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by rscho 5y ago
As a doctor myself, I can assure you that it's possibly the worst way to differentiate capable from incapable docs. It's a good way to differentiate socially skilled docs from socially inept ones. This I can agree with.
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by rscho 5y ago
We search the web for remembering things we already know. We are not looking for insight on Google. If we really have a tough nut to crack, we consult with experts. If I am the expert on the topic, then I review recent research papers.
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by rscho 5y ago
This is country-dependent. In practice though, it's absolutely true that GP is specialist work.
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by rscho 5y ago
Edit: hospital dev if you are reading this, know that UpToDate.com must be 1 CLICK AWAY! :-) The problem is more that: 1. speed is crucial in clinical medicine 2. UpToDate access is usually buried under several layers of corporate links or
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by rscho 5y ago
UpToDate. Paid subscription.
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by rscho 5y ago
> Julia would not be faster than Rust, its got a garbage collector. Having a garbage collector does not intrinsically make things slower. Especially so outside of the benchmarking microcosm.
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by rscho 5y ago
Maybe you should hop on the website of duckdb before commenting...
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by rscho 5y ago
I mean that the way we assess research output in the current system makes curiosity a liability. This means that even if investors are interested, the scientific community will judge the output from this institute as inferior. Except if the
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by rscho 5y ago
> only the "best" or "hottest" researchers I'm pretty sure this subset is very similar to the 'least curious' subset...
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by rscho 5y ago
Don't worry and no need for FOMO. I'm in clinical medicine and the situation is no better. And people thinking that curiosity is bankable in biomed research strike me as idealistic...
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by rscho 5y ago
Depending on the stuff you do, emacs org-mode is worth a shot. I write all my papers in org.
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by rscho 5y ago
Yes, you should. At least the first book. Even if you don't adhere to the philosophy/politics in the book, it's really quite an entertaining story and it's indeed far, far better than the movie.
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by rscho 5y ago
Do your own research! :-D
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by rscho 5y ago
Yes, let's wait for that evidence to manifest itself instead! Smashing idea!
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by rscho 5y ago
While what you say is definitely likely, hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM) seems to be associated with professional soccer player status, and is believed to be responsible for some part of those sudden deaths in players.
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by rscho 5y ago
How could it be so confidential when it's the basis for the 'native image' GraalVM. There's also a whole book about it, available for free on the web... http://www.itu.dk/people/sestoft/pebook&#
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by rscho 5y ago
Your Joe is the average HN reader. My Joe is my average patient. I completely agree that the word of experts is meaningless on matters where dust had no time to settle. I however maintain that practitioners have to follow guidelines and exp
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by rscho 5y ago
I'm not saying that experts are doing a stellar job or that they're special in any way, far from it. I have slaved enough under 'true experts' to know the extent of the catastrophe. We even had a truly spectacular exampl
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by rscho 5y ago
Your GP may try to lay out the state of research before you, but that does not change the fact that he/she will do one of those things: 1. Treat you according to guidelines/expert opinion, should you choose to. 2. Give you the opp
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by rscho 5y ago
Absolutely not. Ivermectin, like other antiparasitic drugs has a wealth of metabolic side effects making uncontrolled administration quite dangerous.
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by rscho 5y ago
I am a doc. I am also a medical researcher, but you (and most other people here) _have_ to realize that the vast majority of practicing MDs are _not_ scientists, and understand almost nothing when reading medical studies. And that's fi
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by rscho 5y ago
Racket can spawn 'real' threads through the Chez low level API. The new database connection package does just that, for example.
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by rscho 5y ago
"software devs could easily correct the privacy problem by not working at Facebook or Google, only they choose not to because they don't care." This pov is ridiculous. The same goes for the academic equivalent.
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by rscho 5y ago
Ok, now it's clear. So yes I agree that controlling false discovery rate is an unsolved problem that p-value doesn't address. Yes of course applied stats are a kind of 'soft science', at least regarding the interpretatio
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by rscho 5y ago
No, sorry...
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by rscho 5y ago
Contribute what? Mathematically incorrect statements don't seem very useful to me... After cursory examination, I don't understand your point regarding the stackexchange link. As for hypothesis testing, I also fail to see how that
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by rscho 5y ago
This thread has the strongest 'pseudoexpert-statistical-bro' vibe I ever experienced. It's amazing! You can have your own beliefs regarding COVID, but it surely revealed a lot about the social perception of statistics... #-&
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by rscho 5y ago
5% is not a pointwise prediction at the individual level. You can't interpret it like you did.
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by rscho 5y ago
I've had TSA confiscate my mini swiss knife (1 inch blade)... #-/
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by rscho 5y ago
Ok, but let's not forget that math is written by and for mathematicians and not software developers...

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