rscho

67 ms·

871.
by rscho 6y ago
Apparently, Matthew Flatt Made finishing the switch to Chez Scheme a priority and I think that work on Honu is picking up now that's done. But it's not in the implementation stage yet.
872.
by rscho 6y ago
Indeed, but in this case the racket lisp syntax is also here to stay, and I expect many experienced programmers to keep using it. So, we'll see... let's hope for the best!
873.
by rscho 6y ago
You can completely silence all alarms on anesthesia and icu monitors, even though it's forbidden to do so. Or do you mean for the surgeon? Well, unfortunately not all surgeons come with an off switch.
874.
by rscho 6y ago
I also find myself at home with lisp syntax. However it would be very interesting to have a well-supported mainstream syntax regarding the accessibility of the runtime. Incidentally, this was the main stated goal: be more accessible to stud
875.
by rscho 6y ago
Just for giggles: anesthesia & icu alarms have off switches too. For cases where, for example the surgeon complains that he can't concentrate because of the noise. Additional fun fact: you've got an off switch but it's ac
876.
by rscho 6y ago
The Racket people are attempting to do that in a new way with the Honu language, to truly have Lisp powers with an alternate syntax. It's probably going to replace racket as the main language on the racket runtime: https://w
877.
by rscho 6y ago
Not so long ago, I got detained by TSA because I lost the address of my US destination. Note that I had previously been employed in the US and had no legal issues standing. That's also the day I vowed to never set foot on US soil again
878.
by rscho 6y ago
I don't care. Especially when simplistic individual-level observations are stated as population-wide truths.
879.
by rscho 6y ago
Are you really sure you are not missing some pieces of the puzzle, here? Well, I'm an epidemiologist and I'm quite sure you are missing some pieces. The systematic failure of this crisis is nothing compared to the societal failure
880.
by rscho 6y ago
TBF, (experienced) docs usually believe their patients even when they tell weird stuff, but: 1. we tend to overlay our own interpretation over what is described. Because that's pretty much the only way if we are to hope to do something
881.
by rscho 6y ago
Then enlighten us, maybe?
882.
by rscho 6y ago
Let's just say that it's really difficult not to break anything during CPR in general. Especially because the patient is often old and fragile. On young people, it's much easier.
883.
by rscho 6y ago
I am a doc and would absolutely die peacefully at home. You don't understand what aggressive treatments really entail because you've never seen it yourself. FYI, docs would earn more by advising to treat and you are being delusion
884.
by rscho 6y ago
If you want to save the planet, start by unsubscribing from Netflix and stop using your phone for multimedia.
885.
by rscho 6y ago
I used to say that about "scrubs" and no one would believe me.
886.
by rscho 6y ago
Yes, and we can generalize this statement to physicians worldwide. This is absolutely not a chinese-specific problem.
887.
by rscho 6y ago
For practicing day-to-day medicine, programming is useless. However, for a medical student hoping to become an academic it's a highly important asset. Others and even more fundamental assets are to have solid knowledge of epidemiology
888.
by rscho 6y ago
If you want to see people who understand the why and the how: https://www.uab.edu/medicine/pmi/ Lead by Matt Might and Will Byrd. As an MD, I must say MediKanren is the only convincing use of medical AI I've
889.
by rscho 6y ago
Racket allows process-based parallelism (multiprocessing in python) and also has (less useful) futures. It also has green threads. Performance is very much ok for most tasks, although clearly the most performant lisp is Common Lisp. Now, fr
890.
by rscho 6y ago
Oh yes, font sizes say a lot about people! This is so clear to me now. How does one increase font size on HN? I feel I deserve a larger font for my username!
891.
by rscho 6y ago
https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Jd/Overview Jd only packs int vectors, though. So if you're hoping for string compression then I don't know of any free solution. Jd heavily leverages SIMD and mmap. Large
892.
by rscho 6y ago
Ok, so we must have very different views of public health if you consider the south african system to work near perfection. I mean, can you really say that given south african HIV prevalence? And that's just an example among many other
893.
by rscho 6y ago
Small private clinics run by a small bunch or even a single practitioner have almost nothing in common with huge healthcare companies. This is precisely what I mean when I say that docs have control over their own turf but no further. Such
894.
by rscho 6y ago
If you're not afraid of exotic languages, I encourage you to have a look at the APL ecosystem, and especially J and it's integrated columnar store Jd. I have just embarked on an adventure to do just what you describe in... Racket.
895.
by rscho 6y ago
So you're telling me that your private sector wants to vaccinate everyone for free? Sure, yeah! So, call me Red but I feel something between "free for everyone" and "private sector" doesn't align...
896.
by rscho 6y ago
Docs have power over their own turf (losing ground to admin every day that passes). They incidentally absolutely do not have power over the billing scheme in it's entirety, especially since healthcare juggernauts like Kaiser have appea
897.
by rscho 6y ago
In my book, the problems begin as soon as the healthcare system is required to be lucrative. And don't tell me not-for-profit hospitals are not lucrative. It would be even worse without regulations. Care providers would illegally organ
898.
by rscho 6y ago
People here comparing medicine with car mechanics don't have the slightest idea of what they're talking about. The US system is in the hands of the administrators. Not docs, not even the govt: administrators, usually belonging to
899.
by rscho 6y ago
There's a gradation in carelessness and selfishness, though...
900.
by rscho 6y ago
? (Is all I can think of as an answer)

More ›