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I know we hold doctors in high regard, but I must decline in allocating some magical "vibe" or "spidey-sense" as the article writes.

In my opinion a well built system will replace all doctors in non-research, medical functions.

The notion that somehow one needs "vibe" to recognize something is wrong when Gladys in the example "vomited a huge quantity of blood" is concerning, and wee bit self-aggrandizing. The doctor reacted because there was clear evidence of an issue, not because supernatural abilities.

> A doctor’s foundational clinical mental models are built during residency...

And, sad to say often stays that way for the rest of their careers. Anecdotally, I have seen this clearest with dentists and ophthalmologists. They will fossilize into their own thinking and unable or unwilling to pick up new methods and procedures (unless sufficiently incentivized by the selling company).

another problem is frailty. I walked out on Monday dental appointment when I could tell the dentist had a "rough weekend". I do not need a person with a hang-over digging in my mouth with sharp spinning objects.

A system that is updated near real time with new research, new medical advances, not getting tired or distracted is more preferable to me than a human. Maybe the actions are not performed by the machine, it just prompts the human to do and feed the information back, maybe it will also perform the actions. All is possible in the future.

When it comes to research and emotional interaction, yes, doctors still hold an edge.
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I'm really curious what people who are good at math are actually doing. I presume my thinking methodologies are just so far removed from how they think that I'm unable to imagine it, I can hardly even visualize a number never mind manipulate them, it's strange. I couldn't tell time till I was in my early teens, and even then it was a lot of work, and even today I wouldn't exactly call it "automatic".
In the real world, universities are never going to fix the problem of overworked and underpaid grad students getting tired.
It is not that dense. Sounds like the interior and exterior are both 16K resolution and exterior pixel pitch is quite large at 225mm. Article below says it uses 30 computers to run things but thats unclear if it is both outside and inside or just inside.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-REJHfi4x5U

https://www.techradar.com/pro/worlds-only-16k-display-is-pow...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphere_(venue)
Maybe go back to school? Do a masters? That might give you a fresh perspective on the state of things in our field?

(If you need to put food on the table, you could consider doing it part time too).
It would be less than ideal, but still an improvement over the current situation as long as the order is re-randomized for every assignment, because at least then you'd only be occasionally disadvantaged rather than consistently disadvantaged.
I tried paying for muPDF a few years ago and it was way way more than my company could afford. Had to use a different system that was not dual licensed.
My partner wants nothing to do with a VC or even a loan - basically because what you're saying here.

The other side to it, as rfrey said, is it would enable a hyper growth mode and let us make moves earlier.

But stable growth mode is working fine, and overall there's not a huge reason to take out a loan or raise money, it doesn't feel like we're racing against a clock on some trend or any other reason to rush things.
No one in the software industry that works at Google is there because they otherwise couldn't find a job. They're there because they want to maximize money and don't have concerns about the ethics of mass surveillance.
Yep, I noticed this with myself too when I first did some grading a few months ago.

There was also the factor that the ones I graded initially did not make certain mistakes or answered in expected ways, such that when I did encounter unexpected answers/mistakes, I had to go back and rethink the grading on the papers I had graded previously. Eg if someone answered in a way that made me think an answer I considered incorrect was actually less wrong.

I only had to deal with a small class, so backtracking was doable and I graded the papers in whatever shuffled up order they were turned in, otherwise there would have definitely been a bias.
While that's a fair point, I can't update the original comment anymore to make clear that I was discussing intrinsic value. I'm always on a haste to be honest.
> it would mean that the graders are just getting tired/lazy/inattentive the further they get in their stack of papers

Or maybe they are getting better / more picky.

I know in code reviews I often pass a few and then notice something that I realize was also wrong in previous reviews I allowed, but later reviews that day (week?) will not allow that.
We once got flights to Florida from Glasgow for £49 fly drive off of Teletext. Booked it Tuesday and flew out on Thursday. Those where the days!
I had college roommates who loved Phish. While I respect the musical skill, I found that the music was torture unless I was intoxicated with large quantities of cannabis. Small quantities made it tolerable.

That being said, the Sphere is an engineering wonder and I hope the owners are able to get the finances nailed down.
UK bank online payment conditions are getting ridiculous
Today I went to pay Vodafone via website - from account at bank Lloyds which required me to agree that I had "checked independent reviews to make sure the website is reliable" before allowing the transaction.

I guess we'll have to take screen shots of those reviews for when the bank holds us liable for recipient crookery...

This kind of thing is simply banks pushing their security costs and liabilities on to customers.
Anchoring?
Order effects are real. I'm a prof. I notice that the longer I grade, the less motivated I am to take off points and then justify why I took off those points. It's easier just to give points and move on. (And if anybody wants to criticize this, I'll be happy to launch into a diatribe on the psychometric dumpster fire that most assignments and their associated grading scales really are.)
> Australia's rationale amounts to "we need to control your reality so that you don't get out of control".

Why have you concluded that this is their rationale?
Oh, it's an old joke. It goes like this:

A man in a balloon realises he's lost and, spotting another man walking his dog in a field, descends to ask the dog walker for directions.

"Do you know where I am?" asks the balloon man.

"Yes" answers the dog walker. "You are in the basket of a hot air balloon, hovering a few feet over an empty field, talking to a man walking his dog".

"Ah", says the balloon man. "You must be a mathematician".

"That's right" says the dog walker. "How did you know?"

"Because" says the balloon man "you gave me an answer that is at once entirely correct and completely useless".
Get a wallet, store the phrase in your head, how are they going to get physical access?
Java is only a nightmare when you have to follow corporate decade-old "best" practices
Maybe the answer is smaller groups?
You're talking about two unrelated things. Non-clinical MBAs running hospitals is very obviously dumb, but so is pretending the only cost of a resident is the salary they're paid directly.

> Every nurse and resident in her circle had a similar story.

Most don't quit after 3 years.

> U.S. hospitals are for profit assembly lines.

Absolutely true, regardless of the actual IRS profit classification.
Big fan of the Sphere and U2 do amazing things with it but what I saw from Phish was pretty low effort -- it's such a one off canvas you can see when someone has taken the time to make content just for that surface and when it's a bit more cut and paste and trim the edges in Unreal. $2B to build and I guess an sdk to go along with it was considered too much ? Still at $15k/min of external display time as a billboard there is good reason to make sure what you throw at the pixels is as good as you can get.
That's fair, but my point is you are minimizing the consequences to them not maximizing their earning power. Whether that is forcing, is the issue with the word itself, and where that line comes.
> This is straight up fraud and should be treated as such.

Running a residency program takes resources, staffing, and people. If you expect everyone in the doctor education and residency chain to work for free, there wouldn’t be much of a residency program to speak of.

It’s a reality of life: doing things within a business takes money. I know some people scoff at the idea of health care being a business, but even in government-run programs there are still budgets to be managed and costs to be paid.

> U.S. hospitals are for profit assembly lines. Managers with MBAs that have never worked a shift on the floor in their life see staff as fungible. Throwing a pizza party when patient quotas are met, instead of you know, hiring more to relieve overworked and stressed employees.

Your view is very US-centric, but this is a common story in other countries too. Healthcare is a very complicated and demanding field, and it has high turnover rates outside the US as well. The harsh reality is that these organizations are operating like any other: They compensate as necessary to reach the supply/demand equilibrium. As long as new people continue to seek out and take the jobs at a high enough rate to keep the organization running, they’re not going to arbitrarily increase compensation.

That’s always the answer: It’s supply and demand equilibrium. We can complain all we want about who “should” be paid more or similar musings, but as long as the jobs are filled sufficiently at the current rate and the system keeps chugging along, that’s how it will be.
> I simply mean that they can't be used practically for tasks that I consider creative.

Can you expand a bit more on what you feel are creative tasks? I'm Curious, not arguing :) I struggle to define the term myself.
When digging in sand, they are also surprisingly quick. You can see when they spout water out of their little holes in the sand, but if you don’t start digging like crazy they can easily get away.

Clamming was a surprisingly fun way to waste a morning as a kid, it is like playing at the beach with objectives. If you ever happen across somebody with a license, I suggest giving it a try.
As someone whose initials are Z and W, I tend to notice alpha sort a lot. Asking a friend whose initials are A and B about this, it's not something they ever noticed.

I haven't noticed a grading/ranking difference, but far more frequently I'll hear that "oh, we ran out of item/time/etc. before we got to you", which has made me much more sensitive to issues of planning/organization.
Yup, I gave up on certbot after trying to understand why I couldn't get the Digital Ocean DNS plugin to work, which is maintained as part of the Certbot repo. (This was a few years ago, so details may have changed.)

I discovered the issue was that the plugin does some pretty broad-brush guesswork about which domain in your DNS hosting it should actually populate with the response value. If you own a bunch of similar domain names (as many orgs do), the plugin may guess wrong.

Much happier to be using dehydrated, and I don't regard it as a major impediment that I had to spend 10 minutes hand writing the necessary API call to the DNS provider.
Correct. They are having difficulties making it break even, let alone profitable.

It really is an engineering marvel, and I hope they can figure out the finances.
>“We kind of suspect that fatigue is one of the major factors that is driving this effect, because when you’re working on something for a long period of time, you get tired and then you start to lose your attention and your cognitive abilities are dropping,” Pei said.

there is a similar effect found here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungry_judge_effect
Exactly, thanks for explaining BossingAround.

It is a small niche use-case, but something I personally run into more often than not.

Other alternatives is use ffmpeg on your own, or use one of the thousand video tools on the market to compress the video. This is what I did in the past, but it made me open an external tool, then compress, then re-upload. It was an annoying 20-30 seconds of my time.

This keeps devs in the Github PR flow without thinking too much, which I find quite nice. I personally have been using this for 2ish months now since version 0.0.1. It is always a pleasant surprise when it works.
A breakthrough came when I saw a naturopathic doctor for my stiff muscles and she advised me to take Epsom salt baths. That seemed to help. I investigated more and found out that the ingredient in Epsom salt that helped me is magnesium. Then I found out that you can actually get magnesium pills and tried that. That worked remarkably well. But the big surprise was that I slept better the night I tried the magnesium pill! That's when I realized that magnesium is good for insomnia as well! I then worked backwards to understand the role played by magnesium.
I don’t think that’s the case at all.

Previous Twitter was receiving a direct flow of censorship requests from Government officials asking them to shadowban or remove users. This was pure political speech censorship.
No, having each panel be that smart would be way too expensive. Not knowing the Sphere's specific setups, typical concert/stage setups have "dumb" panels are just screens with no bezel so they can be positioned edge to edge in what ever configuration for size/shape you need. After that, they are all connected back to a central system to control the signals to each of the screens.

Also, loading the content to each "smart" panel as you describe would be an absolute nightmare, and very time consuming. That's not how a roadie thinks.
I wonder if people are confusing "out of tune" with "autotune."

I was in a band 20 years ago and "out of tune" always meant what Rick says: one of the notes the instrument is generating is off relative to the other notes the instrument is generating. It had nothing to do with how close the notes are to the original piece. That was known as being "off key."[0]

[0]: I'm a drummer, so my understanding of "off key" might not be entirely accurate, but that's how I remember the phrase being used.
Node.js Task Runner
All you need is certbot and a post-hook to restart nginx.

There’s this misconception that you need extra packages to get certificates working with different software.
Also https://www.theguardian.com/law/2011/apr/11/judges-lenient-b...
Radical constructivism is related to the work of the neurobiologists Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela (they are not called constructivists but attributed as main proponents), and the biophysicist Heinz von Foerster.

A deep rabbit hole which started for me when I read Paul Watzlawick in the late 90s.

(the German Wikipedia article about it is much more detailed than the English one; I guess it's good to read using machine translation)
“Actual currency, on the other hand, derives its value from the willingness of the issuing sovereign to accept it back in payment of taxes.”

And yet the purchasing power of the dollar has fallen by 99.5% since moving off the gold standard. Bitcoin claims to hedge against this steady decline in value which is caused by money printing.

If you believe they will stop printing money and diluting the value of the dollar, the argument for Bitcoin fails. If not, Bitcoin’s hard supply cap and perfectly inelastic supply when faced with changes in demand make it a compelling hedge.
US Banning TikTok Would Destroy Decades of US Work on Promoting an Open Internet
Knowing what out of tune means probably come down to having grown up with a musical instrument that has to be tuned from time to time
They were the best swords in the world for elegantly slicing bundles of straw, or cadavers. Hands down. Probably most types of fruit and vegetables, too. Also very beautiful, if that's a performance characteristic you care about.
There is an existing discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40093658
> graders are just getting tired/lazy/inattentive the further they get in their stack of papers to grade.

I will admit to this. Initially, my patience and tolerance for errors is significantly higher than towards the end of the grading. By the second hour grading, I am not only mentally exhausted my tolerance is significantly lower.

I try to prevent this by creating very explicit grading rubric and I stick to it as much as possible.
Most exam grading is not viewing the writing as a whole but rather looking for incidences of specific points to assign credit for. One could imagine an LLM be quite effective at labeling sentences as pertaining to a predefined idea at scale.
This was a really weird complaint. I'm actually curious what language the author considered superior in this regard. Almost every language has agreed that string slicing is important enough that it's worth the slight impedance mismatch with legacy APIs.

Given the system APIs (heck, ABIs) will remain, the options are to {expose|hide} this detail {safely|unsafely}. Out of these, Rust seems to have made a fair choice: most APIs hide it safely, but you also get everything you need to engage with this detail when you must, safely if possible and well-contained otherwise.

How many languages engage with this concern so completely that they have compiler support for null-terminated C string literals? https://doc.rust-lang.org/edition-guide/rust-2021/c-string-l...

Even C++ eventually got std::string_view, it just got it with temporal unsafety and no type-level way to prevent you from using a non-terminated string slice to call an API expecting termination.

This was a problem even when it was Google's internal StringPiece and you were expected to take the subtle hint that StringPiece::data() didn't imply termination the same way that string::c_str() did. The many bugs that followed proved this was not a sufficient hint, reminding us yet again why comments are no substitute for type systems, and thus why Rust's extra guard rails around this problem are justified for the majority of cases.
You would need to be more specific than that.
Maybe branch out. Become a general programmer/engineer instead of a JS programmer. Maybe even work with some hardware and firmware too. We live in an era where there is no need to specialize; the gates are open. I feel like most learning of a given discipline happens in the beginning; the rest is diminishing returns.
> async is an essential differentiator in this domain that needed to be nailed down early

Which domain are we talking about here?

> a major hole in nearly everything but Go

... because Go being mostly used as "the devops tool language" where I honestly don't see much if any point to async code.
Approximately when the Neanderthals disappeared, cave art starts appearing, and Homo Sapiens arrive in Europe
Even distribution would fix the problem. If grading has a subjective component, there will always be deviations from the "correct" grade. If those patterns are randomly distributed over all students, their grade averages will be comparable again.
I grew up in Utah which has a certain religious culture mixed in entrepreneurship. Very good salespeople but not always morally right depending on your beliefs. The broadway show “The Book of Mormon” is a good satire as to what I’m talking about. But lived experience is better.

Also I knew of him and his early employees from his involvement in a bootcamp called DevMountain in Provo. Interesting concepts were applied there and their practices were very distasteful in my opinion such as having a previous cohort student teaching the upcoming cohort and inflating LinkedIn recommendations with the current classmates to land jobs.

Like it isn’t wrong to do, but it isn’t right either. Following Lambda over the years showed all of these patterns to larger extents.
> although I'm not sure if modern TVs will process it.

Continental Europe still runs teletext-over-DVB so probably "just works".
I believe the hungry judge effect has generally been accepted as false.
In Europe it’s still normal. I very often see 10 year olds by themselves.

Even in Montreal in more Eropean-value influences neighbourhoods (eg Plateau) you can see this. I was shocked (in a good way) to see 7-8 year olds walking by themselves to school. That’s after living in other Canadian cities for 20 years.
Job interviews have similar effects
Like most inequities, those who are in the benefiting group frequently don't realize that privilege.
>QM is pretty straightforward linear algebra

The chasm between my grades in linear algebra and my grades in quantum begs to differ... :(
Imagine an Adobe version of this. 64Gb at least.
> Enforced randomization isn't going to fix the problem, it just evenly distributes the problem.

Evenly distributing the problem does fix the problem. Proportionality is what matters. Grading being arbitrary is fine if everyone is graded equally.
> How do we feed ourselves at scale without causing harm or exploiting nature?

Half jokingly, maybe we don’t, and human society develops morality that is not compatible with the continued existence of humans.
It has a mode where it doesn't touch your nginx config. That's what I use because indeed, I don't want it to mess with my nginx config.

For the rest, I'll indeed look into lighter alternatives some day. But the setup works on its own so I'm a bit lazy.
paywall trash
In 2021 there was almost no evidence of persistent long-term symptoms because very, very few people had COVID far enough in the past (and survived) to have these symptoms start to show up. It's completely reasonable for a front-line GP physician to not go down a rabbit hole like that because their lay patient has a hunch.
If you could store the state of the universe using less than 100% of the universe, then you could use the algorithm recursively on the result, over and over again, to compress it infinitely -- which suggests that it contains no information. And if you could, generally speaking, simulate the universe faster than real time, you could simulate the simulator faster than it runs, meaning that you could construct a machine that predicts its own output and then purposefully outputs the exact opposite, leading to a contradiction.

Another argument is, imagine that you are building a machine that takes ingredients as an input on a tray, and outputs a baked cake. There's a nearly infinite number of ways to build such a machine. Some of them are faster than some others. Imagine the very fastest cake-baking machine that could physically exist. Any simulator will be slower than real time to simulate that particular machine -- because it is an optimal machine -- and any event that depends on the cakes it makes will have to wait, so it becomes a bottleneck of the system.
I was a grader once. I guarantee if someone gives a good answer they'll get full marks even near the bottom of the stack. For BS answers I'll admit I got less generous as the hours went on.

No one's getting hurt by this system if it's randomized. It's a matter of graders giving out partial credit for wrong answers which is discretionary. Rarely students are granted a small mercy. Seems OK.
deep neural network trained on vast numbers of generated examples could come to learn what a suitable prior should be by learning the patterns used to generate them.

This sounds promising. Do you see any potential issues with this approach?
I've also pondered about custom functions to rank each commit. Maybe you can mark some sub-directory of the repo as 8x more likely to cause trouble than others and that would effect the split point decision. For example if this seems like a UI bug mark the frontend/ directory as extra suspicious. But don't completely rule out the backend as it may be triggering the frontend bug.