rscho

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841.
by rscho 5y ago
Are you in love with Lisp? Then yes, you get it ;)
842.
by rscho 5y ago
Macros are bolted on in Lisp!? Ok, can you expand a bit on what a language with (syntactic) macros at its core would be like, please?
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by rscho 5y ago
Homoiconicity is a start. But the killer feature is simplicity. In Lisp, only symbols and parentheses. In prolog, only predicate head, body and atoms. This is what makes those two languages so suitable to syntactic macros, while other langu
844.
by rscho 6y ago
I work in an ICU. Bedside staff is equipped with PPE2. No space suit. I've spent months of my life wearing only a surgical mask in what is basically a COVID aquarium, with patients on non-invasive ventilation in open-space units sprayi
845.
by rscho 6y ago
You absolutely don't know that. Disease severity vs. contaminant load correlation is unknown.
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by rscho 6y ago
> I think there are "House, M.D."-style situations where the checklist will kill your patient Yes, but from a systemic standpoint, it's considered a non-issue, unfortunately.
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by rscho 6y ago
We can't "wean ourselves from the checklist style" because it's enforced by many systemic factors, not the least of which being legal repercussions. Modern medicine is "defensive first ask questions later", and
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by rscho 6y ago
Well, isn't it the point of prolog to have easily modifiable semantics? I'd argue it is, whether through meta-interpretation or an alternate implementation.
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by rscho 6y ago
https://youtu.be/G_eYTctGZw8
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by rscho 6y ago
Sedation without going into general anesthesia is not an easy thing at all, and even experienced anesthesia providers will sometimes struggle. However, patients moving or being otherwise disoriented is quite frequent and in itself is a non-
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by rscho 6y ago
I am very interested by ILP for some medical meta research, e.g. learning clinical guidelines (= care pathway for a particular condition) from papers on a topic. Do you think the current state of the art makes that possible? Would you be in
852.
by rscho 6y ago
Have a look at the "power of prolog" YouTube channel (and website) by Markus Triska.
853.
by rscho 6y ago
No, prolog is weak for things involving concrete calculations. It is absolutely stellar for anything involving using/building a logical transformation framework, such as building provers, compilers, solvers and the like. Most people wi
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by rscho 6y ago
The only energy-efficient blockchain is no blockchain at all. Storage is not free, and you can't do without it.
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by rscho 6y ago
Noise. But don't judge too harshly, it's actually like that everywhere I got to work.
856.
by rscho 6y ago
I guess the reviewers did not see a problem. Or deemed the contribution to the field sufficiently important to let it pass through. I don't know, really.
857.
by rscho 6y ago
Well, most professors around here don't respond well at all to objections. All (MD) professors I've met are dangerous Excel spreadsheet warriors. Note that we have a statistician in our unit, that no one listens to because "w
858.
by rscho 6y ago
I am guessing that you don't do clinical research, then ;-)
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by rscho 6y ago
Yes, I could ask to lose my job. But again, I prefer not to. Research in certain (most?) fields is a dictatorship and even suggesting something to be fishy puts a target on your back. In this particular case, there were multiple outcomes te
860.
by rscho 6y ago
I didn't ask for it. I just found about it after the fact and not being a professor I have no say in the matter. Also, I'd prefer to keep my job since I have a family to feed. Yes, the reanalysis is terrible and it follows from th
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by rscho 6y ago
And on what criteria are comparisons based? Oh yeah, just the ones that fit american cultural expectations of what being a good university is. How convenient! University grading systems are the truest expression of american cultural imperia
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by rscho 6y ago
Pre-registration is very common in medicine. I don't see it change anything, because there are no real consequences for not doing what you registered for.
863.
by rscho 6y ago
I have a particularly funny recent anecdote: in the past year, a professor at my dept had two papers of his attacked by aggressive letters to the editor pointing out flaws in both methodology and interpretation. The end result has been that
864.
by rscho 6y ago
The emergency treatment depends on the extent and location of damage. For damage lying high enough, tracheostomy is an option. If the extent of damage is small enough one might get through with (very risky) emergency intubation and later tr
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by rscho 6y ago
It is very difficult to propagate expertise for rare procedures. Oftentimes the teaching center already has limited volume, so trainees may become "experts" with a rather limited number of procedures under their belt. The problem
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by rscho 6y ago
No mention of the big 2020 HN crowd aggressively promoting chloroquine as the drug that will save the world? Sad, I'd love to hear what those people have to say today!
867.
by rscho 6y ago
TBH, I can't really think of any other pronunciation.
868.
by rscho 6y ago
I do. As do all people I know of who speak french as their native language.
869.
by rscho 6y ago
Exactly. This prosternation before american PC is depressing, to say the least.
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by rscho 6y ago
With minor versions up to the next major nicknamed "connard"? As a transitional naming... ;-)

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