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by rscho 1y ago
Last time someone tried to inject chips into the bloodstream, public opinion didn't handle it too well. It's the same as we would learn a lot by being more cruel to research animals. But most people have other priorities. Good or
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by rscho 1y ago
What are you gonna do if the screening test comes back positive?
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by rscho 1y ago
Ideally, you'd want a test (or two sequential ones) that's both very sensitive (rule candidates in) and specific (rule healthy peeps out). But that's only the first step, because there's no point knowing you're sick
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by rscho 1y ago
Honestly, you don't have access to the necessary data to make rational decisions. That's not gatekeeping, it's logic. I don't have access to it either, although I'm indeed a healthcare pro. Screening strategies are
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by rscho 1y ago
No, the potential harm comes from follow-up tests. That's why screening strategies are designed by professionals. It's a pretty complex field, and all the people here fielding their opinions on how we should proceed about tests do
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by rscho 1y ago
It's not personal, it's perfectly rational statistics, i.e. epidemiology. Designing screening strategies is not an amateur's game.
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by rscho 1y ago
... or could do you harm, which is an important point.
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by rscho 1y ago
Well... believe it or not, some have thought of using lisp for AI for quite some time. ;-)
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by rscho 1y ago
> I fear the general trend of "medication bad" will get us back to those dark times. I think this won't ever happen. Modern docs would absolutely not accept working under such conditions. Anesthesia is not only comfort fo
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by rscho 1y ago
> And the exact definition of the anesthesia given to most infants before 1987: A paralytic. Nothing else. To my knowledge, this was only true for newborns. Infants and up usually got some sort of hypnotic.
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by rscho 1y ago
It is mainstream. We have modules. It's useful, but unfortunately not a magic wand either.
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by rscho 1y ago
While the theory about pain in kids was certainly wrong, you are lacking some context about what 'safe' used to mean, and what it means nowadays. In the 80's, kids were under halothane and long-acting paralysis drugs which, e
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by rscho 1y ago
You just crank it up until those people don't react. With experience, you can anticipate those pretty well.
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by rscho 1y ago
Circumcision induces keratinization of the glans (one of the reasons this makes us more resistant to many STDs). I noticed a huge difference in touch perception before vs. after and I strongly resent that this was brought onto me. I'm
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by rscho 1y ago
"MAC being the primary indication of anesthetic depth being the textbook definition" I am an attending anesthesiologist and this is true. MAC cannot be interpreted at face value, though. You've got other drugs on board (not a
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by rscho 1y ago
Anesthesia is mostly know-how. When you've put several hundred kids under, you (usually) become equipped with a good sense of what's going on, even without kids telling you.
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by rscho 1y ago
MAC is the alveolar concentration (so strictly speaking defined only for anesthetic gases) at which half of people show no motor reaction on surgical incision. I understand your interpretation about paralysis, but we know the measurement en
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by rscho 1y ago
We do it regularly in both kids and adults, and this is nothing new. It's just that a study confirms it's useful using statistics instead of common sense. We were already using EEG in both kids and adults 15 years ago.
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by rscho 1y ago
The theory wasn't about remembering, it was mostly about babies supposedly having a nervous system too immature to interpret pain as in adults. This is not the current opinion at all anymore.
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by rscho 1y ago
I don't use discord. raoul.schorer@gmail.com
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by rscho 1y ago
> But doctors unions fight tooth and nail to prevent the publication of information that would allow patients to make informed decisions Yes. > which removes the financial incentive for surgeons to do better and prevents bad surgeons
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by rscho 2y ago
Thank you so much for volunteering!
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by rscho 2y ago
Hackett. But the language is now abandoned.
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by rscho 2y ago
Very easy. You could do it yourself after 5 min of reading ;-)
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by rscho 2y ago
I don't think they care so much as you think about 'takeoff'. It's mostly a research project in programming pedagogy. They're trying to make lisp features more accessible to students in universities. A takeoff would
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by rscho 2y ago
Doctors and statistical processes are always a bad match. (I'm a MD doing medical stats) No, this is not reliable in the slightest.
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by rscho 2y ago
Well, this is clearly an attempt at abstracting the kind of low-level stuff you describe. Perhaps it doesn't work (yet), but that shouldn't prevent people from trying ? Involving a SMT solver suggests that the solver is doing the
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by rscho 2y ago
"Oh, I emptied your bank account here, let me change this." For AI to really replace most workers like some people would like to see, there are plenty of situations where hallucinations are a complete no-go and need fixing.
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by rscho 2y ago
Yes, but honestly if you can use specialized software instead of writing your own, do so. Scheduling problems become very hairy quite quickly. For ASP, there is also sCASP that is the current flagship application of SWI Prolog.
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by rscho 2y ago
The big advantage of prolog vs solvers is the logic programming aspect. If you can express parts of your program in a logically pure way, Prolog code will be much more concise than the Z3 equivalent, although probably slower. Another adva

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