why I wouldn’t consider her pro-startup.
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Ask HN: What would you do with an AI agent?
2 points by jrpt 3y ago|1 comments
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by jrpt 3y ago
The mistake you're making is taking a politican's words at face value. If you were to ask JFK he'd say militarily the US couldn't accept nuclear missiles in Cuba. But our own military was willing to accept it, in fact th
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by jrpt 3y ago
There's so much wrong with this comment but to start: the US didn't cause the Cuban missile crisis by first placing missiles in Turkey. This is known because historians have read documents and talked with people after the fact. Th
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by jrpt 3y ago
We have >200 page PDFs at https://docalysis.com/ and there's on-the-fly retrieval. It's not more computationally expensive than something like searching one's inbox (I'd image you have more than 200 p
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by jrpt 3y ago
You can use https://Docalysis.com for that. Disclosure: I am the founder of Docalysis.
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by jrpt 3y ago
To their credit, they are apparently helping with conversions: https://sf.gov/news/san-francisco-announces-new-initiative-s... Unless you know something specific that is getting in the way.

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