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by rscho 5y ago
Why "more of a lisp"? I guess it depends on your personal definition of what a lisp is. For example, I'm much more interested in Racket because my interest is computer science.
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by rscho 5y ago
China never was ahead.
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by rscho 5y ago
You seem to be forgetting that many western groups are very small: 1 senior (often not even tenured) and 1-2 grad students, with not even a lab manager in sight. In those conditions, going slower than a 50-grad-student chinese lab is not sl
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by rscho 5y ago
It is not a 'mentality' issue. It's a systemic issue. Researchers need to eat too, and it's already difficult enough that few are willing to sacrifice much for the sake of morals.
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by rscho 5y ago
So, we have degrading social nets, public education and public health. But we should fund people for "doing what they love" because it has "positive externalities" (left undefined). I am a doctor and I hate it. Please fu
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by rscho 5y ago
Pharo 10 will use a native GUI backend. Also, git is well-integrated.
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by rscho 5y ago
What the US is missing to achieve that is japanese culture. It can't work the same or even similar.
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by rscho 5y ago
Nope, that's just experience from daily life. I'm a doc in a public hospital in Switzerland, and also worked in the US. Europe is still a bit behind in terms of admin, but getting there. And yes, american influence is felt all ove
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by rscho 5y ago
I'm not trying to convince anyone. That was just a passing observation on my part because, as an MD, I have a very good idea of why healthcare is expensive. But I lost any hope of making anyone who's not working the clinics unders
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by rscho 5y ago
Yes, so. The typical American response to that is: "the government controls everything. Let the free market do its job!" And then wonder why they get shit care for a huge price BUT swith nice marketing and a smiling "health d
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by rscho 5y ago
Not free, but compared to american standards, almost free. And truly free for poor people.
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by rscho 5y ago
Well, I guess we have different opinions about what academia should be, then. IMO, material incentives outside core academic activities are cancer and I think university spin-offs are heresy. If even tenured staff now attempts to "deve
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by rscho 5y ago
The big difference up to now has been that US hospitals have been run by a huge layer cake of administrators for a long time, while in other western countries healthcare workers have had much more direct control over how things are run. Thi
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by rscho 5y ago
And, in the US, you could pay all doctors $1 and you'd still be left with more expensive healthcare than most western countries...
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by rscho 5y ago
This is a systemic problem of universities having become money-making machines, hence opening as many PhD positions as they can with as few tenure-track positions as possible. Changing PhDs to become vocational schools is like putting a ban
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by rscho 5y ago
Good for you if your products do well. But making logos and such is your job as PI if you want it to happen. It's certainly not your students' job. They're here to learn academic skills and advance the field, not to make prod
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by rscho 5y ago
What you describe is not particular to CS. It's the same in every field. However, most people don't view PhDs as a money-making endeavor. IMO, that's a good thing. And no, most of the important work does not happen exclusivel
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by rscho 5y ago
I read computer science papers and hobby program stuff that never works out.
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by rscho 5y ago
The posterior depends on the prior. So not very feasible in practice.
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by rscho 5y ago
On the website you linked: "Embedding Dataframes into an existing language would not be possible." I don't think it would be an issue for languages with good metaprogramming facilities.
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by rscho 5y ago
How does it handle dirty data? Does it assign an "any" type? Also, why do you think embedding data frames is not possible?
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by rscho 5y ago
The main point IMO is that 99.9% of active researchers in clinical medicine should never have been allowed to conduct research. I should know, I'm one of them. The state of the field is plainly abysmal and most clinical researchers don
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by rscho 5y ago
I hear you. Like I said, all attempts using decision trees have up to now failed miserably. The main problem is that for any given set of symptoms, the ~5 most likely diagnoses will be very obvious to most docs, but there will be a gigantic
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by rscho 5y ago
Automated diagnosis and clinical recommendation engines are seeing a lot of research, yes. As a clinician unfortunately, I can already tell you that all that will lead pretty much nowhere. The first problem to solve is data collection/
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by rscho 5y ago
This exists. Current implementations work badly enough even in the trivial case that they are completely useless. Making a better implementation would involve technology that we don't have yet. Also, https://news.ycombinator
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by rscho 5y ago
No, I don't do research myself on issues that are not my specialty. Either the next step is obvious, or it's beyond my reach. Precisely because I lack the necessary experience and know-how to apply research results to the clinical
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by rscho 5y ago
No, it's because many patients don't trust you anymore when they see you looking things up instead of answering immediately without thinking. #-(
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by rscho 5y ago
Calling focusing on that a specialization means a 6y education difference in some countries.
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by rscho 5y ago
In all honesty and with the best of intentions from an academic doc, I think that trying to validate your doc's work other than from what you think of the result is a bad idea. Modern medicine is actually not that modern and still re

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