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owenpalmer

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About owenpalmer

I love programming, science, robotics, automation, teaching.

I'm a bioengineering undergraduate student at the University of Washington, working in tissue engineering research to build functional human organs.

Website: owenpalmer.com

Email: owenpalm@uw.edu

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48609000

    Why would you jump from an ultrasound to chemotherapy? It's not meant to be a definitive diagnosis, it's just an early screening process...

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    Comment #48579950

    I'm not so worried about the data being useful, I'm worried about the machine actually working. I mean, with that much data, you may be able to understand under what timeframe a tu…

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    Comment #48579890

    I think getting more medical data could prevent a lot of health problems, and collecting it in a relaxed and frequent environment could be interesting. This announcement is honestl…

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    Comment #48499698

    Importantly, the researchers told it to do that specific task.

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    Comment #48469898

    A law that is not enforced is ultimately a suggestion

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    Comment #48464212

    > This is not just another incremental release. OpenCV 5 is a major step forward. Am I the only one that finds this sentence very cheesey?

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    Comment #48448151

    Why did you write it as "1969ties"?

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    Comment #48111098

    Smoking has entered the chat

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    Comment #48069094

    One of the most iconic voices. https://youtu.be/P3ump1Buszo?si=0DoXiDTqZOyTBUst

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    Comment #48069042

    I tried to become a contributor to Canvas (it's open source), but I couldn't even get a development environment setup because of their storage space requirements. https://github.co…

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    Comment #48032217

    A truly wonderful read

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    Comment #47983517

    70 months, or 5.83 years

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    Comment #47944208

    What other reasons?

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    Comment #47913837

    Perhaps red is selfish, but blue is most certainly foolish.

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    Comment #47913566

    Is it worse? Wouldn't the red people end up with more like-minded red people?

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    Comment #47913310

    > It's naive to think that 100% of people will press the red button. Those who press the blue button are trying to save those who press the blue button. If they weren't trying to s…

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    Comment #47913193

    All textbooks are free if you know where to look

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    Comment #47902811

    Optimized? Perhaps. Optimal? Not even close.

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    Comment #47771531

    That does what?

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    Comment #47759821

    I can't seem to tell exactly what they built. They call it a runtime, but they're using NodeJS? Did they implement a transpiler in Rust? They also seem to be calling Rust from JS, …

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    Comment #47661599

    Alternatively, they could just make the web UI good.

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    Comment #47601739

    > It generates real wasm that runs directly on the machine. Well, it's not directly on the machine. You still need the wasm engine/runtime to run it

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    Comment #47563713

    They're like an OS by analogy, but all of them require an actual OS to interface with the hardware. I don't think making that term fluid is a good idea. If we did, how would I refe…

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    Comment #47559573

    > Currently it runs as a desktop app on Linux, macOS, and Windows Does that mean it's not actually an OS?

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    Comment #47498637

    Wake up babe! New system prompt just dropped!