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by medymed 4y ago
A redesign is nice but please consider a secure Airbnb app-controlled electronic door lock. Hardware is hard but it could reduce entry/exit and check-in friction and confusion.
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by medymed 4y ago
Mainstream social media may be close but niche interests probably have miles to go. HN and stack overflow have some overlap in user niche but are miles apart in intent/design/usage. Any subset of communication between people or gr
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by medymed 5y ago
And user testing is so different than developer testing. Users have to learn from scratch and undergo the friction of learning a mechanic without context in basic and then more advanced forms. Whereas the game developer can often play their
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by medymed 5y ago
As has been said, NFT stands for Non-Fungible Token Scam. The S is silent.
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by medymed 5y ago
Methylisothiazolinone (MI) is a preservative that along with its similarly named counterpart MCI has become popular as other preservatives are replaced. For example, bottle fashionably labeled ‘parabens-free’ may be more likely to cause all
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by medymed 5y ago
It’s maybe not uncommon to have dissonance between enjoying an accomplishment versus enjoying or finding meaning doing the tasks that lead to the result/accomplishment. This is one very scatterbrained outlier of that dissonance.
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by medymed 5y ago
Science marches on one funeral at a time, medicine marches on one expired patent at a time.
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by medymed 5y ago
It tapped a newish market and invested in a self-bubble. The market will stick around. Time for commoditization.
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by medymed 5y ago
Now and 5 years ago are probably in the same ballpark. High salaries for many positions, low barrier to entry (code camps etc), also many developer-led companies. The landscape may have been more different in the 70s-90s.
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by medymed 5y ago
The third year of medical school is often the lowest point of morale in medical training, even worse than the long hours of internship/residency because at least in residency you are a necessary and productive team member. Being a thir
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by medymed 5y ago
Regarding your example, a quick search shows a heart lung bypass machine has indeed failed during a procedure, the team use hand cranking/pumping to continue the bypass for 10+ minutes, and the patient did not expire. https:/&#x2
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by medymed 5y ago
As a hobbyist, I’ve wondered if the need for umpteen epochs just leads many nets to memorize datasets, especially when the performance jumps a lot from one epoch to another without much change during batches. It’s kind of disconcerting for
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by medymed 5y ago
Having a more direct pathway to citizenship through university/graduate studies, if properly regulated, could be a tremendous benefit to the country rather than forcing graduates into H1B serfdom. Such a pathway would require careful o
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by medymed 5y ago
That is fascinating. With a bit of imagination that could be terrifying if that were mostly a cohort effect (since it’s from a short number of years).
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by medymed 5y ago
The reaction of given period’s academic culture to Hume speaks as much about the culture as it does about Hume. We now have an academic culture with very strong social beliefs, minimally tolerant of those that don’t toe the line, and justif
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by medymed 5y ago
Also these 100+ year old people hit multiple genetic jackpots, avoiding diseases of suboptimal metabolism and cellular senescence as well. There are many other populations that could be analyzed: the 70+ year old relentless sunbathers with
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by medymed 5y ago
Somewhat related to this, elephants have around 20 copies of TP53, the master ‘protector of the genome’ gene that senses DNA damage and reacts to it. With lots of cells you need lots of protection against cancer. I wonder if blue whales hav
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by medymed 6y ago
Other viruses do escape the lab sometimes. The first SARS virus escaped the lab more than once. https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/gb-...
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by medymed 6y ago
I’m in an analogous position. Added responsibility can give a lot of drive and meaning which can outweigh a bit of associated stress.
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by medymed 6y ago
On the other hand, one is more likely to rise to success in biology if memorizing countless and ever-increasing mountains of facts is not a taxing chore as you wait to accumulate enough context and experimental expertise see a pattern somew
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by medymed 6y ago
Skin lesions are still not peanuts. There are 0 FDA approved machine-learning diagnostics or other management technologies in dermatology. There is no widespread clinical use of CNNs for skin lesion diagnosis even at top-tier university hos
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by medymed 6y ago
For better or worse, we are covered inside and outside by organisms that usually just hang out and/or help things along but are ready to digest our tissues as soon as our immune systems stop working. Even if a version of humanity can p
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by medymed 6y ago
The longer I am in medicine, the more I am stunned by this. The likelihood of losing consciousness during the procedure is quite high. The time needed to tell people in advance what to do if that happens is not likely sufficient. I’m glad h
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by medymed 6y ago
Maybe especially for the exploratory cerebral introverts out there, remote steady programming jobs could really hit an existential sweet spot that history didn’t used to afford very often.
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by medymed 6y ago
This might be a good time to be in grad school to weather the storm for a year or two, and then benefit from the likely upswing afterwards (if someone is intent on academia). Unless a substantial proportion of colleges go bankrupt and the n
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by medymed 6y ago
Came to say this regarding farming as well. On the other hand the number of jobs (skilled and unskilled) caring for the elderly or those with chronic health conditions has probably increased to compensate partially over the last century and
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by medymed 6y ago
While this article focuses on the Victorian era, another very recent and highly entertaining narrative is the podcast about the search for evidence for hallucinogen use in Ancient Greece, Ancient Egypt, Spain, and elsewhere, and the potenti
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by medymed 6y ago
The causal pathway is exceeding clear with sufficient wishful thinking.
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by medymed 6y ago
When these are rolled out it will require hiring more paramedics
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C++ stack/heap/pointer visualization tool
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