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I am diagnostic radiologist with over 40 years experience. In diagnostic testing, many terms are used to describe how well the test detects the disease or disorder. Examples are “s…

Sorry, but the test hasn't been shown to be 94.5% accurate. The study was structured as: 1. neurologist makes clinical diagnosis using usual tools and records most likely diagnosis…

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Also, as far as hallucinations go, no symbolic representation of a set of concepts can distinguish reality from fantasy. Disconnect a human from their senses and they will hallucin…

I've seen this idea that "LLMs are just guessing the next token" repeated everywhere. It is true that accuracy in that task is what the training algorithms aim at. That is not howe…

I just bought a MacBook Pro with the M3 Max chip and installed MATLAB R2023b. Sonoma 14.3 is in place. As a requirement, I had to also install Corretto 8. MathWorks only supports t…

This post resonates with me as a radiologist with 40 years experience, and a son who founded and runs his own company centered around machine learning, and now, LLMs. I frequently …

Throughout my education, I was told that the natural world is a collection of molecules mediated by physical forces. Adherents to this “materialist” view may acknowledge that some …

This essay explores Charles Sanders Peirce's four methods of moving from doubt to belief, as applied to medicine, and how being "pleasing to reason" sometimes trumps empirical evid…

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I am sorry to hear about your diagnosis. I looked up the UpToDate information on current treatments and would be happy to send a copy to you. Let me know, you can find my email in …

I read that last one, on "Telautomatics". He mentions his attempt to interest auto manufacturers in a self-driving car. But he also describes some kind of odd flying machine that d…

When my son was 19, he insisted on taking a solo trip to New Zealand. As it happens, he hiked around and worked on farms and generally had a great experience. But naturally at the …

I'm happy to hear about your spouse. I actually published a case report that included observations about the importance of brand. One of the capsules tested didn't dissolve until t…

Thank you and I wish you the best. There is a lot of exciting research being done on IBD, especially on the gut microbiome. I am optimistic that the coming years will bring signifi…

It is frightening for patients who are already on vancomycin, and makes it harder for new patients to try it. The AASLD wants to see randomized controlled trial data; there have in…

Primary sclerosing cholangitis is a serious rare disease for which there is no recognized effective treatment. Oral vancomycin has shown substantial promise, but the American Assoc…