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by wcedmisten 3y ago
Hi, author here! I totally agree there's a cost-benefit tradeoff to be made. I think the 510k process seems appropriate for low-risk devices like latex gloves and bandages. My concern is mostly around the class II devices cleared throu
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by wcedmisten 3y ago
Hi, author here! Completely agree, I would love to see the FDA publish an official dataset of predicate device relationships. I'm not sure if they have this data available internally, but if not, they could validate my dataset and repu
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by wcedmisten 3y ago
Hi, author here! That's a good point, I should probably add a disclaimer about what recalls mean in this context. Unfortunately I couldn't find a good way to determine whether the recall might be a systemic design issue that would
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by wcedmisten 3y ago
Hey everyone! Author here, happy to answer any questions about this project!
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by wcedmisten 3y ago
Why not release it as AGPL?
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by wcedmisten 3y ago
Author here! I didn't know about that Devices@FDA search, thanks for the tip! My goal for this project is to create a free/open source website that enhances this 510k data based on the public data dumps. I'd be very intereste
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by wcedmisten 3y ago
Author here! That's true, and I actually used that dump[1] and OCR to automate about 80% of this project. The manual data entry was only required for the 20% that couldn't be found automatically. Since this was just to fill in the
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Adding Keyboard Shortcuts to a 24 Year Old Government Website with Userscripts(wcedmisten.fyi)
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by wcedmisten 3y ago
Hey ayocado, I have some experience with self-managed/self-hosted base maps. There are some modern tools that make the setup pretty easy (e.g. Protomaps, MapLibre) and you can still use a minimalist style similar to the CARTO one you h
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Waterway Map(waterwaymap.org)
434 points by wcedmisten 3y ago|151 comments
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by wcedmisten 3y ago
You could run a farm of iphones to OCR memes if you felt so inclined https://findthatmeme.com/blog/2023/01/08/image-stacks-and-ip...
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by wcedmisten 3y ago
I used it for this hospital accessibility map of Maryland. Sorry the legend looks terrible on mobile though https://wcedmisten.github.io/nextjs-protomap-demo/isochrone
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by wcedmisten 3y ago
There's a case study [1] from the UK when they phased out "coal gas" which contained carbon monoxide, and which many people were using to painlessly kill themselves via their ovens (Silvia Plathe being the most famous to do s
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by wcedmisten 3y ago
There's a setting to automatically revoke approvals as "stale" after new changes get pushed
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by wcedmisten 3y ago
Reading this from an airport boarding area coming back from a conference, and I couldn't agree more. I feel like my social skills of talking to strangers have atrophied during COVID, and now I'm trying my best to exercise those so
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OpenStreetMap Americana: A quintessentially American map style(github.com)
4 points by wcedmisten 3y ago|0 comments
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by wcedmisten 3y ago
For my use-case the PDFs are only a few pages long generally, so I think the 16k word limit would be well within my needs. I'm trying to find a list of device names from an FDA 510k summary (for medical device clearances). Currently I&
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by wcedmisten 3y ago
I'm pretty ignorant on which is the best self hosted LLM for such a task or how to fine-tune it. Do you know of any resources on how to set that up? It seems like llama2 is the biggest name on HN when it comes to self hosting but I hav
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by wcedmisten 3y ago
How accurate is an LLM for this task? I was thinking of using one for analyzing free form PDF text to find a specific element, but I was worried about hallucinations.
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by wcedmisten 3y ago
Does anyone know if this data is available in a structured format for the regions? E.g. geojson? It would be really cool to transform this into an interactive map on top of an OSM base map to make it easier to use. It looks like all the bou
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by wcedmisten 3y ago
I believe that's called punycode, and it's a common way to encode Unicode as ASCII. It also means you can use emojis in your domain. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode https://xn--i-7iq.ws
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by wcedmisten 3y ago
For generating an isochrone map anywhere in the world, I'm a big fan of this demo page: https://valhalla.openstreetmap.de/isochrones?profile=bicycle...
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by wcedmisten 3y ago
Thanks for the info! In my case there's not really one primary key that would guarantee good clustering for my query, so I guess there's not much that can be done to optimize here. I'm trying to find all the ancestors of a no
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by wcedmisten 3y ago
A few days ago, I tried to use the linked library (sql.js-httpvfs) for a graph network visualization, which went about as well as you'd expect given the poor spatial locality. Do you have any tips for optimizing spatial locality with m
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by wcedmisten 3y ago
https://wcedmisten.fyi I like writing about my own projects that usually involve web scraping, OpenStreetMap, or visualizing interesting datasets. I've been at it for about a year, mostly to gain motivation to actually fini
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by wcedmisten 3y ago
Yes! I've found this approach very useful with my own projects. I might not be out here inventing C++ or Linux, but it's actually not too hard to find projects where you can apply well known computing techniques or technologies to
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by wcedmisten 3y ago
Interestingly, the inventor of leaded gasoline also invented freon. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr .
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by wcedmisten 3y ago
Wow this was written beautifully!
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by wcedmisten 3y ago
I hope one day my projects page looks as cool as his. Until then, I'll keep adding one project at a time. The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step!
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by wcedmisten 3y ago
Stoichiometry? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoichiometry

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