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by rscho 6y ago
Welcome to Racket, then: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https:/...
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by rscho 6y ago
Comes with innovative vector graphics and antialiasing capabilities. See: https://youtu.be/_NB2_Q4bYEk For a demo of Morphic3 Summarized here: http://www.jvuletich.org/Morphic3/Morphic3-200911.html And
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Cuis Smalltalk(github.com)
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Indeed
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Most languages designed for scientific (vs. business) use cases are 1-based. Mathematicians prefer it to zero.
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These folks are also among the most tech-unsavvy people on Earth...
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by rscho 6y ago
> 4. Technician sees the outcome, they can update their assessment Will result in exactly what I described above. > If one of technicians has too much errors in their initial assessments, it should raise a concern. People will refuse
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by rscho 6y ago
The troubles we are seeing with medical AI integration are not stemming from lack of personal abilities, though. The problem is clearly systemic, with medical data being currently mostly unusable (for both humans and machines, although huma
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by rscho 6y ago
The medical field is currently supported by clinical intuition much more than by hard data, or anything included into the common definition of "science". We should absolutely work to make medical information systems available to m
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Then technicians will just put whatever diagnosis in the relevant text field and let the "AI" do their job (if the "AI" is deemed good enough). I've been working in healthcare for 15 years, and I don't have a s
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by rscho 6y ago
Not OP, but anesthesiologist and hobby programmer for 15 years. What you are describing is a fundamental flaw of the current AI effort: the data that supports AI models is mostly irrelevant to the problem. In medicine, the saying goes: 90%
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by rscho 6y ago
The current effort towards medical ai is heading in the wrong direction: were trying to make machines adapt to the field while we should be trying to adapt the field to make it available to machine-aided reasoning. Problem: almost nobody un
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by rscho 6y ago
China is destined by US and European politicians to take power, because those in power are totally corrupt. This has nothing to do with the instrinsic abilities of respective populations. Same goes for Israel. And you have a strange definit
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by rscho 6y ago
If you want to make/prototype any sort of complex text manipulation (parser, interpreter, compiler, etc.) or have a desire to make purely functional list processing programs, Prolog is by far the best in terms of flexibility and ease o
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by rscho 6y ago
https://github.com/jart/sectorlisp
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by rscho 6y ago
Your comment is a sign that you should write more lisp, not less. After you've written enough lisp, you may go back to other languages but then you'll really know why you use those. There are essentially 2 possibilities: - you nee
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Such trials are highly unethical IMO. I suspect that this opinion will be shared by most. There is a huge and obvious difference compared to a drug placebo.
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Yes. You should go somewhere they do a lot of the particular surgery you are interested in.
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> that does not absolve such studies from merit and impact Not completely, but is it justified that meta analysis papers are among the highest-impact things you can produce when it is known that the chance of type I error is particularly
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by rscho 6y ago
Firstly, I have a problem with meta analysis in general and the sheer volume of meta papers tends to drown the Cochrane papers. Additionally, I challenge the judgment calls about honesty of authors, be it the source trial authors or the met
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by rscho 6y ago
It's also easier to do scripting with J since you can just use files. The (Dyalog) APL workspace infrastructure is very powerful but a bit heavy to use when all you want is a simple script. Of course, large banks and Fortune 500 compa
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by rscho 6y ago
Not developer, just a lone data wrangler but FWIW Jd has made me much faster at exploring data. I now use Jd to create my datasets and use R just for the models. IMO, it's far better than using R to tidy things.
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by rscho 6y ago
Control flow in APLs is mostly imperative, and with explicit code, /i.e./ code that mentions variables, you're effectively writing procedural code. I'd say that APLs are harder to get started with, but easier to use righ
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The Cochrane Collaboration is a noble effort but its impact is limited in practice. There is a huge incentive to produce papers in the modern medical system, and I'm in a good place to know that you can make the data say whatever you w
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> it was astounding how the surgeons were literally unable to see any mode of treatment which didn't involve surgery. Current medical practice is the definition of "when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail&qu
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Yes! Let's vote to make more killing machines instead of funding schools and hospitals!
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by rscho 6y ago
Maybe cuis smalltalk is closer to what you're looking for? Same VM, though.
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by rscho 6y ago
Re language choice, you should be aware that CL is a massive language and requires you to know a lot of things about it to be efficient. With Scheme (Racket), you'll be able to ramp up easily as it requires less knowledge (as long as y
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In opposition to our 25 fighter planes piloted and commanded by greenhorns who have never seen a real conflict. Those will make quick work of the invader. This is laughable. Swiss armed forces have their justification in policing or counter
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Delaware...

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