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by skwb 6y ago
Hah! I heard about this on last weeks Wait Wait Don't tell me!
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by skwb 6y ago
I completely agree. I don't think the only value in AI is to totally replace humans, but rather automate the boring and costly parts that don't require a ton of thinking. In my field of AI in radiology, I see a lot of people tryin
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by skwb 6y ago
Forgive me if I get the citation wrong, but I believe I remember listening to Ezra Klein talking how for much of the 40s/50s/60s, communities were organized by churches and community institutions. I would easily add military servi
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by skwb 6y ago
I am a permanent vote by mail voter in CA - I love it! I get to sit down, research the candidates, and make an informed decision. I remember there was a judge on the ballot, and he had been on the record for some very divisive political tak
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by skwb 6y ago
We already know that SARS-COV-1 IGG antibodies last ~3 years [1]. FWIW antibodies doesn't prevent you from getting sick- there's plenty of studies for the influenza vaccine that show it helps with severity of disease as well in so
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by skwb 6y ago
French contamination history? I'm sure the French have modern microbiology and virology techniques... That said, I do agree that a seismological test of the patient would be more definitive, but sometimes you cannot contact the patient
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by skwb 6y ago
FWIW SARS-CoV-1 specific antibodies last approximately 3 years or so [1]. The antibody test all have a very high specificity (all I've seen have been 98%+, but I'm going off of memory and not any specific cited information), so yo
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by skwb 6y ago
I completely agree. Pr(False Positive| positive COVID-19 symptoms and positive imaging results)... doesn't seem like a very high probability.
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by skwb 6y ago
Yeah, but for IRB reasons, you may not be able to contact the patient. IMHO I would prefer this (potentially) imperfect short communication being out in the scientific world now than a more perfect communication requiring several more month
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by skwb 6y ago
Certainly a possibility, but I would think that it would very unlikely to contaminate the source sample (usually they're frozen in -80 fridge), and if you have a contaminated work station, then the rest of the samples would likely be r
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by skwb 6y ago
Hopefully with the roll out of reliable antibody tests we can get the answers to these "mysterious flus" that lot of people anecdotally have. For me at least it would mentally comforting to know if the "flu" that I contr
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by skwb 6y ago
Yeah, precedent is correct. I mean to say in the context of case precedent, which is what many legal arguments are often based off of.
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by skwb 6y ago
I recall a seminar in grad school where they had a legal scholar come in and I remember her saying that the general prescient for ai is that it's viewed as a tool for creating the end product. I.e. my pen didn't make the patent fo
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by skwb 6y ago
My big prediction for education is that a lot of research universities are going to move large lecture halls online (think chem 101, etc) with labs, seminars, and discussions with lower number of slots to abide with moderate social distanci
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by skwb 6y ago
*STEM PhDs are almost always funded.
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by skwb 6y ago
I highly suspect that many large public universities will make large lectures online and cap in person enrollment for discussion/seminar/lab. You can probably easily ramp up hiring for these since they're mostly grad students
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by skwb 7y ago
I will fully acknowledge my ignorance on swift, but how robust is the matrix operations/scientific packages? As someone who does DL research, I simply cannot imagine a programming environment where I don't have access to a lot of
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by skwb 7y ago
IMHO I'm fairly skeptical of these claims. There have been a lot of scrambling to get testing online worldwide, so I'm fairly certain that Pr(False Positive) and Pr(False Negative) are reasonably high given circumstances. I don&#x
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by skwb 7y ago
No need to not call out PR marketing when you see it in the wild. It's fine praise a company that does good, but don't act as if these companies are doing it out of pure kindness of their heart when they have legal shareholders to
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by skwb 7y ago
I remember back in the early 2010's that a large selling point of SAS (besides the ridiculous point that R/python were freeware and therefore cannot be trusted on important projects ) was that it can chew through large data sets t
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by skwb 7y ago
> "It works". Well that's sorta the point. Personally I'm not a super huge fan of creating a super specific network architecture and resulting in 2-3% difference in performance. Certainly if you're doing someth
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by skwb 7y ago
I work in deep learning for 3D imaging, and memory has constantly been the primary bottleneck for our group. U-net for example tends to be fairly "chonky", and isn't really super great in terms of parameter efficiency (but it
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by skwb 7y ago
The other important thing to take into account is the vast heterogeneity of cancers. Cancers have been shown to be VERY diverse in their genomic expression profile, meaning you're probably looking at a very small pinhole compared to th
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by skwb 7y ago
While it is certainly interesting to hear of new developments for cancer screening, it must be taken in with the proper context. I see a lot of people without medical or public health training fall into the trap of thinking that any sort of
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by skwb 7y ago
I think I completely agree. Most A10 doctrine is typically to establish air superiority first, and then use A10 for ground support missions [1]. The F-35 is supposed to employ stealth to do more penetrating missions when you cannot assume a
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by skwb 7y ago
*If they want to accept Medicare dollars (and usually private insurance just follows Medicare). I remembered some South Western (I want to say Arizona) specialty clinic that basically didn't accept insurance and had pen and paper chart
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by skwb 7y ago
Now you're right in that traditionally Epic has served larger healthcare systems and tertiary hospitals, (hell they have even been known to turn down customers), but I think there's potentially a bit of role reversal on the horizo
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by skwb 7y ago
It's very du joure to talk bad about Epic (and certainly not without reason re: HHS healthcare interoperability proposed rules) but they have been a huge success from a business perspective. The reason why they provide EHR support for
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by skwb 7y ago
The healthcare industry is VERY conservative. Even the thought of moving EHR hosting to the cloud was a huge effort. Things in this industry are simply done at a different pace. Even digitization of medical records required millions of doll
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by skwb 7y ago
If I'm being honest, I haven't really mucked around pycharm. My primary hate really is using a chome/firefox/safari browser window for the notebook interactivity. Personally, I use Atom with Hydrogen backend, but I devel

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