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caturopath

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    Comment #48953943

    Right, but the article was about Kaiser and I was talking about the thing the article was about.

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    Comment #48953794

    > Increasingly health insurance companies and healthcare providers are intertwined. Kaiser is an HMO. They are the insurer and try to have their employees, such as these nursing li…

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    Comment #48953616

    The article doesn't seem to be about replacing nurses staffing their phones with AI. It seems to be about making sure the care they're providing is what the company wants.

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    Comment #48953603

    I'm not sure the for-profit approach is exactly what's to blame. HMOs like Kaiser are legally forced to spend a certain fraction (80% percent for the worst case, more for large gro…

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    Comment #48652770

    I'm getting a lot of refusals these days from multiple LLMs on multiple fronts for silly stuff, a lot more than I had for a while. If this is where things are really going, I think…

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    Comment #48419333

    That I don't know if they're a stranger or not. I introduce myself to acquaintances fairly regularly (sometimes annoying them that I apparently think they're so unmemorable) becaus…

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    Comment #48404527

    Like the poster, I'm faceblind. It isn't the worst thing: I'm not voice blind, height blind, age blind, hairstyle blind, gender blind, features associated with race and ethnicity b…

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    Comment #48295649

    My experience with their Norwegian has been fantastic, I'd be shocked if the other Scandanavian languages aren't at least as good.

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    Comment #48290129

    LLMs are great with minority languages compared to almost anything else. Including better than the by the natural language generation employed to use Abstract Wikipedia, which whif…

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    Comment #48105555

    Other correctly point out it does matter what language the code is in since the human does sometimes need to read and understand it. But also, I suspect the article is just wrong. …

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    Comment #46445222

    Plants seem to manage it okay.

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    Comment #45843135

    I follow the logic, I'm just not sure the claim is right.

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    Comment #45830182

    > telehealth is much better at recognizing "I can't given an accurate answer for this over the phone, you'll need to have some tests done" I'm not sure this is true.

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    Comment #45830176

    > Physicians use all their senses. They poke, they prod, they manipulate, they look, listen, and smell. Sometimes. Sometimes they practice by text or phone. > They’re also good at …

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    Comment #45830151

    Would be interested to hear a legal expert weigh in on what 'advice' is. I'm not clear that discussing medical and legal issues with you is necessarily providing advice. One of the…

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    Comment #45564918

    I'm struggling to understand what the result really is: it seems that some dogs at some point would rather play with a toy than eat or come play with their owner. That seems pretty…

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    Comment #45506273

    Whenever I try to read up on it, it seems like glaciers are receding at ~2x their without-climate-change rate. That's a huge increase, but it doesn't seem like there's something th…

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    Comment #44871070

    Yes, there are unilateral policies and treaties that let the US and the UK collaborate in legal action (going through US institutions to judge them), some of them referenced in htt…

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    Comment #44022490

    What is everyone using spaced repetition to memorize?

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    Comment #44007257

    For any of you also confused by with sql_context(columns="x"): query, values = sql(t"SELECT {col} FROM y") I think 1. this is relying on the `col = "x"` in the previous example 2. …

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    Comment #43940077

    Their model had 15 slots spread across three lists, with Prevost appearing on one list in the top spot (and not in the other two lists at all). I am not sure we can conclude a ton …

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    Comment #43915883

    They tend to write fewer of those type of articles because people aren't so credulous about how dumb the olds are these days.

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    Comment #43915484

    Kids these days, am I right?

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    Comment #43915458

    A prediction that will prove mostly immune to the change in "this year".

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    Comment #43907334

    Two websites and an ad business.